Kate McKay

Some of your best work will be built in private.”
From my own experience, I would say most of my success was 90% built solo. Words of wisdom: it takes great courage to move forward when others doubt, or criticize your effort efforts. We’re not built to see consensus, if we choose to live fully in the power and GRACE that God uniquely gave us alone.

Real talk. Can anyone else relate to this?

The judgment is real and hard to block out. In all the years that I have lifted weights and at this point, it’s been decades, I have been continually met with some harsh judgment about who I am based on my choice to stay strong. Some examples: Women shouldn’t lift weights, lifting weights is masculine, caring about what you look like is arrogant, you must not be very smart, competing in a bikini and high heels is slutty, inappropriate, etc. This past show was no exception.
In some ways, I pray that I will never get used to it, the harshness of people and their judgments, when the truth of it is that we are all just trying to do our best. I just goes back to my mother‘s most famous and hard to swallow adage: If you don’t have anything positive to say, don’t say anything at all. And so I reiterate Norma Jean‘s famous words. Peace to all.🙏