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Erin’s love for fitness stems from her active youth. She began racing with her sisters and her father at their home near Miami, Florida. They were playful children—running, bounding, climbing trees, seeking out competition at home. The girls were tomboys, racing their dad and practicing natural forms of athleticism.

Erin’s homegrown competitive streak was bound to overflow. She and her showhorse, Dreamy, would run through hunter jumper courses together. She would lead him by the halter, run next to him, and even leap over the obstacle beside him.

One day before her junior year of high school, her father, Ira, saw her running and bounding beside her horse and encouraged Erin to do more with her leaping ability.

“You’re already out here running next to the horse,” Ira told her. “You might as well go run at the track and do something productive.”

Heeding her father’s advice led Erin to win a collegiate scholarship to the University of Florida, where she earned Junior All-American status in the high jump. It also nearly took her to the greatest heights for amateur athletes. She cleared 5-foot-9 in college, but didn’t stop high jumping. In 2008 she cleared 5-foot-11, but missed the Olympics qualifying standard by a mere three centimeters.

“It was kind of a setback when I missed that qualifying standard,” Erin says. “I realized that, being a high jumper at 5-foot-8 and close to 140 pounds, genetically it wasn’t in the cards for me to jump 6-foot-8 like a lot of the other girls are going to.”

Although she lifted weights in high school, it wasn’t until she entered an intercollegiate athletics program as a Gator that she really began to understand the importance of weight training.

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“I’ve always been athletic and I always lifted,” Erin says. “In college, I learned Olympic lifts and learned a lot about the body, but not so much about aesthetic lifting, so after college I started doing the aesthetic lifts.”

Although her Olympic competitive dreams faded, Erin still had a strong athletic itch. After all, she possessed a killer body with one-of-a-kind muscle tone. You know where this is going: She decided it was time to compete.

“I was looking at one of the magazines and one of my friends said, ‘Hey, you should do a figure competition! You’re in good shape, you’ve got some muscle, you might as well step on stage.’ The Arnold Classic was my pro debut in 2009. That was my fourth show, ever. It happened very, very fast.”

Erin finished in 10th place at the 2009 Arnold, then took 6th at the 2009 Olympia. That was the last time she finished outside the top three. She has won two of the last three Olympias and makes up half of the greatest rivalry in figure history, battling 2011 Figure Olympia champ and three-time Arnold Classic champ Nicole Wilkins.

“I am motivated to be better than my previous best,” she says. “I’m also motivated by the people I meet along the way. It’s just a big fitness family, and to be able to inspire and motivate others keeps me going. Ultimately, I want to be the Oprah of the fitness world, teaching people how to work out and showing them that when you have success in the gym, when you’re strong, that translates to confidence and success outside the gym.”

Former Jr-All American High Jumper, Current Ms. Figure Olympia. Dedicated to functional and aesthetic training, and living a healthy, natural, sustainable lifestyle.

By Jonathan Milton, Times correspondent
In Print: Saturday, June 4, 2011

When did you realize that competitive bodybuilding was for you?

I realized it at my first amateur show just because in high jump I was genetically limited. I had a smaller frame (she is 5 feet 8 and 135 pounds) and had been lifting for 10 years and had good muscle on me already. I realized that, if I wanted to put the work in, I could go far. The Arnold was kind of a setback when I placed 10th since I had won all the shows previous to that. In 2010, I place second at the Arnold and then I won the Orlando Europa, and then I trained and trained hard and then won the Olympia.

How did you train?

My training was kind of cool because it still went along the same lines of training as if I were going to a track meet. I do a hybrid training that is more athletic bodybuilding. .

What is the first thing you do every day?

As soon as I wake up, I have to eat. It’s just a half a cup of oatmeal and five egg whites mixed together. I mix it with sugar-free syrup and chipotle pepper. You cook the oats first and then you add the egg whites and it makes this mush. It sounds really gross, but it’s so good. You have to make sure you cook the oats completely first in water and then you add your egg whites in.

What’s your daily diet?

It’s pretty easy. I start off with my egg whites and oatmeal and I eat every three hours. The next meal would be 4 or 5 ounces of chicken and four rice cakes and a salad. The salad is as big as I want it to be. The next meal is pretty similar and I might throw in a half a cup of quinoa (a high-protein grain) or an avocado. At night, it’s egg whites and veggies.

How do you deal with the restriction of a competition diet?

You know that the small things you’re doing will ultimately lead to your success. I don’t put a lot of emphasis on food because I know it’s fuel.

What do you eat when you’re not competing?

When I’m off-season, I like to have a cheat meal once a week. I like to have pizza, sushi or ice cream. I don’t like to go to crazy. You know how people have an alcohol hangover? Well, you can also have a food hangover and then you just don’t feel like doing anything.

You are a big advocate of natural bodybuilding. How important is that to you?

I’ve always wanted to be the best in the world at something. When I realized that the Olympia was something that I could win, I really just worked my butt off.

I devote a lot of time to promoting being healthy and being completely natural; completely meaning no steroids and no banned substances. I’m proof that it can be done. That’s why I’m still trying to jump 6 feet on the high jump because I want to prove that you can be an elite bodybuilder and an elite athlete. The natural living is so important.

What goes through your mind before you step out on the stage at a competition?

At that point, when I’m standing on stage, I think about something that makes me really happy and I just try to relax. I also have to think of something that will make me smile a genuine smile instead of a smile of terror. You want your eyes to say, ‘I am happy and confident.’ I also think of the crowd of people as a crowd of friends and family. You can’t think of the crowd as a panel of judges and people critiquing your physique. I’m a shy person and I almost have to disconnect and tell myself that it’s a bodybuilding thing and that I can’t take it personally.

You’re also a trainer. If one of your clients said they were interested in competing, what would you tell them?

If they have a lot of work to do, I would tell them to maybe do a show in 10 months and we would set a series of smaller goals so they can get to that bigger goal. My advice would be for them to pick a show and then pick a division that would be best for them, and then put a plan together to get them to that show when they are looking their absolute best.

What’s next for you?

I’m training for the Olympia again and I’m also writing a book that’s called Get Fit F.A.S.T. Fast stands for Functionally Aesthetic Strength Training.