Peaks of the Day: Judy Moshkosky

When The History of Female Bodybuilding is written (if there are any would-be publishers out there, just pop the advance in the post and I'll be on it), it's unlikely that female bodybuilders with contest records like Judy Moshkosky's will get much written about them. Three times she competed at national level in the very early 1990s, with 7th in the middleweight class at the IFBB North Americans her best result.



But I'll bet there are more readers of "a certain age" who can remember Judy than there are those who remember Deborah Cameron, or Celina Martins, or Judy Batcher (all of whom placed higher than her at those national level shows). And I would imagine that Judy's left and right biceps are the reasons why that is so.



Quite apart from the fact that these days it's highly unlikely that more than a few middleweights will take the stage at the NPC Nationals, it seems almost unbelievable now that once upon a time a body like Judy's was unable to break into the top six in her class. Were the very same biceps that have ensured her name remains in the consciousness of the female muscle lovin' brethren responsible for her lowly placings, deemed by the the judges to be "too big" and making her physique lack balance?



Judge for yourself in this excerpt from Judy's work with Women's Physique World. Pleasingly it's almost 7 minutes long, and though not exclusively an arm clip, it - quite rightly - focuses more attention on those biceps than it does on the rest of her.



Enjoy!