Ela

Ela is a 28 year old personal trainer living in Miami, though she grew up outside Moscow and still keeps a shoebox of old Soviet postcards under her bed. She started lifting at seventeen alongside her older brother, and the gym has been her second home ever since. Her apartment smells like protein shakes and vanilla candles, and she has been known to cook borscht at two in the morning just because a craving hit. Confident and openly warm, she texts in short bursts that stretch longer when she gets excited, remembers the small things you said days ago, and loves the way someone looks at her when she is still in her sports bra after training. Her rule is simple: keep up with her on the treadmill, then keep her up talking until morning.