You can have different attitudes towards girls who develop muscles, but even among them there are those who are worthy of attention and respect for their strong-willed character and determination. Eleonora Dobrynina is the girl who achieved unprecedented shape and high-quality muscles, but if most athletes start training from “zero,” then Dobrynina started with a negative number. At the beginning of her journey, the girl was seriously overweight, which not every woman can lose.
Where it all started
Eleanor was born in Tiraspol (Moldova) and from childhood she was active, doing rhythmic gymnastics until the 9th grade. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was difficult to demonstrate one’s abilities; gymnastics clubs were closed. At that time, the girl had a dream in her heart to go to the gym, and children under 16 were not allowed to enter.
Even now Dobrynina, being a famous fitness model, remembers her first workout. The basement-type room did not really resemble a gym, but the girl was glad of this opportunity.
It was from the first training that I developed a craving for a difficult sport. Dobrynina cut out a photo of a woman with toned body muscles from a magazine and hung this portrait in her room. And so it turned out to visualize the dream.
In 2003, the athlete moved to Canada and lived in Toronto. First, she will become a waitress, then a baker in a bakery, a salesperson in a store, etc.
But Eleanor was able to realize herself in Canada. At first it was personal training, and then she was fascinated by New York. She went there for three years, during which she met the right people and took part in competitions.
Today, Dobrynina is a well-known fitness model, bodybuilder, trainer, advertising model, participant in many competitions and generally a versatile personality.
Training by Eleanor Dobrynina
The athlete has achieved an impressive shape and muscle volume. But what is amazing is the quality of the muscles. She managed to achieve not just venousness and well-defined relief, but also separation, which is very difficult to do for women, much less maintain. The athlete achieved this using high-intensity training, consisting of all types of set techniques. Moreover, she used intensive training not only during cutting, but also during the mass-gaining period. The lion's share of the training was on basic exercises. CrossFit exercises were also introduced into the training program.
How I overcame my curvy figure
Few will believe that the girl with a sculpted figure once weighed 110 kg. But it’s worth looking at Dobrynina before and after giving birth and we’ll see two different people. As the athlete says, during pregnancy she gained 50 kg, and her small height complicated the problem of being overweight.
This is the result of a large appetite and lack of stress, which is not recommended during an interesting situation. But in 1.5 years she got into shape and even became better.
How did she do it? “It’s just that Eleanor decided to overcome depression from being overweight not with the help of food, but with the help of the gym.
Physical form
Eleanor is the proud bearer of the informal title of “the driest girl in the world.” Her figure is distinguished by well-developed abdominal muscles, pumped hips and calves. The girl’s weight is 54 kg, the percentage of fat during the competition reaches 4%. This is an almost unrealistic result, but Eleanor assures that she has never taken chemical stimulants.
Professionals have a different opinion: they are sure that, like other IFBB members, Eleanor regularly uses steroids, diuretics and fat burners. The truth is different - she manages to stop in time, maintaining a reasonable balance and without turning into an overpumped monster.
Achievements
The athlete belongs to the WBFF company, which includes those who naturally pumped up their muscles. First place in a serious tournament and the doom of the PRO card opened up new prospects for Dobrynina.
2 years in the IFBB league - and Eleanor takes gold at Canada's Toronto Pro Show 2022. Now she has the opportunity to represent Canada at Mr. Olympia this year.
What does the driest woman in the world look like - bodybuilder Eleonora Dobrynina
The most difficult work is working on yourself. It requires a lot of time, effort and complete dedication to achieve noticeable results. The story of bodybuilder Eleonora Viktorovna Dobrynina is a vivid example of the wonders that perseverance and willpower can work.
Photo: bestbodyblog.com bodybuilder Eleonora Viktorovna Dobrynina is called the “dryest” woman in the world
Many sources claim that this woman’s body contains no more than three to four percent fat. It should be noted right away that in this case we are talking specifically about subcutaneous fat, because if the total percentage of fat in the body drops below seven percent, then a person simply will not be able to survive.
The girl is often called “Helmut Strebl in a skirt,” after the famous bodybuilder nicknamed “the relief man.” Eleanor really looks like a female version of him.
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But most of all, her photographs “before” and “after” the transformation are surprising and delightful, because she was not only able to lose more than five dozen kilograms (from 110 to 54 kilograms), but also found the body she had always dreamed of.
Photo: moscow-oblast.sm-news.ru bodybuilder Eleonora Viktorvna Dobrynina
Eleanor Dobrynina: biography, early years
The future bodybuilder was born in the Moldavian city of Tiraspol, in 1981, on the thirtieth of June. The head of the family was seriously involved in classical wrestling in the past, and even competed for the Soviet Union national team. He made a significant contribution to his daughter’s sports education.
From early childhood, Elya was involved in artistic gymnastics, and was considered a promising rising sports star. From an early age, the girl got used to heavy regular loads, she developed a clear sports regime, and, in addition to the gymnastics section, Dobrynina also attended a dance studio, and was also fond of horse riding.
In her youth, Elya cut out photographs of sculpted female bodybuilders from magazines and hung them on the walls in her room. This served as good motivation for her, because it was these muscular beauties that Eleanor dreamed of being like.
Photo: www.instagram.com Eleonora Dobrynina and her father, athlete Viktor Dobrynin in his youth
But with the collapse of the Soviet Union, sports sections and gyms began to close everywhere, so the girl had to look for some kind of alternative. In addition, at the age of 36, her father, who had always been an example and inspiration for Eleanor, died suddenly. She took this loss hard, but decided not to give up.
At that time, gyms were allowed only from the age of sixteen, so the teenager had to visit the basement “rocking chairs” for some time. When she became interested in bodybuilding, her family accepted her choice. Dobrynina trained as a fitness trainer and got a job at one of the popular sports clubs in Chisinau.
Moving to Canada, pregnancy and getting out of shape
In the early 00s, the girl and her mother moved overseas, settling in Canada. Initially, she had high hopes for the move, planned to get a job as a fitness instructor, and planned a future career.
Photo: hot.obozrevatel.com Moldovan and Canadian bodybuilder Eleonora Dobrynina
However, the language barrier became a huge obstacle for Eleanor. English came to her with great difficulty, and therefore there was no talk of teaching at that time.
The girl began attending courses, studying English and French at the same time, and in order to pay for them and somehow support herself, she worked as a dishwasher and cleaner. In the evenings, she attended a small gym, where she was noticed, and a few months later she was hired as an instructor, despite her still poor knowledge of the language.
As we noted earlier, Dobrynina was accustomed to constant training and strength training from an early age. The girl noticed that as soon as she took a short break, she began to rapidly lose shape and gain weight. Previously, she was not too concerned about this, because she was systematically involved in the port, but in Canada Dobrynina met her future husband and soon became pregnant.
Photo: eleonora-dobrynina-do-i-posle.zhitinsky.spb.ru Eleonora Dobrynina “before” and “after” losing weight
For obvious reasons, the girl had to give up training for a while; she was responsibly preparing for motherhood, and thinking, first of all, about the health of the unborn child.
But Eleanor began to recover quickly, and after the birth of her baby her weight was 110 kilograms, and this with a height of 167 centimeters. According to the recollections of the bodybuilder herself, at that time she looked like a “ball with legs.”
When her son was not yet a month old, the young mother began to gradually restore her previous sports regime, adjust her diet and her daily routine.
Photo: beam-truth.livejournal.com bodybuilder Eleonora Dobrynina with her grown-up son
In less than a year she managed to lose weight to 54 kilograms. The girl shared the results of her efforts on social networks, where the audience of her subscribers was constantly growing. Rapid weight loss and impressive body contour brought Eleanor popularity, which was the beginning of her brilliant career as a bodybuilder and fitness trainer.
World fame and victories at prestigious competitions
Dobrynina quickly made a lot of useful contacts, received an invitation to take part in a fitness convention held in New York, where she willingly went, and realized that she could achieve even greater results. The most important role in this was played by her hard work, perseverance, perseverance, and, as Eleanor herself says, her father’s genes.
For people far from bodybuilding and bodybuilding, Dobrynina’s photographs cause bewilderment and even a wave of criticism. But those who understand the colossal work behind it are delighted with the results.
Photo: mir-znamenitostej.ru bodybuilder Eleonora Dobrynina at competitions
But, even despite the incredible relief and excellent development of each muscle, Eleanor did not immediately succeed in professional competitions. The girl’s debut performance brought her only ninth place, because the competition in women’s bodybuilding is very high.
However, already in 2012, she took first place in the Pro Fitness Model competition, and then won the Toronto ProWomen's Physique twice. But the bodybuilder has had no luck so far with the Olympia Women's Physique; she has not yet managed to get beyond the top ten.
Dobrynina's attitude to steroids
According to Eleanor herself, she does not resort to the help of “chemistry”, but is sympathetic to those bodybuilders who resort to modern developments in the field of pharmacology to achieve impressive results.
Photo: hot.obozrevatel.com Eleonora Dobrynina is the most prominent woman in the world
This statement can be supported by the fact that the bodybuilder carried and gave birth to a healthy child. Although, there are many cases where women who took steroids subsequently became pregnant without problems and had healthy offspring.
Many are sure that at the beginning of her career, performing at competitions of the Federation of Beauty and Fashion, Dobrynina really was a natural athlete. However, after she moved to the more prestigious IFBB federation, she most likely also began to take advantage of the achievements of modern pharmacology, because diets and training alone cannot achieve such results.
Building such relief and quality of muscle is extremely difficult even for men, and reducing the subcutaneous fat layer to the level of three to four percent is borderline fantastic. Eleanor claims to be “cut” all year round, having turned a strict diet into her regular diet.
Photo: beam-truth.livejournal.com bodybuilder Eleonora Dobrynina with her grown-up son
This year Dobrynina will celebrate her fortieth anniversary, but for now she does not plan to stop at the results achieved. She is a sought-after fitness instructor and creates individual training programs and diets. Her work, called “Best Body Transformation,” is incredibly popular in Canada and the United States.
Eleanor actively maintains her page on the social network Instagram. At the moment, over eight hundred thousand followers are subscribed to her account, and their number is constantly growing. There are many ways to look at this incredible woman, but she is undoubtedly a strong, disciplined and purposeful person.
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Attitude to diet
The model does not accept diets, because she believes that this is a temporary phenomenon, and at the end of them you can just as easily gain weight. By the way, her weight is 54-60 kg, depending on the need to prepare for competitions.
Eleanor's nutritional features are simple:
- eat right, choosing healthy foods in your diet;
- do not overeat so that after the meal you remain hungry;
- exclude flour products, sweets and fried foods;
- drink 2-3 liters of liquid per day;
- remember that healthy eating should become a way of life.
Tips from a bodybuilder
Many women strive to have a sculpted body like Dobrynina’s, because this is her calling card. The model gives some advice on this matter:
- Don’t expect results in a couple of months; for her, sport has become the meaning of life and her favorite pastime.
- Don't do it if you don't like it. Dobrynina always willingly goes to training, it brings her pleasure.
- Be patient and find good exercises. Sometimes the result depends not only on the intensity of exercise, but also on genetic predisposition.
- Take breaks, but they should not be long, a week or two maximum.
- Go towards your goal, no matter what. The model went through a lot: insults, a foreign country, cried a lot of tears, but achieved what she wanted.
Here is the biography of a world famous athlete who made herself. I think that she is a very interesting and purposeful person. I wish the same for you. Bye.
Training program
Dobrynina claims that the main thing is not to do what you don’t like. She herself is always happy about training and considers it the best pleasure. At the same time, it is important not to overload the muscles: Eleanor trains for 45–50 minutes at least 5 times a week. She takes breaks from time to time, but never rests for more than a week, otherwise it is difficult to get back into shape.
The girl practices high-intensity training, maintaining the load both during the period of gaining weight and during cutting. She combines squats, deadlifts and presses with CrossFit elements, developing endurance and strengthening muscles. Eleanor pays special attention to the press. Her program includes supersets with various combinations of crunches.
Dobrynina has hobbies besides bodybuilding. She is seriously interested in yoga, loves horse riding and boxing, and runs an Instagram page that has about a million subscribers.
