early years
Anna Kurkurina was born in the small town of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region in 1966. It’s interesting that she herself remembers how she grew up as a sickly and weak child, and was completely unathletic.
At the same time, by nature, Anna Kurkurina received a very non-standard figure for a woman. She initially had very narrow hips and massive shoulders, because of which in her youth she was very embarrassed about her body, trying to hide it behind baggy and loose clothes. Because of her appearance, Anna Kurkurina, since her school days, had many complexes that prevented her from making friends; she was constantly afraid of hearing ridicule from her peers.
Morning workout complexes
There are many morning exercise complexes designed for different age categories, different sports and general physical training. You can choose a suitable complex and start training. There is a very interesting complex by Anna Kurkurina - “Good Morning”. The author not only shows the exercises herself, but also explains which muscle groups are trained and what health benefits this can bring. Anna Kurkurina's complex for beginners shows the same exercises that the trainer gives, only in a simplified version. The main motto of the program - “Charge yourself with positivity” - very accurately reflects the mood that completing the tasks should give.
Working at the zoo
Later, the woman herself admitted that working with animals greatly changed her character and ideas about the world around her. She had to carry heavy weights, clean cages, even independently feed cubs who refused to drink their mother's milk. It was work that seemed overwhelming and very difficult to many around, but as a result the woman was simply transformed. She gained confidence in her own strengths - both physical and moral.
By the way, she also had pleasant responsibilities at the zoo. For example, prepare video and photo reports on the behavior and condition of animals. Some of her videos turned out to be so unusual and funny that she sent them to the “Your Own Director” program, where she repeatedly became the winner.
The early years of the athlete
Anna Kurkurina in her youth was a very “frail” girl. Her figure was far from ideal: wide hips, crooked legs, thin arms. She was unhappy with her appearance and was very embarrassed to wear revealing women's clothing.
After graduating from the Biological Institute in Donetsk, Anna worked for ten years at a school in the city of Nikolaev. She taught biology in high school, and here the girl showed her strong masculine character. After all, working with children is the most difficult, but Anna did an excellent job with it. All her life, Kurkurina dreamed of working with animals, so she perfectly combined teaching at school with the position of livestock specialist at the Nikolaev Zoo. The biography of Anna Kurkurina is closely related to the education of animals. The girl fed the cubs of predators and boldly carried them in her arms from cage to cage. She cared for and gave all her love to animals. Anna’s duties included compiling photo reports and video materials on feeding small predators. Kurkurina sent her works to the program “Your Own Director” and repeatedly received first places.
Sportsmanship
The biography of Anna Ivanovna Kurkurina changed radically when she took up sports. While still working at the zoo, she realized that hard work required good physical fitness, so she went to the gym. Anna Kurkurina's first training sessions were dedicated to mastering aerobics and gymnastics. However, the pace of workload and intensity of training in this sport seemed insufficient to her, so the heroine of our article decided to start training with men.
After some time, she herself helped the coach create exercise programs for beginning athletes and developed workouts. Then she herself became a trainer for everyone.
Coaching career
There were many people who wanted to attend training with Anna Kurkurina. She showed herself to be an attentive and sensitive mentor, a purposeful and experienced athlete. In 1998, Anna Ivanovna Kurkurina made her long-time dream come true: she opened her own sports club, which received the bright name “Baghira”. The new business quickly demonstrated success. The clients were satisfied with the result, which, under the supervision of an experienced instructor, was achieved in record time. Therefore, they were happy to recommend the club to their acquaintances and bring friends and relatives to classes.
Coaching activities
In 1998, Anna Kurkurina founded the first fitness club in Nikolaev under loud
called "Bagheera". She began training people who wanted to improve their physical performance. This woman knows exactly how to do it. Kurkurina set a world record in the bench press in the 75 kg weight category. She is a three-time powerlifting champion.
Training with Anna Kurkurina helps people restore their health and maintain their figure in normal shape. Even though she holds the position of director at the Bagheera fitness club, she still conducts classes. Anna is happy to go into the gym to show off her exercises for the muscles of the whole body. Training sessions with Kurkurina are shown online on local television, and there are also many videos on the Internet where the athlete conducts classes.
Due to her chosen profession, the champion had to give up many women's outfits. “Of course, I can’t wear dresses and skirts like most girls,” says Anna Kurkurina. The biography of this athlete shows that the champion’s wardrobe contains only tracksuits and trouser suits.
Sports blogger
Over time, Anna Ivanovna Kurkurina began filming her classes and posting them on the Internet. This brought additional popularity to her club, and the heroine of our article gradually turned into a YouTube blogger, which also provided a small additional income. Posting her workouts at home, Anna Kurkurina also gave useful advice: she suggested how to accustom your body to daily exercise, exercise and exercise, and how to start eating right.
As a result, she has a self-developed fitness system designed for beginner athletes, as well as for those who are more experienced and plan to improve their shape, put their muscles and body in order. Anna Kurkurina's gymnastics became very popular. She has gained a large number of subscribers and regular viewers on the Internet, and her club is becoming more and more popular among beginners and experienced athletes.
Anna Kurkurina has been conducting training and exercises using a unique proprietary method since 1998. They are mainly intended for women, dedicated to working out all the necessary muscles and “drying”. Anna herself has developed several sets of exercises. Some are designed for expansion mode, while others are designed for loading and unloading.
She also has individual programs designed for people with disabilities or with certain diseases, even very serious ones. At the same time, she strives to adhere to the main principle: do no harm. He advises everyone not to chase instant results, which you will not be able to maintain later, or you will simply undermine your health, but to exercise diligently and systematically, turning sports into a lifestyle.
In total, the heroine of our article has been coaching for almost 20 years. Her seminars and professional master classes are held regularly. CDs with a set of workouts called “Do It Yourself!” are very popular.
Anna Kurkurina has been running her own blog for more than five years. Its main unique feature is that the sets of exercises it offers allow you to train anywhere. You don't have to visit the gym to do this. This can be done at home, at work, on vacation at the seaside, in a country house outside the city. As an expert, Anna regularly appears on various popular talk shows. So over time, she also turned into a media person who enjoys fame and respect.
Next goal
A new goal in her life appeared completely unexpectedly. It all started with a TV report in which she saw a girl who was called the strongest in the world. Since then, she decided to set her own record, becoming the strongest woman, for starters, at least in Ukraine, and in the future, if possible, then in the world.
It’s worth admitting right away that this was not an easy task, since she was already 40 years old at that time. Conquering sporting heights at this age is quite difficult. But this did not stop her at all, but only instilled self-confidence and made her believe that any goal was achievable, despite external factors that might interfere.
Kurkurina began to train even more often and more intensely. Her back, buttocks, arms, and stomach became more and more muscular every week. And competent “drying” helped to achieve an almost flawless appearance.
Public life
Currently, Anna Kurkurina takes great pleasure in photo shoots for sports magazines. He broadcasts his training online on Nikolaev television. The strongwoman is pleased with her success both in her personal life and in her sports career. Only recently she was a simple biology teacher, and now she is a world-famous star. Anna Kurkurina achieved everything through her hard work and great desire for self-improvement. Now she helps many people gain self-confidence and improve the beauty of their figure.
The strongest in the world
Although not everyone believed in her, she managed to achieve her goal in just two years. She was recognized as the strongest woman in the world. In 2008, 2010 and 2012, she became the absolute world champion in powerlifting. This is a special type of powerlifting that involves squatting with a barbell, lifting the barbell from a lying position, and lifting the barbell off the platform.
Soon her body began to look very much like a man’s, this was the result of long and intense training. But this didn’t bother her at all. Talking about her appearance in one of the interviews, she admitted that this is exactly what in her mind the strongest woman in the world should look like. She is not at all worried about this. It so happened that the shortcomings of her figure, which she was very worried about in her youth, became her most important advantage already in adulthood.
My new hobby is sports with Anna Kurkurina...
In the eternal search for an easy and lazy way to get your body in shape as quickly as possible, I came across short sports videos of exercises on YouTube. I was looking for exercises for the inner thighs.
I found this video:
I worked out and the next day I couldn’t sit or stand up without pain - I liked it. The most important thing is that it hurt where it was supposed to hurt - there is correct contact - that’s it! I highly recommend it! You can find many of her videos on YouTube.
While studying, I noticed the spontaneity and positivity of the trainer. The only thing I didn’t understand was why he said “you will find a lot of videos on my page, Anna Kurkurina’s page.” I think why “Anna Kurkurina”!? Is he writing from his wife’s page!? Google to help me! It turned out that HE is Anna Kurkurina! It took me several days to get used to this idea, after which I perceived “him” as “her.” After watching a couple of her interviews, I felt great sympathy for this extraordinary, very optimistic and amazingly liberated woman. Another example of how appearances can be deceiving...
Anna Kurkurina is a Ukrainian world champion in powerlifting. She is 46 years old.
Very broad shoulders, toned arms and impeccable abs. Almost every man can envy her figure. Just 6 years ago, this woman was an ordinary biology teacher and in her free time looked after animals at the zoo.
Anna says:
“...When I was little, they always ask children - who do you want to be? Everyone says they are doctors, teachers, but I said that I would be with animals!...”
After graduating from the Faculty of Biology, Anna is sent to work as a teacher in Nikolaev. There were no limits to her joy when the woman found out that the city had one of the best zoos in the Soviet Union. Therefore, as soon as classes ended, she ran here.
„…Remember when the Italians were filming a film in Russia, the lion was running, King?! And I had a dream - to raise a lion. And so I come in the summer, and they tell me, your dream has come true, the lioness refused to feed the lion cub, they say - will you feed it? I say, of course, this is the dream of my life! When I realized that my internal content and external content slightly did not coincide, when I came to the store here I was a size “C”, and at the bottom “El” I felt discomfort. This gave rise to complexes of figure imperfection, and I was like a pear, small at the top and big at the bottom...”
In six months she achieved the desired slimness. However, she didn’t stop there.
At 40, she decided to show the world that anything is possible.
“...There was a program on TV and there was a girl there - the strongest on earth, but for me it just clicked, I didn’t understand?! At 40, it seems like you need to retire, but I just want to start living! And so I thought and decided to become the strongest woman on earth...”
Anna did not leave the gym. I worked out several times a day. And after 2 years she received the title of the strongest woman on the planet.
In 6 years she received more than 50 awards. However, due to sporting success, I had to forget about women's appearance. Sometimes Anna is mistaken for a man.
“...Well, they tell me there, “Man, take the money!” I took it and went, why should I stand and explain who I am? Who cares? Compared to many men, I naturally look more like a man than them. But that's their problem, not mine. I am the strongest woman, but what should I look like, dystrophic? How should I bench press?
Anna says she never thought about changing her gender. Although she looks strong, at heart, she says, she is a real woman. She gets manicures and pedicures three times a month. But because of the male figure, I had to give up fragile dresses and high heels....”
Anna works almost seven days a week. She trains future champions and hosts a sports program on local television.
In her personal life, Anna is also happy, raising her son with her friend.
Family
The heroine of our article has a happy personal life, she has found peace and family happiness. At the same time, she has a non-traditional sexual orientation, which she does not hide.
Her chosen one is Elena Serbulova, she is 24 years younger than Anna. The existing age difference, as the girls themselves admit, does not bother them at all and does not prevent them from making each other happy every day and living happily. On her social networks you can often find touching moments of their romance, captured in photographs.
At the same time, it is known that the strongest woman in the world from Ukraine has a son. But she prefers not to talk about the child, she never says anything publicly, trying to protect him from unnecessary questions and problems. At the same time, she often takes her son to the gym so that he also keeps himself in good physical shape. Her deep conviction is that a child must be introduced to sports from a very early age.
Activities in recent years
Currently, the heroine of our article continues to train hard and work on herself. She is now 52 years old. She trains herself and trains others, helping them grow into healthy and strong people. She regularly talks about her successes on social networks. For example, a video recently appeared there that tells how a boy with cerebral palsy was able to move confidently after two years of training in the gym with Anna.
The army of fans of the famous female athlete is constantly growing. She herself is convinced that sport can work miracles; she convinces everyone to never stop there, setting new, most incredible goals for themselves, and then achieving them.
With her life example, the heroine of our article proves that nothing is impossible in life, the main thing is not to stop believing in yourself and moving towards your goal. Only in this case will you succeed, will you be lucky, and will you get everything you dream of.
