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SPOTLIGHT ON SPECIES ATHLETE: GAIL AUERBACH

GAIL AUERBACH: The Education of a Bodybuilder

Written by Leigh Penman

Okay - I hope you are sitting down to read this because I am about to say something very important and I want you to remember it.  Ready?

“Gail Auerbach will turn pro in 2011.” Got it?

There is my prediction, and having placed 1st in the middleweight plus taken the overall title at last year’s Junior USA, 2nd in the middleweights in this year’s Junior Nationals, and 4th in the 2010 USA’s - who can really doubt that Gail has what it takes to be a pro?

So, given all this I think it is about time we gave Gail our attention on RX and found out a little more about what makes this future pro tick...

Before we begin, I notice from your Face book page that you hate talking about yourself.  Why is that... and I hope we can overcome that here!

“The fact is that I have always had a very low self esteem. It comes from being a perfectionist and my own worst enemy.   I am actually taking Dahn Yoga right now and it is helping quite a bit.  They are teaching me strategies which are allowing me to be the ‘master of my mind'...”

I believe you took out your first gym membership at age 13.  What was the inspiration behind that?

“I grew up with a brother who raised me to be a tom boy and had a huge impact on me when I was growing up.  We had a gym in our basement but I was not allowed to workout with my brother at the time because I was considered too young.  However, when I finally was ‘old enough’ I started lifting in my basement and loved it.  This led to me wanting a gym membership, doing cardio and learning the name of every muscle in the body from a chart on my bedroom wall.”

What got you interested in bodybuilding?

“During college there was a bodybuilding show called Greek Physique and I decided I wanted to compete in it.  I trained at the gym with many guys who offered to help me pose diet and prepare. I loved the diet, loved putting on muscle, loved cardio, learning about supplements and loved competing! I competed in that show and won it 4 years in a row! When I left college I joined a gym back home where I was student teaching.  I started working out there daily and meeting people who competed in the NPC and who told me I should do a show. I hired a trainer who trained me 3 times a week and I started to see myself put on more and more muscle. I ate clean and started learning more about supplements.

“I decided to start attending the local NPC contests to see what it was like and during the first show I went to I had made up my mind - I WANTED TO COMPETE AGAIN! So in 2007 I started my journey toward my first competition.  During the year I went to every show and met more and more people who competed.  I started lifting, training and spending time with competitors and by the end of 2007 I had attended every local Illinois show and had met a whole group of friends who understood me and accepted me for who I was.  They understood my ‘oddness’ and in their eyes it was okay to be different.  In fact it was my differences that made me so unique."

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