At a young age she joined a Nautilus gym and trained for twenty minutes, three times a week as she had been told.
But Oliveira soon became frustrated with her exercise routines; she enjoyed the little pump she got from her training, but was disappointed with the minimal change she saw in her physique.
While she had no intentions of training for competition purposes, Oliveira knew that she wanted more of the shape and muscle tone she saw on the photos of those magazines.
Four months later after she started training with heavy weights, Oliveira entered her first bodybuilding show and placed second.
Oliveira's training consisted of simple compound movements with mostly free weights with few cable and machine exercises.