Born to love and love to make a living with hobbies
Chengdu girl transformed into "King Kong Barbie"
Sun Chang looking for the beauty of health.
▲In January this year, Sun Chang (middle) achieved excellent results in a national competition.
On the stage, the female players are all muscular with beautiful faces, which is in line with the popular use of "King Kong Barbie" to describe bodybuilders. They have high looks and good figures, and they have muscles that many boys admire. and strength.
Quit his clerical job, ran away from a foreign land, worked full-time "iron", trying to make a living from hobbies... Chengdu girl Sun Chang made a crazy decision in 2019.
This decision changed her career trajectory drastically.
Since then, she has been "rolling iron" in the gym for 365 days. She did not expect good results. This "half way home" girl won the runner-up in a national bodybuilding competition at the beginning of this year.
A beautiful face, but full of muscles, this is the result of constant exercise.
They have a unique title on the Internet: King Kong Barbie.
Try to make a living from hobbies
Training 24/7 to open the door to the world of bodybuilding
Sun Chang liked sports since he was a child, but never thought of making a living from sports.
During university and graduate school, Sun Chang's majors were related to media.
After graduation, she worked in public relations for a company in Chengdu.
However, the seed of sports has always been rooted in her heart.
In the eyes of girls who do not like sports, exercise is like a torment; but in the eyes of girls who love sports like Sun Chang, exercise is a hearty enjoyment.
"I want to try, can I make a living from hobbies." Sun Chang said. After making up her mind, she quit her clerical job in Chengdu in May 2019; went to Shenzhen for closed training in July; and entered a family in Shenzhen in September. Work in a gym; participate in a bodybuilding competition in Shenzhen in December.
From "Soft Girl" to "King Kong Barbie", the process is not easy, and must undergo arduous training.
Every morning, Sun Chang has to train for at least 1 hour, almost 365 days of uninterrupted training, even in women's menstrual period.
For Sun Chang, this persistence is the first step to change, but not the most difficult step.
The most difficult thing is to insist on going to bed early.
"The key to fitness is to eat, sleep and practice." Since arriving in Shenzhen, she has almost stopped her nightlife and goes to bed before 11 o'clock every night.
Seeing the muscles grow a little bit, it is a sense of accomplishment that can sculpt one's body, as if the body has become a work of art that he has carefully polished.
Sun Chang, who entered the bodybuilding circle for the first time, did not perform well.
After only a few months of training, she took part in the competition with the spirit of being a newborn calf and not afraid of tigers. “I just started rolling iron and went to'soy sauce'.” There are many bodybuilding "great gods" in Shenzhen, the first-tier city. This competition is She opened the door to the world of bodybuilding.
From Soft Girl to "King Kong Barbie"
Joined the industry for more than a year and won the runner-up in the national event
At present, women's bodybuilding is a niche sport.
A few years ago, Sun Chang might think that there were not many women engaged in bodybuilding in Chengdu.
In 2020, a bodybuilding Olympiad was held in Chengdu, and athletes from all over the country gathered in Chengdu. This made Sun Chang realize that there are more and more professional bodybuilding athletes in Chengdu.
“I’m back to Chengdu for the New Year this year, and I often meet those girls who play games in the gym.” Sun Chang said, bodybuilding is slowly entering the public eye from a niche sport, and developing from the eastern city to the southwest.
In January 2021, Sun Chang went to Chongqing to participate in a national bodybuilding competition and won the Miss Bikini Group B championship and the runner-up in the audience.
On the stage, the female players are all muscular with beautiful faces, which is in line with the popular use of "King Kong Barbie" to describe bodybuilders. They have high looks and good figures, and they have muscles that many boys admire. and strength.
For Sun Chang, she has made great progress in just over a year.
From clerical work to "wuxing", from soft girl to "King Kong Barbie", now thinking back to the crazy decision back then, she frankly said that she did not deliberately plan. Industry, earning is not bad.” She plans to participate in another bodybuilding competition at the end of 2021 or early 2022.
Bodybuilding is human beings carefully sculpt the body as a work of art through persistent training.
While participating in the competition, Sun Chang met a 60-year-old male player.
"As long as you want, you can be fit at any age." Sun Chang said, hoping that he could go further and further on the road to bodybuilding.