Your coach

Sarah Meyer, NSCA-CPT, Pn1, CERTIFIED P&PA

Sarah Meyer is the founder and owner of StrongHer Lifts LLC.

A little about me, but I can’t wait to hear about you!

I am a wife, a mom of two toddlers, a world champion powerlifter, a personal trainer/technique coach and a lover of all things strength-sport. I am a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Strength & Conditioning Association, a Precision Nutrition Level 1 Coach, and a Certified Pregnancy and Postpartum Athleticism Coach. I hold a world record deadlift, 30+ Oklahoma State USPA drug-tested powerlifting records and am the 2022 National Champion. In 2023, I was the World Champion and best lifter at the IPF Drug-Tested World Championships.

I’ve enjoyed the pursuit of fitness for the past decade in many ways. I started my journey loving running and at-home DVD’s, being yelled at by Jillian Michaels on my brown floral living room rug. My life forever changed when a friend who was a trainer invited me to follow along and mimic her workout in a tiny one-room gym that was in a metal shop. I felt pretty awkward and asked a lot of questions, but soon I made a few friends, got my hands on a barbell and started working with weights, and I never looked back.

I’d had a strained relationship with food and the scale until I started focusing on getting stronger. Over time, I began to live “train like an athlete; think about food like an athlete; look like an athlete”.

I have always been passionate about teaching (piano, academics, etc.) and have always taught with student autonomy as the end-goal. I am proud of the knowledge I’ve accumulated over the past ten years in relation to advanced nutrition strategies, exercise technique and exercise programming, but I am equally or more proud of my ability to strip a program back to the basics so that anyone can feel confident and empowered that they can take control of their lives, one simple habit at a time.

A four-year period of chronic, undiagnosed pain and two pregnancies gave me new insight into people and our mental habits and battles. Maybe, it isn’t always that we just need to suck it up and grit our teeth and do it. Maybe, we need to practice flexibility and fluidity in scheduling and habit strategies and find movements and communities that we love so that change be exciting and so that change can finally last.

I believe that physical strength changes our view of ourselves and of the world around us. My hope is that the community that we create here is a place where we come together to enjoy the journey as much as the destination and to value growth as much as the results.