{"id":6534,"date":"2022-12-07T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strengthsenseiinc.com\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2022-12-07T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:08:11","slug":"a-tribute-to-mary-pier-gaudet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strengthsenseiinc.com\/2022\/12\/07\/a-tribute-to-mary-pier-gaudet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Mary-Pier Gaudet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Mary-Pier Gaudet was one of Charles R. Poliquin\u2019s favorite people, helping him teach courses and lighting up a room with her contagious smile and charming personality. It\u2019s with a heavy heart that we must report that she has passed on.<\/p>\n At 5’3″ and 120 pounds, Mary-Pier looked more like a Disney fairy princess than a movie stuntwoman who fought supervillains, engaged in sword fights, jumped motorcycles, fired machine guns, and leaped off exploding buildings.<\/p>\n Mary-Pier was born in the city of Ville-Marie in Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue, located in the western region of Quebec. Her athletic career began as a figure skater, inspired by Canadian figure skater and future fitness celebrity Sylvia Tremblay. Mary-Pier skated at the junior level and could perform the challenging double axel. From here, she pursued fitness and figure competitions.<\/p>\n Mary-Pier took a job in Montreal as a barmaid so she could begin working with Larry Vinette, a trainer who had studied under Charles R. Poliquin. Under Vinette\u2019s guidance, Mary-Pier entered her first figure competition in 2006, placing second. She progressed to winning the advanced division in the World Natural Sports Organization World Championships, earning her pro card.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After the World Championships, Mary-Pier was discovered by Jean Frenette, a stunt coordinator. Frenette got Mary-Pier\u2019s first job as a stunt performer in the movie Nitro<\/em>. Next, she begin working under Christian Maurice, another student of the Strength Sensei. Maurice had an extensive background in training stunt performers and took Mary-Pier\u2019s training to the next level with acrobatics, parkour, and sword fighting.<\/p>\n As she was doubling for movie actresses, Mary-Pier focused on relative strength training methods that would keep her muscle bulges to a minimum. Nevertheless, she reached a strength level that enabled her to perform chin-ups with nearly half her bodyweight.<\/p>\n The hard work paid off as Mary-Pier performed stunts in 18 movies and appeared as an actress in five of them. Among her films were Beastly<\/em>, Picture This<\/em>, Pompeii<\/em>, and two X-Men movies. Among the actresses she doubled for were Vanessa Hudgins, Haylie Duff, and Ashley Tisdale. Off the set, she worked as a personal trainer.<\/p>\n Throughout her life, Mary-Pier battled cystic fibrosis, a degenerative lung disease, and diabetes. But her commitment to healthy living and her positive attitude enabled her to live a fulfilling life. Mary-Pier Gaudet was loved and will be missed. (TSS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mary-Pier Gaudet: Stuntwoman to the Stars \u00a0 Mary-Pier Gaudet was one of Charles R. Poliquin\u2019s favorite people, helping him teach courses and lighting up a room with her contagious smile and charming personality. It\u2019s with a heavy heart that we must report that she has passed on. At 5’3″ and 120 pounds, Mary-Pier looked more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n