One On One With Fit And Flexible IFBB Pro Czech Bodybuilder, Lukáš Osladil

Lukáš Osladil gave an Interview to the website FitNish.com.Here you can find one part of this interview, the whole interview you can read on FitNish.com website!

How long have you been training seriously for and what got you started?

I started practicing at home when I was 10 years old. I used everything I could find at home, especially furniture and 4kg dumbbells and for a barbell I used a carpets knocker. When I was 13 I started to go to the gym. So I have been exercising regularly for 24 years without any significantly long breaks. Once or twice a year I take a break, but never for more than 14 days. And what brought me to start exercising? I don't really know, I just woke up one day and said to myself that I wanted to build muscles, which was when I weighted 28 kilograms.

What do you love about it and what keeps you motivated?

For me it's actually an addiction. If I stop, I will feel bad. But I have a clear motivation to constantly improve and be competitive with the best bodybuilders in the world. I have great aspirations, so It will enable me to work hard for at least the next three years to improve myself.

How do you manage to keep a balance between family, work, friends and training/dieting?
I do my best to keep the balance, but if I´m on a low-carb diet I don´t have enough energy or as much energy as I would like. With friends it is more difficult, but I have great support in my family. Well, it wasn't like that always. My mom prohibited me from training when I started. She locked my weights away and didn’t want to let me go to the gym. Luckily, now she supports me, but doesn't quite understand how I can do the diet. The biggest support is my girlfriend. I can always rely on her. She understands the diet and even helps me with food preparation.

How did you get involved in bodybuilding competitions?
The owner of my first gym at Zábřeh in Moravia told me that I should try to compete when I was 14. So I tried it. I prepared alone, didn't used any food supplements, and only a week before the show I realised that I should have been on a diet. That was my first competition in 1996, the Junior Czech Republic Championship in Havířov.

Take us through an average day of yours:

•    At 5:30 am I get up.
•    At 6 am I do twenty minutes of cardio.
•    Then I make my breakfast at 7:30 am and I get to the gym to train my friends or clients.
•    At 10 am it is time for my training.
•    At noon I usually train the only Czech professional bikini contestant Vlaďka Krásová, normally twice a week. We are working on her legs mainly.
•    After that, at 1 pm, I have my lunch and go home. I try to have a regular short sleep during the afternoon. Then I need to prepare my meals. I have a total of six meals a day.
•    Breakfast and lunch is followed by another meal at 4 pm and another one at 6 pm.
•    In the evening I have clients in the gym and at 9 pm I have another meal. The last meal I usually have at 10:30, pm before I go to sleep at 11 pm.

How did you become so flexible and How long have you been stretching for?

I did stretching from the very beginning when I started to train just for myself. I tried to do the splits, that is why I´m so flexible now. I keep doing that, and the body part I work out I stretch in-between sets.

Why should bodybuilders consider stretching consistently?
To be more flexible, have more elastic muscles and to avoid injury. It is good to stretch after each workout, but beware of overdoing it. Even during stretching one can hurt.