A new book looks at the history of women and physical strength, so we turned to pros to offer their favorite benefits of weightlifting for women.
When writer, runner, and group fitness instructor Haley Shapley prepared to climb Mount Rainier several years ago, she focused primarily on endurance training. She made it to the top, felt proud of her accomplishment, and even raised money for charity. Then, not long afterward, she started strength training—and immediately wished she’d done so sooner. “When I would go on hard hikes, it was so much easier; I had so much more leg strength,” she tells Runner’s World.
Chari HawkinsBrooks athlete, 2022 national champion in pentathlon, 2024 World Championship finalist in heptathlon“When a lot of people think of strength, they think of the ‘lack’ of weakness. The only issue with that is that it isn’t real, it isn’t human. To me, strength is the act of continuing to show up in dark moments, in hardships, in weaknesses.
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