Warrnambool strongwoman Liz Aitken snares win in third round of Australia's Strongest Middleweight Series

The renowned strongwoman, part of Southwest Strength Sports and training at Iron Armour Gym, enjoyed a strong showing at Australia's Strongest Middleweight Series on Saturday, taking out the win in round three of the series in the 82kg category.

It sets up a tilt at the finals for the dedicated performer, which will be held in Queensland next year.

"I was so happy with how everything went. I was able to hit everything on comp day that I had been working on with my training so it was great," she told The Standard.

"I'll just keep focusing on building strength from now in the lead-up to the finals in April up in Toowoomba next year."

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Aitken said she was really pleased with her consistency on competition day.

"There was five events on the day - the first was a zercher carry, so a 170kg chain yoke carry and I managed to do that in 5.69 seconds which is very fast, the quickest time out of all the females," she said.

"The other events were a deadlift medley, I deadlifted 130kg, 150kg and 170kg and the next was then a sandbag to shoulder run so I lifted 90kg onto my shoulders, run 10 metres and then drop it and pick it up, put it up on my shoulders and run again.

"I was so happy I could do that, it was hard. Really hard."

Aitken said she would enjoy a few days off before pouring all her energy into training and preparing again.

"You sort of taper the weights up every single week, so I have a coach who does all of my programming, so I train five days a week and train each of the five different comp events but I'm just looking at continuing to build my strength in the lead-up to competitions with a focus on the actual events," she said.

"Every week is just increasing weights to the different events until I'm at the weights for the competition."

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