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Competitive fitness is blowing up among general fitness connoisseurs, thanks to Instagram stars like Paige Hathaway and Michelle Lewin. Their bods and commitment are inspiring women around the world to set the goal of one day stepping on the stage as a fitness competitor in the bikini division at the next local competition. Yet this community still isn't universally understood or accepted. Outsiders ridicule fitness competitions, using hateful words about participants' bodies and the steps it took to get them.

Also a PT, Cristina knows a thing or two about building muscle, burning fat and what kinds of weight training are especially beneficial to women. There was no comparison with the one in London. She won her first ever bikini competition and has gone on to compete in the fitness category the main difference being that fitness models have more muscle definition than bikini competitors. We spoke to her after she took us through a particularly brutal lower body workout, packed with single-leg squats, Russian lunges and single-leg squat jumps and leg presses, about how her routine changes between competitions and the biggest mistakes women are making in the gym. Leading up to shredding season, however, competitors will have been trying to pack on the lean muscle — and Cristina says that the off-season period is just as important as the weeks leading up to the show.

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