| Alina Popa s-a clasat pentru a doua oară 3 la Arnold Clasic |
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Alina Popa s-a născut în România, dar după ce a descoperit bodybuildingul s-a mutat în Elveţia,
 Ever since I ever knew I was the very active, sportive kind of kid. I had endless energy resources and I loved sports. I began with some track when I was 12 years old.
I didn’t do competitions in track and field but in my summer holidays I used to train
2 times a day, about 3 hours each time. I loved to sprint and didn’t like the long
distance races. Starting with 15 I started to attend aerobics classes and I loved
the fitness part of it, working with weights. At 18 I entered the gym in my native
town just to keep fit and lose some weight. That was the moment I fell in love with
bodybuilding. I remember, upon starting to go to the little gym in my quiet native
town, I began to read the little thin bodybuilding magazines that I could find on
the Romanian market at that time. The competition movement in Romanian body
building was kind of poor at that time, but I remember one girl in the gym getting
ready for a National Junior Championship…and I admit I felt admiration for her and
I wished I had her muscles . I kept on training for the next two years until one day
I entered another gym in another town, where I was a student, and the trainer
there saw my potential and suggested to me I should train to compete. I’ll never
forget how honored I felt…and how happy. So I guess I would have liked to compete
but I didn’t manage till I got someone to support me and help me.
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