Reason: Ava is a great example of a goal setter that achieves them. The most amazing thing is the relatively short period of time she has been able to turn her life around and then be very successful in her fitness and figure career endeavors. A true professional, and down to earth person. I'm also impressed that, no matter how hard she is working on something, she always responds to a comment.

Reason: A mother of 2 and working hard to get her figure back. I'm most impressed with women who have had children and work like this to look great in a bikini again.

Reason: I've got to know Marls, and correspond with him, and I'm glad to call him a friend. He achieved his physique in an atypical manner, body weight, self resistance and isometric exercises. It can be done. He got his pro card last year. We have a somewhat similar philosophy in training, I'm not an apparatus free purist like him. He's dedicated to his training methods, and has been able to compete in a world of iron pumpers.