Growing up I have always been done things. My mother put me in ballet, tap, jazz and gymnastics. We finally found my sport at a mall⦠For 13 years I was a competitive ice skater for the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club (LAFSC). Young and dumb, I lost my love for my sport and I turned down the opportunity to go to the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway for the Philippines.
In college, I met my husband and he introduced me to the gym. I became an aerobic queen and a gym rat. He taught me how to lift weights and I turned my energy to that. I loved working out. But after years of not even looking at anything ice skating, I missed my sport and I decided to join the synchronized ice skating team with the LAFSC and competed with them but shortly after both me and hubby joined the military.
Stationed in Okinawa, I became a Figure Skating Coach teaching American and Japanese children. Then I moved to Northern California and taught there for a little bit. Fitness is a way of life in the military and I found another sport to focus my energy on⦠running. I ran various 5Kâs, 10Kâs and Half Marathonâs. I then got stationed to a base in Nevada and running was no interest to me anymore so I thought about going back to ice skating as an "Adult" skater. I trained for a couple of months and nearly broke my knee falling on a jump and decided that maybe it just wasn't for me anymore. Indoor aerobic cycling came into my life but the love for that did not last long and I became sedentary. I started to gain weight.
I decided to do something about it in January 2013. I was thinking of doing Spartan Races, Mud Run or Triathlons or getting a personal trainer to whip me in shape. I looked online and found the Las Vegas Figure and Bikini Team through SEXYFITBODY. I contacted Angela Farrar, did one session with the group and fell in love. I officially started group training with them on February 25th. Exactly 12 weeks later on May 25th, 33lbs down and 15% less body fat, I was standing on stage, competing in my first NPC competition and I was hooked!
I know how it is to train hours every day for something you want. I got my discipline from waking up at 5am every morning to get to the ice rink before school. I also know how it is to give up a once in a lifetime opportunity, the Olympics and live with the heartache that my decision brought me. I will not give up this time. I am going for the "gold" once again for my Figure PRO Card and the only thing that can stop me is... me. That won't happen, AGAIN.