“You Need to Eat!”: Four Koncept Athletes Talk Body Image, Confidence, and What Keeps Them Motivated

“You were led to believe that the smaller, the lighter you were, the better you were going to be,” says Hannah Crymble, who trained in gymnastics as a child, but the weightlifter, who represented Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games this year, certainly hasn’t conformed to gymnastics’, or society’s, idealisation of thinness over strength for women. Neither have fellow Koncept …

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