No excuses, "were brought my mother to Paris!" - an interview with Natalia Kaptelininoy
Motivation / / December 19, 2019
- Natalia, is pleased to welcome you to the special project Layfhakera titled "No excuses."
- Hello, Anastasia! Thanks for the invitation.
- Tell us about your childhood: where was born, brought up in a family?
- I had a wonderful childhood!
My family and I lived in the north, near Norilsk. In winter, I went to school, studied carefully and in their spare time to build up with the guys in the yard of snow forts. In the summer I go to her grandmother in the Crimea. She was a coach on rhythmic gymnastics and involve me in the sport.
As a child, we formed those traits that define the present life. My mother was a teacher, and I knew she had to learn and generally do everything so that my family is proud of me. It is the family learn how to set goals and achieve them through do not want to and I can not.
- In the future, you saw yourself an athlete?
- Since my childhood I liked to order around: on the table in the apartment, in the head. Forever laying out everything on the shelves, he organizes. From an early age was more a manager - not dreamed of Olympus.
- So after school she entered the Faculty of Public Management?
- Partly yes.
Then it was a new specialty, and it seemed to me that it is most close to me in spirit. And no mistake: I easily entered, easily learned, easily got the red diploma. At the same time managed to combine study with fitness, aerobics and dance classes.
- Do you still have time?
- It was gipernasyschennoe time.
At first I worked as a fitness trainer. Then he assembled a team and opened a club - a family business. Parallel to this, she danced in "Todes", went on tour through the cities and villages of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Sometimes I was on their feet for twenty hours a day and said to myself: "Natasha, where are you in a hurry? You're only 22. Stop before you do not stop! ".
But I could not stop. The club just opened - you need to develop, invited to speak - we must go. Just got injured, I realized how important it is to be patient on the way to the goal and intelligently manage their resources.
A time to gather stones
- You "stopped" accident?
- Yes.
It was a typical sunny day. I worked at the club and had to go to an address in another city. To restore power, I decided to take a nap on the way... and woke up on the ground. I remember well his feeling: you lie and you realize that you have no body, only a head.
Due to the unevenness of the road we have thrown in the streamer, the car flew into the ditch, committing eight turnovers. The guys who were sitting in front, were fastened and being trained, managed to regroup - they have remained intact. I'm not strapped in, as was tired and slept, and took off the rear window. Price - three cervical vertebrae, erased in the powder.
- There was anger: why me and not them?
- No, absolutely not. Thank God that the guys were unscathed. Rather, I am thinking about the inevitability of what happened, because I could not go, or could be fastened. "To" too much.
When one looks at the TV for a show about traffic accidents, it is unlikely to think about the fact that spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury can lead to severe disability for the rest of a life. People think, how much is a broken car.
- Do you understand the seriousness of his injury?
- Despite the fact that there was a coach, I did not realize how much the spinal cord complex organ. Just think - had broken the spine. Healed! I know how to swing muscles. I will train and run a couple of months.
But it turned out that even the year I spent in the hospital with breathing tube and gagged. Then four more years "lived" in rehabilitation centers, trying to wake up the muscles.
- Who all this time was next to you?
- My family.
After the accident, my mother said, "Natalia is not a tenant. At best, it will be a talking head. " But my mother - a soldier, she said: "You do not know me, nor my daughter - this will not happen."
The family was there when I was in the hospital: rubbed my feet, moving their arms, closely followed me all the training, all the rehabilitation centers. Their attitude has helped not break. I looked at them and thought.
If my family is willing to be with me day and night, no matter what is not complaining about what I am entitled to complain?
Phoenix
- How have you back in business?
- For four years I plowed, trying to regain muscle power conduction, until one day I realized that life is passing. Well I did, but my family does not have to languish in the rehabilitation centers, they need to rest, to travel.
I decided that I will continue to engage in two-three hours a day. If you happen some breakthrough in science, I'm ready for this, but for now you need to live on. Let me work the arms and legs, but I have a head, so I can earn a healthy arm beside him.
When I was first after an injury at the hands brought to our fitness club, I realized that I have to start all over from scratch. But it is even more interesting.
- Natasha, you populyariziruesh such direction as fitness bikini. Tell me what it is and why you need.
- This direction of bodybuilding only goal - to make women muscle mountain and beautiful, confident a girl with a fit body that works on himself and submits its appearance example others. Our girls successfully participate in the competition, but we are not just preparing champions - we form the character.
- Feminist?
- Not at all. :)
Our girls love men's attention and get it in full. Moreover, they inspire their husbands. Men are flattered that beside them a beautiful, well-groomed woman to miss it would be foolish. Therefore, many look to your tummy and also go to the gym.
In my opinion, women's mission is to charge your man power. When he came home from work and did not see anything but tired, unhappy with themselves and everyone else's wife, the relationship of falling into a routine.
To send a man, you need to have the very source of inspiration. The most simple and intuitive - trenazhorka three times a week. First there will be lazy, but just a month to open the second breath, and his eyes sparkle!
- How did you come up with the idea to open a gym for wheelchair users?
- Before the accident, I knew nothing about people with disabilities, but once on the other side of the fence, I noticed that 70% of people with injuries are left alone with the problem and turn in on themselves. Not all have the strength to clench your teeth and fight, not all maintain close. As a result, someone equips home gym and start the day with a dumbbell, while others - with a bottle of beer.
I wanted to become such people as little as possible. In November 2015 I made a business plan for the creation of a sports hall, adapted for wheelchairs. With him I went to the administration of the city of Krasnoyarsk.
I do not accuse the authorities - why we still do not have - and offered assistance. Let's do? I organize everything - only support.
And Krasnoyarsk mayor supported me. We have traveled together municipal gymnasiums, find the most appropriate, converted and provided supply wishing to engage.
- A lot of those?
- more every day. First heard the phrase, "Do such things happen? A true free ", but now the guys are coming not only for physical fitness, but also to communicate. They are always somewhere to go together - the theater, the zoo.
Sport teaches us to set goals and achieve them, thus giving a person confidence. If I could do something in the room, it can manifest itself in other areas. Do not go if I study or work?
- And if such notions are compatible, as disability and beautiful body?
- Why not? In the West, many wheelchair users are engaged in bodybuilding and flaunt naked torso.
Of course, a disability is different. But it seems to me a very good sign that the wheelchair began to appear on the podium in the framework of Russian fashion weeks. The less a person with a disability will be ashamed of yourself and your body, the more open it is to the company. The more tolerant society, to people with disabilities easier to integrate into it. Process reciprocal.
- Do you think that people are ready to see disabled people in the streets in the same quantity, as, for example, in Europe?
- People have come up with yourself as many ways to wring the neck of that they have no other choice. The moment when a wheelchair or a guide dog will be treated properly, be sure to come.
- And then we will have normal elevators and ramps are safe?
- The problem of barrier-free environment is too hidebound to venture out overnight. In the Soviet Union, people with disabilities, as well as sex, was not, and the current legislation is far from ideal, because building codes were written largely without the involvement of people with disabilities.
As a result, any restaurateur, decided to open a coffee shop, forget about the ramp and the width of doorways. And if they remember them, it makes everything somehow, because hardly be a wheelchair, which clearly show in the acceptance by the Commission, that is not so.
But again - the process of mutual. If the restaurateur seen every day on the streets of his neighbor Vanya, who walks in the stroller, you probably would have thought beforehand that his cafe should be available to all.
A look into the future
- How is your typical day?
- I wake up at five or six in the morning, at the breakfast table checking homework students online business school, where he was curator (this is another area of my work). Then I check post and begins communicating with the team fitness bikini. Closer to lunch connect questions gym Barrier: to solve a problem, arrange transportation, get tickets to a concert and so on. Somewhere between wedged more meetings with the administration on the barrier-free environment. Now it is important to prepare for the Winter Universiade Krasnoyarsk. Such a cycle until the evening.
- Do not take your laziness?
- If you wake up, and your day is already painted (at least in my head), no. The order in thought and deed activates the inner energy. If the day was in chaos, like doing something, vanity, and the output of zero, and the motivation vanishes. If we clearly know that I must do today and at the end of the day you can see whether all of the planned managed, has the energy to move on.
- Natasha, what do you dream about?
- Display your business to a new level, as well as to gyms Barrier appeared in every city of our country.
And still I dream to bring their mother to Paris! We have traveled with family by car to Italy. Now I want to make a trip to France. I understand that with the current rate will have to work hard, but I did not stop.
Whatever the situation may be, you need to set themselves high goals, and then the mother always see Paris!
- Thank you, Natalia, for these fine words and for the interview as a whole!
- You're welcome! :)