Today, a few more extracts from The Tao of Iris...
The way you "THINK" is the "DRIVING FORCE" that fashions your world, thereby governing the kind of life that you live... Study the past if you would define the future... Remember, "Life" is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments.
Being gifted doesn't mean you've been given something - it means, you have something to give... Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter... Just believe and you will achieve... You feel me????
DEM HAMS DOE!
Tomorrow we are going back upstairs, but for now we complete our celebration of Iris' lower body - and the fact that these are the last of her leg muscles we're looking at by no means indicates they are the least of them - with those great thick ropes of muscle that bulge out (rippling) from the base of dem (rippling) glutes on down.
In 2011, she told Physical Fitness Rx, I keep my reps up for my hams. I'll do sets of 15 in the off season, and pre-contest I go to sets of 20 (lying leg curls, stiff-leg deadlifts and seated curls). Also, precontest I'll do high-rep sets of hypers (back extensions) every day to really bring in my hams, my glutes and my lower back.
So, whether you are a man who wants to break the habit of a lifetime and stop neglecting your hamstrings, or a woman who wants to have the kind of "gammies" that make people walk into stuff as they stare at them, that's all there is to it. Simples!
KYLED HARD FACT OF THE DAY
Iris says her favourite music is R&B, jazz and sensible rap. "Sensible"?!
KYLE BY NUMBERS
Ten times Ms Olympia: 2004, and then nine times in a row, from 2006 to 2014.
The "I Was Runner-up to Iris Kyle at the Ms O" Club has six members. Dayana Cadeau was Lightweight champion but lost the Overall posedown to Iris in 2004, and then finished second outright in 2006 and 2007. The wonderful Betty Viana was runner-up in 2008, followed by Heather Policky in 2009. Yaxeni Oriquen - familiar with the feeling from all her Ms International runners-up medals - came second in 2010 and 2011. And most recently it's Debi Laszewski (2012), and Alina Popa (2013 and 2014) who have held Iris' hand before the inevitable happens!
EVERYBODY LOVES IRIS
Anne Freitas never misses the chance to get a pic of herself with The Champ, even though she herself is a champ these days. Above right, a towering Iris congratulates Anne on her win backstage at this year's Omaha Pro (with Tonia Moore).
IN BLACK & WHITE
KYLE IN MOTION
IRIS KYLE 2013 ARNOLD CLASSIC IFBB PRO Ms INTERNATIONAL FINALS
From the brilliant watatiwatatio, Iris' routine at the (sadly, in all probability last ever, and therefore) historic Ms International last year. Going out on top is always the best way, says Iris, something that she managed to do both here and at the Ms Olympia.
Iris' reign concludes tomorrow...
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