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Jackson TWP, Ohio —
Women who look like 2007 Coventry High School graduate Ashley Kaltwasser are sometimes seen as effortlessly beautiful – it's a misperception that could not be farther from reality.
Kaltwasser, 23, who won the overall award in the Amateur Bikini category in this year's Annual Arnold (as in Schwarzenegger) Sports
Festival in Columbus worked out for a solid year to be ready for the competition. She bested 200 competitors from the U.S. and Europe.
Her weekly schedule includes four to five days weight training, five to six sessions of cardio, she eats six small low-fat, low-carb, high-protein meals each day, “and I drink a gallon of water every day,” she said.
As the overall champion, Kaltwasser won her height class and was also chosen the winner of all six height classes.
Kaltwasser is trained by Summer Montabone at Summer's Fitness 24/7 in Jackson Township.
“Ashley has the raw material,” said Montabone, who trains about a dozen girls who will compete in bikini, fitness and body building competitions this spring. “She has great bone structure, a tiny waist, athletic legs, and she is humble and a hard worker.
“She lifts heavy weights and can bust out lots of pushups and wide grip pull-ups, but she doesn't look like a man,” Montabone said. “Ashley's a great role model.”
The intensity of the workout necessary for the competition wasn't new to Kaltwasser. As a high school athlete, she competed in state competitions in cross-country, the 300-meter hurdles and long jump; she broke seven high school records that still stand.
It was a Coventry track coach that inspired Kaltwasser to try to compete. “I thought she looked awesome,” Kaltwasser said, “so I signed up for one of Summer's boot camps, because that's where my coach trained.
“Sometimes we train together now.”
That was a little more than a year ago. Since then, Kaltwasser has appeared as a fitness model in a half-dozen print and video ad campaigns.
Contestants in the bikini category that Kaltwasser won (there's also male and female body building and fitness contests) do not pose. Each contestant performs a short routine to music that Kaltwasser describes as “more of a model walk.”
Although, she sports six-pack abs, Kaltwasser isn't otherwise overtly muscular. “It's a more attainable, mainstream fit look,” she said.
The win at the Arnold Amateur Bikini competition earned Kaltwasser a very large trophy, bragging rights and an automatic invite to an upcoming competition that, if she wins, could earn her professional status. She also won the Rockstar Bikini competition, another amateur competition held in conjunction with the Arnold event that offered a more practical award: a $15,000 prize package that included two professional photo shoots.
Kaltwasser said her short-term goal is to earn professional status and continue her career as a fitness model. In the next decade, she sees herself working as a sports nutritionist.
Women who look like 2007 Coventry High School graduate Ashley Kaltwasser are sometimes seen as effortlessly beautiful – it's a misperception that could not be farther from reality.
Kaltwasser, 23, who won the overall award in the Amateur Bikini category in this year's Annual Arnold (as in Schwarzenegger) Sports
Festival in Columbus worked out for a solid year to be ready for the competition. She bested 200 competitors from the U.S. and Europe.
Her weekly schedule includes four to five days weight training, five to six sessions of cardio, she eats six small low-fat, low-carb, high-protein meals each day, “and I drink a gallon of water every day,” she said.
As the overall champion, Kaltwasser won her height class and was also chosen the winner of all six height classes.
Kaltwasser is trained by Summer Montabone at Summer's Fitness 24/7 in Jackson Township.
“Ashley has the raw material,” said Montabone, who trains about a dozen girls who will compete in bikini, fitness and body building competitions this spring. “She has great bone structure, a tiny waist, athletic legs, and she is humble and a hard worker.
“She lifts heavy weights and can bust out lots of pushups and wide grip pull-ups, but she doesn't look like a man,” Montabone said. “Ashley's a great role model.”
The intensity of the workout necessary for the competition wasn't new to Kaltwasser. As a high school athlete, she competed in state competitions in cross-country, the 300-meter hurdles and long jump; she broke seven high school records that still stand.
It was a Coventry track coach that inspired Kaltwasser to try to compete. “I thought she looked awesome,” Kaltwasser said, “so I signed up for one of Summer's boot camps, because that's where my coach trained.
“Sometimes we train together now.”
That was a little more than a year ago. Since then, Kaltwasser has appeared as a fitness model in a half-dozen print and video ad campaigns.
Contestants in the bikini category that Kaltwasser won (there's also male and female body building and fitness contests) do not pose. Each contestant performs a short routine to music that Kaltwasser describes as “more of a model walk.”
Although, she sports six-pack abs, Kaltwasser isn't otherwise overtly muscular. “It's a more attainable, mainstream fit look,” she said.
The win at the Arnold Amateur Bikini competition earned Kaltwasser a very large trophy, bragging rights and an automatic invite to an upcoming competition that, if she wins, could earn her professional status. She also won the Rockstar Bikini competition, another amateur competition held in conjunction with the Arnold event that offered a more practical award: a $15,000 prize package that included two professional photo shoots.
Kaltwasser said her short-term goal is to earn professional status and continue her career as a fitness model. In the next decade, she sees herself working as a sports nutritionist.
