Strong on purpose.

Most women's gym clothes are cut for a body that doesn't train. If you have lats, quads and a full seat, you've spent years sizing up in one place and pinning in another. Bands box in your back. Waistbands roll at the bottom of a squat.

So Temperess starts from a lifter's body. A bra that leaves your lats free. A short that holds you from underneath. Sweats that fit your seat and still go wide. One color per piece, and one small gold bar on the back. One bar is one day you showed up.

The name is the idea. Tempering is how steel learns to hold: heat it, cool it, repeat, until it's harder than before. That's training. The -ess makes it hers.

She lifts four to six days a week, plans her week around training and writes her program down. She might be the 5am regular, because the gym is the one hour that's hers. She might lift in the morning, hike after, and go out to dinner.

She wants to look good, for herself. Most of the world sells her smaller. She wants bigger, on purpose, and nobody asking why.

She's part of a sisterhood of women who train.