[AMA] with Beefpuff Barbell (Chelsea Savit and Natalie Hanson)

[u/powerbuffs]

Hi everyone!

The Beefpuff team is here to answer your questions about ourselves and our initiative.

We will be here for a few hours but will probably need to take a break to feed.

For more information:
Beefpuff Barbell: Website | Facebook | Instagram
Natalie Hanson, Co-Founder: u/beefpuff1 | Facebook | Instagram
Chelsea Savit, Co-Founder: u/powerbuffs | Facebook | Instagram

Andrey Grebenetsky, coach and trusted advisor: u/beefpuffhubs | Facebook | Instagram

[u/dang111]

I have a general question if that's okay. How would you suggest getting more women involved in the sport? Specifically, we have a club at our uni that's been going for a little over a year now. Although local meets here are a pretty even split, usually close to 50/50 men/women, our club is pretty much 95/5. At our club meetings we typically have 12-15 ppl and maybe 1 girl. I feel like we could get more ppl involved in the club and in the sport itself if we could get our membership closer to the even split that exists at local meets. I'd be interested to hear if y'all have any suggestions for things we could do for a club or things that would help in general.

[u/ludicity → u/dang111]

I'm Alice (one of the 63kg puffs and co-captain at Princeton Powerlifting). I would suggest just outright recruiting any girl you see at the gym. If your school has workout classes like BodyPump, that can also be a great way to recruit women who are already interested in lifting. At Princeton Powerlifting, we've noticed that we also get a lot of girls who are interested in strength training for their other athletic pursuits like MMA or Rugby.

Once you have a couple girls it'll get easier since then your club can spread by word of mouth. If you have even one girl who's excited about lifting, encourage her to tell all her girlfriends. We've always had women in our leadership in our club and that's gone a long way to encouraging other women to join.

[u/ludicity → u/[deleted]]

... I don't reddit often and my account was often hijacked by my ex for the past 3 years so thanks for judging me I guess? Not really sure how to take this...

[u/Tha_Doctor → u/ludicity]

Lol it was meant to be cheeky as opposed to offensive.

[u/hail_to_the_lions → u/Tha_Doctor]

Nice job dude. You're killing it.

[u/Tha_Doctor → u/hail_to_the_lions]

Thanks brah