IFBB Pro League Bikini Posing Coach
We all started somewhere #Repost @lisa_zah
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BEING SHY DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN’T BE CONFIDENT ON STAGE! ⠀
I remember watching girls whose posing was so energetic and sexy and it always scared me cause I knew I can’t be like that, it’s just not me and I would feel extremely uncomfortable if I tried to copy that style. I’m a shy and quiet person naturally, I’m not a performer and I don’t like being in a centre of attention either. But at the same time it doesn’t mean I can’t be confident. I believe confidence is something you can build with time whereas your personality it’s just who you are and what makes us district from each other. ⠀ ⠀
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It happened with me to fall in love with bodybuilding, with the regime, diets, spending hours at the gym and creating the bikini competitor physique. It’s not right to say it was easy but it was in my nerdy comfort zone???♀️. ⠀
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Posing however was a tough challenge , cause I’m a perfectionist and I always have a clear picture in my head of what a bikini competitor should look like but I couldn’t recreate it in reality, my body, my shyness and nerves didn’t let me…. I always had to push myself to my maximum to look confident. Every time I went on stage I thought I did well but then I watched a video and I never liked my posing , my walk was too flabby, I shook my arms too much or I was rushing because of nerves. I knew I could do better. I never stopped working on it. (Working on satisfying my super judgemental Russian brain??) ⠀
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And I did it, it took me 6 shows to finally be happy with myself and to win the confidence. I love that my posing still represents my personality – it is soft, gentle, very feminine and a little bit shy….BUT now it’s damn confident, confident version of myself ?☝️ and I’m honestly tired of putting that label of a shy girl , I want to change it, and because of competing I know I can do it ? ⠀
Throw yourself into uncomfortable situations – that’s the only way to change things.
P.S. second pic is my first ever one on one session with @natkitneyposingcoach ? If you dream of competing but keep doubting yourself you should definitely go and see Nat she will teach you how to become a queen ?