STRAIGHT UP STRONG
Online strength programming and fitness community for women redefining midlife!
Women Over 40 Matter and Deserve Better Than What is Typically Sold to Them
If often feels like society and media decided that women over 40 are too old to be relevant or noticed. We know how wrong they are.
We’re not saying that age is not just a number. In fact, age matters and it’s relevance is shown in our accumulation of life experience and career mastery.
Our mission at Straight Up Strong is to embrace and enhance our strength via strength training with a non-diet lens to support midlife as the best part of life.
Are You a Woman Over 40 Seeking a New Take on Fitness?
We’ve Got Your Back with our Monthly Strength Programming and Workouts
Straight Up Strong provides structured strength programming and workouts specifically designed for the busy midlife woman.
You know what to do.
You might even know how to create a workout.
But in your busy life, you want to get to the gym, do your thing and get on with your day while also getting the results you are seeking.
Let us take the guess work out of what you should be doing for workouts so you can just focus on the actual heavy lifting!
We View Midlife as the Best Time of Life.
It just is.
Taking control of our independence and bodily autonomy as we get older is one of the greatest gifts. For so many of us, working out was always a means to shrink ourselves; but now is the time to expand and take up space within ourselves.
We aren’t about restrictive diet life here. Nope, done that fruitless bullsh*t.
Straight Up Strong is a breath of fresh air in a world filled with quick fixes, burning yourself with hours of cardio workouts, and communities filled with diets and “before & after” photos.
When we take the focus off weight loss and shift our energy to self affirming and nourishing behaviors that we integrate into our lives consistently, we thrive.
Meet Our Team
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Tina Tang
she/her
Co-Founder of Straight Up Strong
NCSF Certified Trainer
RKC Russian kettlebell
Pre & Post Natal Certified
TRX -
Michelle Farrell
She/her
Located in Lynn, MA, Michelle is passionate about making fitness and nutrition more accessible for all folks via trauma informed, non-diet, weight /size inclusive, and LGBTQIA+ affirming spaces.
Co-Founder of Straight Up Strong
NASM Certified Personal Trainer
Certified Pre/Post Natal Coach
PN Level 1 Nutrition Coach. YA RYT® 200
NASM Nutrition Coach Midlife Fitness for Women certified Golden Hearts - Senior Fitness Training
Fitness Nutrition Specialist
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Jessie Rard
He/They
Jessie is a circus artist and coach who is equally passionate about weight lifting and flexibility. He believes that strength is the way to healthier and longer-lasting flexibility, and range of motion will unlock better lifting. Jessie teaches all levels of flexibility, from absolute beginner all the way through contortion as well as running Lifting for Length, a weightlifting program for hypermobile individuals and/or those pursuing flexibility.
Jessie coaches through his business Twisted Fox Training, as well as Straight up Strong, MyFlex, and Positive Spin Pole Dance in Seattle, WA.
Who We Work With
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Folks in Peri-menopause and Menopause
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Prenatal and Post Partum Folks
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Folks with All Body Shapes and Sizes
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Busy Entrepreneurial Women
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Folks Who Want the Convenience of a Home Workout!
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Folks Ready to Leave Dieting Behind
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Folks Just Starting or Restarting Their Fitness Journey
“Thanks for knowing when to push me! My life has been a roller coaster the last 10 years and exercise was the only thing that gave me focus and consistent joy. I am so grateful to have found you and this community during these trying times.”
— Founding Straight Up Strong Member, Anne Marie
