Noy Alexander
Doing It For Herself

By Mike Lackner

Many times in life it is not where someone is at that makes them successful, but rather how they got where they are and where they are headed.  Anyone can be successful if they are given the right environment and opportunities.  For example, everyone knows a person that grew up in a good household, had guidance from a successful parent, went to top rated schools, and then went on to study at a good college.  Success was more or less inevitable for them, and if they did not end up at the top… it would actually be considered a failure when the opportunities they had were taken into consideration. Then, there are people like NPC Figure competitor Noy Alexander. 

Noy Alexander had to earn things the old fashioned way… with hard work and determination.  She was not the typical child growing up; her parents passed away when she was very young.  Although she had two older brothers to help raise her, she had to learn to become independent much sooner than most.  Noy could not rely on the wisdom from mum and dad to get her through certain situations, she had to face them, and often learn life’s tough lessons by experience.  However, Noy’s experiences taught her that she couldn’t sit round and wait for things to happen, she had to make them happen.  So far, she has done well while building quite an impressive resume of accomplishments. And it does not look like she will be slowing down any time soon.
One of the ways that Noy developed herself as a teenager was through working out.  Although she admittedly started going to the gym because that was where the boys were found, Noy soon began to enjoy the discipline that successfully sculpting her body required.  She started to recognize that setting goals in the gym, following a plan, and accomplishing those goals taught her lessons that spilled over to her regular life.  If she could prepare a strategy and successfully complete it in the gym… there was no reason that the same process would not work in other aspects of her life.  Her time with the weights gave her a tenacity that she could carry into every day situations, and it taught her to believe in her abilities. 
Noy enjoys working out, but her independent upbringing also created a need for her to find a way to continuously challenge herself by moving to the next level.  She did not get to where she was by sitting by and being a spectator… Noy is a “doer” that accomplishes things. The confidence she built in the weight room must have really worked, because she holds powerlifting records in the bench press and dead-lift, and she made the move into Figure competition.  She is also a perennial face behind the booths at shows like the Arnold Classic and Olympia, so her time spent in the gym has developed a physique that is good enough that supplement companies pay her money to represent their product. 
Working out has done more for Noy than building confidence and getting into competitions.  It gave her a very marketable physique that keeps her employed as a model on a continuous basis.  Whether she is doing a photo shoot for a fitness magazine, swimsuit company, working an expo, being featured in magazines or appearing in a product ad, Noy is already building an impressive career and is working towards expanding her modelling opportunities.  There is no doubt that you will be seeing a lot of Noy in the future.