All three lifts being added together and measured against the contestants' weight. The Otago Powerlifting Championships will involve a dead lift, bench press and squat. He said the evenings of fatigue after training were hard at first, but now he was enjoying the challenge, training up to five times a week. Sean (17) had been training for about six months. Mrs Kennedy (37) said she had been training for almost a year with the aim of ''just proving I can do it''. ''It's a good test and rewarding for them to see their results go up and up each week.'' ''I've seen massive changes, and I guess it helps them both, in and out of the gym. Personal trainer Chris McIntee said he had noticed a huge improvement in the amateur pair's progress in the last few weeks. The pair have been training intensively at Jetts gym in Dunedin since early February in preparation for the Otago powerlifting championships today. I'm rambling on I guess.Moving the coffee table should not be a problem for mother and son powerlifters Shelley and Sean Kennedy. There will definitely be a book 4, it's already planned, and the boys will no doubt continue to pop up in cameos in the spin-off series, and little short stories now and again.
Part of me could keep writing Simon and Dec forever, even if nobody else ever read them again, because they have become in that really wanky author way 'part of me'. I've been dwelling a lot on the future of the series, and what the endgame will be. AFL is the only sport I follow, so to be seen as a sports romance novelist is quite ironic.
In some ways it is also scary as you think nothing else you do will ever compare! And believe me, I never saw it as a 'sports romance' and it's funny to think of it as such. I in no way anticipated that when I first published in the genre. It's a humbling feeling to have your book, and what for me was my first, to keep getting recognition. Cait Miller pointed out a very pleasant surprise for me through Twitter: Book Riot had an article where I was included in a list of five authors 'to get you started in M/M romance'.
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