Between personal growth and athletic success, powerlifting has done a lot for Sault Ste. Marie’s Holly Lasante
A five-time gold medalist at the Canadian Powerlifting Union’s national championships, Lasante is coming off a record-setting performance at the 2023 event in February in Richmond, B.C.
“I could just focus on lifting weights and doing what I had to do. I knew I had a plan I had to follow and it was really big because it also forced me to get outside of the house,” Lasante added. “Eventually it kind of shifted from focusing so much on the powerlifting aspect itself to being able to take what I was teaching myself from setting those goals and being able to integrate that into different parts of my life.
“We’ve worked together as long as I’ve been in powelifting and he doesn’t tell me what I’m going to be doing when I get on the platform,” Lasante said. “I trust him to know that he’s going to push me to do whatever I can do. When I pulled my last deadlift, I had no idea that that’s how heavy it was until the announcer said ‘She just pulled 372 pounds.’”“It was amazing,” Lasante said.
“He’s always been very straight with me in how he speaks,” Lasante added. “That feeds our relationship in a really positive way because it allows me to know that I can always depend on him to tell me how it is.”“I’ve always put a lot of pressure on myself, and I keep thinking, ‘What am I going to do next? How can I get better?’ I don’t want there to be leveling off period,” Lasante said. “I want to push myself as much as I can just to see where I can possibly do.
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