Sheila Vieira is Brazilian and only with courage and faith, the ? poquissimas people would start practicing bodybuilding as Sheila Vieira did: after suffering two serious spinal injuries, herniated disc in L4 and L5. ? Sheila started in Judo, graduating with a black belt at 16 years and winning the Paulista and Brazilian bonds, among others.? In 1999 he began to train jiu-jitsu and achieved her black belt in 2006. ? Earlier, in 2004, turned to pro wrestling (Greco Roman Wrestling). ? Less than 1 year of training she was already selected for the Brazilian team and in the midst of several athletes won, and was chosen for the World (2001) Sephia in the city – Bulgaria. ? Thanks to experience, because at that time the level of competition was still much lower than Brazil, according to Sheila.
Continuing to practice and compete, she was twice champion in Brazil: 2003 and 2004; twice champion in Sao Paulo: 2003 and 2004; Olympic champion Brazil Circuit: 2002.
Again in the Brazil squad in 2004, Sheila began the drama.? She recalls: “Summoned to train and Gama Filho University in Rio de Janeiro by coach Beto Leitão, I was preparing myself for the Pan American Games … During practice, I received an additional wrong and felt that there was going in my life Fight! hurt me a lot, but did not tell anybody anything … I continued training, swallowing my tears every day, in secret. I won these conditions, the athlete Joyce, my main opponent in a selective and best of three, winning two battles, not believing, I got the job I dreamed of. “
Now more prepared and more experienced, Sheila believed he had more chances in the Pan American Games (2003) of Guatemala that had the Worlds in Bulgaria.? Already in a foreign country, the night before the fight, new despair, “I almost caught! Not get out of bed, crying dragged myself to the bathroom floor, I lay down under the shower and let the hot water fall … My greatest challenge was also not let anyone of the Brazilian delegation to realize my injury! The next day I fought. I do not know how, but … I fought with an American with a Mexican and a Canadian, in the struggles of two rounds of two minutes. “
Sheila outdid herself, but missed the Games and life to the mat.? She believed, also the life of an athlete. ? She returned to Brazil and then finally came the terrible injury in a car accident. Emergency surgery was performed at the Hospital Nove: damping-off disc with nerve compression which reached a central crack, where she experienced paralysis.? It was made a Nucleoplasty and Sheila continued paralyzed on for 15 days on a morphine pump for pain. ? “She was condemned to sedentary lifestyle and forgetting … Doctors, coaches, trainers, physiotherapists, everybody said I could not do anything else, not thinking about fighting, strength work, nothing! Just never accepted it! I could not look the wheelchair, tried to keep moving every day, image my legs by walking, running … I fought against everything and everyone and I won. ” Two months later, in 2004, Sheila returned to the mat, to everyone’s amazement. ? She resumed training and was a champion for the university Unisanta Jiu-Jitsu, Submission champion and Greco-Roman. ? All this in 2004.? In 2005, however, after winning the Championship Interef University, the column of Sheila, not withstanding the pressure, again hangs in even more serious: a second lesion in the same place.
New Surgery, Hospital Panamericano, called the ribosome.? Intense pain, paralysis by 20 days, request a medical examination of bone cancer, so the pain would not yield.
“Once again discredited everything and everyone, my goal now seemed certain … wheelchair! This time flags. The pain was too big and I could not find strength. One day my son of 6 years then came to visit me in his innocence said, ‘Mom, you will not recover to take pro championship in Judo from the nursery? … Then I woke up, took strength from the soul, that I might set an example for my son in a wheelchair? If God gave me another opportunity, I jumped with all my strength.”
Visualizing their medals, their victories, their training, Sheila returned to riding.? It was in (2005) who met Sandro Barbosa, now her ex-boyfriend: “Sandro was what made me know the gym, who accompanied me in the sessions of strengthening back and abdomen. I went back to train Jiu-Jitsu and I began to prepare for the Figure. He encouraged me, believed in me, gave new meaning to my life, an angel of God was on my way. ”
With 8 months of training, Sheila Vieira won the 2006 Newcomers Championship, Figure category. ? She is now a Professor of Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Submission and Greco Roman (black belt) and Personal Trainer, on the stage, back to the mat and MMA: Courage and Strength.
Sheila Vieira is Brazilian and only with courage and faith, the ? poquissimas people would start practicing bodybuilding as Sheila Vieira did: after suffering two serious spinal injuries, herniated disc in L4 and L5. ? Sheila started in Judo, graduating with a black belt at 16 years and winning the Paulista and Brazilian bonds, among others.? In 1999 he began to train jiu-jitsu and achieved her black belt in 2006. ? Earlier, in 2004, turned to pro wrestling (Greco Roman Wrestling). ? Less than 1 year of training she was already selected for the Brazilian team and in the midst of several athletes won, and was chosen for the World (2001) Sephia in the city – Bulgaria. ? Thanks to experience, because at that time the level of competition was still much lower than Brazil, according to Sheila.
