The Women's Fittest Podcast
The Women’s Fittest podcast host, Debra Jean Terpstra, is a 47-year-old, lifetime drug-free women's physique bodybuilder, coach, business owner, and single mom, delivering a balance of scientific and anecdotal health and fitness info uniquely purposed for women. Critical thinkers will find practical application on everything fitness related from healthy food relationships to contest prep. Whatever your level of knowledge Debra provides expert advice on nutrition, exercise, hormones, mental health, and more, delivered in easy to understand vernacular from a variety of evidence-based and experienced foundations. Debra's passion for bodybuilding and the human condition is apparent in her personal interviews that showcase NPC and IFBB athletes (her guests) in a raw and genuine way. These women are the heart and soul of professional bodybuilding and fitness, and these are their real-life experiences. The Women’s Fittest is your one stop shop for bodybuilding and fitness info, no matter where you are in your journey. Healthy looks different on everybody.
The Women's Fittest Podcast
IFBB Fitness Pro Ariel Khadr: Youngest Pro Ever & 2022 Miss Fitness International Champ
Thanks for listening to another episode of The Women’s Fittest Podcast! This is episode #140 interview with IFBB Fitness Pro Ariel Khadr!
What a privilege to have a fun insightful chat with Miss fitness international, and the youngest female competitor to ever earn her pro card IFBB Fitness pro Ariel Khadr. This convo really flowed in a very genuine way. Ariel is bubbly and sweet and positive and sees the glass half full with logic and insight into everything. Truly loved this interview so much and grateful to her for sharing time just 3 weeks out from the Olympia where she’ll be fighting for that title! Wishing her nothing but success! Please note there is a 1-2 minute silence where we watch her routine from the Arnold on her YouTube Channel. You can view that if you watch the video on YouTube (buffcake22). Ariel’s YouTube is: https://youtube.com/@ArielKhadr
Topics Covered:
- Her background in gymnastics and fitness America and taekwondo
- The IFBB Fitness category is underrated due to degree of difficulty w/performance
- Finding her love for performing
- Both her parents were bodybuilders and how that shaped her norms for the female physique during the time of social norms being Victoria’s Secret models
- BMI index
- Her perspective and opinion on gymnastics for children
- Getting her pro card at 17 (youngest ever) and then her 6 year break before competing on the pro level
- The things of our childhood that make us strong and if we’d change them and what we learn from them
- Community showers
- Having a family
- The levels of the pro level of competing
- College life off of all sports
- Her degree in physiology sociology and job in audiology
- Fun questions
- Final thoughts
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