lifting 4,536 pounds in 10 minutes to define her identity !

https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/q-and-a/beyond-bench-conversation-mu-yang/

Mu Yang can lift seven times her body weight over the course of one minute. That knowledge gives Yang a quiet confidence in her work as founding director of the Mouse NeuroBehavior Core at Columbia University. The skill is also helpful around her lab: She never has to ask for help moving large tables or equipment.

Yang started kettlebell training seriously when she moved to New York City two years ago.

Opinion / Q&A

Beyond the bench: A conversation with Mu Yang

by  Jessica Wright  /  21 August 2018

Yang started kettlebell training seriously when she moved to New York City two years ago. Earlier this year, she won an award for lifting 4,536 pounds in 10 minutes. Lifting is her way of embracing a “crazy” city, she says, where people find and pursue their passion, no matter how unusual. “When I started to seek out my own identity in science and life, I discovered a new me,” she says. “I discovered that my mental strength, to a certain extent, highly correlated with my physical strength and endurance.”