UGA Student Creates Women's Lifting Encouragment Group

As you probably have figured out throughout this site and social media, Embrace the Weights is trying to do its part to make women feel more comfortable about going to the weight room. It seems like University of Georgia student and NPC Bikini competitor Lacey Dunn aims to take it one step further. Recently on her Instagram, she announced that she has created a student organization called Uplift Women. This organization plans on discouraging gym intimidation and teaching proper nutrition and training. To see someone as young as Lacey wanting to do her part in educating women to embrace the weights the right way is pretty awesome in our book!

Here's the original post from Lacey:

I wanted to share about the new UGA organization that I recently created to form a fun and supportive environment for women in the weight room! Uplift Women 😊❤️ I know the gym (esp Ramsey's big main weight room) can be intimidating- and many girls are scared to go in or even start lifting!! So I wanted to create a group to not only aid in decreasing gym intimidation, but to help women in learning all about proper nutrition and training! 🙏🏼💪🏼 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖A bit about what I hope we can do: We will be hosting workouts, "fitness workshops", nutrition talks, fun get together outings, and doing fundraising for local charities 😊 I hope Uplift Women can create friendships, help ladies to learn more about form, training, eating for their goals, and also possibly spark new passions for people😊❤️ ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖We are defined as: "A group of women with the goal of promoting healthy living, friendship, and sharing knowledge of fitness and nutrition to fellow women at UGA. We aim to encourage and support women in the weight room, create an environment where women feel comfortable and confident to enter the weight room and decrease “Gym intimidation”. This group is open to ONLY UGA current students!! If you want to join- please shoot me an email or comment below with your email and I'll add you! ❤️ First meeting will be Jan 22 at 6pm in Ramsey! As founder and President- I want to make sure everyone knows that ANYONE can join regardless of experience! Go Dawgs! #UpliftWomen #Fitness #Uga #godawgs #ugaorganizations #spreadlove Link to organization: https://uga.collegiatelink.net/organization/Upliftwomen

A photo posted by Lacey (@faithandfit) on Jan 11, 2017 at 12:39pm PST

While this group is only for current UGA students, don't be the least bit surprised if you see more groups like this show up on campuses throughout the nation and around the world. If you are a student at UGA that would be interested in being part of Uplift Women, check out the official link at https://uga.collegiatelink.net/organization/Upliftwomen. If you would like to make your OWN Uplift Women group on campus, I encourage you all to talk to your student activities director or whoever is in charge of student organizations and get your own women's fitness group together! The more, the merrier!

For more on Lacey herself, check out her social links here:
Instagram: @faithandfit
Twitter: @laceyadunn
Facebook: www.facebook.com/faithandfitlacey
Bodyspace: faithandfit
Youtube: www.youtube.com/fitandfaith

And don't forget to follow her business Uplift Fitness at http://www.upliftfit.org/home.html!