- Hi, my name is Margie Marvelous.
I'm a two time world bodybuilding champion,
and this is how I work it.
I'm gonna take you through 24 hours of my beauty
and wellness routine.
I started in bodybuilding in 2013.
I became a Pro in 2014.
And in 2015, I won my first bodybuilding championship.
People don't always associate bodybuilding with beauty.
And that is what I feel my platform is responsible for.
When people think about bodybuilding,
they don't think about a beautiful woman.
They think about this big, huge, rough guy.
But I am here.
I'm here to show that you can do both.
You can have the body, the brawn, and the beauty
that you want.
Good morning, it's time to get up people.
It's 3:50.
I know, I know.
This is the life that we lead.
Welcome to my room, Allure.
The reason why I get up at 4:00 AM, I wanna make sure
that everything is put together when I meet
and greet my clients.
It's really important for me to be able
to come off as strong, beautiful, and feminine
when you're carrying around all this muscle.
One of the first things I'd like to do is get
my super greens.
Ripe, packed energy, boom, boom, super greens.
Half bottle of water with a little Crystal Light in it.
Those greens sometimes can be a little strong.
So welcome to my day, people.
Cheers.
As I stagger to the bathroom and I use
my charcoal Colgate toothpaste and use my toothbrush,
brushing my teeth away, hoping that I could just
get a couple more winks of sleep.
And then I look up and I'm just saying like,
"What am I about to do to this face?"
And it needs moisturizer.
What I do immediately coming out the shower,
I use my facial moisturizing lotion SPF by CeraVe.
This Vegas heat is no joke.
But you should always use a moisturizer with SPF.
The next thing is my Palmer's Cocoa Butter
Formula Skin Therapy.
And I just spray this all over.
[upbeat music]
So after I get dressed and get on my shoes and I get ready,
I go into my kitchen and I make my egg white smoothie.
It consists of 10 egg whites, a half a scoop of protein,
coconut oil for a little MCT focus and a little bit of nuts.
Himalayan salt to taste and a little bit of Splenda as well.
It's blended for about 60 seconds in my ninja.
I put the top on and I'm ready to go.
Inside the car, I'm chugging down my shake,
I am eating my almonds and it takes me about 30 minutes
to get to the gym to meet my first client.
My first client is at 5:00 AM.
It's a lot of sacrifice that in body building that you do.
The discipline and consistency of bodybuilding
that it requires to look at an elite level,
there are pros and cons to it.
You know, there's things where you can end up looking great,
your body looks awesome, but then you also can feel
really neglectful for the people in your life.
And so you can also think about, "Oh, I'm disciplined
and I'm consistent with my bodybuilding",
but you're missing out on the things
that you know, could matter to your family.
Once I'm done with my first client around seven o'clock
that's when it's time for my next meal.
Hey guys, it's a little bit past 7 o'clock.
And so now I'm home.
And so, you know what that means.
It's coffee time.
While that's making, I'm going to make my first meal
and that is bison with a little bit of black bean
and some eggs.
These are like my favorite Fillo's beans.
[palm raps]
Cooking three eggs.
The biggest thing about bodybuilding is your nutrition.
My nutrition consists of four meals and two snacks a day.
Totaling about 25 to 3,300 calories.
Meal prep is the paramount of bodybuilding.
You have to get the food in.
I meal prep twice a week.
A lot of fish, a lot of chicken,
a lot of eggs and vegetables.
A lot of times people just think that we chew, choke
and swallow our food, that you don't have to love your food.
The successful thing I've known, make your food taste good.
I vacuum seal all my food, my mail preps.
I've had it for probably 10 years and it's never failed me.
So when I put it in, seal it up, open it, cut it
and put it into microwave is just so fresh.
Around 10:00 AM it's time for me to train myself.
I train about 20 hours a week, seven days a week.
It consists of two to three times going back to the gym
back and forth each day, depending on my energy levels.
Another thing that people think is that you have
to stay in the gym for hours at a time
when you really normally just have to give yourself
an adequate 45 minutes of high intensity training
to really get the job done.
Another tool for bodybuilding, as far as weight training
goes that I do is cryotherapy.
I do my cryotherapy once a week.
[machine hisses]
So now I'm going in to do my cryotherapy.
Cryotherapy helps with joint pain or inflammation.
If you have a problem when it comes
to the movement of your body or the functionality
try a little cryotherapy.
[machine hums]
You can't even see how cold I am right now. [chuckles]
Oh my God! [chuckles]
Red light therapy is something I use probably four
to five times a week.
It's something that makes you feel like you're just ready
to go to the gym.
Whenever you feel exhausted or you feel tired,
you hop in that red light bed for 15, 12 minutes,
and you feel like a new person.
From what I'm seeing in the red light therapy,
it makes you feel like you're just in a really warm sauna.
You feel the wind blowing.
But by the time you're at 12 minutes it's like,
"Oh man, I'm ready to train like let's do it."
I promise you, you feel amazing with red light therapy
and your skin just looks...
I mean I am 42, my skin looks absolutely amazing.
Tootin' horns here, so. [chuckles]
So here we are right here at my favorite place to be
to help keep my face looking super, super nice
and pump and full and feminine, is my place
at the Deux Rosé Salon.
Because when you're a bodybuilder, you drop your body fat
so, so, so low.
And when you're dropping the body fat on the body,
the fat in the face goes away first.
And then you're like...
What do you need to do?
You need to see an aesthetician to replump and put in
those fillers so you can refeminize your face.
It's just gonna happen.
You drop body fat, the fat in your face is gonna go too.
Here's the before.
It's still gorgeous but she's gonna make it better.
I go twice a year to you know, reframe my face
into a way and the shape that's similar
to what it is before I start cutting
for a bodybuilding competition.
One of the biggest things that I would say that contributes
to bodybuilding success is making sure that you know,
how your body moves and how your body sits at rest.
And that means that you need a physical therapist
or a chiropractor to look at you.
So I go to a chiropractor every two weeks or so
to make sure that my body is still functioning
and still moving in the way it should be.
So after I'm done with my cardio and my high intensity
training, I go back home and it's time for me
to be able to take off all these dirty, sweaty clothes
and hop in the shower.
I'm going to first exfoliate.
This is a little silicone scrubber and it's just
to get the dead skin off.
Just so my skin can look nice and vibrant.
I shampoo my hair once a week.
Oil shampoo by OGX, I love.
And then of course, argan Morocco conditioner by OGX.
And this is my oil of Olay avocado oil body wash.
[hands clap] I am off to take my shower.
And for a long time, I didn't understand the importance
of making sure that you had great hygiene, to makes sure
that you moisturized your body correctly
because I broke out.
My first couple of years in bodybuilding,
I didn't understand why my skin was acting the way it was.
It was because I wasn't given it the love and the attention
that it needed.
So this is my lunch.
It's a curry chicken.
And I get this curry rub, it's very low in sugar.
I used to cook my chicken and then when I cook it,
I package it and vacuum seal it in an individual package.
And so here it is.
How I really try to bring out the femininity in bodybuilding
is really wanting to make sure that people get
that I am a woman and I love girly, girly stuff.
I am always in makeup.
It's just one of those things that I don't want someone
to feel like they have to associate me with something
hard and rough.
One of the things that I like to do is the KISS Falscaras.
The ones that go under the eyelash.
They are my go-to because it's just something that you use.
You put the mascara on, you put the little lashes under
and you look so natural.
Please don't zoom in, I'm not sure how good of a job I did
but I am very quick at it and I do recommend it
for everyone who doesn't want a big thick line strip on you.
This is light, it's airy and I get compliments all the time.
I am a wigologist.
I have five different wigs that I can wear in the gym
that are already prestyled.
Help me out in the morning I already
have my clothes laid out.
You know, laid right there in the chair.
And I already have one of my wigs prestyled.
So this is already pre-styled in a bun.
And I'm gonna show you what I do.
And headband, voilà.
I love Fenty foundation and their concealer.
Now we're going in with my foundation 'cause this is just
a really quick foundation by Fenty Beauty.
Oh, I love this foundation.
Cycle them with my highlight by MAC.
My Mac studio fix.
So I'm just going in there.
Highlight.
I do the same look for my eyes.
This is just a little brown.
I use the Born to Run Urban Decay palette.
I love this one.
And a little gloss.
This is L.A. Colors high shine Shea butter lip gloss.
I use the Ben Nye Chestnut.
This is my Sacha Butter in buttercup.
My T-zone area.
Just want a little lift.
I love to pull focus.
That's the point of having a physique this way is
to pull focus, to make people have a conversation.
You know, to make people talk.
I do love nails.
One thing I do not love about nails is when you go
into a weight training room and you slam your nails
on a weight and I broke two of them this weekend,
slamming weight, hitting it.
And I just said, "Oh my God, I had to break it off."
But that's just me.
And people say, "Well Margie, why do you have long nails?"
I said, "You know, what a sister has to do
what she has to do."
The beauty is in it.
Beauty is pain sometimes.
I'll take this, this is warrior pain here, okay?
So once it's time for me to actually do some real work
and I get to be able to put on some girly clothes
and everything else, I can sit down at my computer
and start working my nutrition and meal plan
and workout plans for my clients.
That takes normally about the gist of my day around
to 3:30 to four o'clock.
Making sure I get to network with them and talk with them
and do their body checks.
Three o'clock, I'm finished with my work work.
My like, I have to sit down in my office, work.
And that's the time where I pick up my son.
And he comes with me to the gym
to start filming my workout routines.
So the first thing we're gonna do today, we're gonna do arms
and I'm gonna start with triceps.
And I'm gonna do three sets of press down
around 45 to 65 reps.
And he loves to help me film for my social media projects
and things that I wanna do for the future.
You know, there are so many stereotypes and misconceptions
about women's bodybuilding.
One, that we're violent or angry.
We're rough, we're hyper-sexualized, we're inable
to have children, we're incapable of nurturing.
So there's a lot of things that today's body builders
are really able to show through social media.
That we have families that we have love in our life,
that we can you know, cherish and be help
to people out there in different ways.
So I'm really, really thankful for the social media
that we have today to be able to express that.
Around five to seven o'clock I would say
that we're in there training, finishing up
a couple of things.
You know, the look and lollygagging I guess,
that you could say.
After our evening training, we head home,
watch a favorite show, probably say "The Bachelor"
on Mondays and different true crime.
My last meal is another egg white shake.
It's another probably 10 egg whites.
Depending on if I wanna do something a little bit thicker,
I'll stick a two tablespoons of peanut butter
maybe a little bit of a banana.
Something that really, really kinda makes me feel
like I'm having something good.
A lot of ice, Splenda and Himalayan salt is the key.
After I rip the wig off my head of whatever I'm wearing
that day and I'm tossing and whatever clothes in the corner
before I have to get to wash them, I take my shower.
I use a Dove cleanser.
When I normally rinse throughout the day after a training
session or my cardio session, I just do a normal rinse.
But then at the evening time, I normally like
to use something a little bit stronger.
Like a Dove men's wash you know, to really be able
to power through all the funk throughout the day.
Scrubbing extra, really, really hard.
Getting that you know, fresh feeling.
I use one of those body scrub rags.
I normally put on a big, huge t-shirt.
My hair is you know, up and nice and braided down.
It's still wet so it's still in a towel.
And then I am vegged out and ready
to do it at nine o'clock for another day.
So now that I'm done with my nighttime mask and my face
already looks so glowy, it's time to add the moisture back.
So I use the Shea Moisture daily hydration
overnight face oil.
I liberally add this on so I shine at night.
Okay we are almost time for bed.
The most challenging part of my career is
not taking it personal.
Removing the emotion out of the work that you do.
Because you have to love the sport for the evidence
of what you put in it not how someone else will judge you
based off of it.
The most rewarding part is looking like me.
It's not the money.
I know a lot of times for women in women's bodybuilding,
the money is really not equating to a lot right now.
For the men's championship and the women's championship,
it's 12 cent to the male dollar.
So our competitions are at the same level so you really
just have to be like, "This is my body
and this is the reward."
You really have to cherish the work that you put in.
The physique is the reward.
So now I've got my shake in my belly,
my vitamins in my stomach, and I have my mission tomorrow
to be the best me I can be in my head.
And now it is 10:30 and it was time to say, good night.
Good night, Allure.
Thank you guys.