STRONGER THAN EVER

There’s a misconception that many people have of Cass Olholm when they first come across her: she’s always been this strong. It’s an easy assumption to make of the rising superstar trainer of Kayla Itsines’ Sweat app (249K Insta followers and counting) and co-founder of training facility The Ground in Cairns, especially when scrolling through her feed. There are photos and videos of Cass moving heavy barbells, kettlebells and dumbbells in a variety of ways (she’s a high-intensity strength trainer with Sweat, after all). There’s Cass doing overhead squats. Cass doing halos. Cass doing thrusters. Oh, and then there’s her insane six-pack (see: evidence across these pages).

But if you’d met Cass a few years ago, although she could run (she grew up competing), she had so little strength that she couldn’t