Iron games: I have one of the most massive bodies in the world
How much would we talk about bodipositiv, to accept own body, distinct from conventional ideals of beauty, while not everyone succeeds. That is why it is especially interesting how life of those who consciously chose the appearance of the crowd, whether it is a tattooed face or a significant muscle mass, passes. We talked with bodybuilding and powerlifting champion Natalia Kuznetsova (formerly Trukhina) about how she reacts to the comments of strangers, is it difficult to buy clothes for a muscular body and why dope scandals arise in Russia so often.
I am a professional athlete, bodybuilder and powerlifter, record holder in bench press and deadlift, master of sports of international class in armlifting, many times became the champion of Russia and the world, set several world, European and Russian records. Now I am twenty six years old, and I began to train with iron at fourteen. Then my physique could be described with the words “absolute drisch”: I weighed less than forty kilograms, although I was quite athletic, I always ran and swam. Now I weigh from 82 to 102 kilograms - this is very conditional data, I do not like to make measurements and I do not see much sense in them. I have a volume of about 47-48 centimeters, thigh volume 75 centimeters with a waist size of 76 centimeters. I never figured out the percentage of fat, but it is not very high - the press is always clearly visible.
In professional sports, a lot determines genetics; Sport of high achievements is in general the lot of genetic uniques. Well, in bodybuilding nothing to do without good proportions, a certain shape and depth of the muscles, narrow joints. All this allows you to create additional visual volume, the so-called 3D effect. Absolutely everyone can achieve a good sports figure, if they want to - this is real. But to have a bodybuilding body is not. Millions train in gymnasiums, but a very small percentage performs, and the champion forms are generally in units.
Unfortunately, many are unable to soberly assess their potential and rush into battle, no matter what - and the problem is that often people train on their own, without the competent guidance of an experienced coach (although where to get it is a separate question). For some reason, it is considered that “pumping up” is a simple matter. Not growing - add protein and creatine (Creatine is an amino acid, a popular food supplement taken as an additional source of energy. - Ed.). If this does not help, in the course are already more powerful things - anabolic steroids. And here begins a serious problem.
The fact is that in competitive sports, doping has always been and will be used. Every year there are more and more new drugs, and every year the list of "banned" is expanding. True, most have no idea how these tools really work. No drug will give nothing but side effects and frustration if the human body does not have the potential to develop completely different levels of metabolism. And when having no real knowledge, newcomers to the gyms start experimenting with their hormonal system, they collect all conceivable side effects and do not get any noticeable effect. Fortunately, most of the consequences are reversible and one must try very hard to cause serious harm to oneself.
Yesterday they sent me a link to an article where it says “I eat right, and instead of seasoning I add protein and amino acids to food”. And I read it, gobbling up pizza, warm waffles with ice cream and washing down pinacolada
I believe that if there are no ambitious sporting plans, supported by the existing good successes, there is nothing to look at. The use of any drugs is the lot of athletes who work with experienced trainers and are in constant contact with doctors. Of course, there are a lot of ways and developments in terms of how to correctly prepare the athlete for the passage of doping control. Russia, unfortunately, did not succeed in this matter, which is why we have so many doping scandals - in other countries this is a more serious matter.
A professional athlete is simply obliged to monitor health, his body is his bread. I am constantly in contact with a sports endocrinologist. My husband helps me a lot with training issues, and I also consult with our friend Stas Strouzberg - this is the president of the Israeli bodybuilding federation NAC. He lives in Israel, and we communicate online. In principle, I do not have such a body weight that would threaten health. Here are the loads - yes: they certainly need to be cycled, to arrange rest, both from iron and from diet. Many people think that I constantly live on buckwheat with chicken. Yesterday, they sent me a link to an article in one online publication, it says “eat right, and instead of seasonings, they add protein and amino acids to food”. And I read it, gobbling up pizza, warm waffles with ice cream and washing down pinacolada.
In instagram I now have more than two hundred thousand subscribers, it is constantly growing. It is very interesting to watch the statistics, I connected the application for this recently. For five days, more than three million views, 78% of subscribers are men. Most of all from the USA, followed by Brazil, India, the United Kingdom and Germany. And only then is Russia - in our country, iron games are unpopular, and not only among women. Just look at the geography of the seminars of our friend Dmitry Klokov, the world weightlifting champion: out of several hundreds of seminars there are only a couple in Russia. We do not have fashion, money, time and energy for sports - full of other problems. Plus the massive sports illiteracy - like the fact that there will be no children from the protein. As a result, I am much more popular abroad than in Russia, and the instagram demonstrates this: for a hundred English-speaking "nice, wow" there are a couple of Russians "and a fig."
I have never regretted that I chose professional sport for myself. Otherwise, I would probably live in Chita now, like all my former classmates, and would work somewhere in a budget enterprise
How do I react to this? Yes, nothing. I'm not a hundred dollars to please everyone. Frankly, I don’t have much time to read too much - I try to respond to normal questions to normal, and stupidity is just a bath. I have several hundreds of instagram posts every day, the same on Facebook and VKontakte, and, of course, there is no possibility to communicate with everyone. There are three types of people: some will be praised, others will be scolded, and the third will not care. But after three minutes, they all forget what they thought about this situation, and I continue to live in a rush for myself, to realize my dreams, to travel, to meet interesting people. I have never regretted that I chose professional sport for myself. Otherwise, I would probably live in Chita now, like all my former classmates, and would work somewhere in a budget enterprise, there are no other places there. Yes, I would not have been trolled on the Internet and would not write "on a fig," but I certainly would not be happier.
As for comments in real life, there has never been a case when someone had to be put in place. This phenomenon is exclusively the Internet, or rather, Runet. Although I spend a lot of time abroad, I still live in Moscow, and I feel comfortable here. Now I prefer guest performances (performances at sporting events or competitions, but without participation in them. - Approx. Ed.)open training and seminars are more interesting and, of course, more profitable than competitions. I have a lot of proposals for films, shows, productions - I do not always agree, but have already taken part in filming in Israel, Bulgaria, and we have at Mosfilm. I also have a role in the opera Manon Lesko at the Bolshoi Theater.
I have no problems with clothes, I can afford to dress well, I buy a lot abroad. Some things I sew to order, for example leather jackets and coats - my good friends have their own factory and chain of stores. Purchased things usually have to adjust the waist: women's clothing of my size is the sea, but the waist of such things has to be doubled.
I prefer not to share family photos on the Web: there must still be a personal space, without the views of others, advice and opinions. I am married and very happy, I have wonderful relations with my parents and my husband's parents. I wish everyone to succeed, live life to the fullest and not be afraid of someone else's opinion - only those who are worse than us think badly of us; and to those who are better, not at all to us.