Woman Uses Health Journey To Inspire Others

Terran Lamp has overcome health challenges to inspire others to push themselves to become healthier as a bodybuilder and certified sports nutritionist. PHOTO PROVIDED BY TERRAN LAMP.
Terran Lamp has overcome health challenges to inspire others to push themselves to become healthier as a bodybuilder and certified sports nutritionist. PHOTO PROVIDED BY TERRAN LAMP.

Woman Uses Health Journey To Inspire Others

By Tia Carol Jones

Terran Lamp has always been pushing the limits for what she could do physically. Diagnosed as a child with heart disease, having one kidney and a brain tumor, she was told there were things she couldn’t do. Still, she was on the track team in high school and now is a bodybuilder and certified sports nutritionist. Even while having breast cancer, she decided to remain active.

“You hear a lot of people say, ‘oh man, I can’t do this.’ I never thought to myself, I’m going to win the Tour de France, but how can I impact people to be physical during these types of situations when you don’t necessarily think you can do it,” Lamp said.

Lamp is an American College of Sports Medicine-certified personal trainer and a Certified Sports Nutritionist from the International Society of Sports Nutrition. She wanted to work with people who didn’t think they could do it. Her goal was to inspire people to believe they could be fit and healthy and to know they could do it at their own pace. The clients she works with have also faced health challenges, from cancer to kidney transplants, as well as other ailments.

Lamp loves being a personal trainer and sharing her personal story. She knows it inspires her clients to be physically fit. Lamp pushed her limits even more three seasons ago by becoming a bodybuilder. Her original goal was to do it once before she was 50, then she caught the bug. She is an all-natural competitor who is challenging herself.

“By this point, I have many scars on my chest, I’ve had reconstruction, I’ve had open heart surgery multiple times and to be able to physically get up there in front of people with all that and say, ‘here are my scars, here’s my breast cancer, this is what you got, tan me up,’” Lamp said.

For her, it was the physical and emotional challenge of being able to do what people thought she couldn’t do. She also wanted to push her mental limits of standing up there with scars and breast surgery, while pushing through the physical limits of being able to get lean enough to complete.

Lamp has advice for women who are going through some of what she has been through. She believes that being unique is a person’s superpower. Also, whatever someone’s higher power is, to seek it to find out their goal and their higher purpose and go after that. She said if people focus on the health challenges, it might be difficult to reach their purpose. She advises people to think about what things out there are bigger than themselves. She added that people are put here to serve and to inspire others.

Lamp also advises people to stay active with their friends and family, as well as being OK saying they are not OK. You don’t want people to be hard on themselves and know they don’t have to be perfect every day.  Lamp referenced the first line of Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy,” and said, “we’re all trying to get through this thing called life.”

As for nutritional tips, Lamp believes that nutrition is individualized to the person. She advises them to do what works for them, that they can consistently do, because what works for one person’s body might not work for another person’s body. She added that you can’t out exercise a bad diet.

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