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Candice Perfect has been on the cover of FigureBikini.com and has been one of our biggest friends and supporters. She is a hardworking athlete that's literally taken the NPC World by storm! She's a member of Ingrid Romero's Team Edge and she's on her way to an IFBB Pro Card in no time.

Please, if you haven't done so already, cast your vote for our good friend - Candice Perfect - as she battles win a great contest offered through Flex Online!

It's Taralin Time!

Name: Taralin "Gold"
Age: 32
Height: 5 feet exactly! (lol)
Contest Wt: 111
Regular Wt: 120
Hometown: Simi Valley, CA

When/why I started training:

I was deployed to Iraq while serving in the Army and decided in 2006 I wanted to achieve all my dreams because you never know when you will lose out on living every previous moment in life; so I followed my dream to become a fitness model & competitor:)

My competition Diet:

Below is a typical day of my competition diet 2-3 months out -
7 AM - 3 egg whites/1 tsp PB/ 1/4cup oatmeal
10 AM - 4 oz. lean ground turkey/ 1 cup veggies (broccoli, green beans)
12 noon - 4 oz. tilapia, 1/4 cup brown rice, 10 Asparagus
3 PM - 3 egg whites
5 PM - (pre workout meal) 1 can tuna/ 3 oz. Sweet potato
6-830 PM - workout
830 PM - 3 oz. chicken/ 1 cup veggies
Go to bed & do it all over again!

Love it!

I'd love to thank -

My husband & best friend (without him it would be difficult)

My coaches Ingrid Romero & Joe Discuillo (Team Edge!!) - I truly am driven because of them and their support

Of course all my Team Edge girls! (Candice Perfect, Heather Donahue, Jasmin Rodriguez, Becky Padilla, Michelle Ulibarri, Tiffany Taitt & any other beautiful ladies I forgot you are ALL beautiful!!)

Lastly my sponsor, Matt owner & operator of Nutrishop Thousand Oaks, CA - the place to get all your high quality supplements!!

I love each and every one of you all and am blessed to have you all in my life :)

My plans for 2012 -

I plan on continuing to raise the roof with Team Edge and compete in Jon Lindsays NPC - Culver City, CA 7/21/12.

Hopefully to continue to model with amazing Fitness photographers & graze even one fitness magazine soon - what an honor that would be!

Lastly just to LIVE life to the fullest and never give up on my continuous dream to be the best and healthiest I can be! I wanna spread the motivation! Life is beautiful!!!

Candice Perfect UPDATE!

Ingrid Romero and Candice Perfect

I am currently preparing for my next show which is in 13 days!  I will be competing at the Jon Lindsay Amateur Grand Prix in Culver City, California on April 14^th!  I am super excited and feel confident with the physique I’ll be bringing to the stage this time.  With the help of my amazing coaches from Team EDGE, Ingrid Romero and Joe DiScuillo, I’ve made several modifications to my workout routine and diet.  Ingrid and Joe have worked with me to pinpoint certain things about my physique that I need to work on in order to be a better competitor in the world of fitness.  Although I know it will take time before I achieve my ideal shape, I’m on the right track and have begun to make progress!

Candice training hard.

Modifications to my workouts have been focused on adding more muscle in the glute, hamstring, lat, and upper chest areas.  I am pretty lean naturally, which presents a problem when trying to appear curvy and shapely.  Working on building muscle in my lat area has helped give more of a tapered look to my back area, which in turn has made my waist appear smaller.  My coaches have also incorporated many glute and hamstring focused exercises into my workouts which have really helped me isolate those areas and begin to add curves in places that were previously lacking.  They have also incorporated plyometric movements, which I really hadn’t done much of before. 

 There haven’t been many modifications to my diet.  My coaches have me on a well balanced nutrition plan that is different everyday so I don’t get bored.  Really the only change that I’ve made regarding my nutrition is more conscious timing of my carbohydrates around my workouts.  I know when I’m going to workout so I make a deliberate choice of what to eat before and after, including what kind of carbs and how many.  I’ve achieved good results while using this method and would definitely recommend it. 

 

TEAM EDGE all the way!

Another interesting update on me is that I recently had the opportunity to shoot with photographer, Noel Daganta.  I had an awesome time and learned a lot about posing.  It’s always amazing to me how a good photographer can capture a beautiful raw image that needs no, or minimal editing.  I hope to shoot with Noel again in the near future!  During my next visit to California I will be shooting with photographers Harry from LHGFX, and Chaz with Chaz Photographics.  I have a lot to look forward to in the next couple of weeks!