Posing & Presentation Coaching
You've worked so hard in the gym to get a body worthy of the contest stage; you've skipped family meals, avoided some of your favorite foods and endured weeks and months of extreme physical and mental challenge. However, all that hard work can be for not when it comes time to compete if you haven't mastered the art of posing and presentation. Most of those other competitors on stage with you have trained hard and sacrificed a lot to stand there next to you and in a lineup of physiques that are all in top shape, it is the competitor with the best posing and presentation that will come out on top.
Most importantly, proper posing will allow you to properly bring out the muscles that you are trying to highlight in each pose. However, proper posing and presentation makes you look natural on stage and helps you exude confidence which is also key to the judges. Don't neglect to focus on this essential part of competition as so many others do.
Marilyne Meunier is Elite Team's posing and presentation coach for Figure, Fitness Model and Bikini competitors. As a dual PRO in both Figure and Fitness Model, Marilyne is among the best in the industry when it comes to posing and presentation. Marilyne herself started out as a competitor who looked extremely awkward on stage when she first started competing, however, she enlisted the help of some other top Canadian PRO athletes to help her. She took the best points from each one to create a style of her own and she has continued to refine her presentation each time she has appeared on stage in high level competition. As a competitor who has been coached herself, she is able to effectively communicate her knowledge to her clients and then help them develop an individualized style fitting of their category, body type and personality.