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<\/p>\nBERWICK, Pa. \u2014 Inside the Rocky Boxing Club Gym in Berwick, Teresa Troiani is doing some warm-up lifting exercises, something she does four days a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troiani is a Berwick native; she serves on borough council and works full time as a nurse. When she’s not doing both of those, she’s competing in strongman competitions. Troiani says she began her weightlifting journey right before the COVID-19 pandemic began.<\/p>\n
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“My dad got really sick with cancer, and I saw the importance of having muscle mass and longevity. I started a basic lifting program, and through that I found a strongman competition online and it kind of just took off from there,” said Teresa Troiani.<\/p>\n
Troiani says a lot goes into preparing for a competition, including lifting weights off the floor, adding that your lower back strength is really important.<\/p>\n
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would pull a 15-ton truck for 50 feet, but you don’t know what you can do until you test your body to do these things, so 15-ton truck for 50 feet, I watch the video all the time, and I still can’t believe I did it,” said Troiani.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troiani just arrived home last week after competing during the first weekend in August in lifting 733-pound Dinnie stones in Scotland. She has become one of only 22 women in history to ever achieve it.<\/p>\n
“Up until two weeks before I went to Scotland, I hadn’t lifted the total Dinnie weight, so I was very nervous. I got to 675, plus the weight of the pins, so I never pulled the actual Dinnie weight before I left, so I was very apprehensive about going into that lift, but I think the adrenaline, the crowd cheering, just really gives you what you need to reach 733,” said Troiani.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troiani says she’s not stopping here; she has more competitions coming up. A masters competition in Virginia, an Oktoberfest competition doing Bavarian-style lifting in upstate New York, and then Norway next summer to compete in the World’s Strongest Stone Lifter.<\/p>\n
“I think women wildly underestimate their strength. These are the same women that are carrying their groceries plus a baby on their hip, doing all these huge feats, but they don’t think they’re strong enough to do this. I think as a woman, \u00a0it’s so important for bone health, for longevity, to stay strong as we age,” said Troiani.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troiani says getting older doesn’t mean life ends. This journey just started for her, and she’s excited to see what’s next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERWICK, Pa. \u2014 Inside the Rocky Boxing Club Gym in Berwick, Teresa Troiani is doing some warm-up lifting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":["post-811070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}