Kristi Parrales

Age 26-27

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When she called me for a consultation, Kristi was a 26 year-old former Miss Hawaiian Tropic, Minnesota, pursuing an acting and print-modeling career when she called me for personal training.  She had been hit by a car as a pedestrian in Hollywood several months earlier and suffered from a torn hip labrum, which caused her pain after certain activities.  She had ceased exercising, was indulging in cravings for sweets and was generally in low spirits and lack of motivation. Kristi needed to pull it back together, big time, if she is going to be successful in the competitive world of modeling.  She was what is known as “skinny fat.”   I started her out slowly on abdominals and core conditioning exercises and multi-joint work with light hand weights and resistance bands, identifying the kind of work we needed to avoid.  After 3 months, she had made much improvement in her strength and endurance and was rocking her workout outfits, but we were still having issues with her diet and motivation.  At that time, I suggested that maybe it would be fun for her to compete in the Bikini Division of an NPC Bodybuilding contest.  Kristi embraced the idea with a vengeance and immediately dialed her diet in and shed several % body fat, allowing the muscle we were building to show through.  Kristi outshone the competition with a 2^nd Place trophy at Muscle Beach and 5^th Place at NPC Tournament of Champions in Culver City qualifying her for Nationals, just 6 short months after we began training.  She was scouted by a famous fitness model photographer at one of the competitions and is shooting with him as I write this.  Kristi is, once again, a rising star!