Frank Catania on training Teresa Giudice: She’s ‘an animal’

Teresa Giudice was Frank Catania’s dream client.

“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Dolores Catania’s ex-husband trained Giudice, 46, for her bodybuilding competition in June, and now the results are being shown on the Bravo show.

“Teresa is an animal and that’s in a good way,” Frank recently told Page Six. “I did not think that Teresa had it in her. I didn’t think she was going to make it to the show. I’m not going to lie. She listened to every single thing I said and didn’t vary whatsoever. I would get text messages from her at 11:30 at night. I’d get text messages from her at four o’clock in the morning. I don’t think the woman ever slept. And in between all this, she’s taking care of her daughters and she’s obviously filming and handling all of her other ventures. I was pleasantly surprised by Teresa.”

He added that her text messages asking if she could have wine or alcohol would frequently come on cast trips and dinners. He was shocked to see that she listened to him as this season’s footage continues to air. “I didn’t know she had the willpower,” he admitted to us.

Giudice and Frank began working together shortly before her show and had massive goals to achieve. Frank, a former college football player, Mr. Jersey Shore (1986) and Mr. New Jersey (1987), had his work cut out for him with the reality star.

“Dolores brought her to me when she was three and a half weeks out from her show,” he said of how they began working together. “She had been training for about eight weeks before that and Teresa had lost like three pounds. And from looking at her the first time I looked at her she came to my office with Dolores, I asked her to get into a bikini let me take a look at her and Teresa still had close to 20 pounds to get rid of in order for her to be stage ready. So I gotta be honest, I never thought she was going to be ready. I never thought of that. So I found it as a hell of a challenge.”

Frank also trained his son with Dolores, Frankie, for the competition and confessed that was more of a challenge for him.

“It was harder because he’s my son and number one, I push my son harder,” he said. “I’m one of the dads, you know, the high-pressure dad. I coached Frankie all during football growing up and I know how competitive my son is.”

Still, Frank doesn’t recommend bodybuilding as a sustainable hobby.

“It is the most unhealthy sport out of every sport out there because what you have to do to your body and deplete your body of everything that it requires, that they get on stage is so unhealthy. It really is. So I would not recommend to anyone to continue it. And if you’re looking for a goal you can do it to step on stage or do one, two, three, four shows over a period of time. But to try to do it consistently over the year to that extent is unhealthy.”

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