A diary from the fitness world - Michal Komosný

Michal, we know you're a fitness lover, but we'd like to know what the initial impulse was that led you to training and to coaching? "Ever since I was little I've been drawn to all sorts of sports; I stuck with football the longest, and in the meantime, back in primary school, I started training with my own bodyweight so I'd have better conditioning for football and also look a bit better, right. At secondary school I started going to the gym and gradually tried every training style and technique, and it was the same with food, to get the best possible performance. I got into coaching less than a year after finishing school, when I decided I wanted to do what I actually enjoy. I did a nutrition course at 18 and a coaching one later, but nothing can replace your own experience of preparing for competitions and your experience with different clients who have different goals." When you look back at your fitness beginnings, is there anything you'd do differently today? "I don't think I'd change anything. If I did something wrong earlier, I believe I learned from it and it did me good. Maybe I'm doing something that way even now and in a few years I'll do it differently, but that's the natural development everyone has to go through." You compete in the Physique category, but we can hardly ever see you on Czech stages. How come, and why do you prefer competitions abroad to Czech ones? "Well, I've been competing for about six years now, and of course at the start I entered Czech competitions and tried them all.:) Maybe that's why I'd rather combine competitions with a few days' holiday somewhere I haven't been yet, so that I see a bit of the world along with the competing. Another reason would be my ambition to reach the top. The only option of that kind for me is, for example, EVLS, where I'd love to compete in front of a home crowd, but given the way the IFBB is divided I'll probably have to go without." When you're not on a diet, what does your routine look like? Feet…