Ice Chamber » Emily Friedel http://www.icechamber.com Fun workouts, effective programming, functional fitness Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:06:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Emily interviews Maya http://www.icechamber.com/blog/2010/04/28/emily-interviews-maya/ http://www.icechamber.com/blog/2010/04/28/emily-interviews-maya/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:33:04 +0000 admin http://icechamber.com/blog/?p=4681

"Take your mind off of the numbers and focus on the elegance of your execution." -Maya

Australia’s 1st Master of Sport, Emily Friedel interviews Maya about motherhood, double jerks for women, and the history of the ICKB Girls:

You are a mother, as is one of your team members, how have you guys achieved such a high level of lifting with so much else going on in your lives?

“…I think kettlebell fitness, as opposed to sport, is far more compatible with my lifestyle right now, but I got into the competitive aspect of this long before I knew what I was up against as a mother (our son was only 10 months old when we first started competing).  The only reason I didn’t give up after a series of disappointments and failed attempts on the platform is because Steve, Jess, Sara, and Surya wouldn’t let me…”

READ the FULL interview HERE

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Andreja Ravnik, Mateja Legan, & Tajda Sobočan from Team Slovenia.

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Master of Sport, Emily Friedel, from Australia.

[See post to watch Flash video]

… and of course our very own IC Kettlebell Girl, Surya Voinar-Fowler, breaking stereotypes about women performing double Jerks!

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