Meet Tamara, one your new Athliv trainers.
Tamara is a champion fitness bodybuilder with several Australasian Natural Bodybuilding titles to her name. She’s incredibly passionate about health and fitness and loves helping people train and improve.
We asked Tamara to tell us a little about herself….
What’s the highest point of your athletic career?
Winning my first two ANB Competitions for U25 Australian Female Fitness Champion.
What’s the lowest point of your athletic career?
Getting injured in an accident, causing me to take significant time away from training.
Favourite saying?
Teach by being.
Favourite food?
A big juicy burger or Japanese. YUM!
Favourite exercise?
Glute kick-backs.
What motivates you to train?
To break barriers. To push past what I thought was possible with my body and achieve what once seemed out of reach.
What exercise and fitness myth winds you up?
Lifting weights makes you bulky or that carbs make you fat!
If you knew then what you know now, what would you change?
How to listen to my body, it’s okay to take time to rest and recover, in fact it’s crucial.
What’s your advice to someone wanting to reach their own peak fitness?
Write down your goals, make them specific and read up or speak to somebody that has achieved it. Surround yourself with positivity and keep working a little everyday to get closer to them!
Ready to train with Tamara? Then look out for the Finesse workouts.