I'm Mascha. I've got an education in Sportmasseuse, aerobic-instructor, fitness-instructor, medical fitness instructor and different food educations.

My occupations are the owner of For Fun Sport, a gym in Hillegom, the Netherlands, Figure professional, writer for the Dutch Oxygen Magazine (Female) and fitness coach of several starting fitness athletes.

I started training in 1988 and my first show was in 1991,"The Open North Holland Contest."

Photo by James Cook

My first competition started as a joke. A boy at my gym told me he was going to compete. I told him "If you are going to compete, so will I." I thought he made a joke, but he didn't. So after several months of dieting, we stood on stage together and it was not for nothing. The both of us became first and overall.

My ambition is to find out how much I can achieve as a Pro figure athlete, model and as the coach of others. I want to try to let other people see fitness and bodybuilding for the wonderful sport that it is. Unfortunately, it's a sport that still is not accepted and always misjudged. And of course, build my gym For Fun Sport in Hillegom to be a place where every fitness fanatic loves to come.