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STRONGWOMAN ADVENTURE By: Samantha Davies
I am a 5-foot, 2-inch (and a bit!) woman with a can-do attitude. I love being fit and trying new things as I get bored easily, and I hate being told what to do. I don't know why, but that gets me particularly enraged then I get determined to do things my way. When I was in my late twenties, I trained before work in a gym, and as I was one of the few women there, I watched a lot of World Wrestling Entertainment (widely known as WWE) whilst I was on the treadmill. A man in the gym was commenting on it, and I mentioned that I thought it was really cool. He immediately replied that I certainly couldn't do it and wouldn't even survive the training.
21 | SEPTEMBER 2023 - DECEMBER 2023
I really hate it when people tell me I can't do something. After tracking down a training gym for wrestling, I took myself to the darkest depths of Ilford (East London), and down a strange back alley in an industrial estate, I finally found my way in. Upon entry, a massive man asked if I was lost. Now I did look young for my age, and I am a smaller person, but I was in my late 20s and I was fit
