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A woman who 'hated sport' has transformed herself from a 7.5st weakling to world powerlifting champion in just 18 months.<br>Lucy Majury, of Aldershot, Hampshire, said the was the 'laziest person you could ever meet' at school, until climbing Mount Kilimanjaro triggered a love of the outdoors.<br>The 27-year-old decided to become a personal trainer, when a bout of deadly E.coli left her quarantined in hospital with extreme abdominal cramps.<br>She lost 1.5st, dropping to a meagre 7.5st, and struggling to put weight back on afterwards, could barely lift a 7kg (1st) barbell.<br>But in April 2013, she stumbled across CrossFit gym by chance, and found a whole new world of exercise that spurred her to get stronger and start weightlifting. <br>In just over a year and a half, she went from strength to strength, eventually winning international weightlifting championships, squatting more than 19st and lifting an astonishing 21st.<br>Scroll down to video <br>              Lucy Majury, 27, transformed herself from a 7.5st weakling to world powerlifting champion in just 18 months<br>         Miss Majury became lean and fit through stumbling across a CrossFit gym.<br><br>CrossFit incorporates disciplines like metabolic conditioning, running, cycling, weightlifting and even gymnastics<br>              Miss Majury, who lost a lot of weight in 2009 after being quarantined with E.Coli, went from 7.5st (left) to a lean 10.5st (right) after joining a CrossFit gym<br>Miss Majury, who now weights 10.5st of lean muscle, said: 'At school I was the laziest person you could ever meet.<br>'I hated PE, and while I would go to the park with my friends, getting me to actually do sport was a nightmare.<br>'I used to work for a leisure centre, too, and when I was given a free gym pass I actually turned my nose up at it.<br>She added: 'Now, though, my entire life has been turned upside down in a very short space of time.<br><br>I'm a completely different person.<br>'I have no idea how far I can go in this sport but I'm determined to chase my dreams.' <br>   RELATED ARTICLES                <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br>1k shares<br><br><br>Having graduated from Cardiff University, where she studied media and journalism, in 2009, Miss Majury still had little interest in hardcore fitness.<br>It wasn't until she got a job working for a travel company in Mozambique that her career path took a different turn.<br>While in Africa she scaled the 19,341 ft Mount Kilimanjaro.<br><br>And stepping-on to the summit of that Tanzanian peak kick-started a love affair with the outdoors.<br>HER DIET AND EXERCISE REGIME    To maintain her 10.5 st frame Miss Majury eats three square meals a day, typically a chicken and vegetable dish served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. <br>She snacks on bananas, apples and rice cakes.<br>Meanwhile her punishing weekly routine is not for the faint-hearted.<br>She said: 'I'm up at 4.50am most mornings.<br>'I'll then do cardio training in the morning some days before seeing my first client as a personal trainer at 6am.<br>'I'll then eat breakfast before doing some Olympic lifting.<br><br>I then teach a fitness class at 10am before training again.<br>'I'll then train again in the late afternoon before taking my evening clients. It's only on a Sunday that I'll take a complete rest.' <br>  Back in Britain, she went on to become a personal trainer after taking a fast-track, eight week course.<br>But even then she had little interest in extreme body workouts.<br>And in 2009, she suffered a crippling bout of E.Coli - a type of bacteria caught from contaminated food and water, and became so ill she was quarantined in hospital.<br>It also caused her to rapidly lose weight and then struggle to put it back on afterwards.<br>Wanting to become stronger, in August 2013, she paid a visit to a 'CrossFit 1664' gym, having driven past it for months wondering what was happening inside.<br>There, she discovered 'a whole new world', she said. <br>CrossFit is a franchised training school which bills itself as both a 'physical exercise philosophy' and 'competitive fitness sport'.<br>It incorporates disciplines like metabolic conditioning, running, cycling, weightlifting and even gymnastics.<br>Miss Majury worked hard to gain muscle, and slowly became stronger and stronger.<br>By May 2014 she was placed 107th female in Europe in the CrossFit league, 24th in the UK, having competed in her second 'open' event.<br><br>She was placed in the top 1000 the previous year.<br>And it was through her CrossFit colleagues that Miss Majury began powerlifting - a strength sport that sees competitors having three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts - the squat, bench press, and deadlift.<br>Amazingly, she trained for just three weeks before scooping the British Records and just a few months before achieving the European and world powerlifting records.<br>                'I haven't always been a budding athlete with rippling muscles and a strong physique - before starting CrossFit I couldn't even lift a 7kg barbell,'she said<br>              In April, after completing only three weeks of powerlifing training - a sport where participants are given three attempts to life a heavy weight - she scooped the British, European and world record (right)<br>She managed to bench press 65kg (10.2 stone),  [https://incitasecurity.com/why-is-crossfit-so-hated/ https://incitasecurity.com/why-is-crossfit-so-hated/] deadlift 135.5kg (21.3 stone) and squat 125kg (19.6 stone).<br>'Nobody at the event could believe i'd only been lifting properly for around three weeks,' she said.<br>'I guess I was lucky that I had a good base strength from all the CrossFit training.  <br>'But I haven't always been a budding athlete with rippling muscles and a strong physique - before starting CrossFit I couldn't even lift a 7kg barbell.<br>'Now my body pushes me on, even if my mind is telling me to stop.' <br>To maintain her frame Miss Majury eats three square meals a day, typically a chicken and vegetable dish served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. <br>She snacks on bananas, apples and rice cakes.<br>She also credits her transformation on a natural blackcurrant supplement, called ‘CurraNZ', which helped boost her performance and recovery. <br>She said: 'I'd been able to increase my training and lifting workload significantly with the CurraNZ supplement - I've come to rely on its endurance and recovery actions, which made it possible to rapidly progress in powerlifting.'<br>         Miss Majury, pictured tight at her local gym, says her muscular figure does attract 'funny looks' and people shout at her in the street - but she also receives compliments and requests for tips on social media<br><br><br>Meanwhile her punishing weekly routine is not for the faint-hearted.<br>She said: 'I'm up at 4.50am most mornings.<br>'I'll then do cardio training in the morning some days before seeing my first client as a personal trainer at 6am.<br>'I'll then eat breakfast before doing some Olympic lifting.<br><br>I then teach a fitness class at 10am before training again.<br>'I'll then train again in the late afternoon before taking my evening clients. It's only on a Sunday that I'll take a complete rest.' <br>She says her muscular figure does attract 'funny looks' and people shout at her in the street - but she also receives compliments and requests for tips from people on social media.  <br>'I don't really mind when people look.<br><br>When I was super skinny people looked then, too, so you cant win either way,' she said.<br>         Miss Majury said there is one downside to spending the majority of her time in the gym - finding Mr Right.<br><br>She said: 'I'm single at the moment and It's hard to find someone who understands my lifestyle'<br>She added she constantly receives complimentary messages on social media, with women asking for training tips. <br>However, there is one downside to spending the majority of her time in the gym - finding Mr Right.<br>She said: 'I'm single at the moment and It's hard to find someone who understands my lifestyle.<br>'I'm up at the crack of dawn, I go to bed early, I don't drink at weekends, I'm strict with food and I work antisocial hours because of clients.<br>'I'd rather put an extra 2.5kg of lifting on my tick list than go out and get hammered with my mates and waste the next day feeling hungover.<br>'I did all that when I was at university, so I don't feel like I'm missing out.<br>'So, yes, it's difficult to find a partner but I'm sure there's someone out there who understands.'<br>THE BLACKCURRANT SUPPLEMENT THAT CLAIMS TO HELP BURN FAT           A supplement made from blackcurrants can help people burn 27 per cent more fat while exercising, a University of Chichester study has found<br>Miss Majury credits her success on a natural blackcurrant supplement called CurraNZ, which she says 'keeps her 'immune system ticking over'.<br>A recent study by the University of Chichester found that the supplement can help burn a third more fat than normal while exercising.<br>The tablets contain the extract of blackcurrants grown in unique conditions on New Zealand's South Island.<br>CurraNZ claims the southern hemisphere's intense UV light, stimulating them into producing unusually high levels of anthocyanins, pigments in the fruit's skin responsible for their dark purple colouring.<br>Anthocyanins  belong to group of flavonoids called 'polyphenols', which have previously been linked with prevention of cancer and heart disease. <br><br>   <br> <br>  <br> <br><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>  <br><br> <br><br><br>adverts.addToArray({"pos":"inread_player"})Advertisement