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Christina Pipia: Making a Name for Herself as a Bodybuilder, Competitor, and Lifestyle Coach


 

Christina Pipia is making a name for herself as a bodybuilder, competitor, lifestyle coach, and nutritionist. In addition to her full-time job as a marketing analyst and proposal coordinator, she has her plate full as she dedicates herself daily to her passion for bodybuilding, fitness, and lifestyle coaching. How does she do it all?


Starting from a young age, Christina filled her schedule with multiple extracurricular activities like completive dance, softball, basketball, and volunteering for numerous fundraising events. Dance and athletics were a huge passion of hers, encouraging her to pursue many dance competition opportunities where she won Miss Teen Dance of New York and Miss Dance of New York.


Christina Pipia recalled in our interview how dance competitions were intense because contestants are taking classes, learning choreography, and answering interview questions. Despite the daunting aspects of these competitions, Christina is thankful for the opportunities she had as a teenager and recognizes how they prepared her for her career now, where she has all the confidence to reach for the stars.


After taking on many more responsibilities after graduating high school and pursuing an MBA in finance and a BA in accounting at Adelphi University, she stepped back from competitive dancing. When she was 17, she joined a local gym and began her fitness journey. Little by little, she started learning more about weightlifting, yoga, and fitness.


It wasn’t until 2019 that she took a trip to Europe where she met multiple fitness influencers and learned more about bodybuilding. That’s when her passion for bodybuilding began to develop. Being able to compete in bodybuilding was an amazing accomplishment for Christina. In our interview, she talks about how being able to competitively body build was perfect since she had been missing competitive dance.


“Because I was an athlete growing up and I danced competitively, I was always missing the itch to compete from dance. So, with bodybuilding, I found the gap to fill my soul again, to say the least. Learning about bodybuilding to compete has opened my eyes. All the suffering I’ve gone through for competitions has taught me so much and humbled me in so many ways. It really has helped me in all aspects of my life.”


After learning more about bodybuilding in 2019, Christina Pipia competed in her first bodybuilding competition in New York for NPC (National Physique Committee) Eastern USA Championships. Her first show was a great learning experience, and she recalled meeting so many people and learning so much. Going into the competition, she admitted that she didn’t take her preparation as seriously the first time around, and her first show made her want to learn more about bodybuilding and how she could grow in her career. She was determined to prepare harder for next time and compete again.


At the beginning of 2020 when COVID hit, Christina recalled how she and her friend were driving from her home in Queens all the way to Connecticut just to go to an open gym to train. Despite the difficulty, she was persistent and prioritized her fitness and health.


During the pandemic, Christina Pipia saw a need in her community, so she launched her health-conscious food prep business, Pip’s Prep. She explained how growing up, she loved food and cooking, and it’s a passion that’s stayed with her.


“When I started prepping for my bodybuilding shows, I started posting about my meal preps. I know how to cook so I would make sure even though I'm eating very healthy and clean, I was using my food properly, and things would just taste and come out really great. People started seeing those on social media and were saying, ‘Wow that looks amazing.’ ‘This looks so good.’ ‘I wish I could have you cook for me.’


“All this stuff,” she continues, “and I'm just like, ‘Well, why can't I?’ I know that different health and fitness stores sell pre-packaged meals, but some come frozen, and they don't taste that good. But I knew I could come up with something that put in front of people what I eat on a daily basis, and so that's where Pip’s Prep came from.”


She started her business from the ground up, doing all the cooking, preparing, packaging, labeling, and delivery every weekend for five months straight. Her friend's dad would let her rent out his kitchen every Saturday night where she’d cook from 10 pm—5 am the next day.


At one point, she remembered cooking, packing, and delivering over 200 meals in one weekend. She recalled getting multiple referrals and having clients all over New York. She even was able to sell her food to Robinson Canó, a former New York Mets. In addition to his support of Pip’s Prep, Canó also inquired Christina for a diet meal plan when he took time off last season to help him get in shape for this baseball season.


Christina was driving all over New York, delivering her amazing meals to dozens of clients. Because she was pursuing Pip’s Prep on her own, in March 2021, she closed her business to avoid burnout and focus on her many other amazing endeavors like her upcoming bodybuilding competitions, lifestyle coaching, and her full-time job.


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