Victoria Espaldon is taking bikini division by storm.
Victoria Espaldon trained in ballet and classical dance at a young age, but let her body lapse after high school. Once she moved back to her native Guam in 2016, she decided to take a basic workout class at Paradise Fitness Center.
“I’d never been comfortable with going into the gym before, but I started taking her classes because it’s more like the fundamentals,” Espaldon told Pacific Daily. “And as soon as I took it, I fell in love with working out.”
She continued training under the tutelage of her cousin and personal trainer Desiree Eay, and decided that a contest would be a great way to test her progress. But the contest prep required more than simple daily workouts.
“Since I am a full-time student and I work part time, fitting in working out was a struggle for me,” she said. “I’d go super early in the morning like 5:30 or 5:45 at the gym, then work out an hour and a half to two hours.”
For three months, Espaldon worked out twice a day, every day except Sunday.
“Every week, I’d check in with my coach and send her pictures of all the angles of my body, and based off how I looked with the diet she gave me, she’d modify my diet week per week. Every week it got harder and harder.
“I had a goal. I knew in order to get to where I wanted to be, I had to stick to the plan and follow everything my coach Des said. There were a couple times when I was having more cheat meals, and I could really see a difference in my body when I ate clean food and when I cheated on my meals.”
Espaldon walked her 4’11 frame onstage at the 2017 Michelob Ultra Guam National Bodybuilding and Body Fitness Championships and International Invitational and took home gold in short class bikini division and overall champion in the bikini competition.
“My goal for this competition was more so for me. I was just doing it for myself, so I know nobody could take it away from me. It was more of that than about winning a medal or a trophy. I think that anybody who has the passion and loves to work out and wants to be in bodybuilding competition should do it,” she said. “It’s beautiful, it’s a beautiful process.
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When asked about the most important thing she’s learned, Espaldon said that she knows now to never be satisfied but always be working:
“You don’t notice the results your body is going through because you see yourself every day, and then you see other people and it kind of discourages you. I learned you should love yourself and trust the process, and be confident with who you are.”
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