Tavi Castro

Octavio Maginnis Castro (born February 3rd 1990), known professionally as Tavi Castro is a Mexican-born Dutch-Canadian body builder, DJ/music producer, entrepreneur and former soccer player who currently lives in The Netherlands. Castro has won international body building titles and has a sizable social media following. He is sometimes also called the “Arnold Schwarzenegger” of The Netherlands.

Early life

Octavio Maginnis Castro better known as Tavi Castro was born on February 3rd 1990 in Guadalajara, Mexico. At the age of 4 Castro and his family moved to Canada where they settled in Edmonton, Alberta.

Soccer

Castro enjoyed playing football for the majority of his youth and even made it to the Canadian Youth National team where he played as a talented midfielder on the u-16 and u-20 teams. At the age of 17 he moved to Europe in pursuit of a professional soccer career. In the Netherlands Castro has played for the youth teams of several notable dutch clubs such as FC Dordrecht, FC Cambuur, Vitesse and Feyenoord.

Education

While waiting for his big break in soccer Castro decided to get an education, becoming the first person in his family to attend a University. Combining team sports and his difficult study schedule proved harder than he initially thought. At age 18 he decided to leave soccer behind and focus his attention on his studies. Castro now has a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace engineering from the TU Delft (Technische Universiteit Delft) and is completing finishing his Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering.

Body building career

During his soccer days Castro was regularly visiting the gym. After leaving soccer he continued to train at the gym to maintain his conditioning. After spending a few years in fitness training Castro decided to move to body building as an outlet and to satisfy his competitive urges. Castro didn’t have a lot of money, without the aid of a coach and wanting to stay away from anabolic steroids, he taught himself how to maximize his body naturally by reading many books on the subject matter and constantly testing what works. He initially started doing bodybuilding competitions as a way of earning some cash. Castro is also the founder and CEO of Body Engineers International. A company that provides fitness and body building training and advice, clothing, etc. With his newfound wealth and experience Castro wants to providing financial and promotional support for upcoming fitness athletes.

Bodybuilding Titles

Castro has won the following body building titles

• 2012 Musclemania Junior Champion Europe 1st Place

• 2012 Musclemania Junior Champion Britain 1st Place and 2nd Place in the Category Fitness Modeling

• 2012 Musclemania World Model Overall Champion USA 1st Place

Music career

Castro is currently also active as a DJ and music producer signed with Netherlands based EDM label Spinnin’ Records. He released several singles and music videos to date. Castro also regularly DJ’s at some of the biggest EDM events such as Tomorrow Land. Castro also has released music on his own record label Tavi Records.

Business ventures

Castro is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several businesses. His businesses include Body Engineers International and 4INVICTUS. Castro is CEO and founder of Body Engineers International. Body Engineers International started as a project in 2012 to help students and business individuals with busy schedules get fit and improve their health. Now it is an online platform where Castro teaches the most important principles of building a great physique and provides health and fitness information to his students. Tavi Castro is also co-founder and co-owner together with Lazar Angelov, of sports clothing brand 4INVICTUS.

Personal life

Car accident

On the morning of january 25th 2016 while driving on the A2 highway Castro was involved in a car accident. According to his management, Castro’s drove on the A2 highway in his Maserati GranTurismo when his car slipped and collided with two other cars and then came to a stop at the crash barrier. Luckily he walked away from it with only a concussion and a few minor injuries.

Sandra Prikker leaving

In a interview with dutch business magazine Quote Castro implied, among other things, that his ex-girlfriend Sandra Prikker was the cause of the accident. He said he was tired and that he was thinking about the stranded relationship with his ex-girlfriend and business partner Sandra Prikker who is also a fitness personality in the Netherlands. In the interview he said that they were business partners but she did not feel like it anymore after he had helped her to make it big. He said Prikker was working in the hospitality industry before they met and now she is earning 10000 to 15000 euros per month with promotional work and as a designer for his company. She's still involved, but not in the office anymore. After reading the magazine article Prikker got furious and decided to leave the company altogether.

Fatherhood

On august 24th 2017, Tavi Castro and his current girlfriend Bulgarian fitness model and entrepreneur Yanita Yancheva became the parents of their baby daughter Avia Castro.

Social media

Castro is a big personality on social media with close to 8 million followers on Facebook, 2.2 million followers on Instagram, 85 thousand subscribers on YouTube.

Nochtli Alvarez

Nochtli Peralta Alvarez is a dutch social media personality, fitness model and former police officer who was discovered and scouted by Castro. According to Castro, the scouting of Nochtli was actually quite coincidental. She stopped her police car and Castro thought that I he had gotten a ticket but in reality she was a big fan of his and recognized him. In 2017 Alavarez was named most beautiful woman in the Netherlands by FHM500 Magazine. Castro continues to work with Alvarez on furthering her career in modeling and fitness.