Carmen Garcia tried extreme measures to add weight to her skinny frame, but nothing she did seemed to work. “In high school, I began to eat a lot junk food and still no weight gain!” she says. “The years rolled by and finally I began to see a little gain but it was not muscle gain. It was flab!”
That’s when Carmen Garcia decided to take control of her body and she joined a local gym where bodybuilders and trainers took the time to teach her how to shape her physique. Carmen took their lessons to heart and she soon began pumping iron and even became a certified aerobics instructor. “That's how my body transformed itself,” she explains.
CARMEN GARCIA IN PLANET MUSCLE
However, it wasn’t until she moved to Los Angeles to become a private personal trainer that Carmen Garcia considered plunging headfirst into the competitive world of modeling. “I picked up an issue of Bob Kennedy's Oxygen magazine and the cover model really inspired me!” she recalls. “I had realized that you don't have to be super young and super thin to start a modeling career.” That inspiration led Carmen Garcia to find an agent and she soon began appearing in a number of prestigious magazines such as Just Swimsuits, Musclemag International, American Curves, Planet Muscle, Muscular Development, Hot Boats, Low Rider, and Iron Man Magazine, among others.
CARMEN GARCIA ON SEX WARS
Carmen Garcia’s dazzling print work led to a number of other opportunities and she was featured on television shows such as Club Industry, Sex Wars and Jack and the Girls, as well as in a handful of music videos like the Sugar Ray hit “When It’s Over.”
CARMEN GARCIA THE PERSONAL TRAINER
Carmen Garcia is a working fitness and swimwear model as well as a personal trainer who helps others achieve their fitness goals. “It took me years to finally gain lean muscle in all the right places and getting to know my body,” she says.
Carmen Garcia has been actively participating in the health and fitness field for the past 10 years as a certified trainer and lifestyle fitness consultant. She is certified by the U.S. Personal Trainer's Association (USPTA), CPR Certified, a USPTA student examiner, and also an IDEA-fit member. Carmen Garcia understands the benefits of healthy living and working out and so has dedicated herself to promoting a healthy lifestyle to those around her and helping her clients achieve their goals.
