Celeste Bonin
Hometown: Houston, TX
Celeste Bonin, better known to the wrestling world as Kaitlyn from the newest season of NXT, started competing in figure competitions at the age of 19. For anybody not in the know, figure competitions are an exhibition to show off a person’s physique, emphasizing the tone of the muscle compared to the overall size. Before beginning her training in professional wrestling, Celeste had plans to move into bodybuilding competitions which requires a rigorous diet and extensive workout plans to maintain the best total package in terms of muscle tone and size.
Celeste works out at One-to-One Training Center, a gym that has given her the physique she now has today. Before she started bodybuilding, Celeste was an avid soccer player which attributes to her strong legs and killer cardio. Her workout consists of high reps with low weight and a lot of cardio. Combining these two types of exercise will tone the body rather than adding on muscle because the low weight in the workouts wears out the muscle rather than completely tearing it which is what would happen from lifting heavy weight. A typical exercise performed by Celeste involves doing a high repetition of the exercise with about a quarter (or less) of her body weight on the machine which will keep the muscles toned and looking fit.
The reason being toned is typically better than amassing huge muscle weight is because muscle weight is heavy. One reason why many people who start out in the gym get discouraged when working out is because they see themselves a few weeks after they start their workouts gaining weight. What they do not realize is that muscle weighs more than fat inside the body, causing this extra weight gain that they are seeing when they work out. To put this in easier terms, if a person were to take a muscle and put it on a scale and then take fat that was the same dimensional size onto the scale, the muscle would weigh a lot more even though they were technically the same size. Carrying this extra weight in the wrestling ring can tire a person out if they do not have the cardio to carry it around with them and, even then, it can get tiring because it becomes a process of carrying around heavy weights in the entire time. This is not to say that having a great deal of muscle mass is not good or impressive but it can hinder abilities to go out and wrestle long amounts of time if that is what the match calls for.
The diet structure Celeste uses is known as “Micro-dietingâ€. Her trainer began utilizing this diet with her when she was working on getting into bodybuilding competitions and it improved her physique vastly as she was working to change her body composition to meet the needs of the new competition. Micro-dieting consists of doing a four-week diet plan, taking a week off and then doing another four-week diet plan in order to keep the body from hitting a wall and, mentally, to keep the mind from hungering for all of those good foods that extreme diet people never get the chance to have.
Celeste’s words to the people of the world are to always have a goal when working out. That goal will be the driving force in becoming better and looking better. If a person goes into the gym without a drive to achieve greatness, they will hinder their workouts rather than kill them. Everybody has a goal when entering the gym and, if that goal has been met, find another goal to reach for instead of hitting the wall and reverting back to the person that was there before they showed up to the gym.
