A diary from the fitness world - Aleš Lamka

Aleš Lamka is a 29-year-old bodybuilder from Hronov who is successfully going after his goal. The question is: did he always want to be someone who helps people, doing what he enjoys and what fulfils him? 1) Every small child dreams of being a bin man or a firefighter. Was that your childhood dream too? Were you the same as the other kids, or did you go after your own thing from an early age? "Oh dear... That's got me right at the start. Honestly, I can't even remember what I wanted to be when I was young. It was always more a matter of whatever I happened to like or whatever I was doing at the time. I did sport from an early age, I played ice hockey, so I imagined what it would be like to make a living from hockey like Jarda Jágr. Then I rode BMX, so I had visions of becoming a wonder rider. There were also the films where I saw Arnold and the others, and I thought about what it would be like to be someone like that. 2) At the last competition in the Physique category you became champion of the Czech Republic, but the overall win didn't come. Did you take that as a defeat, or did it motivate you to work even harder in the years ahead? This is quite a difficult question and it's hard to answer, but I'll be honest. Even though I don't go to competitions solely for the wins, and I also knew that I wasn't perhaps in my best shape there, I was disappointed. It was one of the last goals I hadn't managed here. It turned out the same way for the third time in a row. The previous competitions were no problem, I was always first, and here at the last step another guy always wins. You see him running around the stage with the national coach, and in the back of their minds they're planning the trip to the European championship. But I repeat! I'm not claiming I was clearly the best and that I definitely should have won. It's a subjective sport and it depends on the judges. In any case, results like that and everything around them leave you disappointed and suggest that if you…