Interview with Katka for Ronnie.cz (from February 2013)
http://kulturistika.ronnie.cz/c-14588-katerina-kyptova-chci-soutezit-v-kategorii-physique.htmlTranslated from Czech and simplified by me
Ronnie.cz: You said it was your last season as a fbb. Is this decision still valid?
Katka: Yes. The competition in Moscow was my last as a fbb.
Ronnie.cz: I see you are quite leaner, than you used to be. BTW, it fits you better. Is this a way you´d like to follow?
Katka: Yes. It´s the way I like to turn to. I still like BB, but it´s currently somewhere else, where I´d like to go and I reached the limit which I do not want to cross. All we know it´s about... and I got only one health and wanna have family, kids... But I like competing, that´s why I want to compete in the new category “Physique”.
Ronnie.cz: What´s your feeling about the category? Most people don´t know what to expect, the judges what to judge...
Katka: That´s right. I don´t know it either. They don´t want big muscles nor muscle separation, so I´m still a bit afraid that I´ll be too big. I wanted to test it first and go to Arnold Classics to Brazil, but they forbade it to the Europeans. But the category should be newly at World championship, so I´d like to go there. So I´ll be preparing for September, when there is the World championship in Ukraine, where I ´d like to win my profi card, for which I have been fighting for two years.
Ronnie.cz: So, you still aim into profis?
Katka: For sure! The atmosphere and the fans are completely different to amateurs. I´ve been competing for 13y and don´t being interested to be an amateur any more. But still I don´t expect to compete another 10y. I´m getting into an age when I start thinking about a family.
Ronnie.cz: Any plans about it? When do you expect kids etc.
Katka: I just talk about it. :-) Many things to do. So not in 3y, at least.
Ronnie.cz: If you want to be less muscular, leaner – do your training change? You are known for your intense hardcore trainings...
Katka: Well, not very good for me. I love both heavy weights and lot of cardio. At first, when being a fbb, I was a bit scared of cardio in order not lose muscles, so in this sense it´s perfect – I don´t have to scared any more. But now I´m scared of heavy weights, because I love them but still have to get rid of them to lose some muscles. Not easy.
Ronnie.cz: You are very strong, you benched 135kg and now you should exercise with 40kg. Boring, eh?
Katka: Well, I train with a weight which makes me feel my muscle. And my strength is lower now. But I like. I´m even thinking of taking part in the European benchpress championship which takes place in Slovakia this year. But as I said, I feel weak. My trainings depended on food. I lower both sacharids and proteins, and I feel it. I ate 600g of sacharides and 270 of proteins a day, nowadays it´s 200 and 120g. I reduced it a lot the my bodyweight still remains. A lot of friends of mine envy that, but I´m not that happy.
