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That was enough to plunge Johnston into an entire subculture of women who were trading the latest exercise trend for a barbell.

Woods erupted, raising his fists in front of him as if curling an imaginary barbell, and the gallery behind him unleashed a roar.

"I had to rush to a class and you know when you need the loo but you ignore it because you're rushing, I lifted the barbell and it was just too much," she said.

Cedars-Sinai’s Gulati notes the many different forms of strength training beyond the stereotypical image of iron dumbbells or a hulking barbell.

Five years after picking up a barbell for the first time, Campbell became the first British woman to win an Olympic weightlifting medal with silver in Tokyo and is heavily fancied to go one better.