🔥Forge Foundations🔥
Our 3 primary pillars that forge the way for us in our coach and athlete relationships.
Our ethos are an uncompromising promise to you, and skills we’ll help you develop within strength training and strength sports.
🥾Meet Ros!🥾
Last week marked 3 months working together, celebrated spectacularly with Ros completing the Overland Track!
For those that don’t know, the Overland Track is a 65 km alpine hike in Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, typically completed in 6 days.
When we started working together, stability, strength, pain management, and continued independence were massive goals, and drivers for her stepping into a strength gym.
Now each hike Ros does, she can’t get over how much the strength training we’re doing is helping her keep pace, endure, and makes the whole trip a whole lot more enjoyable!
“I didn’t fall over once! I’d usually fall over at least once because my balance is sh*t, but my legs and balance is so much better!”
Not only did she complete the overland trip, but she did two side trips up Cradle Mountain, and over to Barn Bluff, totalling 26km in one day 😮💨
Here in Tassie we’re blessed with incredible wilderness… here’s to many more hikes 🧡
🔔ZOE🔔
Comp: North West Open, 12th April 2026
This was Zoe’s first ever powerlifting comp!
Zoe and I started working together on a rehab and resilience plan ten months ago… and now she’s competing in strength sport.
Our goal was to gain some experience, try a powerlifting prep and comp and see if it was something we love and want to invest more time in, hit a 300kg total, while hitting some PB’s!
I think the bug is caught 🦠
Zoe went 7/9 getting the nerves out of the way early by missing her first lift and making a hell of a comeback.
Squats:
110kg 🔴🔴🔴
110kg ⚪️⚪️⚪️
120kg (20kg PB) ⚪️⚪️⚪️
Bench:
55kg ⚪️⚪️⚪️
60kg (5kg PB)⚪️⚪️⚪️
65kg 🔴🔴🔴
Deadlifts
115kg ⚪️⚪️⚪️
125kg ⚪️⚪️⚪️
132.5kg (32.5kg PB) ⚪️⚪️⚪️
312.5kg total
Zoe said after the comp that she thought I was mad putting in her last deadlift attempt, but she came out and pulled it anyway! I thought she was mad giving me the biggest hug after her second deadlift attempt, but she was celebrating hitting a 305kg total!
Zoe is so strong, incredibly resilient, and meticulous in her training. There is so much strength there being held back by just being very new to barbell work and powerlifting in general.
A spectator came up afterward to tell me how surprised they were with how strong Zoe is as a novice, and said they are excited to watch her grow… so am I🔥
Well done on your first competition Zoe! You crushed it 🔥
(All PB’s powered by the memory of Jimmy)
🍊CLEMENTINE🍊
Comp: North West Open, 12th April 2026
Clem had an AMAZING prep into this comp.
Our goal was to have a solid return after 2 years off the platform, hit some PB’s, and have a good day all round.
Mission successful.
Clem went 8/9, took our 🥇 in her weight class, hit her first over body weight bench, AND took out Overall Best Female for the day (huge achievement and a huge surprise 🧡)
Squats:
92.5kg ⚪️⚪️⚪️
100kg ⚪️⚪️⚪️
107.5kg (5kg PB) ⚪️⚪️⚪️
Bench:
50kg ⚪️⚪️⚪️
55kg ⚪️⚪️⚪️
57.5kG (10kg PB) ⚪️⚪️⚪️
Deadlifts
110kg ⚪️⚪️⚪️
120kg (2.5kg) ⚪️⚪️⚪️
127.5kg 🔴🔴🔴
(Clem hit a huge 125kg PB in training but we had a little technical miss on the day 🙏🏼)
385kg** total (17.5kg total PB)🔥
Clem is such a hard worker. She puts her head down, ass up, and gets it done. Her PB’s are hard earned and moved damn well.
Well done Easy Lover 🔥
North West Open
Awesome to have our southern Tas crew collabing with @emerge_sc up in Burnie for an APA comp yesterday!
Massive atmosphere for a smaller comp, with newbies and experienced lifters sharing the platform.
From Catalyst Strength we had 6 competitors:
Coached by Nickola @forge.strength.coaching@zoethomasx in her first comp having an awesome day filled with PBs and @pirate_qwerity back on the platform after a bit of a hiatus, taking away best female overall 🏆
Coached by Jeremy @jeremy_csap@andreastsiakis with an 8/9 day, hitting a 490kg total in the 83kg juniors in his first comp. @durga.gopala reaching the 200kg milestone for a 22.5kg comp PB in the M1 52’s. @f.brodie.shw stacking some more wins with another 10kg on his total in 6 weeks, including a big milestone 225kg squat. @jvddy_ with a PB sq and bp, narrowly missing his 3rd pull which was for a 9/9 day and a total PB!
Thank you to all of the volunteers who made this happen, especially Mikayla for letting us use your space!
Next up is Tassie Cup in July, invitations to be sent out later this month.👀
🔥NORTH WEST OPEN🔥
A lot of joy for @pirate_qwerity and @zoethomasx 🧡
Recaps coming (when I recover from the drive) but I couldn’t help but share some moments from today!!!
Thank you @emerge_sc for hosting and @jeremy_csap for meet directing, as well as the whole @catalyststrength crew (who did amazing today and make the gym a great place to be), and all the other gyms that showed up 🧡
🔥 BURNIE STRONGMAN WORKSHOP 🔥
This is the first time Forge has come up to offer a strongman workshop in the North of Tas, and not an opportunity to miss!
With 7 years of experience competing at a high level in the sports of Strongman and Powerlifting, and 5 years coaching athletes to a national and international level; there is a wealth of knowledge to be tapped into!
You’ll get:
•hours of dedicated coaching
•access to specialised knowledge
•take away resources to cement what you learn
•coach up-skilling opportunities to expand your experience
and more!
So whether you’re completely new and curious, or have a little experience under your belt… this workshop is for you.
#strongman #tasmania #strength #burnie #deadlift
📍 STRONGMAN IS COMING NORTH 📍
Join us for this inclusive workshop!
🗓️ 10AM, 11th April 2026
📍Emerge S & C, South Burnie
There’s been a severe strongman drought in the north of the state, and it has been difficult for people curious to test it out to find the opportunities. So i’m bringing them to you, and offering my years of experience in an all inclusive environment to show you that the implements offer functional training for life outside of the gym, as well as a lot of fun.
𝗔𝗧𝗟𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦
Picking up awkward objects is one of the most common causes of back injury outside of the gym… learning how to pick and load an atlas stone offers transferable skills to utilise at home when gardening, building, moving, and more.
𝗟𝗢𝗚
Log has been making some dominant appearances in the Crossfit games over the past few years, and while often getting the log overhead is a transferable skill, a lot of athletes waste their energy and are capped by their ability to get the log into your rack position to begin with! With this workshop, you won’t get caught out.
𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗧
As a multiple time national record holder in the deadlift, and world record holder in the SDDL, I’ll also be dropping some deadlift tips and tricks to make your pulls more efficient, less fatiguing, and stronger overall.
𝗖𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗦
You can get an extended workshop to learn the keys to coaching strongman, offering you professional development, specialised knowledge, and programming tips to get the most out of your new kit.
If you really enjoy these movements, i’ll be running a beginner friendly competition in Hobart on the 21st June. Come down, enjoy dark mofo, and put your new skills to the test!
If you have any questions about the workshop… reach out! I’m super excited to come meet y’all and share something i’m so passionate about!
🔥TICKET LIMITED!! Link in BIO 🔥
#strongman #workshop #tasmania #burnie #launceston
🔥SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW…🔥
I actually majored in journalism in university, and learning about media literacy, and working on my own, has given me the skills to spot scams, misinformation, and QUESTION EVERYTHING!
I forget not everyone has developed this skill, which in this media rich world full of people just looking to take your money whatever it takes, is crazy.
In the fitness side of instagram, being able to spot a scam versus something based in FACT can be the difference between a good and bad choice that may impact your life.
Did you know what media literacy was and how good are you at spotting the scams?
#strength #strengthsport #media
