A little acorn, and a perfectly formed little acorn at that.
They come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them belong to women as yet unknown, others are more familiar. Let others call them 'gross' or 'manly'. I love them all, every single one of them. Can you remember seeing a flexed bicep you didn't like? No, me neither. Every single one of them is the result of hard work and dedication. It takes a special kind of woman to build them, and every single one of them is a winner.
In case you missed it, Andrea Brazier shows you where you should be looking.
Up close and personal with the muscle and veins of rising star Selma Labat.
More and more women are rejecting the mainstream idea of the ideal body shape in favour of a toned and/or muscular one. More and more are venturing into the weights room and lifting heavier and heavier. Whether it feels like it or not, there are more women building muscle now than ever before, and that means there are more female biceps in the world than at any other time.
I've already got my tickets pre-booked for the new Little Red Riding Hood movie.
Does it feel good to have guns like these? Does it look like it feels good?
Last year, the Olympian bodies of women at the London 2012 Games attracted all-round admiration and positive media reporting. This year we have had a female fitness model used in a marketing campaign for a major cosmetics brand. The sport of Crossfit continues to grow in the USA and is now gaining popularity, and, most importantly, air time on major networks in Europe, and now, finally, in Britain. All these examples are signs that athletic women are no longer seen as unmarketable.
Sexy Suzy Kellner revels in her muscular physique.
Both Kortney and Courtney are doing exactly what it says on the sign.
History books will tell you that from the 1880s until the start of the First World War 'strongwomen' acts drew large audiences to their shows, becoming the pin-ups of the day as well as making themselves rich. You might be old enough to remember the so-called 'Golden Age of Female Bodybuilding', usually seen as being around the time when Cory Everson ruled the Miss Olympia and mainstream coverage of female bodybuilding contests was at its height.
Guys like us like Rene Marven's ravishing arms almost as much as she does.
I doubt very much Michaela Schaar's shirt saw another sunrise.
Nowadays, women participate in sport and exercise more than ever before. It seems to me that it is the women who take no form of exercise at all who are starting to be seen as the freaks. Perhaps we are entering (or have already entered) another 'Golden Age', confined neither to vaudeville feats of strength nor specifically to the sport of female bodybuilding, but to a growth in and acceptance of female muscle in general.
Kashma's biceps and a bottle of oil. Questions?
The world might not yet be ready for the likes of Kashma just yet, but everyday, every hour, maybe every minute, somewhere in the world another woman begins her own personal mission for muscle and the sum total of female biceps in the world goes up by two. A 'Golden Age'? Perhaps. Perhaps the dawning of a new era!
And finally, a joyful seven-minute celebration of some of the biggest and the best...
Love and peaks,
6ft1swell
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