{"id":74458,"date":"2021-11-23T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=74458"},"modified":"2021-12-17T14:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:52:28","slug":"anyone-can-set-goals-and-achieve-them-says-bodybuilder-andrea-alfred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/anyone-can-set-goals-and-achieve-them-says-bodybuilder-andrea-alfred\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone can set goals and achieve them, says  bodybuilder Andrea Alfred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrea Alfred is from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation near Alert Bay, on Vancouver Island. She started bodybuilding at 50 years of age and won first place in her very first competition, the Popeye Fall Classic. That win qualified her for the Nationals and Pro\/Am competitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, reporter Gunargie O\u2019Sullivan spoke with the athlete. Andrea relates how she\u2019d always participated in basketball and soccer from the age of 11 or 12 and did some boot camp style workouts, which she absolutely loved. \u201cI found out that it really was my passion. And what it does is change your whole outlook,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked about setting goals, Alfred says, \u201cWhen you achieve them, you get there. What I find with me is when it gets there, it is the most euphoric, incredible feeling. And it\u2019s not doing it just for me, because my purpose is to model the way, to show that it can be done by anyone who sets out to do a specific goal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen to Andrea Alfred\u2019s interview below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Resources:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictinc.ca\/blog\/celebrate-21-indigenous-athletes-for-national-indigenous-peoples-day\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Celebrate 21 Indigenous Athletes for National Indigenous Peoples Day<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/andreaabovethebar\/?hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrea Alfred\u00a0 on Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This interview is the first in a series on Indigenous Role Models.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Alfred is from the Kwakwaka&#8217;wakw First Nation near Alert Bay, on Vancouver Island. She started bodybuilding at 50 years of age and won first place in her very first competition, the Popeye Fall Classic. That win qualified her for the Nationals and Pro\/Am competitions.\u00a0 &nbsp; Recently, reporter Gunargie O\u2019Sullivan spoke with the athlete. Andrea&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":74460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,223,204],"tags":[11515,11516,286,980],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74458"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=74458"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=74458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}