Lift4Life

🌟 Zimbabwe Athletes Shine on the International Stage! 🌟

Huge congratulations to the incredible Zimbabwe athletes who recently competed at the African Championships! 🇿🇼🌍

💪🏾Simbayi secured 3rd place in the 105 Open Class!

💪🏾Gabriel earned an amazing 2nd place in the 53kg Sub-Junior Class!

Your hard work and dedication continue to inspire us all 🏆

A massive thank you to everyone worldwide who has supported Zimbabwe’s athletes through Lift4Life —whether through donating funds to build community gyms, sponsoring fees, providing coaching, or providing platform equipment such as singlets, etc. Your generosity makes these achievements possible. 👊👊🏾👊🏼👊🏿

🚨 We’ve got some new projects in the works, and we can’t wait to share them with you. Stay tuned! 👀

The newest set of gym plates is finally complete! 🇿🇼

A big shoutout to Dani () and her hard work behind the scenes fundraising to make this possible, as well as Audrey () on the ground coordinating the creation 💪💪🏾

A key cornerstone of Lift4Life’s work is working with local welders and casters in the making of our racks and plates, to ensure employment opportunities. It isn’t without challenges, including electricity shortages, but through hard work and perseverance magic happens. We can’t wait to see all the gains to come from this new set!

A big thank you to Lift4Life Uplifter Gabriel () who recently spent time in Zimbabwe visiting communities! 🇿🇼 He shared his knowledge & expertise as a coach, as well as donated new items including bands to further make strength training accessible, and many pairs of shoes!

Swipe through for some special moments ➡️

A big thanks to Audrey () for being an expert guide and continuing to build powerlifting from the grassroots.

We are excited to host Lift4Life Uplifter Gabriel () in Zimbabwe this week! 🇦🇹 🇿🇼

Gabriel is travelling from Austria to host workshop in our communities. He is particularly passionate about making strength training accessible, and will be bringing bands and iPads to the Lift4Life gyms to help with training and education.

We are so excited for the lifting and learning to come!

Let the powerlifting meet fun begin! 💪🏾

We are excited to announce this years Alex Burgess Memorial Meet is taking place August 31st in Zimbabwe. A big thanks to the Burgess family for their generosity making this possible. We are honoured to be a part of Alex’s positive legacy through the power of powerlifting 💫

The Zimbabwe Powerlifting Federation event will be full of community, scholarships, and a showcase of athletes hard work and training. The goal is to also use this meet to qualify some athletes for upcoming International competitions 😉 🇿🇼 🌍

We love to see collaborations and the uplifting that comes from Powerlifting!

A few months ago The Emergency Project (.project) travelled to Zimbabwe, providing medical outreach to communities. Lift4Life community coordinator Audrey () was a huge factor to the success on the ground, and we are so in awe of everything they accomplished.

A big shoutout to all the medical staff locally and globally that made this possible! We are excited for the future collaborations and outreach to come.

We are working on some exciting projects behind the scenes! 🇿🇼

💪🏾Zimbabwe athletes are currently training hard for African Championships in July 2024. First stop to make this happen is raising their membership fees to compete internationally ($400 IPF fee, $250 African Powerlifting fee).

💪🏾We are currently raising funds to build a new set of equipment in Zimbabwe for community use - the rack costs $480 USD, and plates are $5 USD per kg.

Interested in donating? Donations can be made directly on our website, through our PayPal, and etransfer to [email protected]

Interested in being a long term partner? We have a monthly Uplifters giving program.

Hosting your own charity event is also a great way to raise funds for Lift4Life! We even have a meet toolkit (linked in our bio) as a helpful resource to help you host a Lift4Life charity meet.

🤝Check out our website, or send us a DM to learn more and get involved.

A new powerlifting community created ✅ 🇿🇼

We recently donated another set of powerlifting equipment to Mashoko High School. Of course this also included Lift4Life community coordinator and Team Zimbabwe coach Audrey () travelling 400km to spend time teaching them and inspiring.

Going where i have never been creating memories 🥰.
I love every moment with these kids from .
Traveled 400km to visit and teach powerlifting .
It was a day well spent enjoying the company of these kids and always learning something new,different culture, and just experiencing life..
A new crop of powerlifters would come from this school .
Hope to see them compete at the powerlifting event this september

We are one week into December so don’t forget to support our Holiday Fundraising Campaign!

This whole month we are hoping to raise $1,000 USD to support our activities on the ground in Zimbabawe and continue . Please participate by giving a gift to our campaign by donating through our website or by E-transfer & PayPal to [email protected] . Corporate donations are also welcome and will be recognised with a shoutout on our page💪🏾💪

Your contributions will have impacts for years to come, by expanding public gym equipment and financing young lifters’ participation in sport.

We are so excited to see the new reach funds from this campaign will bring 🌎

All smiles from Malawi! 🇲🇼

Congratulations to Lift4Life Community Coordinator Audrey who last week successfully completed her Level 4 Coaching Certification from World Para Powerlifting (). She travelled to Malawi to be a part of an exclusive group and learn from the best.

Audrey has been with Lift4Life since the early days, and it’s been amazing to see her grow as an athlete and coach. We are excited for this new chapter and the opportunity to bring Para Powerlifting into Zimbabwe.

Awesome job Audrey! And a big shoutout to everyone at World Para Powerlifting that made this possible 💪💪🏾

Our Holiday Fundraising Campaign is LIVE💪🏾💪
Our goal is to raise $1,000 USD through the month of December to support our communities in Zimbabwe. Funds will go towards current community needs, including expanding our gym equipment locally and providing scholarships to youth lifters.

⬆️ Donations can be made on our website, as well as E-transfer & PayPal to [email protected] . As a registered 501-C3 charity we can also provide donation receipts in the US!

We are excited to keep you updated on the campaign progress in the coming month, as well as showcase our University partners who will be hosting holiday deadlift events to raise funds for the campaign. If you are a gym or university team looking to have a friendly holiday competition for a cause, send us an email or DM 🙋🏻‍♀️

The Ohio State University Powerlifting team returned from this year’s IPF University Worlds as World Champions! 🏆 🌎🌍🌏

Lift4Life’s founder John ( ) has coached the team for 10 years, and the club has been long time supporters of Lift4Life including being a member of our Uplifters donor group.

Congratulations to these amazing individuals for all their hard work and accomplishments!