Tuesday 3 July 2018

The Sexhibitionists: 3 from the East

While none of the women (one Russian, one Latvian, one Ukrainian) featured today are quite in the class of (yesterday's featured woman) Nahla Monroe, they all have a penchant for exposing more than usual when at their contest ready most ripped.

I don't have anything to go on except my own intuition, but I imagine that urge to expose is not uncommon among competitive female bodybuilders as they near or reach their "peak" physique, and quite right too. They may be as prone as any other woman (or, in these more body-conscious times, man) to self-doubt and dissatisfaction with their bodies at other times, but when the time comes to peel away the body fat and reveal their muscles, they don't just look - they also feel - beautiful.

Anyway, here are our three for today.

Follow the links for more on each of these Eastern delights.

ALINA ISIDOROVA

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Powerlifting, kickboxing, Bodybuilding... If it involves strength, Latvian Alina probably does it. She also runs Healthy Girls, a collective that that puts on events and promotes the benefits of strength training for women and girls in her native Riga.

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She doesn't seem to mind jumping out of planes either.

Think of her as a Latvian Action Woman. See her Facebook for more.

IRYNA KOZLOVA

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An IFBB and WBPF competitor, Iryna has won World and European titles in Bodybuilding, Physique, and Figure (or equivalent classes) over a period of some years (and if that sounds a bit vague it's because it is - I haven't, sadly, been able to find much detail about her contest history). What I can say is that she's been at it for over five years, and there are lots of pics of her, with and without heels, arms raised in victory at unspecified contests, and clips of her on WBPF TV that are - in my opinion - essential viewing. Here she is in glorious HD in 2016 at the WBPF Worlds, for example.

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She wasn't always such a bold social media poster, but - pleasingly - the more time passes, the more she refines her body, the more of it she seems to want to show off.

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The stories that microwave could tell...

Iryna on Instagram

MARIA TARASOVA

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This will be the Russian then...

Maria Tarasova, former NABBA World champion, probably exemplifies my little get-ripped-get-clothes-off theory better than any of the other women featured today, perhaps better than most women full stop. By off-season she is the angel-faced Maria, the girl-next-door at the gym; but by contest time she is a bona fide ripped freak.

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She could do with cleaning her mirror.

If you need any help with that, Maria...

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The one on the right - been keeping it in the "Special Favourites" folder.

Maria has a private IG but isn't (in my experience) too picky about who she lets in. Plenty of her on GwM if she does decline though, and you can also watch her doing her thing at the NABBA Universe here, and the NABBA Worlds here - both from 2015.

Enjoy!

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