Interview With Professional Fitness Trainer Juliet Banks

How did you get started in the world of bodybuilding?

In 1983 I was studying Kempo Karate and training to be a womens full contact champion. I was also swimsuit modeling and entering calendar contests and reached a plateu in my martial arts training and running program. My coaches suggested I cross train lifting weights at a localhard core dudes gym. Being single I was more than eager to check out the place where most of the goodlooking buff men hung out at (smart girl) and had plenty of help with spots and learning the technique of lifting. I soon had more powerlifting and bodybuilding friends that I could count and we were like a family going to contests and supporting one another. I was usually the only chick and all of the big guys always protected me and my interests. Of course the biggest and the best man in the gym caught my eye early on and truly inspired me to compete. I have always been an athlete and an artist and enjoy a solitary sport where I can depend on my drive and determination. I am convinced it is like no other woman on Earth. I met Rachel McLish at my first contest and she had just won the Olympia a few years earlier and she told me my body was beautiful to keep going.

What Training Routine Do You Use To Get That Quality Physique?

I alternate between single body parts and super sets depending on the results I am desiring. Each of my reps are controlled and my focus is on feeling that muscle fire and contract.

What’s your diet like?

I eat 5-6 smaller meals and balance my protein, carbs and fats according to what my body needs. I never eliminate carbs and simply alternate between veggie, starchy and simple and cycle them. I try not to cook my veggies and my protien sources are Whey, egg whites, fish and chicken and somtimes dairy. My fats come from NUTS, avacados and what is in my meats and of course my Omegas or Lecithin Supps. Yes I am a nut aholic. I am very in tune with my body and know what it needs to thrive and respond the way I want. This comes with a lifelong of experience I guess. I also keep my PH balanced and try my best to stay in a more alkaline state.

What’s your motivation?

The confident feeling that “My Body is My Canvas” and it is an art I must continue to develop and share. Most definitely, the natural high on life feeling and phenominal sex drive that lifting and living fit gives me.

If you could give once piece of advice about bodybuilding/fitness what would it be?

Nothing worthwhile comes easy but it won’t come at all if you are afraid to try and fear failure!

Any plans for the future?

Continue to make voluptuous, athletic, well developed feminine muscle. To be further published and make beautiful images, compete, share my art, ideas and passion. I want to work with the best in the industry or develop new fitness forums. I want to enhance the art of bodybuilding, figure, fitness, bikini and be well known in the fitness industry.

Favourite Bodybuilder?

Rachel McLish and Lee Haney

Favourite Quote?

By Marianne Williamson

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

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