For Nanaimo’s Leila Sadeghi, weightlifting has lengthy been a ardour.
“It’s like some people get runner’s high, I get a weightlifting high,” says Sadeghi.
The 19-year-previous has been hitting the fitness center since she was 12 — though it took a little bit of inventive pondering to get in.
“My mom had to get my sister’s ID and I had to pretend like I was my sister because I wasn’t old enough, you had to be 13,” says Sadeghi. “I just really liked it, it was just really fun.”
In December of 2021 after some encouragement from fellow fitness center members, Sadeghi entered the Canadian Physique Alliance’s Vancouver ProAm physique-constructing and bikini competition.
“I did [the] bikini competition and it’s like a body-building competition, just a lot less buff,” says Sadeghi.
“I won every single category that I was in.”
Sadeghi even managed to qualify for the nationwide event held on the identical occasion.
While she didn’t convey residence any hardware, it was nonetheless a watch-opening expertise.
“Nationals is crazy, these girls are absolutely insane to look at,” says Sadeghi. “I was fangirling really hard being back there.”
As for her targets shifting ahead?
“I don’t really care too much about winning, I just want to see how far my body can go,” says Sadeghi.
Nanaimo’s Leila Sadeghi, 19, gained in each class she was in on the Canadian Physique Alliance’s Vancouver ProAm physique-constructing and bikini competition final month. (Photo submitted to CHEK News)
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