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I call myself the female version of

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Clark Kent because I literally lead two

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lives one side of me is the accountant

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cuz I'm an a arted accountants then come

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to nighttime rip off the suit that's

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when I transition into

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Superwoman meet Karen corbain she's a

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powerlifting Champion with a pretty

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impressive resume I'm the conal

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powerlifting Champion there I won three

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golds and two silver medals I'm also the

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Guinness World Record holder so I've got

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the record for the most bodyweight

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squats in a minute I'm also the five

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times all England and five times British

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champion as well I should probably

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mention that I've represented Great

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Britain as well like the world and

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European Champs I can put that in as

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well if you wanted to I Love The you

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just you're like oh yeah by the

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way I literally don't like to put a

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limit on what I could achieve because

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every time that I've ever thought of

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doing that I've exceeded that limit so

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where did you get get all this power

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from I think you only need to look at

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the background of this uh shot here but

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you should meet my family yeah I don't

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think Karen je got her superpower from a

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spider bite I used to compete as a

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bodybuilder I competed at the national

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championships then I won five um gold

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and four silver in discus Hammer

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throwing my biggest sport in achievement

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would be reaching the national level in

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the 400 met hurdles I'd say d to that

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actually 200 M 100 me Po world of course

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I'd want to win but if I didn't win then

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I wanted to make sure that my my brother

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would win the race 300 and 400 as well

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it's whatever I get my hand onto it

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Karen's uncle was even a champion

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wrestler and the Bane's Legacy doesn't

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end there my niece is 2 years old her

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name is aana and she often comes into

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the gym to watch her auntie training so

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she sees me lifting weights and you

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almost have to hold her back cuz she

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wants to get involved we have select

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pink dumbbells and those are hers to

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lift I always joke that you know my

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brother's got to like for me to her us

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at National level I got to Comm Champion

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so we're elevating with each sibling

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here and then with my niece I'm like

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we've got to have an Olympic champion in

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the mix literally she's got to be the

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one so no pressure on Hana but yeah from

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an early age it was pretty clear that

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Karen G had inherited the Bane's

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biceps oh she's always being strong

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sometime when she get the shopping out

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she say oh I carry that she she was

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quite young she carried two of the milk

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containers walk bring them to the

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kitchen we with how strong she is I

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think she was only about 4 years old and

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she was pretty quick on her feet too my

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nickname in school it was bullet Baines

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because I was so fast between you and me

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I did actually Nick that from my brother

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she still considers herself to be bullet

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pains but um the OG if you want to say

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the original for that it was because

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sports day was my domain in the 100 m

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200 M and the long jump I would just

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love to to win and I held seven

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consecutive Secondary School

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records age 17 karang started lifting

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weights to improve her Sprint starts but

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her dad saw potential for a different

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kind of super power you know if if I say

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one more rep she not only give me one

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more rep she might give me another two

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or three right because just to just to

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prove the point look it's almost like a

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mini myself after 3 months of training

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having never picked up a wait karang G

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entered her first competition when all

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of us as a family showed up to support

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her when we approached their desk they

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had assumed that it was uh my brother

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and I that were competing we were very

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very proud to say that you know no it

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wasn't us it's in fact our very younger

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sister I think ever since then I wanted

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to to show people what I could do so I

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won that competition and 3 months after

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that I became British champion as well

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and I never look back I was never kind

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of had this conception that it was

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something for a man or a woman I just

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thought strength was for everyone often

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with South Asian women it could be they

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grow up they go to school they get a job

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they get married have children and

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that's it R and repeat sometimes it's

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that notion of parents just saying no

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that's not the done thing and I'm

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grateful that my parents will never like

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that I was raised to shatter glass

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ceilings karan's superpower didn't just

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appear overnight she spent hours

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training but luckily her gym is pretty

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local so welcome to my home gym this is

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where the magic happens I like to call

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this Temple of gains yeah we're 365 days

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a year we're in here no days off no

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birthdays no Christmas it's just get

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your gains first and then you can enjoy

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your day after so the heaviest weights

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that I'm lifting today is I can squat

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150 kilos I can bench press 100 kilos

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and I can deadlift 175 kilos which is

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something along the lines of this it's

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all about channeling that mindset being

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aggressive yet focused it goes without

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saying that I need a couple of back

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slaps from my dad just to get me all

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psyched up can you show us oh yeah yeah

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of course normally I you just give it a

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bit of a quick massage like this just

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say come on just just wake everything up

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just give it a all Mighty slap like this

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can be harder sometime depending on how

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it is my dad he's an engineer so he's

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made the gym by hand it's literally had

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that meticulous nature and crafting like

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the lap machine and stuff that he

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everything's made by hand it's what I

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deal in with metal um and whenever they

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used to have some metal that they didn't

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want or whatever it is or you would just

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turn it or or even use the gears you

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know to make dumbbells out of and kar's

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dad can add one more job to his roster

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coach cuz sometimes you often have that

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relationship between the they always say

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father and son I'm lucky to say that I

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think father and daughter we Bond over

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Sport and gym and strength and we spend

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the most time together to be honest

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we're always in the gym together and if

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we're not in the gym we're discussing

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things about the gym probably driving my

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mom and saying a little bit I think in

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terms of living with my coach I think

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sometimes it can be quite tough well

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let's say if I had a bad training

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session it definitely follows me to the

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din dinner table no coach come in all

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the

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time sometime when I'm in the kitchen I

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can hear them if they had

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good happy with everything I know

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they're walking

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quietly but sometime when I'm in the

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kitchen I can hear them I said but soon

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as you see me you pack it up I know

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that this is the spot where I set my

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Guinness World Record so I've got the

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world record for the most body weight

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squats in a minute I actually only had 2

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weeks in order to do this record because

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I was notified and they're like I'm

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publishing deadline is in 2 weeks you

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got 2 weeks to set a world Rec and I was

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like okay how am I going to do this you

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always think a minute is really fast but

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when you're squatting continuously it

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felt like an absolute Marathon I got to

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30 seconds and I was like I was going

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faster than I'd already um thought like

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I'd already got 25 reps in 30 seconds I

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was like okay this is going good now is

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the home straight of like there was

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where I was channeling my old Athletics

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mindset of just finish

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strong and I actually beat the men's

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world record as well I think he only got

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34 so I beat him too which was just

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really special Karen G might have a

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world record but she has not stopping

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there I think for me the limit does not

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exist that's the mindset I've been

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brought up with you know we've only got

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one life and you got to make the most of

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it and I want to just keep pushing

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myself see how far I can go I've started

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taking up wrestling because I was

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looking for the next challenge I've got

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wrestling roots and it's in my blood

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from my mom's side and I wanted to

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really take it upon myself to see what I

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can really do and really get stuck in

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with that Combat Sports and hey unveil

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my own

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