Bikini Workout
Hitch Fit Client Gets in Bikini Shape at age 50, Competes with WBFF, places top 10
Today’s transformation, Alma, is no stranger to Hitch Fit! You’ve seen her stories before as she went through her first Lose Weight Feel Great program with me, and then went through a Build Muscle program with Micah! Well this fire cracker is BACK and this time she is sharing her journey of competing for her very first time at the WBFF Kansas City in the 35+ Diva Bikini Model competition, she is proof that you can get in Bikini Shape at age 50!! What an inspiration! She also landed a top 10 placement! I couldn’t be more proud of this inspiring lady and how far she has come. Great work Alma!!
Alma’s Story:
“My journey into the Hitch Fit programs started in August 2012. At that time, I was 48 and coming out of a challenging time in my life. After some online search, Hitch Fit attracted my attention due to all the inspiring testimonials and success stories. People of all ages and walks of life I could relate to with many demands on their time, families and other stressors were making headway and looking not just trim but with great muscle definition and just darn good! As a dietitian with a degree in health and exercise science, I for the most part practiced what I preached and was accountable to myself. But life as we know it got under my skin and I wasn’t responding to it in a productive sense. Instead, my life was spiraling down in to an abyss.
For four years before I started Hitch Fit, I had changed jobs four times; two of which were related to budget cuts. One I took very personally as I felt I was released for unjust reasons and rejection is a hard pill to swallow. During that time span, I had experienced two episodes of severe and acute back pain that sent me to bed incapacitated. Muscle relaxants and prednisone followed by physical therapy were starting to become my mainstay. I had been experiencing female incontinence (brought about due to childbirth) for some time and exercising was becoming such a challenge and frankly a downer. I was experiencing periodic anxiety attacks during the night and my self-esteem was at an all time low. I recall hating and not looking forward to Saturdays. I would dread the day and getting up to face it was such a chore. “What was the point” I recall telling my husband. My life was spiraling to a very dark place.
I can’t tell you what kind of a mother I was to my two children because I really was just going through the motions. I recall one Saturday morning my, then 9 year old, son came into my bedroom and tell me to . . . “get up Mom.” Through it all, my husband Bryan was super patient and very supportive. . . . but I was putting undue stress on my marriage. With his advice and after two to three years of my depression, I took myself to counseling. Physical therapy and surgery to correct the female incontinence, I started exercising in earnest. I was looking for something new that incorporated weight training and lucky to have found Hitch Fit. I enrolled in the bikini program, then maintenance then muscle building – I was hooked! The accountability to Diana and Micah with the emphasis on the DIET as well as the weight training with cardio made it into a complete package. Their positive outlook on life was contagious. . . I couldn’t let it go.
Speed time forward to May 31st 2014. I stepped on stage in a bikini as a bikini competitor at the young age of 50 (hah!). My goal was to celebrate my 50 years on this earth and do it in style. In the last two years, I not only worked to a new level of fitness but also work on getting my confidence back and acquiring a productive and renewed lease on life.
I have to share a personal irony of my participation in the WBFF competition. The way the categories were lined-up, I was assigned first female in the bikini 35+ category and first female to step on stage overall. . . oh boy!! I heard my name, took my first step on to the stage and just went for it. My husband, daughter, brother and his girlfriend were in the audience cheering me on! What a rush! Yet, my story is not unique. I was surrounded by people who overcame challenges and struggles of their own. We were all there together celebrating our accomplishments on stage for our families and friends to witness. If you think you want to do something adventurous, productive that you can be passionate about . . . .take no more hesitation and just do it for your family and above all for yourself. The rewards are worth it!”
Alma’s Program Choice – Bikini Model Program
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