1. State your full name.
BuffMother-Michelle Berger
2. Where is your hometown?
Fergus Falls, MN is where I graduated High school
3. Do you have any siblings?
Yes, 3 brothers and a sister
4. At what age did you begin training?
Not for physique contest until 2003, but I started lifting weights a little when I was a teenager.
5. Did you have any proper training or did you learn yourself in the beginning?
I went to college for Exercise Science and Nutrition, so I have always trained myself.
6. Where was your favorite place to workout?
At the local gym
7. When did you realize you wanted health and fitness a lifestyle?
After I had 4 kids in 4 years and was a physical and emotional mess. I wanted to feel healthy and strong again. I wanted to be BUFF!
8. Did you have any influences?
Not anyone specific. I just took bits and pieces from a lot of different sources and tweaked it to fit me.
9. How easy was it for you to meet your initial goals?
It was HARD! I am in awe that I was able to do it. God performed a miracle in me. He enabled me to get my best body ever within a year of having my 3rd and 4th children (twins) by c-section. I was on a mission and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that you can be buff after having kids.
10. Did you ever stray away or think to stop working out?
I did when I was younger… now I tie it into so much more than just “getting in shape” that I will never stop! Even taking more than 3 days off is torture to me.
11. What was your favorite show you’ve competed in?
My first one, I had no clue what I was doing, but still managed to win both the tall class and the overall title. I was in SHOCK!
12. Did you ever feel intimidated by the veterans?
More like scared …those girls are BIG!
13. What is your best feature?
It has to be my abs, I have put my heart and soul into building them.
14. What is the farthest place on earth that the fitness industry taken you to?
In fitness Connecticut…that was a trip. I had never been out East before and it was an interesting place.
15. When are you competing next?
I am not sure…I am looking into different contest. For now I am content with just enjoying the summer in my string bikini with my 4 kids at the pool in my back yard.
16. Do you have a favorite motto?
The KEY to your motivation is encouraging others!
17. What foods do you absolutely stay away from?
Dairy- they are poison to me…they make me bloated and miserable.
18. How involved are you with the fitness industry?
Not super involved…I have never attended the Arnold Classic or Olympia and I think that most who are really involved have. I have more of a mission to reach the ordinary mother who wants to get BUFF after having kids.
19. What's the next big thing to happen in the fitness industry in the next year?
No clue! But a reality show is highly likely…there is one for everything else.
20. What is your day job?
I am a stay at home MOM of 4 kids ages: 6, 4, 3 and 3. I am also the Founder and President of BuffMother! Please take a look at my website http:// www.buffmother.com
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