depression. or protecting themselves against a depression that might otherwise erupt. hi. hi, terry, how are you? good. two days before terry s competition, she s doing last minute errands, tanning, buying a costume for her dance routine. can i try on this outfit right here. the chain bra and the chain skirt? getting her hair and nails done. muscles aren t all that matter in a body building competition. it s about the whole package. it s definitely like a full-time job. the commitment has to be a 24-hour commitment. sometimes other things in your life definitely get sacrificed because of this. if you re going for the win and and you re going for the exposure and you re going for the endorsements and you re really trying to land those types of goals, then yes, it becomes a little bit intense and neurotic. in between errands, terry stops off to eat, more important than sleep and exercise is diet. most body builders say it s at least 80% of the equation in
morning in queens, new york. this is my lunch pail with three meals in it. i have my gallon of water. terry morales is on her way to the gym. her daily ritual. there is that paper route guy. we always meet each other every morning. this will be her last workout before her big competition this weekend. today she ll focus on arms, biceps and triceps. in some ways, the gym is the most comforting place to be. after teenage years filled with turbulence and tragedy. as a young teen, she took care of her mother who was suffering from cancer. she died when terry was a junior in high school. losing her was like my biggest loss ever. you have like deaths in the family and you lose friends and things happen in your life. there s nothing like losing a mother. you can never compare any hurt
finally, show time. some of the women get their pump in right up to the last second. the first group we re going to be doing in this drug-tested event, all athletes, seven-year drug tested, polygraph now. the first group to take the stage, the lightweight women. terry is so modest about her body, she avoids going to the beach. and yet there she is on the stage under harsh lights in front of an audience in a bikini. when you re hooked, sometimes you have to put your own insecurities aside for the sake of the sport. not only do they look at your physique but your stage performance. relax, face front. how you just, i guess, portray your body. i don t go to the beach in the summer. if i do, i wear shorts. i don t dress revealing in general. my skirts are always knee high.
you can t really squeeze your muscles when you re cramping because you don t want them to lock. i did my best. i didn t hit my poses quick enough. they probably took a lot of points off for that. i m going to just i need a break. later that day, the judges announced their selection. number 18, number 19, number 21, number 2, number 3 terry learned she has not advanced to the next round. all that hard work and now she has to do it all over again for the next competition. when you work so hard and train so hard, you know, and it doesn t happen for you, it s really disappointing. you want to kick yourself for not working harder or doing more. stand on the white mark for me. normally what i try to do especially with women who have
see, a stiff dose of diuretic will possibly mean the difference between winning and losing. as perfectly tuned an instrument as terry s body is, it may not be so perfect after all. she s feeling sick, having dropped too much water weight too fast, not uncommon in the world of professional body building. i was a wreck. yeah, i was a wreck. i was in a lot of pain. from time to time, one hears of fatalities where someone is found dead in a motel room an hour prior to the time of a body building competition. very often, those acute deaths are attributable to a miscalculation on diuretics. the wnbf drug testing consists of a urine test which is highly accurate. there are ways around it. to complement the urine test, there s a mandatory lie detector test. though that is only about 90% accurate. question number one. is your first name