Get to know bodybuilding bikini star Bianca Van Wyk
In an exclusive IFBB Bikini Pro Bianca Van Wyk shared information about her off season, her competition plans and her game plan to get ahead.
With a physique to die for Bianca is a bikini model turned bikini bodybuilder.
Though she has been training for many years, the astounding thing is that she only started competing in bodybuilding in Septmember 2021. So imagine you start doing something and a few months later you turned Pro?
Many push and work their entire careers to never even come close to becoming a pro
I have only been doing bodybuilding since April 2021. I have been competing since September the same year and in essence didn't expect to achieve a PRO CARD so quicklyš.
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| Candace awarding Bianca her PRO CARD |
In May 2022 she got pro status by winning placing top of her class and the winning the Bikini overall at the Muscle Mulisha bodybuilding show. She beat off competition from seasoned competitors like Delaine Sardinha which earned her a move into the upper echelons of the sport.
CAREER
A DOGtor as she refers to herself Bianca is a veterinarian by profession taking care of our troeteldiere during the day before taking care of the necessary business in the gym. Her qualification was obtained at the University of Pretoria (TUKS)
HARDSHIPS
Like they say where there's success there's a backstory of an equal amount of hardships endured: it's not all been champagne and roses.
She's has had to undergo two serious back surgeries.
In 2020 just as lockdown hit was when she had her 2nd back operation, it was a herniated disc which caused debilitating pain. Now imagine being around hospitals at that time: everyone panicking,hospital staff fearing for their life working with this 'unknown' illness that's taken over the world, no visitors allowed, the energy must have been frightening.
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| In hospital after her 2nd back surgery |
But fighters fight and pressure creates diamonds. She needed to go through that to become who she's is today.
The operations were successful and the bodybuilder has now taken up a 'spinal conscious' approach to her training which incorporates yoga and stretching techniques to help maintain her back health.
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| Snap with Flex Lewis at the Dragons Lair |
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
Apart from casually rubbing shoulders with the likes of Flex Lewis (7 time 212 Olympia champ) Bianca will be hard at work this offseason. She plans to take a long off season to work and improve on then package she'll be presenting to the Pro stage.
I would need to take an offseason so that i can work on the areas that are lacking because I haven't done an off season before. So I'm gonna to take my sweet as time to focus on building the bodybuilding equivalent of a Nicki Minaj Ass.
When it comes to competiton, Bianca says she will likely compete and make her debut in USA around June/July 2023.
