How the body suffered from fitness

Many people dream of a pumped-up priest and dry press. But in pursuit of a body like that of a fit-baby, the main thing is not to harm yourself. Here are the true stories of female athletes who competed in fitness bikinis about how it turned out for their health and appearance.

“I faced amenorrhea, I can not get pregnant”

“I made a mistake that seriously affected my body and health, – Told her subscribers are a professional athlete, multiple champion of international tournaments in fitness bikini IFBB Bikini Pro, absolute champion of the Arnold Classic 2013 Anna Starodubtseva. – I needed to take longer breaks between performances to give my body time to recover. But I was chasing success, so I didn’t stop while my body was already exhausted and exhausted. Never, do you hear, never repeat my mistake! “

“Listen to your body and take care of yourself and your health, because in life there is nothing more important than this. Because of all of the above, I was faced with amenorrhea, so I cannot get pregnant. Amenorrhea usually results from very strict, low-calorie diets, grueling exercise, and low body fat for a long time. This disease is very common among ballerinas and athletes. To recover, I need to gain fat, soften, lower exercise intensity, and increase my fat intake. Perhaps you can imagine how morally difficult it is for me to accept my new body. The last months have been an unbearable test for me, full of stress and disappointment, but I realized that my life goals and priorities have changed, so I need to accept a new myself. All this time I tried to recover without hormonal involvement, but it seems that I need medical help, so I made an appointment with an endocrinologist to find the right treatment for me.

I am ready to do everything in order to get my health back and finally become a mother. I would give everything in the world for this now. Truth!”

“I was so hungry that I ate five chocolates, kilograms of ice cream and cookies at a time.”

“I need to tell you something that, perhaps, will save you from disappointment in fitness … Personal experience, behind the scenes of a beautiful body, – wrote in his post fitness instructor Evgenia Matveenko. – It will be interesting to everyone and everyone, since each of us once lost weight, swayed and dried. With my story, I will answer many questions. I remember exactly the day I came to the gym, it was September 2012. A trainer worked there, to whom I got and trusted 100%. For seven months I studied three times a week, for five to six hours. I lived in the hall. Fanatela, rocked everything in one day. Then the first and legendary drying began. For almost two months I did three times a day, seven days a week. At first, I had everything in my diet: porridge, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits, cottage cheese, nuts, dried fruits. Then the trainer reduced the diet to cereal only in the morning, eggs, bread, apples and protein with amino acids. I lived like this for four weeks. I wanted to see the press and go to rest beautiful. Everything worked out. On vacation I continued to study every other day. The last week I stopped studying, and then it began. I arrived plus 6 kilograms, at home another 5 kilograms were added. I ate everything, I will not say that there are a lot of unnecessary things, but it was. “

I was carried in different directions, cellulite was everywhere!

“In November 2013, I started to prepare for the body fitness competition. From November to April 28 (the day of the competition) it took 17 kg. That is, she lost weight from 64 kilograms to 47 kilograms. I will not describe in detail how the mood changes during drying and how it gets to the people living with you, but one thing I can say for sure: for tolerance, understanding and support they can erect a monument during their lifetime. Of course, the feeling that I experienced every morning, seeing myself in the mirror, I will never forget. It was a real thrill! I saw changes every day, but the feeling of hunger grew more and more every week. I’m not going to dissemble and say that I didn’t get lost in preparation, it was, and quite often, almost every week, especially in recent months.

After the competition, I gained six kilograms in two days. I ate and could not be full, ate to such an extent that I was nauseous. I cried because it was so bad it hurt to breathe. My cycle was completely knocked down. The doctors said that my body is approaching menopause, and if I want children, I have to quit. The body was swollen before our eyes, the swelling was such that it was painful to lie down, walk, breathe … But all this is not as scary as the emotional state. “

“The state when you begin to understand the cost of walking through the stage and a couple of photos in a bikini. Hormonal disruption, and every day you see the opposite process of changing the body, but this is already much faster than losing weight. The breakdowns started almost every day. At most, I could control myself for five or six days, then a breakdown for three or four days. A breakdown – it was not just a bun or a chocolate bar, but it could be five rolls, five 100-gram chocolates, a kilogram of ice cream, a kilogram of cookies – all in one meal. If you roughly calculate how many calories I ate on the day of the break, then it turned out about five to seven thousand empty calories. “

“Due to the use of steroids, my hands became numb, all joints ached.”

“I decided to prepare for the next competition, I needed to gain a lot of meat,” fitness instructor Evgenia Matvienko also said. – It is unrealistic to do it in a year on your own. I decided to connect steroids. I began to grow, my working weight doubled or tripled. I was happy and confident that everything was going as it should … “

“Then all my joints and bones began to ache. At night, my arms went numb from my shoulder, I stopped feeling my big toes (by the way, I still can’t feel one). The course ended, and depression replaced the euphoria and the desire to defeat everyone. The mood was terrible, I still could not control myself in food, the breakdowns continued and continued. Nobody even suspected about my mental and mental state. I was silent, because I was ashamed to say that I cannot control myself, because I spread rot on those people who cannot pull themselves together and eat everything. “

I hid and ate on the sly. She became a hostage to herself.

“When I met my future husband, I weighed 55 kilograms, when they started dating, I was already 67 kilograms. She considered herself in the worst shape. But no, that was just the beginning! At the end of October I got very sick, the temperature kept at 38 for a week, dropped and rose again, and so on for a whole month. There were days when Sasha carried me in his arms to the toilet – I could not walk on my own. She passed all kinds of tests, but they showed that she was healthy. Sasha persuaded me to take a break, not to study until I wanted to myself. Throughout December 2014, in 7/24 mode, she ate only one sweet, did not swing and was fat. As a result, she began to weigh 74 kilograms. “

“In the second week my liver began to ache, and by the end of the month I already wanted a normal meal (porridge, eggs.). In January I began to study and thought that the breakdowns were over, but no. Continued to break down and devour everything. The hope that I could get out of this state was lost again. I was looking for everything that could help me, I searched the entire Internet, but I did not even find anything about such a condition. In March I went to CrossFit, started to lose weight, it took a little – five kilograms. It took a month – and tired. I tried to find a common language with my body and learn to negotiate with my brains, but all attempts were in vain. I continued to study, break down, cry, get angry.

In May, I turned to coach Vladimir Wang Li. The main problem was that I already knew everything and my knowledge got in the way of me. I had to forget everything and listen to him like the first time. From the first training I realized that I had to trust him in everything … Today is the 20th day without a break, and so far it doesn’t even smell like it. I really hope that I will soon forget about them. But I will remember exactly what happened to me during these three years … “

“There is nothing left of the breast after drying.”

“I have never been fat, I always went in for sports, I like to have an active rest,” says Olesya Antipova, a participant of the fitness bikini competition. – Three years ago, I wanted to pump up strong buttocks, like a fitness girl friend, and went to the gym. I worked intensively: twice a week I rocked my ass, hips, once – the top, another workout was circular, for the whole body. The buttocks have formed and grown in about a year. There was not a single selfie where I did not expose the fifth point in a favorable angle. Six months later, I decided that I wanted to show off in a swimsuit on stage, and began to prepare for a fitness bikini competition.

At first glance, everything should have gone easily and without consequences. I ate right from the very day I came to the gym, I also had the strength to swing every day. Four months before going on stage, the trainer wrote down a diet for drying. At the same time, I found a girl who sews swimwear for female athletes. They took measurements, then I had a complete grade. At first, drying was easy, with oatmeal, whole grain crisps and green apples, or grapefruit (one fruit of your choice) from carbohydrates. At first, I was glad that the fat was leaving and that muscles were replacing it. The shoulders were outlined first, then the press cut through. Legs and buttocks were the last to begin to be “cut”.

But when the cubes appeared, I noticed with horror that the chest became noticeably smaller. And the further I dried, the less it became

“A week before the competition, the swimsuit had to be altered, because there was almost nothing left of the second size. The push-up did its job, but for several days I cried inconsolably into the pillow, realizing the cost of participating in a fitness bikini. Nevertheless, I decided to go all the way and go on stage. At the competitions I did not manage to become a prize-winner, but I still got into the top 10. Emotions during the performance were indescribable. Those few minutes when the whole audience looks at you, cheers and applauds, are worth a lot. Of course, I had to pay a considerable price for this. Now I am seriously thinking about breast implantation. The girls-athletes who made it, convince that prizes go to the participants who have not only a relief body, but also an outstanding bust. “

“After drying, the face has aged five years.”

“Few of the fitness babies admit that after participating in competitions they have to bypass doctors and cosmetologists,” says Adelya Romasheva, a participant in the fitness bikini competition. – Drying gives you a relief body, dry abs, but takes away health and beauty. I was lucky: the tests after the championship were more or less normal, but the brutal appetite after a strict low-carb diet could not always be contained. But this is not the worst thing. After drying – who does not know, the athletes before the competition severely restrict themselves in water, the day before going on stage they do not drink at all – I have noticeably aged.

The face, due to lack of water and a strict diet, seemed to dry out, cheeks were sunken, wrinkles appeared, dark circles under the eyes. The people around me said that I looked very tired. At 24, I didn’t want to be an “old woman” at all, so I had to splurge on a beautician. To restore my face, I underwent a course of expensive injections and procedures. The muscles were heavily “clogged” and overstrained from daily workouts, so a course of massage was required on the body as well. Therefore, who wants to become a “bikinashka”, I advise you to think a hundred times and weigh everything. “

– Girls who set goals to perform in a fitness bikini or simply strive for muscle relief should be aware of both the positive and negative consequences of such a passion for the development of their body. The advantages of such training and diet are that the body becomes, of course, stronger and more enduring. In addition, the body, due to additional nutrition and enrichment with nutrients, quickly recovers. It is impossible not to mention the external advantages: the body becomes athletic and beautiful for many, but there are also disadvantages of such a lifestyle. First, the muscle tone not only of the external, but also of the internal muscles, which can lead to difficulties during pregnancy and during childbirth – the muscles do not turn off and are constantly tense. Secondly, muscle activity in the power mode leads to a shift in the balance of hormones, with a predominance of testosterone over estrogen. Since this balance is disturbed, the work of the glands producing female hormones is also disturbed, which in turn can lead to negative changes, to dysfunction of the female reproductive organs and to the development of malignant tumors. And thirdly, more relevant to all sports nutrition lovers than specifically to girls, the fascination with supplements leads to a violation of the body’s natural recovery, obtaining nutrients from food, in the amount that is necessary.In general, strength training for women can be useful , if you know when to stop and train in a sufficient, but not overabundant mode.

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