Arina Skoromnaya: biography, photos and interesting facts

Arina Skoromnaya is a famous Russian fitness trainer, one of the founders of a popular Internet channel and the wife of an equally famous bodybuilding champion. This strong-willed girl proved by her own example that a new mother can also look great, getting her body in order in record time. Just a month after the first birth in her life, Arina showed off her flat, sculpted tummy and told how exactly this result can be achieved in special video trainings.

Biography of Arina Skoromnaya

The future blogger was born on March 27, 1988 in the Russian capital. The girl's maiden name is Varskaya. The girl’s mother, Natalya Vladimirovna, is a famous psychologist, and her father, Andrei Yuryevich Sotnikov, works as the director of an audit company. After graduating from Moscow school 1605, Arina entered the Faculty of Humanities at MIIT. In total, Varskaya has two higher education degrees. After graduating from the University of Transport, the girl entered the legal department at the capital's Financial and Legal Academy. True, Arina did not finish her studies here. While still a first-year student, Varskaya began working part-time as a photographer. And having received higher education, she went to Sweden, where she spent a year and became fluent in English.

Arina has always preferred to engage in extreme sports, for example, snowboarding, wakeboarding and cycling. During my student days I devoted time to gymnastics. However, the girl lacked determination and perseverance for more serious activities, so she often quit training. In addition, Arina’s nutrition at this stage of life left much to be desired - the girl’s diet was disordered.

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Arina was born into a poor, intelligent Moscow family.

Mother is a psychologist with 30 years of experience, a poet and writer,
father is the director of an audit firm, a conflict specialist (previously he was professionally engaged in manual therapy, su-jok therapy and hirudotherapy, and has an education in all these areas).
older brother is a computer security specialist,
the middle brother is an advertising specialist.

Arina's family was not at all like standard families. Interesting and popular personalities regularly gathered in their house. The children's classmates and friends loved to gather at Arina's house. Since childhood, the girl grew up brave and strong; her brothers jokingly called her “daddy’s favorite son,” since she loved sports more than anyone else in the family and enthusiastically tried herself in new sports. Arina was obedient in the family, but a rebel at school, she always knew how to defend herself and even defended other girls. She quickly became a popular leader at school. Arina and her brothers had their own street breakdance team, and they always attracted a lot of people on the streets of the area. In addition, the guys often performed at various festivals. On the 60th birthday of Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky in the Kremlin Palace, Arina and her brother Dmitry performed a dance number in front of a huge audience. As teenagers, the guys organized popular parties in the city for themselves and their peers, from which they even managed to make money. Mom was involved in the humanitarian development of children (she regularly took them to theaters, creative evenings, concerts, and read to them a lot). When Arina was 13-14 years old, her mother took her to the studio of fine literature at a noble meeting, and the girl read poetry at poetry evenings and learned correct and beautiful speech. The father was mainly involved in the physical development of the children and introduced them to sports. He was very strict and even tyrannical, which is why Arina suffered.

Arina’s childhood cannot be called simple; in the nineties and two thousand, life was not easy for a large family. Several times they lost everything, because of which Arina’s parents experienced great stress, and this could not but affect the children. And, nevertheless, Arina’s parents gave her a lot, for which she is very grateful to them and always responds with warmth and love. Already at the age of 15-16, Arina began working part-time and worked as a photographer until she was 24, fully supporting herself. At the age of 16, she lived with her mother in London for a month. They visited Arina's uncle, who was a professional translator. After living in England for 12 years, he finally returned to Russia and opened one of the leading translation companies here. For Arina, this was a landmark trip, after which she was greatly impressed and set a goal to someday learn English. At the age of 18, Arina and her brother worked as breakdancing coaches for children. At the age of 21-22, she lived in Sweden for about a year, where she also worked as a photographer and had a serious relationship, prepared to move, but ultimately remained in Russia. It was in Sweden that she brought her level of English to conversational level, which was very useful in her future activities. From the age of 24-25, Arina already worked as a fitness trainer. Information about Arina’s education can be found above.

Way to success. Arina has been actively involved in sports since childhood, and during her school years she was the best in her class, even among boys. She always participated in all school competitions, practiced in the handball section, breakdanced, often played basketball in the yard or trained on street equipment with her brothers. In addition, she was and is still involved in extreme sports (wakeboard, snowboard, wake surf, dirt, rollerblading, etc.). At the institute, Arina chose artistic gymnastics as a physical activity, she did everything well, the coach praised her, but the girl had no sporting ambitions, so she moved from one sport to another, trying different directions, and practiced for her own pleasure. During her student years and later, her diet was periodically erratic, like many young people. From 19 to 23 years old, Arina lost weight many times, but lost motivation and eventually gained weight again. I visited the gym sporadically since 2008, in the same year I began to get involved in martial arts and practiced a little, but there was no permanent habit of going to classes. Arina quickly got her figure in shape, and motivation was lost.

In 2012, she met her ex-husband, Andrei Skoromny, while on vacation in the company of athletes. This acquaintance encouraged Arina to go to the gym once again. She took a subscription to an ordinary basement “rocking chair” and began working out alone, while simultaneously learning all the intricacies of the fitness industry. In the summer of 2012, Arina moved to Andrey in a modest rented apartment, where he lived with a friend, and then they began to go to the gym together. By this time, Arina was already in good shape, and then she only improved it. Andrey had the title of champion of Russia and Moscow in bodybuilding among juniors, but was not yet involved in media activities.

Arina and Andrey together achieved great success from scratch, helping each other in development. Each showed their best skills, and together they were able to build a great career. At first, the guys were only concerned with Andrei’s career, Arina invested a lot of effort, time and all her skills (knowledge of English, ability to write articles, talent as a photographer, etc.) to help her companion. And only then did Arina’s development begin, in which Andrey also supported her.

At the beginning of 2013, thanks to Andrey’s acquaintances, the couple got a job as fitness trainers at the legendary Golds Gym club.

While filming Andrey in a fitness club on the popular YouTube channel “Yougifted,” the channel owners noticed Arina and invited her to also shoot a video. Arina agreed, and from that moment her active growth in the fitness industry began. At the end of 2012 - beginning of 2013, Andrei became interested in the German sports nutrition brand Best body nutrition. Arina establishes communication with them, negotiates, and they sign a contract with Andrey. In April 2013, the company paid for Andrey’s trip to the largest international fitness and bodybuilding exhibition FIBO. Arina is also paid for the trip as the athlete’s manager and translator. The trip makes a great impression on the children and provides an additional incentive for development. The couple together creates the “Telu Vremya” channel, which is very popular. They are regularly invited to seminars, exhibitions and other events.

In the summer of 2013, Arina learns about pregnancy. The couple did not have a wedding; they quietly got married in the 8th month of Arina’s pregnancy.

Pregnancy and childbirth become the biggest challenge in life for Arina.

At this time, Arina goes to the pool and occasionally does strength training. At 21 weeks of pregnancy, she films the first women's episode of “Body Time,” which is about training for pregnant women. In 2014, Andrey became the ambassador of another popular sports nutrition brand, Prosupps. Arina again acts as a translator, manager, and takes an active part in negotiations and organization of foreign trips.

On April 12, 2014, Arina’s daughter Sofia was born. The young mother recovered from childbirth in record time and created a sensation. At the same time, she managed to manage to take care of the child without outside help, do housework, and work. Arina did not burden her ex-husband at all with housework or caring for the child, which allowed him to always get a good night's sleep and mind his own business carefree. Every month Arina excited her subscribers with fresh photos of her current uniform. 2 months after giving birth, she was already showing off her six-pack abs. During pregnancy, Arina read a lot of information on this topic (mainly foreign literature), wrote articles about training and nutrition for pregnant women, filmed video training, and in 2015 she published the book “Beautiful and Healthy Mom. Pregnancy and recovery after childbirth,” which has no analogues to this day. Arina, one might say, became the founder of such a phenomenon as the “fitness mom.” Her book and articles are still rewritten by many modern fitness mothers in their Instagram posts and other resources. By writing the book, Arina patented her intellectual work, since no one had written about it before. After giving birth, Arina is actively engaged in her column on her husband’s YouTube channel and invites domestic and foreign stars of the fitness industry, and then show business stars (Natali Melo, Ashley Kaltwasser, Larissa Reis, Alice Matoss, Ksenia Sheveleva, Anastasia Goncharova, Anna Starodubtseva, Putrova Olga, Mukminova Elizaveta, Ushakova Yulia, Krasavina Ekaterina, Volkova Diana, Sonya Neks, Vardanush Martirosyan, Yankova Anastasia, Sanzharovskaya Elena, Bochkareva Natalya, Samoilova Oksana). Arina negotiates filming with almost all of the listed eminent personalities on her own. The ex-spouses organize filming together, helping each other. Arina remembers how one day she had a high fever. The athletes had to cook their own food (since they have a special diet), pick up the guests from the hotel, spend a whole day of filming, training for many hours in a row, and then escort everyone back. After that, Arina lay in bed for a week, and in the final videos no one even noticed her condition. Which speaks volumes about the girl’s professionalism and fortitude.

Later, she is made an offer to create an online fitness school by the wife of the famous rapper Dzhigan and star mom Oksana Samoilova. Arina became the main founder of the school, but for some internal reasons she quickly left without a scandal, leaving all her work to Oksana. Later, Arina also filmed a recovery course after childbirth as part of the project, together with Ksenia Borodina (a famous TV presenter). Now Oksana still uses Arina’s name and face in her project, although Arina has not had anything to do with the school for more than 3 years, except for the invested intellectual work, the created system and programs.

In 2015, Arina, together with the laboratory, produced an anti-cellulite complex, named after her “fatbuster by Arina Skoromnaya”, which is very popular with girls and is in great demand. According to statistics, there are many repeat sales, but Arina produces the complex in limited quantities.

In 2016, Arina received an author's column in the Iron World magazine and wrote it for a year, until the closure of the magazine.

At the end of 2016, Arina received an award from the Russian Bodybuilding Federation for her contribution to the industry.

On January 1, 2022, Arina and Andrey separated and then divorced. The couple did not say anything about the reasons for the divorce, wishing not to wash dirty linen in public. The former spouses did not have any division of property; Arina did not claim either joint property, alimony, or joint projects. Having left with my daughter for a new rented home, I simply started a new life. The guys managed to maintain good friendly relations, the father communicates with his daughter, and she spends time with his parents. During the divorce, Andrei’s parents helped Arina get back on her feet by taking care of the baby. They even offered to take the child while the young mother was getting on her feet in terms of her career. But Arina managed to organize her work in such a way that it did not interfere with caring for the child. She is very grateful and treats Andrei’s parents with warmth to this day, but she left her daughter to live with her. From birth, my daughter was used to traveling with her mother on business, to filming, consultations, and so on.

At the beginning of 2022, Arina began working on the Friday TV channel, where she works to this day. In the same year, she released “Diary of Motivation”, launched author’s marathons, signed a contract with Reebok as an official ambassador in Russia and implemented many other projects.

In February 2022, Arina met Timur Pankov on the set of the Channel One fitness section, where Timur was an extra and Arina an expert. Timur found out about Arina earlier, at a bodybuilding competition in Yekaterinburg, where she was invited as a star guest. Arina was still married then, and Timur made no attempts to get to know her, but subscribed to her pages on social networks.

In March 2022, Arina received the national Fit awards for her contribution to the development of sports in the Breakthrough of the Year category.

On March 27, 2022, Timur comes from Pyatigorsk to congratulate Arina on her birthday, makes a stunning surprise and declares his love.

In the summer of 2022, Arina, her daughter Sofia and Timur began to live together. Timur strongly supports Arina in her activities, accompanies her to all events and even becomes an indispensable assistant in her professional activities.

In the fall of the same year, at a bodybuilding competition, after an absolute victory, Timur proposes marriage to Arina.

In 2022, Arina tries a new sport, wake surfing, and achieves some success, demonstrating new tricks, but, as always, only for fun.

In 2022, Arina and Timur begin to build a house.

In 2022, Arina signs a contract with one of the most reputable sports nutrition brands, Optimum Nutrition.

In the same year, she received an award from Crocus Group as “the best Insta healthy lifestyle blogger.”

In the summer of 2022, Arina signs a contract with the popular Russian fitness clothing brand bonafide and becomes their official ambassador.

In addition, in 2022, Arina presented two new books:

“Fitness recipes from Arina Skoromnaya”;
“Start now. A healthy approach to the body,” in which its co-author was the famous nutritionist and nutrigeneticist Andrei Zolotarev.

In 2022, Arina receives another column on the Friday TV channel, now in the program Regina +1.

In October 2022, the morning show on the Friday channel, in which Arina hosts a fitness section, receives the TEFI award.

To date, Arina has helped more than 16,000 people transform themselves (online fitness schools, marathons, individual online and offline activities).

History of success

Arina always wanted to get rid of the hated excess weight, but she lacked motivation. Everything changed literally in one day. From the most ordinary girl, Varskaya turned into a real role model, an idol for millions of Russian girls. And this happened after meeting Andrei Skoromny, a master of sports in bodybuilding. This happened in Africa, where Arina came to rest.

Before meeting her chosen one, Varskaya was biased towards bodybuilders, trusting more in stereotypes. However, Andrey completely changed the girl’s opinion, showing her not only a beautiful body, but also goodwill, education and determination. It was these qualities that captivated Varskaya.

At first, the young people were simply friends, but soon their relationship grew into something more. Skoromny’s strong-willed character forced Arina to look at her own life differently. Returning to her homeland, the girl began to regularly visit the gym. This is probably where the success story of Arina Andreevna Skoromnaya began in 2012.

If you want a certain standard of living, you must achieve it!

“I was always surprised by the comments on the Internet: “Yes, of course, if I were in Skoromny’s place, in Moscow, I would also... shoot a video, drive an expensive car, but I live in Uryupinsk.” And I want to say: “My friend, I am also from Uryupinsk, in my time and even worse, an unknown village. Few people live there. I have more likes for each photo than the population of the village. There was a goal - I moved. Everything is in your hands, there are no restrictions in human life,” says Andrey.

“Guys, if you are passionate about it, if you want to contribute something to this sport, if you love this sport and a healthy lifestyle with all your heart, the money will come by itself,” is what Skoromny advises everyone.

At first, she and Arina lived in spartan conditions, went to the rocking chair with one subscription to the other end of the city, and slept on mattresses.

The couple made their program simply because they received a huge number of the same type of questions from fans. They had no goal of making money from the project, and even now 95% of them refuse sponsorship offers even on social networks. From culinary to sports, their fitness projects are a true labor of love.

“You have to find what you like, what you like. If this is not a sport, and you have difficulty walking along this road, you need to choose a different path and not be afraid to change the type of activity,” says Arina. Her husband, when asked why many athletes start fitness channels but do not achieve popularity, replied that they simply did not have enough enthusiasm. “As soon as you think about monetization, ideas fail,” he said.

External transformation

Having a height of 172 cm, the girl weighed 72 kilograms, and of course, she wanted to get her body in order. In general, Arina’s figure didn’t look too bad: she had a flat stomach and fairly wide hips, but it was all flabby. But not only this fact served as an incentive for Arina to take up sports seriously. The girl was very attracted to a healthy lifestyle with all its delights. In six months of daily training, Arina Skoromnaya managed to get rid of 12 kilograms of excess weight and completely change her own body, eliminating unnecessary fat and gaining muscle mass.

Unlike many women who are passionate about fitness, Arina Skoromnaya’s attractiveness is genuine. The blogger did not enlarge her breasts, did not use any special injections and did not resort to the services of plastic surgeons. In general, the girl is an ardent opponent of various pharmaceutical additives that cause artificial muscle growth. Skoromnaya’s body was transformed exclusively with the help of sports training. The girl lost extra pounds, due to which her figure acquired attractive curves.

The path to perfect shape

Pro-Status

: You communicated with many fitness bikini athletes. What is the role of the off-season for girls?

Arina Skoromnaya:

Most of the “bikinists” I’ve talked to don’t use the off-season to gain mass. Rather, it is time to relax. The “mass gain - “drying”” technique came from bodybuilding. In more difficult women's categories (body fitness, “physics”), the use of this technique is justified and will most likely continue in the future. But in fitness bikini there should not be an off-season in the same sense as in bodybuilding. There are girls who find it difficult to gain muscle mass even in a fitness bikini, but these are rather exceptions. And in no case does this mean that you need to eat up in the off-season.

Pro-Status

: I agree with you. But we see that among girls who want to make a form even for themselves, the thinking from the bodybuilding environment still dominates. And some strive for the classic approach: “Now I’ll dial, and then I’ll dry myself.” Do girls need such weight changes?

Arina Skoromnaya

: This is really not the best approach. It’s one thing when you’re a competing athlete, but if I hear from an ordinary girl that she’s bulking up, then it seems to me nothing more than a reason and an excuse to eat like crazy. Practicing for yourself is not the same as preparing for the stage. The competitive form implies restrictions that are often at odds with a healthy lifestyle.

Most women want to lose weight. Therefore, there can be no talk of any mass gain. You need to eat right and exercise regularly. Thus, we come to the conclusion that the differences lie in the area of nutrition.

For most professional athletes, the training process is not much different during the “drying” period. The diet is being adjusted, and cardio training may be added. And here the question of metabolism arises. If you have a fast metabolism, then if you are low on energy, you will not need additional cardio. How can an ordinary gym goer reach a level where she is constantly in shape?

The path to this peak lies in the field of nutrition. Training is secondary. Our diet is not only the building material of the body, but also the main way to speed up metabolism. Nutrition is a key factor in getting and maintaining good shape. Not everyone can carry trays of food with them all the time, but at some point it will have to be done. It's necessary. But having normalized metabolism, we can allow some relaxation in the form of skipping meals or increasing nutritional value.

Pro-Status

: And how long, in your opinion, does a girl need to get into this rhythm of proper nutrition and get visible results?

Arina Skoromnaya

: The “physical” period is a couple of months. And when I say “physical,” I mean the number of days in which you can get your physical condition into shape. But psychological restructuring requires at least 6 months. It is impossible to change your lifestyle and get used to it in a short time. To live without disruptions, you need to undergo a complete rethinking of your lifestyle, daily routine and diet. You can achieve visible changes in shape much earlier, but how long can you maintain this shape? This requires a restructuring of consciousness.

Pro-Status

: I got the feeling that some girls have a serious addiction to candy. I had a ward, she trained hard, ate right, but every evening she ended up with candy. It was like struggling with drug or alcohol addiction. How to help people?

Arina Skoromnaya

: If not every first one, then at least every second one comes to me with such problems. What to do? Firstly, you can’t suddenly remove these candies. If you have eaten sweets, then the refusal should be gradual. Secondly, you can’t put away candy forever. Once a week or once every two weeks these sweets should be present. Thirdly, you need to learn to deceive yourself with foods with a lower glycemic index; dried fruits or some fruits are suitable for this.

Tea with sweetener helped me a lot. If you wanted something sweet, you drank sweet tea and you already feel normal. You also need to prepare your own desserts in advance.

And something can be prepared in a minute: for example, you add sucrose menitol to frozen berries - a wonderful dessert with a low glycemic index. A replacement is needed, you cannot refuse abruptly, otherwise there will be a 100% return and a complete breakdown. You should not constantly apply on yourself all the techniques found on the Internet.

Watch your diet, exercise regularly, and you can always stay in shape.

My main differences between the competitive period and the off-season are the intensity of training and the severity of the diet. After the competition, I gradually return to my normal lifestyle, adding carbohydrates to my diet and reducing the amount of training. First of all, I am a girl, so the “rigidity” of my body is characteristic of me only during the competitive period.

Keeping yourself in shape all year round with the help of exercise and nutrition is quite possible! You just have to want it!”

Activities of the spouses

After Arina Skoromnaya’s husband gave her an impetus and helped her in her endeavors, the girl began to run her own Internet channel called “Body Time.” At the same time, Arina and her husband got a job at a Moscow fitness club. The nurse completed all the relevant courses and became a certified specialist in the field of nutrition, training, medical massage and physical therapy. After the couple had a child, Arina and Andrey launched another channel, called “Diary of Women’s Happiness.” In it, the girl, based on personal experience, told how to effectively and quickly get rid of extra centimeters after childbirth. In addition, Arina advised women via Skype. The blog has gained incredible popularity among new mothers.

Career development

In the summer of 2016, a ceremonial presentation of Arina Skoromnaya’s book, dedicated to a set of postpartum training, took place. In addition, the blogger is the author of many publications: she has several hundred articles on a healthy lifestyle, her own recovery method, women’s trainings and seminars, and a column in the popular magazine “Iron World”. In addition, the girl collaborated with a laboratory that produced an anti-cellulite complex, named after the creator.

Among other things, Arina became a permanent fitness expert on the Channel One TV channel in the Good Morning program. And in 2022, she began collaborating with the Friday channel, becoming the host of a sports section. Arina Skoromnaya is one of the founders of the today famous Fit for you program - a project in partnership with Oksana Samoilova and Dzhigan in 2015. In addition, the blogger took part in the development of healthy food Muscle factory kitchen.

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Celebrity private life

The divorce of Arina Skoromnaya and Andrei Skoromny became one of the most sensational events in the spring of 2022. The specific reason for the separation is not mentioned in the media. There are rumors that this is due to the bodybuilder's infidelities. Although there are those who have a different opinion: that Andrei could not stand his more successful wife. The former spouses decided not to comment on the event, answering questions with maximum restraint. The couple lived in marriage for 5 years. During this time, they were connected not only by a common cause, but also by the birth of their daughter Sofia in 2014. After the divorce, Arina Skoromnaya has already acquired a new boyfriend, but the girl carefully hides his name for now.