Strength Academy coach

Josée Gallant

I'm a national-champion Olympic weightlifter from an Acadian family, originally from Campbellton, New Brunswick and now based in Truro, Nova Scotia, where I co-own a gym. I've competed internationally for Team Canada, including the 2022 IWF World Championships and multiple Pan American Championships. Stella Maris — Star of the Sea — is the program I've built from that journey: years of competing internationally, learning from different coaching philosophies, making mistakes, adapting, and refining my approach. Weightlifting has given me direction, discipline, patience, humility and resilience, and my goal isn't simply to write programs — it's to help athletes build confidence under the bar, understand their training more deeply, and create long-term progress.