From the time we are young, we are told to exercise. We realize it is good for us, but some people take that advice to the extreme.
Nataliya Kuznetsova is a 33-year-old female bodybuilder who has a shape that is different than anyone you have ever seen before. The Russian professional female bodybuilder is said to hold a number of records, including bench press, dead left, and arm lifting.
This didn’t come about by accident. She has always centered her life around being stronger and trying to lift as much weight as possible. When she was 14, she started powerlifting and eventually became a bodybuilder. She was only 80 pounds at her start.
Today, the bodybuilder weighs anywhere from 246-275 pounds.
We don’t know a lot about her childhood and how she was brought up but we do know that she was born on July 1, 1991, in Chita, southeast Siberia, Russia. She was active as a youth, training in combat sports and eventually starting with bodybuilding.
She works with the well-known coach, Alexei Ivanov, and was put on a diet that most people would be unable to follow. She wasn’t set to build as much muscle as possible, she was just trying to get stronger and building some mass was a side benefit.
Before long, people began to notice that she was putting on weight and her muscles were getting bigger. Within a few years, she was signing up for competitions and decided to focus on becoming a bodybuilder. Her first championship went very well.
She weighed 150 pounds at 17 and could bench press 220 pounds. She was still living in Chita at the time. As of then, she was building muscle naturally and hadn’t even started on protein shakes.
She has a number of titles under her belt, including the 2014 Cup of Eurasia in Vologda, Russia, and Champion of the Cup Eastern Europe (GPA).
She is known as the ‘World’s most muscular woman’ and has a number of powerlifting, benchpress, and dead lifting records. She has benched over 374 pounds and deadlifts 530 pounds.
Today, she lives with her bodybuilder husband, Vladislav Kuznetsov in the Russian capital. They met in 2009 and were married in 2015. She often posts pictures and updates about their life.
She says: “Our love story is quite modern. We met on the Internet, more precisely, on Odnoklassniki(a social network service in Russia). For a while, we only talked as friends.”
At first, she had a difficulty getting sponsors and had to spend her own money to compete. She now has several sponsors and works with some nutrition brands, including RPS Nutrition.
She said: “People definitely recognise me. An athletic body can be seen under clothes. Many people recognise me, ask to take a photo with them. Many people even know my name.”
One of the things that she really appreciates is how much her fans love her. She said: “Most of my Instagram followers are men. They stand for around 75%, and it’s about the same percentage on other social networks. They write a lot. Compliments to an athlete are no different than compliments to a non-athlete.”
She has over 1.3 million followers at this point on Instagram. She labels herself as being a unique Amazon woman and posts plenty of pictures for her fans.
It’s good to have a hobby, and it looks like she has taken hers to the max.