CHRISTINA BRYANT BIO
There seems to be two extremes of how the body processes food. At one extreme, there are bodies that primary turn food into energy. At the other, physiques that primarily use food to create mass. People with the first type of metabolism have a great deal of trouble gaining weight. Those with the other gain weight very easily.
Weight in the form of fat or by building muscle.
Christina Bryant has one of those “mass creating” types of metabolism.
“I was very heavy as a young girl,” she explains. “At 5’ 2” I got up to 270 pounds. Much of the reason for this is I’m a country girl from Alabama and I grew up eating a lot of very fattening food. That’s just part of the culture. It wasn’t until I discovered training and dieting like a bodybuilder that I developed the knowledge and discipline to get my eating under control and to lose body fat and gain aesthetic muscle.”
“Chrissy” Bryant admits she was never an athlete as a youngster. In her late 20s, divorced and overweight, she met a bodybuilding couple who agreed to help her learn her way around a gym. Under their guidance regarding training an diet, she was surprised when her weight dropped unexpectedly from 270 to 180 in a relatively short time.
She was also pleased at how quickly her gym training started to pay off and she started to develop a remarkable amount of muscle. As her body developed, so did her focus and motivation and Chrissy found her life beginning to revolve around the gym and her muscle -building efforts. She hooked up with a coach or two, but mostly she says she paid attention to her body and began to learn what approach to training produced the best results for her.
“I’ve read that Ronnie Coleman was known for lifting very heavy weight for fairly high reps,” she explains, “I try to do the same thing. I like a weight that will challenge me for each rep and I also try to keep my reps fairly high in a set. That’s what makes me feel best, and it seems to be what my body needs in order to achieve maximum results.”
As has happened to many a promising young muscle competitor, Chrissy’s physical development caused those round her to ask if she were planning to compete. And this helped motivate her to decide to do just that.
In 2017, she entered the Lee Haney games in physique and placed 3rd. This level of success, right off the bat, for a former fat girl, was highly motivating. Freshly energized, Chrissy signed up for physique in the 2017 Border Klash, finishing a respectable 4th.
“I felt great on stage in competition,” she says “and I became more and more determined to improve my physique and diet and win a title.”
Chrissy made good on her determination the very next year going back to the Lee Haney games in 2018 and winning the overall title in physique. She capped that off by entering the NPC Jr. Nationals, a contest very high on the food chain, winning first place in physique and earning her IFBB pro card. In 2020, Christina made her Pro debut in WPD at the illustrious Chicago Pro placing 3rd. In 2021 with her body still being eager to grow Christina Placed 5th at both the Omaha Pro and Tampa Pro. Both shows were met with the critiques of WBB should be your knew home.
“I don’t want to set any limits on how much I can develop my physique,” so I have decided to switch to competing in pro bodybuilding. But I also want to be a role model for girls and young women with weight problems like I had. I want them to know there is a method and a system that gives you far more control of your weight and your body composition than you might realize exists. That method is bodybuilding, not necessarily as a sport, but as the most effective approach to exercise and diet ever developed.”
COMPETITION HISTORY
2017 Lee Haney Games 3rd place WPD
2017 Border Klash 4th place WPD
2018 Lee Haney Games OVERALL WINNER WPD
2019 Jr Nationals 1st place and IFBB PRO Card
2020 Chicago Pro 3rd Place pro Debut WPD
2021 Omaha Pro 5th Place WPD
2021 Tampa Pro 5th Place WPD
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