A diary from the fitness world - Anička Faltová
Anička is a young 22-year-old coach, a bikini fitness competitor, a YouTuber and also a make-up guru. But we won't give everything away right at the start. Read on and find out about Anička — for example, which food she doesn't like. What does a healthy lifestyle mean to you? "For me a healthy lifestyle isn't first and foremost about looks so much as about how you feel. About feeling good in your own body, about knowing why you choose these and those foods rather than some fast food. Why you go to training, why you want to do something for your body. That awareness that your body is something you'll live in your whole life is, I think, the most important thing. And on that basis everything then shows on the outside too." When you started with social media and YouTube, did it ever occur to you that it might turn into something more than just a hobby you enjoy? "Honestly, it's still a hobby for me, which is why I enjoy both so much. ☺ It isn't something that earns my living "full time", so I don't have any daily obligation from it. I do both because I love it, because I love what I call my "little family", and because I want to, ☺ Will it be a "full time" job one day? We'll see." Probably everyone has days when they don't like themselves and don't feel entirely comfortable in their own skin. You must be the same, so we'd like to know what you do in such a situation? Do you even give such thoughts room in your head? "I think everyone goes through this sometimes, and we women especially. ☺ And for me it actually helps enormously. When I don't feel comfortable in a given situation, I have all the more drive and energy to start doing something about it. And now I want to stress that it doesn't always have to mean "training more" — often it's the rest you need. If we don't get enough of it, we can actually feel uncomfortable in the opposite situation too. I enjoy watching how the body works, how it changes, also in relation to how busy the week is. Otherwise I think I lef…