Kim Chizhevsky: biography, bodybuilding career and personal life Miss Olympia

Biography

Kim Chizevsky was born on April 23, 1968. Place of birth: Charleston, Illinois.

In her youth, Kim Czyzewski was already a well-rounded athlete, excelling in basketball and volleyball. While studying at school, she was involved in athletics, where her favorite disciplines were: relay race, shot put, discus throw and long jump. The girl also loved cheerleading, dancing and gymnastics.

Kim Chizhevsky: before and after photos.

After high school, she attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale for three years. She worked as an assistant at a law firm, but soon found another activity she liked, namely fitness.

In 1998, 20-year-old Kim met her future husband. She was working as a fitness instructor at the time, but Nicholls encouraged her to take up bodybuilding, believing that with the right leg workout, her school nickname "Thunder Thighs" could take on a whole new meaning.

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Natalya Batova

What happened? Natalya Batova is an international master of sports in bodybuilding. Since adolescence, she was fond of training with iron, and when it seemed to be not enough, she became hooked on steroids. Years of training have turned Natalia into a mountain of muscles. She was called nothing more than “Lady Schwarzenegger” or “man in a skirt.”

What happened? Many told Natalya that due to her addiction to drugs, she would not be able to have children. However, the masculine athlete, after stopping steroids, became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. Now Natalya is 43 years old. She still lifts iron, but not with the same enthusiasm as before. The athlete looks feminine and neat, works as a coach and loves her daughter Sofia madly.

Achievements in sports

After three months of training under Nicholls, Czyzewski, who weighed 121 pounds and was 5'10" tall, took second place at the NPC Jr. competition. 1989 Tri State. The following year she won the heavyweight division at the same competition and scored two more victories at the AAU competition in Illinois in 1990.

In August 1992, Kim Czyzewski won NPC Jr. Nationals and IFBB North American Championships, the latter accompanied by an IFBB Pro card. Eight months after these decisive victories, she made her professional debut, winning the Miss International pageant in Columbus, Ohio, and in November 1993, she made her Ms. Olympia debut, finishing in fifth place.

Possessing a combination of muscularity and symmetry, Czyzewski took her next step at the Olympia in 1995, finishing second to the legendary (and now eight-time Ms. Olympia) Lenda Murray. However, Czyzewski shocked everyone in 1996 by dethroning Murray, and then again by surpassing her in 1997 (causing Murray's first retirement from the sport, but she returned with two more stunning wins in 2002 and 2003).

In this sport, the Ms. Olympia title is the pinnacle of achievement, and Kim won the title four times in a row from 1996 to 1999. After winning Ms. Olympia in 1999, Kim Czyzewski retired, but couldn't stay away from the stage for long. The former Ms. Olympia competed in the Fitness International competition in 2001, finishing sixth and not in very good shape. The following year, she rose to fourth place at the Southwest Pro Fitness show in Dallas in March, and Kim became pregnant in October.

Kim Czyzewski -back from the kingdom of monsters[edit | edit code]

Source: "The Mass or the Truth About Nutrition, Supplements and Chemistry in Bodybuilding"
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Author
: Sergey Antonovich
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I bring to your attention a very interesting interview in which four-time Miss Olympia 1996-1999 Kim Chizhevsky talks about the real state of affairs in women's professional bodybuilding and why she decided to give it up.

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: Kim. What do you think about the current state of women's bodybuilding?

Kim Czyzewski

: In my opinion, he has largely lost the attractive power that he had when I first entered the competitive platform. As far as I understand, now they are trying to make women's bodybuilding more feminine, and this, I think, is a step in the right direction. But these new criteria should be applied at the amateur level. Otherwise, it will turn out like this: girls train, build muscle mass, become pros, and then they are told: “Of course, you’ll excuse us, but now you should look completely different.” And in general, there is still a lot of uncertainty with these new requirements: you need to be muscular, but not too much, pumped up, but in moderation - go figure what they want from you. Again the question of money arises. They are paid, but not enough. I would like to receive more for my work. But when I read in some interview with a famous bodybuilder that she doesn’t compete for money, I always say to myself: “You’re lying! No one will ever enjoy sitting on a diet for six months and then working hard to gain 9-12 kg of pure muscle for the tournament.” Believe me, I know what I'm talking about - I went through it myself. Yes. I liked bodybuilding, I liked conducting seminars, promoting a healthy lifestyle, but I never liked dieting. And training every day until exhaustion is also a small pleasure. In short, such efforts must be fairly rewarded.

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: To hear you say, being a bodybuilding queen isn’t so nice?
Kim Czyzewski
Kim Czyzewski

: I was especially annoyed by training for the sake of gaining mass in the off-season. Understand. it sounds like I hate bodybuilding, but I repeat again: I always loved bodybuilding, it was the meaning of my life, it brought me good money, I loved being “Ms. Olympia” and personifying this sport. But gaining weight? Do you really think that I admired myself in the mirror? On the contrary, as a woman I had a terrible complex.

By the way, when I just started training. Then she looked at other female bodybuilders with mockery. I believed that I would never become like this. Well, then I unwittingly got involved in this race for the masses. My legs, back, shoulders, all this became so huge before the tournament that I had to buy new clothes - already sizes 50-52. All my life I was slim and fit, and all these things drove me into severe depression. At times I hated my own body. I turned into a mountain of meat!

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: Then why did you continue the training?

Kim Czyzewski

: You know how it happens, you reach some high milestone, and you think: “What a great guy I am, how great I did it!” And then you want more, and so on endlessly. My record weight in the off-season was 83-84 kg. Well, besides, I simply “grew up” with age. this is a natural process for any woman. This is how I earned the reputation of being the “biggest” on the platform. But I was also one of the tallest (174.5 cm). Some girls with a height of 160 or 162 cm had a competition weight of about 65 kg, and my competition weight was 72 kg. And which of us was “larger”, if we take the ratio between height and weight?

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: Now that you look new, has the attitude of “ordinary” citizens towards you changed?

Women used to come up to me on the street or in the hall and say: “Why do you need all this? You look terrible!” Agree, it’s not very pleasant to listen to this. Now they tell me: “I would give everything in the world for such a figure.” It's not that I'm full of self-righteousness, it's just that I like that now I'm looked up to as a role model.

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: How long have you been planning to try yourself in fitness?

Kim Czyzewski

: At first I talked about it as a joke, but the further I went, the more I became convinced that I should try. Everyone is surprised by my new appearance. meanwhile, “losing weight” was not the main thing for me. Here we need to reveal one secret. Muscle mass does not hold up on a woman. As soon as you reduce the intensity of your training, your muscles quickly “melt.” So I wasn’t worried about my kilograms. Another thing is that you remain “specialized” in bodybuilding, i.e. female security officer. Decades of hard training adapt the body to strength exercises - limiting joint mobility and impairing complex muscle coordination. Even the brain is being rebuilt. He gets used to simple power movements, but in fitness, you know, you need extraordinary dancing abilities and even acrobatics skills. Actually, I once did gymnastics, but it was at school and not so serious. So, before making a final decision, I needed an experiment on myself: what if in the field of bodybuilding I lost flexibility, jumping ability, and muscle coordination? However, with weight loss, all this gradually came back to me.

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: And how much did you lose?

Kim Czyzewski

: My competition weight in 1999 was about 72 kg, and now I weigh about 56, i.e. the same amount as she weighed in high school. And it took me a year to do everything. But it took me a long time to gain my “bodybuilding” weight—11 years, no less. Such things are not done in one day.

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: How do you feel with your “new” body?

Kim Czyzewski

: Great! There is a feeling of lightness, I don’t walk, but flutter. Now I can wear normal clothes. And most importantly, I don’t need to gain this damn mass anymore. Having gotten rid of excess weight, I seemed to become younger, I immediately had more health and energy. I am more confident in myself than ever, but what can I say - I’m just immensely happy.

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: Tell me how you “lost weight”.

Kim Czyzewski

: To begin with, I simply stopped lifting weights. About 11 kg came off on their own, then I got a little “stuck.” It became clear that only special measures could help me here - “burning out” the muscles through aerobics. In short, after the initial “leap” things went rather slowly, but that’s good. If I continued to lose 10 kg per month, my skin would not keep up with the reduction in muscle volume, and I would be covered with skin folds.

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: And what did it look like in practice?

Kim Czyzewski

: I started with 30 minutes of aerobic training once a day, then moved to 2 aerobic workouts a day, and finally moved on to 45 minutes of aerobic workouts twice a day. Actually, I'm not a big fan of working out until I'm blue in the face, but for a while I was working out as much as 2 or 3 hours a day to “burn out” muscle tissue. Now I do aerobics 2 times a day for 30-45 minutes - among other things, this helps me “build up” endurance for the free program.

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: What do you prefer: running or cardio?

Kim Czyzewski

: I hate running! I have a stepper at home, and I train on it. By the way, great stuff! Of the 2 workouts, I definitely do 1 on the stepper. As for the second, there are possible options: fast walking on a treadmill or traditional step aerobics.

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: Do you do bodybuilding?

Kim Czyzewski

: Certainly! In principle, to be in good shape, gymnastics, dance classes and flexibility exercises would be enough for me. However, there is a serious problem: aerobic work “dries out” the upper body. This is where bodybuilding comes to the rescue. To prevent the shoulder girdle from losing volume, I do dumbbell lateral raises and standing and seated presses. Plus, I maintain the full shape of my hips with lunges and leg extensions. For the abs I do crunches. Compared to the past, this is just a game for me. For example, I perform leg extensions with a weight of 10-12 kg instead of the previous 70 kg, but I do 20-30 repetitions per set.

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: You probably don't miss the bodybuilding diet very much. What has changed in your diet?

Kim Czyzewski

: The bodybuilding diet is indispensable for its purposes, but such nutrition cannot be called healthy. Personally, I couldn’t stand all this protein. To gain weight, I had to consume as much of it as not every man can handle: somewhere around 400-500 g per day. Now I eat protein foods at most twice a day, and I gain a total of 100-150 grams. For a long time, while I was actively losing weight, I limited myself to just one protein meal a day.

Today my diet includes a lot of different carbohydrates, a moderate amount of protein and some fat. Before, I was crazy about sweets, because in my bodybuilding days I had to deny myself anything that contained sugar for most of the year. For carbohydrates, I only allowed myself potatoes or oatmeal; I didn’t even eat fruit. Nowadays I’m just “in love” with vegetables and fruits. I just go crazy over fruit: I eat and eat and can’t get enough. For your health, you will agree, this is much healthier than my previous diet.

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: How about a sample menu for the day?

Kim Czyzewski

Well, as a rule, I fuel up 3 times a day and have a light snack twice. For breakfast I have a liquid protein-carbohydrate shake. Around 11 o'clock I eat a sandwich with chicken or cheese. For lunch I eat chicken or beef, and before bed I have a snack of fruit or a small cup of cereal. Well, that’s it – the working menu. And sometimes I feel the urge to cook something exotic, but at the same time healthy, with my own hands. By the way, I never buy tomato sauce in the store, but prepare it myself - it turns out without preservatives and sugar.

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: What about nutritional supplements?

Kim Czyzewski

In the past I took creatine, prohormones and a lot of other things. Now I drink a protein-carbohydrate shake in the morning, and during the day I “fuel” with a multivitamin with minerals, vitamin C, zinc, calcium and magnesium. To get a little pick-me-up, especially when I'm traveling, I drink a glass of some kind of energy drink.

Achievements in professional career

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Denise Rutkowski

What happened? Denise started taking steroids in the late 90s. She began to grow rapidly, participated in tournaments, received awards, acquired the status of a professional... But it all ended as quickly as it began. Taking a huge amount of drugs seriously undermined the athlete’s health

What happened? At the end of her career, Denise became addicted to drugs. She mixed them with huge doses of steroids, which is why she almost lost her human appearance. After quitting steroids, she was not heard from for about 15 years. In 2012, Denise showed up, but it was impossible to recognize this person as a pretty athlete. She grew a beard and mustache, and she began to look like she had escaped from a mental hospital.

Personal life

In May 1993, Kim married Chad Nichols and they had two children, Dominic and Morgan. Czyzewski's eldest son, Dominic, was born on June 3, 2003, but the new mom wasn't done competing just yet. Five months later, she tried her hand at the figure category, finishing ninth in Atlanta at the GNC Show of Strength competition, and then seventh at the same competition in 2004.

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Corey Everson

What happened? Even at the peak of her career, Corey Everson didn't look too muscular, even though she was taking steroids. She performed at a time when female bodybuilders were not yet distinguished by masculine figures, so Corey managed to remain feminine. She won the Ms. Olympia tournament 6 times in a row from 1984 to 1989, until she gave up competing.

What happened? Now the athlete is 62 years old. She converted to Christianity, adopted two children, and runs her own business. Corey continues to work out in the gym, but only to stay in shape. The athlete’s figure is feminine and looks very aesthetically pleasing.

Anna Turaeva

Acquaintances of Turaeva say that she was once very tender, fragile and even wore a braid. Then she met a young man. Love broke out between the young people. During the same period, Anna began to engage in professional sports. But his personal life unexpectedly cracked. After this, amazing changes happened to the girl. She toned up her muscles, shaved her head bald and completely changed her wardrobe. An interesting fact is that the athlete assesses her appearance quite soberly.

Anna Turaeva radically changed her lifestyle, leaving women's dresses and shoes in the past

She understands that heels and a dress will look completely ridiculous on her. But Anna achieved some success in sports. She became a five-time world champion in bench press and the absolute champion of Eurasia in powerlifting. Little information is known about the athlete’s personal life. They say she was not married and has no children. But she was often seen in the company of the same girl, so rumors spread about her homosexuality.

Turaeva herself says that she likes what she is doing now.

Jou Lulu

Chinese weightlifter and Olympic champion Zhou Lulu has been passionate about lifting weights since she was ten years old. In 2011, she won a gold medal at the World Championships, and a year later she became the winner at the London Olympic Games.

It's hard to recognize the world champion from China as a woman

Her best result is 192 kg in the clean and jerk and 142 in the snatch, for a total of 334 kg. Currently, the Chinese athlete is only 29 years old. Her weight is 133 kg and her height is 175 cm.