Vegan Easy<p>From Powerlifting to Strongwoman: this is Veronique Cormier's journey to a national Canadian record in the most iconic of strongman events – the Atlas Stone.</p><p>57kg lifter Veronique, quickly made a mark on powerlifting with a raw squat well over double bodyweight, a raw total over six times bodyweight and World Championship qualification.</p><p>Since then she’s added a national title in strongwoman.</p><p>Veronique has been training hard with the atlas stones, and was keen to work on the 100kg one – approaching double her weight. It wasn’t easy, although she went from being barely able to get it off the ground to lifting it over the bar in training.</p><p>The recent Canadian Nationals gave her a chance to try all aspects of her strength, followed by a record attempts session.</p><p>Admitting to a weakness in deadlifts she managed 9 x 300 lb to win that event, confident it would have been no reps a year ago. She also won a sandbag medley and atlas stone ladder to finish second overall.</p><p>As if that wasn’t enough, she then attempted the 220lb stone, and cleared the bar.</p><p>“I worked really hard on stones this prep from not getting the 220 stone more than a few inches off the ground to making it look so easy on the day,” Veronique told Great Vegan Athletes. “The announcers were convinced I would get 245. It’s not there yet but definitely the next goal.”</p><p>Amazing effort Veronique! 🌱💪 </p><p>Read the full article here: <a href="https://www.greatveganathletes.com/news/from-powerlifting-to-strongwoman-leafys-journey-to-the-national-record/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">greatveganathletes.com/news/fr</span><span class="invisible">om-powerlifting-to-strongwoman-leafys-journey-to-the-national-record/</span></a> </p><p>Photo credit: @leafylifter</p><p><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/leafylifter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leafylifter</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/veganstrongwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>veganstrongwoman</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/strongmancompetition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strongmancompetition</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/vegan4life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vegan4life</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/plantbuilt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plantbuilt</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/atlasstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atlasstone</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/recordbreaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recordbreaker</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/plantstrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plantstrong</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/veganstrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>veganstrong</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vegan</span></a></p>