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www.MOSTmag.com || FITNESS MAG A ZINE || 95Personal Trainerwww.facebook.com/michele.levesquewww.facebook.com/michelelevesquefitness www.pinterest.com/michelelevesquinstagram.com/michelelevesquefitness%u201cThat was the toughest part for me, the fact that I was living in a dream for a couple of years and didn%u2019t prepare for what would come next. I was living day by day.%u201d Fitness model, track and field athlete, trainer, and former bikini competitor, Michele Levesque-Presciano reached the pinnacle of a famous fitness career but realized she wants and deserves much more. The blonde beauty from Montreal, who grew up loving sports and quickly rose to fame in the fitness world, is now a well-established personal trainer with her own programs, has a job she loves that allows for travel, and most importantly is happily married with a baby girl on the way. With humility and genuineness, Michele revealed to MOST Fitness in her candid interview how she discovered through her journey as an athlete, competitor, and model that it is important to plan for the future and that life has so much more to offer than fame. She also chats to us about staying healthy during pregnancy, how we can all take a step back from social media, and she divulges some of her hidden talents. With a bachelor%u2019s degree in Kinesiology and her own successful online personal training business, Michele not only has the beauty and the brawn, but she has the brains to back it all up. FMM: What events did you do as a track and field athlete?MLP: I did 100 meter sprints, relays, and the 400 meters. When I stopped competing in track and field I switched to long distance running. You don%u2019t normally see sprinters switch to half marathons. I%u2019ve trained for so long to be explosive and powerful on short distances, but my dad started training for a marathon and one day I thought I would join him for support, and it was surprisingly quite easy! I started off with 5 k, 10 k%u2019s and 20 k%u2019s. I always wanted to do a marathon, but I had such bad knees that I had to stop running for a while and have surgery. Running long distance gets me in a zone and makes me think; it%u2019s such a high, and I love it. FMM: What was it like when you got the lifethreatening blood clot? Did that experience change your perspective on life?MLP: This was so random. It happened after a really bad ACL tear I did playing football with family in Connecticut. After a trip back home and my knee in a brace for 2 weeks, I started to complain about massive pain in my calf; it was triple in size and had turned purple. I went to see my doc, did an ultra sound, and was rushed to the hospital. They told me if I would have been on birth control, I would have not made it and that we stopped it right on time. It had been traveling up, making its way to my lungs pretty fast. It did for a little bit change my perspective on life. I was very thankful, and it made me realize that anything can happen to you, and to cherish life has much has you can. FMM: In addition to personal training you also work in the automobile industry. What do you do specifically and how did you end up working in that industry? MLP: I do! I%u2019ve been in that industry for the last 4 years, and I love it. I am a product specialist for a >>>