ANYA NICHOLSON

In this episode, Host Celeste Rains-Turk speaks with Anya
Nicholson a posing coach and office assistant with Team Elite
Physique who works alongside Adam Bonilla traveling to shows and
helping competitors backstage. She studied Sports Management and
spends most of her days at the contest prep center doing online
posing with athletes all over the world, and turned pro at NPC
Nationals in 2019. 

Tune in to hear about Anya's recover from bulimia and how one
friend, and bodybuilding, changed her life for the better. Anya
shares openly her struggle with bulimia, how it started, and what
helped her. She also talks about how her relationship with food
is now versus before. Celeste and Anya speak to disordered eating
and food relationships to show you that there is a way out!

Anya gives us insight into how to get over the urge to do a mini
cut because of weight gain. Celeste and Anya get into positive
and negative reinforcements and how powerful perspective is on
everything we do. They discuss the power of food labels, getting
to know your body, and how influential self-love is on our
decision making. Anya gives us a run down of exact process for
self-evaluation each day along with what she has done to improve
her day to day life.

Anya talks about how she helps athletes overcome the urge to mini
cut at the sight of weight gain as well as how Team Elite
Physique helps their athletes to focus on the right progress when
things get tough.

Celeste asks Anya about posing and pulls out some interesting and
key details from the analyzing and implementing Anya has done as
a posing coach. She gives us some insight into what might look
better, what routines and looks are being favored, and even tells
us her posing pet peeve. She shares exactly what she saw at USA's
and NPC Nationals and gets into the trends at the amateur and pro
level. Anya even makes some awesome suggestions for anyone to
implement to improve their posing!

Anya also talks about how she and Adam Bonilla separate work from
their relationship and some of the struggles they had in the
beginning in doing this. She shares how she does check-ins with
him, why they kept their relationship on the DL for so long and
how they have grown together.

Cody the labradoodle makes a big difference at the prep center so
make sure to listen in for how you would be greeted if you
went. 

With a degree in sports management, Anya talks about why she
pursued it and if she uses it in the work she does now. She talks
about her life as a competitor and what her journey to her pro
card was like and if she expected to get it when she did. She
shares the challenges she overcame in her prep and what she did
to overcome them.

Anya talks about the exercises she used to make the improvements
the judges were looking for, how she communicates with Adam so
she gets the best plan for the way her body responds and muscles
activates, and Celeste and she both share their go to glute
exercises and something they both do with the lying hamstring
curl machine that has made a big difference.
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This episode is packed with relatable, interesting, and fun
conversation that you will surely LOVE!

To Connect with Anya: 
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thebarbellbombshell/

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To Connect with Celeste:
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/celestial_fit/
LINKS: www.celestial.fit/links​​


 


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