Dawn Joy

Female

2009

United States

Human Resource Management

I've been a workout fiend ever since the 9th grade. I would go directly after school to Bally's and do 2 aerobics classes back to back, then lift weights. Sometimes I'd stay at the gym for hours upon hours. In Mar 07 is when I started training for my first competition, Muscle Mania, Ms Bikini America in LA. There were tons of girls from all over the world competiting so needless to say, I was in over my head for my first competition. BUT..I learned so much and wouldn't take it back for the world. Currently, I am training hard and back on my competition diet so that I can prepare for a fitness modeling shoot; to hopefully one day fulfill my dreams of being on the cover of Oxygen!

I love training because it is ingrained in my soul. I wouldn't be me if I didn't work out. It's just makes up so much of who I am as a person. It balances me. It makes me feel good when I know I've worked hard for my body and that it looks good because of how well I take care of it.

I stay motivated by setting goals for myself. Just random goals that don't mean anything to anybody, but mean something to me. Such as entering my first competition, becoming a fitness model, trying to get print work in an ad or magazine, etc. Visit me at www.modelmayhem.com/713662

I don't have any titles, but a HUGE accomplishment for personal reasons was to train hard and diet down for my first competition and follow through with it; 6 months later, I was on that stage! :)