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“

with the dream
It all started in an event

of one day
participating
and giving my

and become a
best to win
professional in

this world.”

getting my 4th IFBB ELITE PRO mentioned this before during the
CARD. Both my coach and I have interview, but my brother is my coach.
decided to take the step next year and I am very lucky to have the family and
accept the transition from the amateur the environment I have, because they
to the professional level. We had not always support my decisions, they
done it before because, if we were want to see me happy and they know
honest with ourselves, we knew that that this is my passion.
we did not have enough experience.
These are big words because the girls EWA: :What is your diet like?
who compete there are from another BÁRBARA: I don’t like to use the
world but... Let’s go for it! word “diet.” Our society has many
EWA: What inspired your entry prejudices against this word. I lead a
into the world of Bikini Fitness, EWA: How do your community healthy lifestyle and contrary to what
and why not sooner? and environment support your everyone thinks, my diet is very varied
BÁRBARA: I have always been fitness journey?
passionate about the world of fitness. BÁRBARA: I come from a family
My beginnings with strength training, that has always been closely linked to
specifically, came the day I decided to the world of sports. I haven’t
carry out a serious training and diet
plan with the help of my coach
Andoni Álvarez Benéitez. It was
because of him, who was a competing
athlete, that I discovered this
wonderful world of competition and
the Bikini Fitness discipline. It all
started with the dream of one day
participating in an event and giving
my best to win and become a
professional in this world. This was 8
years ago now, of which I have been
competing for 1 and a half year. I
managed to achieve that dream. You
always have to fight for your dreams.
This is something that I convey daily
in my work as a personal trainer and
on my social networks. Now I face an
even bigger challenge, after this year

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