mettle community

Lifting communities up through our weightlifting, strength & fitness and girlstrong programmes.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

After a busy weekend at the @GBWeightLifting
national age group championships mettle have 3 new British Champions as well as 2 silver & 2 bronze medalists. Great work team mettle.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

@tinyjneenie Thanks for joining us on our GS programme Janine! Getting stronger together :)

[Dave Hembrough @dwhembro]

New 10 year Health & Wellbeing plan for Sheffield launched recently...

I like it. Clear, focused and representative of whole systems.

'to achieve any of it, we need to achieve all of it'

https://t.co/QxfqNdxmIg

Good work @felly500 + team. @mettle_strength is onboard.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

@tinyjneenie Thanks Janine. Welcome aboard, get ready to get stronger... :)

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

Our programmes run at Kitlocker 5 nights a week and through weekends and we host our club competitions there too. Get in touch to get involved!

Thank you Kitlocker for the support :)

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

At mettle we are incredibly grateful and thankful for our amazing partnership with Kitlocker who host us at their venue in Attercliffe. We think it's probably a unique collaboration where an operative business supports a community club in such a way.

https://t.co/InqZbrT0iQ

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

For our youth members particularly to experience a workplace and for them to feel at home, accepted and see it as their place too is valuable with their relationship and understanding of work.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

The caveat is that the activity needs to be appropriate with the correct loading, sound technique and gradual progression. A qualified coach in a club environment obviously helps here which is exactly what mettle does of course :)

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

Weight training for children!?! Is that safe?

This is sometimes something we get asked or often parents of new members do share that they didn't really understand what it was and that they now 'get it' and understand the benefit and approach.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

There's a huge amount of evidence and supporting research by really smart people that presents the benefits of resistance training for youth audiences. This paper is a solid starting point, Google search any of the authors for more papers and quality information if interested.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

The journey starts... Two coaches, two lifters head to one competition. The European WLing master's in Norway. Good luck to Roman and Megan.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

Fancy learning Olympic Weightlifting? We have youth & adult learn to lift courses starting soon...

Info here: https://t.co/OXxEgSkPvR

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

Well done to all our lifters at the recent Liverpool weightlifting club open and thanks to all our coaches. 6 lifters, 5 medals, many PBs.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

A brilliant afternoon yesterday supporting youngsters on the @DESA_Sheffield holiday activity programme. Students from @sheffhallamuni delivered our 'Faster, Higher, Stronger' profiling session. Fun was had and medals were awarded.

[DESA @DESA_Sheffield]

We have had an action packed #easter holiday @LeisureUnited where we welcomed over 100 #children to take part in #football and team building activities. We also had the pleasure of welcoming @mettle_strength & @dwhembro a opportunity to allow children to develop good confidence

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

Closed club comp this morning to give our members a run out. Here are some of the lifts from the boys today...

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

This gives them paid for access to training and coaching, some stash and a mettle portfolio to use.

At mettle we're driven to support young people to become fit, strong and healthy. If you know a school that might be interested in a BWL Raise The Bar course please get in touch.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

We're recently started delivering the @GBWeightLifting Raise The Bar programme at Wales High School.

We were inundated with applications from parents of girls and boys for places so we're delivering four sessions a week to give young people weightlifting experience.

[mettle community @mettle_strength]

We're completing this programme of delivery with a celebration event at our HQ to share our club set up with participants. They'll receive certificates & two pupils from each group will be awarded a 6 month mettle scholarship.