Confessions of a Bikini Pro

Today we have a special feature episode with the 2019 qualified Olympia competitors who have been guests on the podcast. Host and Creator, Celeste Rains-Turk has compiled sound bytes from each episode highlighting their answer to the 2 questions she asks everyone; 1. What do you do right before your heel hits the stage? 2. What is your best advice for people thinking about getting into the sport/n...

In today's episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk talks to Lacy Green,  creator and owner of the Bikini Competitor Academy, is a certified personal trainer, fitness nutrition specialist and bodybuilding specialist who became a pro at her 2nd show ever. Tune in to hear about how Lacy went pro without it being announced, what she did during her improvement season to make this prep so much smoother, how sh...

In this episode, Host, Celeste Rains-Turk chats with Katie Kopfle, who lives and breathes all things competing and uses this passion in her competition prep and posing coaching business. Tune in to hear about how competing actually saved her from 7 years of having an eating disorder. Katie shares how she was able to switch her focus to becoming strong and muscular versus skin and bones. She opens...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk, speaks with an athlete born and raised in New Jersey by her Brazilian parents. She started traveling abroad as a model at 17 years old then found her passion in modeling and fitness. She has been living in India for almost 5 years now as a leader in the fitness industry. Tune in to hear Annabel talk about how modeling impacted her mindset, how the modeling...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk chats with Roxanne Huff, a trainer, online coach, and posing coach who just recently made her pro debut at the NY Pro but had prepped herself to earn her pro card before that! Tune in to hear how Roxanne's perspective has changed since she prepped herself and now that she is working with a coach and the differences between what she did for herself and what...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk speaks with a magic loving, gas station snacking, book club member and old soul living in Arizona who manages The Pro Physiques online program with over 250 athletes. She has been competing for nearly 6 years but this is her first  year as a pro, Alexandria Ross. Tune in to hear Alexandria answer TONS of questions submitted by her audience and some of our l...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk speaks with Alexa Berg, an athlete who earned her pro card at her second show ever then went into multiple pro shows without any recovery, she is currently finishing up her degree in sociology and communication. Tune in to hear Alexa's story of being diagnosed with bipolar disorder after noticing her habits changing, how she has chosen to stand up to the st...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk talks to the youngest bikini pro ever, she is 18 years old, from Portugal, and has done over 16 shows. She is also a posing coach for girls worldwide, Beatriz Biscaia. Tune in to hear all about how Beatriz got into the sport at a young age, the struggles she faced to commit to competing, what she went through to earn her pro card and the losses she faces, w...

I wanted to make a quick announcement to do some housekeeping since I record my episodes so far in advance I don't always get to announce or share exactly what is going on or provide updates or sometimes things are not as up to date as I would like! So I did want to let you all know that there is officially a date and location for the bikini mastermind live event and I am so excited about it, I ha...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk dives deep with Amy Landry, 30 year old athlete who earned her procard in 2017 at Junior Nationals and works as a full-time pharmacist. Tune in to hear all about how Amy feels about working in a field outside of the fitness industry, how she became a pharmacist, what she does to manage her time day to day, and how she has taken on the 'whatever it takes men...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk speaks with 25 year old Italian Pro, Alessia Facchin who started competing in 2015 after struggling with her relationship with food due to her job in modeling. She began to see her body change as she committed to the gym and found her first coach who encouraged her to try competing where she found her passion. Since then she became a dietologist, earned her...

In this episode, Host Celeste Rains-Turk has a lively discussion with Kristen Markowski, fur and horse mom who works at a veterinary clinic, competition and lifestyle coach, helps people get chemical free products into their homes and just started her first season as a pro! Tune in to hear what Kristen does to maintain her discipline year round without beating herself up, how she changes her thoug...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk, chats with Marisa Woo, a full time student at SDSU studying Kinesiology with an emphasis in fitness specialist! She is currently a bikini posing coach and an online coach for lifestyle clients and competitors. Tune in to hear about how Marisa has come out of prepping for so long to get her procard to now finding the lifestyle that works for her. She talks...

In this episode, host, Celeste Rains-Turk sits down with 22 year old business owner of Pro Body Sports Therapy in Denver who started her journey at 170 pounds and 37% body fat, decided to make some changes and did her first competition in 2017 and turned pro one year later. She is also a wife, puppy mom, online coach and fitness model, Jimi Marley. Tune in to hear about how Jimi went from a binge...

In this exclusive feature for coach's week, host Celeste Rains-Turk has a deep discussion with Ryan Hinton, founder and head coach of Team Legacy who began coaching in 2015, and has made over 37 competitors in bikini, men's physique, figure and women's physique IFBB Pros since then. He has a 5 year old son, was a collegiate track athlete and earned his pro card in Men's Physique in 2014 when he wo...

In this exclusive feature episode of Coach's Week, we are hearing from Paul Revelia, BA, MBA, is a lifelong competitive athlete, having played basketball, volleyball, and baseball, finishing a successful NCAA pitching career at Valdosta State University. ​Athletics kept him anchored in training even while his career moved into IT and software development. He eventually became inspired to push hims...

For this exclusive episode of coach's week, Celeste Rains-Turk has an extensive conversation with founder and head coach of Fit Body Fusion who turned pro at the 2011 USAs and competed at the Olympia in 2011 and 2012 at over 40 years old. She has been coaching for nearly 10 years with an MBA, as well as a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology and a PhD in holistic nutrition, Jami Debernard. Tune i...

In this episode of the exclusive coach's week, host Celeste Rains-Turk has an in depth conversation with founder of Bair Aesthetics, Registered Dietitian, a 2016 Graduate from The Ohio State University who received his Master's of Science degree in Medical Dietetics and who has had his ACSM personal trainer certification for over 8 years, Dylan Bair. Dylan talks about his philosophy behind 'No BS,...

In this first episode of the exclusive coach's week, host Celeste Rains-Turk has a very informative, deep, and wide range discussion PACKED with value from Adam Bonilla, the creator of Team Elite Physique who has been working in the fitness industry for 21 years and as a trainer for 19 of those years he has honed his skills to the level of Master Trainer and specializes in the area of the field in...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk speaks with Kerrin Phillips, who earned her Pro card at USA Nationals in 2018. She started her online fitness and nutrition coaching business, and previously worked full-time as an Engineer in the corporate world. She now coaches full-time and enjoying a long off-season including traveling, running her business, and spending lots of time with her husband an...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk has a fun, deep, and really raw conversation with Calysta Upperman, a nurse, online coach, and owner of Upplift training who has been competing since 2015, and earned her pro card at NPC Universe in 2018. Tune into this episode to hear some of the most grueling parts of Calysta's current prep and all the times she wanted to quit. From moving house, dealing...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk, speaks with Hannah Ranfranz, a personal trainer, an online lifestyle & prep coach with team boss bodies, a substitute teacher, and a mentor for kids. Hannah talks to us about how she has been able to build up her metabolism to reverse diet into shows so she can qualify for the Olympia, how she deals with scale hops, when to do a refeed, and how to use intr...

In this episode, Host Celeste Rains-Turk, speaks with Sarah Gayden, a Culinary School of San Diego Graduate who is the owner and chef of Fit Fusion Nutrition a meal prep and healthy catering company as well as the founder and owner of Sarifitness LLC which is a distributor of fitness apparel which by the way is super super cute, on top of all of this she is studying to get her NASM certificate for...

In this episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk interviews Shawn Hektor-Lewis, a master of performing arts who earned her pro card as a figure competitor but has since competed in bikini. She is an authority on the art of winning stage presence, owner and founder of Shawn's Couture Cuties where she focuses on competition suit design and stage presence from stage training, products, poise and posing. ​ Sh...