I’m Christina Appleby-Phillips (Chrissie) for short.  I work in Newcastle Emlyn Leisure Centre as a Fitness and NERS instructor and have done for about 9 years now. I have always competed in sports, namely football and basketball, when I was younger and then I discovered lifting weights.  For the past year I have been competing in powerlifting (which is squat, bench and deadlift).  I am currently Welsh powerlifting champion in the under 84kg category.  This qualified me to compete in the British championships where I came 3^rd with a total of 437.5kg.  My goals going forward are to obviously win the British Championship and to represent Britain at the world championships so I will be training hard to make this a reality.