Fitness Models - Photos of Top Figure Competitor Heaven Ross

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Hi, my name is Heaven Ross, also known as Heaven the Health Nut! I know how very important health is, not only to the body but to our brains. Fitness can make the difference between living with health and living with illness.

I grew up in and out of hospitals suffering from asthma as a little girl. Just breathing was difficult let alone moving or being active. And then when I was only 13 years old my father died of congestive heart failure. I really knew I wanted to take my health seriously. I became really stressed out during this season of my life and turned to God, sports and exercise for help. I liked how I was able to release stress and the anger of losing my father in a positive and healthy way. And then in 2004 I once again found the huge benefits from staying fit when I began to suffer from a mental illness. This often is a situation that others find debilitating. Statistics show that many persons with a mental illness die on the average 30 some years prematurely because they often don't take care of their bodies. I am definitely not one of those statistics, as a matter of fact I have found that physical fitness not only makes having a mental illness livable but I do believe it makes it curable. I still look to God for help and of course do my part and I am active nearly every day.

I was born November 6, 1981. I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan's West side. I graduated from Henry Ford High school in Detroit, Michigan in 1999. During High school I became active in numerous sports team such as cheerleading, dance, track & field, cross-country, and tennis. When I went away to college after high school, I started lifting weights. I really saw a lot of changes in my body that were good. When I first lifted weights I became passionate about doing it and have continued. It helped that people kept telling me how nice my body looked and they thought I should think of competing.

When I came home from college I watched fitness shows on television and was deeply inspired. Being a dancer I knew I would fit nicely into this competitive fitness world so I entered a local NPC Natural Michigan Show and I placed 5th in both the fitness and figure divisions. This achievement fed the fire in me to even more intensely pursue the fitness world.

I really enjoy being a role model to many people and especially enjoy all of my work helping them maintain a healthy body and brain. I also have worked as a fitness youth instructor using the current popular dances to tunes from The Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana. All of my work has been rewarding and still is.

I am in the process of completing my Associates Degree in Liberal Arts at Washtenaw Community college. I was certified in Aerobics through AFAA in May, 2009. In the near future, I will be enrolling in a University to complete a Bachelors Degree in sports medicine, athletic training and physical education. I aspire to be a fitness model and would love to own a multicultural international fitness business, compete again in my sport of fitness and influence health and wellness in national and international governments in the area of fitness.

I love fitness, it has saved my life and that is why my personal fitness philosophy is, "Fitness is Life". I believe we move and have our being in God, and to honor God and ourselves we need to move. "Once the body is in motion it wants to remain in motion". I believe I am lighting the way to fitness in a dark world and sharing a little piece of "Heaven."