The innagural Strength Camp was a sell out. It was amazing and we're sorry you missed it!!
Camp II is set for later this year, so make sure you sign up for updates.
You can check out some photos from Camp here.
We look forward to doing epic things with you xx
The Barbelle Club gathers together like-minded women who share a passion for strength training.
Over the weekend of 23-25th of September 2016, we will be launching the inaugural TBC Strength Camp.
The Barbelle Club gathers together like-minded women who share a passion for strength training.
Over the weekend of 23-25th of September 2016, we will be launching the inaugural TBC Strength Camp.
Held over three days in September, the TBC Strength Camp will consist of three specific, intimate coaching sessions in the disciplines of strongman/ odd object lifting, Olympic lifting and powerlifting. Each strength session will be coached by a team of two who are elite in their respective fields. Additionally there will be a guided recovery session, a nutrition & wellness seminar and roundtable panel discussions.
Camp will be held at The Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, Australia. Onsite meals and accommodation are included in the ticket price.
Camp will be held at The Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, Australia. Onsite meals and accommodation are included in the ticket price.
Kiana Elliott
Kiana has been competing in Olympic Weightlifting for just under 3 years after a background of elite gymnastics. She is a four time Senior National Champion, Oceania Youth and 2x Oceania Junior Champion; Kiana has represented Australia on numerous occasions including at the 2015 World Championships, 2014 and 2015 Junior World Championships, 2015 Pacific Games and 2014 Youth Olympic Games. Kiana has broken numerous NSW, Australian and Oceanian Records at a Youth, Junior and Senior level.
Her coach, Martin Harlowe is expecting her to medal at the 2016 World Juniors and she is currently training to challenge for Australia's single female quota spot for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Having sustained multiple major injuries in her gymnastics career, Kiana knows how to work through adversity and has had to work carefully in weightlifting as she has progressed. Throughout her career, she has concurrently built an avid interest in coaching the technical nuances of weightlifting learning from the expertise of her coach, Martin Harlowe. She also has a great passion for her sport, aiming to empower and inspire other women and to encourage them to discover what they can get out of weightlifting. |
Joanna GreaganIn the three years since she began competing, Jo has made an impression, and her improvement has been swift. Aside from the Arnold Classic, Jo has won the title of Victoria’s strongest woman, two novice strongman titles, the Victorian Series Competition Four, and has qualified first for this year’s Arnold’s.
In terms of powerlifting, Jo finished in first place in this year’s Summer Classic – equipped section. Her other powerlifting wins include first place in the both the GPC National and State titles in 2014 and 2015. Most recently, Jo defended her champion strongwoman title with another powerful performance at the Arnold Classic in Melbourne, which saw her qualify for both the Arnold Classic in Johannesburg in May 2016 and the World Strongwoman Titles in Ohio in March 2017). 34-year-old Jo’s focus and enthusiasm sees her continue to be force to be reckoned with. |
Venecia Bachee
Venecia is unashamedly obsessed with all things #strong. She fell into powerlifting and strongman after having dabbled in (too much) cardio, and 3 years knee deep into it, she has never looked back.
She has since placed in several competitions across the 2 sports, including the 2016 GPC Victoria states (U56 womens raw), Proraw 8 deadlift only division, 2015 Australasia Most Powerful Man Woman (3rd – U65 LW), 2015 Victoria Grand Prix Series (2nd – U65 LW), 2014 GPA Worlds (U60 Raw Womens – 1st), and 2014 CAPO Nationals (U60 Raw Womens – 1st). Despite often being one of the lightest athletes in the strongwomen LW category, she has not let the physical disadvantage prevent her from putting notable performances – including 4th at the 2015 Arnold's U75 Strongfit and 4th at the 2015 Singapore Strongman Championships – Open womens’ division. She has since learnt the trials and errors of training competitively for the 2 sports, whilst juggling a full-time professional job. She loves both sports, and can often be seen getting bruised from one or the other sport. |
Annie Short
Annie has been training strength for 9 years, competing in powerlifting for 4 years.
During this time, Annie has competed in 17 powerlifting competitions and 2 strongwoman competitions, with a total of 14 gold medals, 3 silver and 1 bronze. Annie has held 22 National, 2 Commonwealth and Oceania and 4 World Records across multiple federations; of which she still holds 13 records. In 2014, Annie was the first Australian powerlifter to win Triple Crown at Proraw6, setting an All Time Australian Record for the u70kg class and becoming the winner of the biggest cash prize in Australian Powerlifting History. |
Liz Craven
Liz has been lifting since 2012.
She's ranked number 1 in Australia consistently since 2013, She's was the Oceania and Commonwealth champion in 2013 as well as the best overall lifter. She is the Oceania and Asian Championships 2014 champion where she also took out best lifter overall. A title she holds from the Pacific Invitational Sydney in 2015. She was on the selected Australian Team for the 2013 World Championships in Russia and 2014 to South Africa. She is the 2013, 2014, 2015 IPF Australian National Champion where sh holds all Opens and M1 records in U52 weight division for squat, bench, deadlift and total. She also holds all Commonwealth records (except for Open bench) and Oceania records. She's currently training hard in order to continue her domination of the universe at Worlds in Texas later this year. |
The Modern Amazon - Hannah May Pickford
Dr Hannah is a former All-Australian Basketball player, a chiropractor, a martial artist and has recently completed a Masters in Human Nutrition.
Despite these achievements, she has had several significant health challenges including chronic fatigue throughout her late teens, severe acne and then hypothyroidism in her mid-twenties. These problems continued, despite following the nutritional advice of the Australian Institute of Sport (who told her to eat more carbs! (Face palm*) Finally, through countless years and numerous practitioners, she figured out why she hadn’t found success…. "The reason was because I wasn’t approaching my health holistically. I was trying to detach my body into non-communicating parts, like a broken machine, treating each system as being separate from the next." When she isn’t seeing patients, kicking bags or lifting weights, you’ll find Hannah researching current medical literature or recording episodes with the Vitality Hackers…. a podcast that is released weekly on Itunes (check outhttp://www.vitalityhackers.com) Dr Hannah knows that you were built to thrive, which is why she is going to show you ways in which you can maximise your health and performance. |
Jess Fraser
Brown belt Brazilian Jui Jitsu grappler Jess has not only excelled as an athlete, representing Australia 3 times in Abu Dhabi, medalling twice in those appearances, as well as bringing home a silver medal from the World Championships in LA; she is also the founder and driving force behind Australian Girls in Gi (AGIG).
In the past 5 years, Jess has created and managed over 40 competitions (small to large scale), as well as run the largest female only events currently held in the world (AGIG Camp). Jess has become an expert at managing high level training, high level work-load, her energy levels, injury prevention and tactics to overcome injuries through a variety of recovery methods. She is a qualified Yoga instructor and will be giving you guidance on the things you need to do in order to recover so that you can train at your physical best. |
Training is a solitary and time consuming pursuit. We don't often get the opportunity to train outside of the limited circle of coaches and gym bros who happen to be around when we are training.
We don’t all get the opportunity to train with other women or learn from female coaches.
We don’t often get the opportunity to train in a variety of strength modalities or with people from other lifting federations.
The Barbelle Club Strength Camp will give you the unique opportunity to train with, meet and be coached by some of the best female strength athletes and coaches in Australia.
You will leave The Barbelle Club Strength Camp braver and with awesome new skills, an awakened passion, inspired, with new friends and with a swag of new ideas and techniques to inform your training.
We don’t all get the opportunity to train with other women or learn from female coaches.
We don’t often get the opportunity to train in a variety of strength modalities or with people from other lifting federations.
The Barbelle Club Strength Camp will give you the unique opportunity to train with, meet and be coached by some of the best female strength athletes and coaches in Australia.
You will leave The Barbelle Club Strength Camp braver and with awesome new skills, an awakened passion, inspired, with new friends and with a swag of new ideas and techniques to inform your training.