{"id":5627,"date":"2022-07-07T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strengthsenseiinc.com\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2022-07-07T08:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:41:20","slug":"strength-sensei-seminar-review-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strengthsenseiinc.com\/2022\/07\/07\/strength-sensei-seminar-review-3\/","title":{"rendered":"STRENGTH SENSEI SEMINAR REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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STRENGTH SENSEI SEMINAR REVIEW\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Muscle Hypertrophy and Fat Loss Nutritional Strategies for Female Competitors<\/i><\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Although she hates the word \u201cguru,\u201d Victoria Felkar, MA, BKin, has paid her dues to become a respected authority on how females should train for figure, fitness, physique, and bodybuilding competitions.<\/p>

An elite athlete who you can watch on YouTube bench pressing 250 pounds, Felkar identifies as an interdisciplinary researcher. Her domains of study include medicine, exercise physiology, and even anthropology and sociology. Her insight into the complexes of hormone manipulation put her in high demand for seminar presentations, workshops, and personal consultations.<\/p>

In 2016, Ken Kinakin was able to book Felkar for a presentation at his popular SWIS Convention in Canada. The title of her presentation was \u201cMuscle Hypertrophy and Fat Loss Nutritional Strategies for Female Competitors.\u201d That\u2019s a mouthful, but it had to be.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Felkar\u2019s two-hour presentation covered a wide range of topics these female athletes, and their trainers and other support staff, needed to know to compete successfully. What they will learn is that training the female athlete, especially those seeking to compete on stage, is as much an art as it is a science.<\/p>

While raging female hormones are a popular topic among comedians, they are no joke to Felkar. She has seen the devasting effects that irresponsible dieting and health practices trainers have recommended to women have caused, not just to the performances of these athletes but to their long-term health. She has only seen these consequences first-hand but experienced the worst of them.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Felkar, who grew up in Vancouver, Canada, was a classically-trained ballet dancer. In an interview on the Real Bodybuilding Podcast<\/em> (Ep. 28), Felkar said that by the age of eight she was experiencing body image issues, leading her down the rabbit hole of anorexia. Four-to-eight hours of dance, along with running, and what could only be described as a starvation diet with as little as 300 calories, or less, a day. Felkar says because she was (her words) \u201cshort and stocky\u201d and was densely muscled, she didn\u2019t look like she had an eating disorder. \u201cI didn\u2019t look like a ballerina and I wanted to.\u201d<\/p>

When she was 15, Felkar was in the gym during her \u201ccardio bunny\u201d workout on the treadmill and had an epiphany. All the women on the aerobic machines were miserable, and all the men in the weight training pit were having a blast. She got some arm exercises from the guys, then decided to take it to the next level. She enrolled in a 6-month personal training program. Her education didn\u2019t stop there, progressing from a bachelor\u2019s degree in Kinesiology to working on her doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia.<\/p>

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Felkar began by explaining that she does not consider herself a guru in her profession but \u201cI am just somebody like you, I am just up here talking about my ideas, my philosophies, and really that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about \u2013 it\u2019s about sharing.\u201d<\/p>

In the following video clip from her presentation, Felkar talks about the challenge of working with clients.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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