notafraidtolift
notafraidtolift
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My name is Artemis Scantalides. I am a strength coach based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2014 I created my women’s strength workshop I Am Not Afraid To Lift®. I created this workshop based upon how strength training strengthened and changed both my body and my mindset and based upon my experience training for the strength challenge, the Iron Maiden Challenge.
As a ballet dancer from the age of 3 to 27, turned kung fu black belt at age 32, “Iron Maiden” at age 38, and powerlifter at age 39, through all of my athletic endeavors, I was never afraid to lift. My first true inspiration to lift weights and to build serious muscle was from Linda Hamilton’s character, Sarah Connor in Terminator 2. After I watched this movie in 1990 when I was a sophomore in high school I made it my mission to build arms as jacked as Linda Hamilton’s.
However, as I trained for the Iron Maiden Challenge from 2011 to 2014, I learned that this was not the case for many women.
I learned that many women are afraid to lift because they don’t know how to lift, or because they are afraid that they might hurt themselves, or a combination of the two, or because they are afraid of how strength training will change their bodies in that they may end up looking less feminine and perhaps even lose their lady parts 😉 …
I can assure you ladies, strength training will not make you look less feminine and your lady parts will remain intact.
In fact, it is my experience that once women learn how to lift, and once they learn how strong and capable they are, that those fears fly right out the window and instead they love the feeling of confidence and empowerment they get from being hella strong in the weight room, and how it carries over to all areas of their lives AND they love every muscle on their body as these muscles take shape through their hard work through strength training.
After teaching my women’s strength workshop I Am Not Afraid To Lift® all over the United States and even around the world in Australia, I took a one year hiatus from teaching the workshop in 2017 in order to re-vamp the curriculum. The brand new 2018 curriculum now also includes barbell lifts in addition to kettlebell lifts.
At the Lift® workshop you will learn,
- The importance and benefits of strength training and why being strong trumps the scale and being “toned”.
Kettlebell Lifts
-Deadlift
- Front Squat
- Military Press
- Two Hand Swing
Barbell Lifts*
- Back Squat
- Bench Press
- Deadlift
*(If time Front Squat and Military Press will be taught as accessory exercises to Back Squat and Bench Press)
Bodyweight and Core:
- Pull-up
- Push-up
- Hanging Leg Raise
- Ab Wheel Rollout
- Strong Mindset Strategies such as how to improve your inner dialogue, and own your lifts in the gym.
- Strength Program Design
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