Christa Foxcroft, is one of our top Fitness athletes that has always been a hard worker both in the Fitness field, at home as a mother, and also did a great job in finding a sponsor that would pay for her to join us in Hollywood, this year. Last year (2006) she won the Ms Figure division, and as you have probably seen on the site, under the Portuguese Island shoot, she has a great flare for the camera. Unfortunately she did not win this year. She went over to compete in the Fitness division, and she had bad luck there too as she broke a little bone in her foot a couple of weeks before the show, so to actually execute those demanding fitness moves at high speed, just would not happen, and it counted against her, but she still had the dream of competing internationally, and she just didn't given up. She went searching for a sponsor to help her make her dream come true and compete at the international show in Hollywood, and she found one. Well done girl!

We would like to thank PDS TECHNOLOGIES (PTY) Ltd for helping Christa fulfil her dream to compete internationally. Looking good and staying in shape is her passion, she is a great inspiration to all her clients and to all of us in the fitness industry. She has had some bad luck in the pass couple of years and so badly wanted to be on the cover of the Fitness Magazine, and be sponsored to go to Canada to the Fame show, ect. However older woman like us just don't seem to get the recognition we deserve and sometimes those dreams just never became a reality. Never the less, she did not give up, so here she is, at least on the cover of the Fitness web-site and she is zooting off to Hollywood in November to give the Figure division a shot again, and after that to Vegas. So we can only whish her better luck from here onwards.

Chista is 32 years of age, a qualified personal trainer in Gauteng, so if any of you want her assistance, just send me an e-mail. She did her fist show here by us in 2004 where she placed 2nd to Nagila Ladewig in the bikini division and from there she was hooked. Her inspiration all along has been Phillipa Lamont Wilkie, also one of our top Fitness athletes and Monica Brant, and overseas Po-competitor. She was very skinny as a youngster and all she wanted to have, was an athletic build. Well girl, you can give me your body any day if you wan to swop : She started doing weight training and has been doing it now for 12 years. In all this time she has only picked up about 5kg of muscle, so as you can see, it is very difficult for women to pick up muscle, unless you are a naturally muscular girl.

Typical diet / off season: fresh fruit and vegetables, basmati rice and potatoes, meat, fish and chicken. She also includes meal replacements as she runs into trouble not getting enough time to eat between her clients and then she looses muscle quite quick. Monday to Friday she eats very clean, so no junk foods, but then come weekend, She LETS GO! And for her type of boy, you can afford to just let go and eat whatever you feel like, when you feel like it, as long as you keep it clean from Monday to Friday.

Because Christa does not have the gymnastic or dancing back ground that the other Fitness athletes have, she has realized that it is better to stick to the division that makes you look your best, so from here onwards we will see her in the division she shone in last year, and won - Ms Figure. Sometimes one has to face reality and work with what you are the best in. It is good to try other skills, but if there is not enough time in the day to keep on going for extra gymnastics lessons or dancing, then do what you can do best.

As mentioned, she is great as a mother too for her 8 year old daughter and even though her husband does not always like to watch her competed (he gets more nervous that she does) he is behind her 100%, and that is very important in this industry. If your partner does not support you, then it makes the battle that much harder, and hard work it is, but we can cope if the support system is good.

"MY biggest ambition was to compete Internationally, and it is now about to happen". Thank-you to Lesley once again from PDS TECHNOLOGIES (PTY) Ltd. It will be my first overseas competition and I can't wait"

Photographs by: Riaan Vosloo