Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton - Lifting for Women - Shirt

A great shirt to promote lifting for women! Featuring a famous quote from Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton. Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton (“The First Lady of Iron”) played a central role in popularising physical culture and exercise for women in the central decades of the Twentieth Century. In the late 1930s, she began working out with friends at Muscle Beach and quickly became famous for her rare combination of beauty, strength and muscularity. In the 1940s, she organised the first women’s weight lifting contest and operated the first all-women’s gym in the United States. She lifted, performed acrobatics on Muscle Beach and wrote extensively, encouraging women to include weight training as part of a fitness regime.