Yokosuka, Kanagawa Pref. – At 8:30 a.m. on July 12, doorways opened at a gymnasium in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, and a crowd of 40 powerlifters entered to weigh in for the day’s competitors of squats, bench presses and deadlifts.
It may need been an in any other case frequent scene at any gymnasium throughout Japan if not for the truth that, at this event, the entire powerlifters had been ladies.
Based in 2020 by gymnasium supervisor Kanan Kasai, 30, Strongirls Japan is an all-women powerlifting group that seeks to “encourage ladies to reclaim their energy and uncover the true great thing about what (their) our bodies are actually able to.” Impressed by an identical motion in South Korea, the Japan chapter reaches its excessive level at its annual Strongirls Energy Pageant, which held its sixth iteration final month as rivals pumped iron throughout three lifts..
