Dani Speegle can lift a 250-pound sand bag, and she models swimwear for TYR Sport, which signed her last month
When Dani Speegle works out at Invictus Fitness in East Village, people often approach to ask for her autograph or a photo.
Speegle grew up participating in sports — gymnastics, volleyball, softball, soccer, track, swimming, diving, and more. She earned five varsity letters in her Colorado high school. And she grew up deflecting the barbs of people commenting on her muscular body and thighs.During her senior year at college she discovered CrossFit — strength and conditioning training through a variety of muscle-testing activities — and it quickly became her sport, restoring her self-confidence.
Now, she is determined to use her new sports celebrity status to help other women suffering from body shaming and low self-esteem. Speegle says not a day goes by when she doesn’t get a hateful message directed at her image. While she gets three or four times as many positive messages, it’s sometimes hard to ignore the negative ones. “I am human,” she says.has grown to 1.6 million followers. She gives talks, makes appearances and just began collaborating with the athletic apparel and swimwear brand TYR Sport on her campaign to make women feel better about their bodies.
TYR, founded in Huntington Beach, announced late last month that it had signed Speegle, calling her campaign “a celebration of the female body’s strength, resilience and beauty. She’s on a mission to love herself and empower women to love themselves in a world that is constantly telling women what to be.”
After growing up in Conifer, Colo., Speegle lived in Florida where she studied marine biology at Florida Institute of Technology and was on the rowing team her freshman year.
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