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Helle Trevino — Complete Profile: Training, Diet, Height, Weight, Biography

Life and accomplishments of Helle Trevino.

Written by Vidur Saini

Last Updated on29 August, 2022 | 12:21 AM EDT

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Helle Trevino is a Danish-American professional bodybuilder and an IFBB Pro athlete competing in the Women’s Bodybuilding division. She won the coveted Rising Phoenix World Championship in 2017 and 2019. This is her complete profile, biography, and more.

Helle Trevino

(IFBB Pro League Women’s Open Division Bodybuilder)

Full Name: Helle Trevino
Weight Height Age
165 – 180 pounds (75 – 82 kilograms)  5’5” (165cm) 49 years
Date of Birth Era Nationality
Jul. 09, 1975 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020 Danish, American

Early Life

Young Helle Trevino
Helle Trevino via @helletrevino

Helle Trevino (formerly Nielsen) was born and raised on a farm in the rural town of Sønderborg in Denmark. Growing up, Trevino was a very active kid. She joined gymnastics at the age of three and participated in several sports, including ballroom dancing, swimming, track, and field, shot put, martial arts, horse-riding, boxing, biking, ballet, and yoga.

The Beastqueen majored in English and German in college. She later got into the fitness world, where she took several exams in the nutrition and training field. 

In 2012, Helle moved from Denmark to California to train at the Gold’s Gym in Venice. Helle Trevino is only the second female professional bodybuilder from Denmark after Lisser Frost-Larsen, who last competed in 1984. 

Starting Bodybuilding

Young Helle Trevino
Helle Trevino / Instagram

Trevino joined a gym and started lifting weights when she was 17. She trained seven days a week as she did not feel she needed to take a day off to allow her body time to recover. 

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After weight training for a year, Trevino gained 29 pounds (13 kilograms) of muscle mass, which made her realize that she had great genetics and should try her hand at competitive bodybuilding. 

Competition and Career

Helle Trevino has one of the most interesting competitive careers. She has been competing since 1998 but has taken a sabbatical twice in her two-decade-long career to reassess her strategy and career trajectory.

Helle Trevino Starting Bodybuilding
Helle Trevino / Instagram

Helle entered her first competition under her maiden name of Nielsen at the age of 22—five years after starting weight training. However, her patience and dedication to her craft paid off as she won the heavyweight and overall categories at the Danish Nationals Championships in 1998. 

Helle dominated her competition at her next show to win the heavyweight and overall titles at the 1998 Scandinavian Championships in the same year. However, her winning streak abruptly ended after she placed tenth at the 1999 World Championships in Australia.

After finishing tenth in Australia, Helle took some time off competing—which turned into three long years—before stepping on stage again in 2003 at the Jan Tana Classic. Her strategy paid off handsomely as she surprised everyone by winning the heavyweight and overall divisions in her first pro show. 

A few months after scoring her first pro show win, Helle placed a respectable fifth in the heavyweight class at the 2003 Ms. Olympia. Although everything seemed to be going Helle’s way, she stunned bodybuilding fans by taking a second break from the competitive circuit.

Helle Trevino Bodybuilding
Helle Trevino / Instagram

The Comeback

This time, the Beastqueen was out of the competitive circuit for seven long years and made a comeback as Helle Trevino at the 2011 FIBO Power Pro Germany. She nailed her physique, which helped her overshadow her competition and win the show. 

Only a handful of bodybuilders have taken such a long break and returned at the same level. For pulling off this feat, it’d be safe to call Trevino the queen of comebacks. 

Trevino faired worse at the 2011 Ms. Olympia and fell to the fourteenth position. However, she stuck to her guns this time and focused on improving her physique by working on the feedback she received from the judges. 

Experts believe Trevino always had the mass to go head-to-head with the big girls. However, her muscle definition and separation held her back.

Becoming the Wings of Strength Rising Phenoix Champ 

After a lackluster 2012, 2013, and 2014, the Beastqueen returned to her winning ways by earning gold at the 2015 Wings of Strength Chicago Pro. She subsequently earned a runner-up place at the 2015 WOS Rising Phoenix Pro.

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Helle Trevino Rising Phenoix
Helle Trevino / Instagram

For the next three years, Trevino stuck to competing at one show a year—Wings of Strength Rising Pheonix Pro, which became the apex Women’s bodybuilding competition after the Olympia Weekend discontinued the Ms. Olympia division. 

Helle Trevino cemented her name amongst the female bodybuilding greats by winning the WOS Rising Pheonix Pro in 2017. She won the coveted title again in 2019. 

The Frontrunner for the Ms. Olympia Title

Since Trevino was the 2019 WOS Rising Phenoix champ and the 2020 runner-up, she became the frontrunner for winning the Ms. Olympia title when it was reintroduced in the Olympia Weekend after Jake Wood took over the Olympia brand in 2020. She finished third behind Andrea Shaw and Margie Martin. 

Helle Trevino Ms Olympia
Helle Trevino / Instagram

Trevino improved her Olympia ranking in the subsequent year by fetching a runner-up finish behind Andrea Shaw. 

Helle Trevino Competition History

Given below is Beastqueen’s complete competition history:

2021

  • IFBB WOS Ms. Olympia: Second-place
  • IFBB Pro League WOS Rising Phoenix Pro Women’s Bodybuilding: Second-place

2020

  • IFBB WOS Ms. Olympia: Third-place
  • IFBB Pro League WOS Rising Phoenix Pro Women’s Bodybuilding: Second-place

2019

  • IFBB Pro League WOS Rising Phoenix Pro Women’s Bodybuilding: First-place
  • IFBB Tampa Pro: First-place

2018

  • IFBB Pro League WOS Rising Phoenix Pro Women’s Bodybuilding: Fifth-place

2017

  • IFBB Pro League WOS Rising Phoenix Pro Women’s Bodybuilding: First-place

2016

  • IFBB Pro League WOS Rising Phoenix Pro Women’s Bodybuilding: Fourth-place

2015

  • IFBB Pro League WOS Rising Phoenix Pro Women’s Bodybuilding: Second-place
  • IFBB WOS Chicago Pro: First-place

2014

  • IFBB Omaha Pro: Seventh-place

2013

  • IFBB PBW Tampa Pro: Fifth-place

2012

  • IFBB Ms. Olympia: Twelfth-place
  • IFBB WOS Chicago Pro-Am Extravaganza: Second-place
  • IFBB Europa Battle of Champions Hartford: Ninth-place

2011

  • IFBB Ms. Olympia: Fourteenth-place
  • IFBB FIBO Power Pro Germany: First-place

2003

  • IFBB Ms. Olympia: Fifth-place (HW)
  • IFBB Jan Tana Classic: First-place (HW and Overall)

1999

  • World Amateur Championships: Tenth-place (HW)

1998

  • Danish Championships: First-place (HW and Overall)
  • Scandinavian Championships: First-place (HW and Overall)

Helle Trevino Training Program

Trevino follows a six-day-a-week training regimen, and her workouts typically last a couple of hours a day. During the off-season, she does more cardio than she would during contest prep.

As you’ll soon find out, Trevino does a lot of volume in her workouts. However, she doesn’t use it as an excuse to lower her training intensity. She goes hard and heavy every time she steps inside a gym.

Helle Trevino Back Workout

  • Hammer Strength Front Lat Pulldown: 3 x 12-15
  • Machine Low Row: 3 x 12-15
  • Hammer Strength Isolateral Row: 3 x 12-15
  • T-Bar Row with Handles: 3 x 12-15
  • Single Arm Lat Pulldown: 3 x 12-15
Helle Trevino Back Pose
Helle Trevino Back Pose

Helle Trevino Leg Workout

  • Leg Extension: 3 x 12-15
  • Horizontal Leg Press: 3 x 12-15
  • Cable Squat: 3 x 12-15
  • Step-Up: 3 x 12-15
  • Lunge Split Jump: 3 x 12-15
  • Seated Machine Calf Raise: 3 x 12-15
  • Standing Machine Calf Raise: 3 x 12-15
  • Machine Donkey Calf Raise: 3 x 12-15
Helle Trevino Big Legs
Helle Trevino Big Legs

Helle Trevino Arm Workout

  • Cable Curl: 3 x 12-15
  • EZ Bar Cable Push-Down: 3 x 12-15
  • EZ Bar Skull Crusher: 3 x 12-15
  • Incline Dumbbell Curl: 3 x 12-15
  • Machine Preacher Curl: 3 x 12-15
  • Dips Machine: 3 x 12-15
  • Triceps Rope Push-Down: 3 x 12-15
  • Reverse Dumbbell Curl: 3 x 12-15

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Helle Trevino Shoulder Workout

  • Cable Side Lateral Raise: 3 x 12-15
  • Arnold Press: 3 x 12-15
  • Seated Bent-Over Dumbbell Rear Delt Raise: 3 x 12-15
  • Single-Arm Leaning Side Lateral Raise: 3 x 12-15
  • Machine Shoulder Press: 3 x 12-15
  • Face Pull: 3 x 12-15

Helle Trevino Chest Workout

  • Incline Barbell Bench Press: 3 x 12-15
  • Cable Fly: 3 x 12-15
  • Bent-Over Cable Fly: 3 x 12-15
  • Machine Chest Press: 3 x 12-15
  • Incline Plate Press: 3 x 12-15

Helle Trevino Calves and Abs Workout

  • Dumbbell One-Leg Calf Raise: 3 x 15 ‎
  • Leg-Press Calf Raise (toes out): 3 x 20‎
  • Seated Calf Raise (toes in): 3 x 20-25 ‎
  • Standing Calf Raise (toes straight): 3 x 20-25 ‎
  • Partial Leg Raise: 3-4 x 25 
  • Decline Cable Crunch: 3 x 15 ‎
  • Standing Cable Oblique Crunch: 3 x 20 ‎
  • Double Crunch: 3 sets to failure

Helle Trevino Diet Program

Trevino sticks to the same basic meals during prep and the off-season. Her meal plan is designed to cause minimum friction in her lifestyle.

“I cook a big box of rice, a big box of veggies, and a lot of chicken. Instead of cooking one chicken breast every single meal, I cook 10 and have enough for 3 or 4 days.”

Helle Trevino Diet
Helle Trevino Diet

The Beastqueen has previously revealed that chicken is her favorite source of protein. However, she usually has steak every day as her body responds well to it. 

This is what Trevino’s typical diet plan looks like:

  • Breakfast: Berry oatmeal bowl
  • Breakfast #2: Bacon, tomato scramble, and avocado
  • Snack: Protein pancakes
  • Lunch: Grilled turkey tenderloin, sweet potatoes, and steamed vegetables
  • Snack: Mexican tuna salad
  • Dinner: Chicken breast, rice, and asparagus
  • Snack: Protein shake with chia seeds and mixed nuts

Supplements

Trevino uses supplements in conjunction with a macro-balanced diet to get the best bang for her buck. Her supp arsenal consists of:

  • Whey
  • Creatine
  • BCAA
  • Glutamine
  • Fat Burner
  • Multivitamin
  • Fish Oil

Looking Forward

Although Helle Trevino had momentum behind her and was being considered the biggest threat to Andrea Shaw’s Ms. Olympia crown at the 2022 Olympia, scheduled for Dec. 15 to 18 in Las Vegas, NV, the bodybuilder, and her fans, were dealt a disappointment. 

The 2019 Rising Pheonix champ suffered two shoulder tendon tears in the off-season that might prevent her from competing at the 2022 Olympia. At the time of this article’s publication, we’re waiting for more information from her about her recovery status and future competition prospects.


If you have any questions or need further clarification about this article, please leave a comment below, and Vidur will get back to you as soon as possible.

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