ABOUT
Left: 2010, Center: 2013, Right: 2017
In 2010 I was broke, overweight and depressed. I had been over working 10-12 hr shifts as a graphic artist with little room for growth, which mentally resulted in me giving up on my dreams of becoming a well known illustrator and physically giving up on my health.
I stopped working for 6 months and put my husband and myself in big debt. I could not get out of bed and I hated my life and myself. Such hate started spreading and rotting everything around me. Such hate was like a big dark cloud that completely surrounded and blinded me.
In the summer of 2010 I saw a sparkle of light inside that cloud and I decided to take on my first transformation and jump on stage for the first time.
And so, like a train at full stop starting it's journey, it took a lot of energy, fuel and courage to get it moving and keep it moving. As part of that journey I started competing and I became a certified personal trainer with the mission of reaching out and helping other women who had lost faith in themselves.
I learned the meaning of the word shared journeys, as their successes were my successes and their failures were my failures as their coach. This is when this blog was born and named: Transformation Journeys.
During the past 10 years I have been blessed to have my biggest mentor by my side, also personal trainer, strength coach, fan, specialty cook, researcher, psychologist, partner in crime is my husband Omar Arvizu. We are currently working together as a team on further research in the areas of movement, central nervous system and connective tissue adaptation, body composition, metabolism, muscle and strength development to better ourselves for the people we coach. I cannot tell you that having him as a husband, coach and business partner is an easy feat, but we think we are ready for it.
Luchka O'Brien Regional Show 2016
The biggest lesson I have learned is that a beautiful body cannot exist without an even more beautifully built mind inside of it, and that to build a beautiful mind and body is a form of art itself.
The continuous search for perfecting my craft and learning about my body took me to start practicing foundational gymnastics and Animal Flow in 2016. In conjunction with my husband we have developed MoveCamp and we now teach and mentor out of the Oakville and Burlington area anyone hungry to embrace the movement culture. This is how "Art of Moving Strong' was born.
I still like to think I am a normal person, even though I live in various gyms and I am known as the girl that trains weird: I have a handsome fat cat named Timbit, I have a thin cat named Camila, 2 huskies and I love CANADA. I have many friends, mostly at the gym, who love to lift heavy things repeatedly and love to eat all you can eat sushi. And I also do art.
Did I mention I am Mexican too?
20 lbs of Timbit
