tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46226803993386833012024-02-07T12:54:57.338-08:00Female Muscle Slave6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.comBlogger1972125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-24140306297842031702018-09-17T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-17T01:00:04.075-07:00A Temporary Halt<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/250206976680404" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/a0/61/dd/250206976680404.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>New pro Dana Shemesh, tbc</i></b></span><br />
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Sad to say that for a while at least FMS is not going to be posting anything new. <br />
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Some real life stuff is going on that absolutely requires my full attention, and unfortunately that is going to have to take precedence. With luck, it won't be too long before FMS returns, but at the moment it's impossible to say when that will be.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">2 x Ms Figure Olympia, Cydney Gillon</span></i></b><br />
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You might, as they are (sort of) just in, want to check out <a href="http://contests.npcnewsonline.com/contests/2018/ifbb_mr_olympia/" target="_blank">the Olympia results and galleries on NPC News Online</a> at some stage this week - I know I will! FMS fave <b>Cydney Gillon</b> has defended her Figure title, and in Juliana's absence, <b>Shanique Grant</b> has fulfilled her destiny. UK fans can enjoy <b>Louise Rogers</b> (finally at the Olympia) in Figure, plus our two Fitness Olympians, <b>Emma Paveley</b> and <b>Kate Errington</b>. <br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Shanique Grant - (the new) Ultimate Physique</span></i></b><br />
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And why not check out the archive? <br />
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Over 7 years of the finest contemporary female muscle plus the occasional look back at female muscle times past. And since Saturday, 8th September 2012 (with the odd break here and there) we've endeavoured to bring you a post a day, and we started that week, appropriately enough, with seven posts devoted to... <b><a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2012/09/alina-popa-of-day.html" target="_blank">ALINA POPA</a></b>!<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our first, and (almost) our last (for now)</span></i></b><br />
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Sadly, not all the images from the last 7 years are still up there, but my musings - inane, insane and very occasionally insightful (if I say so myself) - are 100% intact.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dani 2014: visible ecstasy on stage in Orlando</span></i></b><br />
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I'm rather proud (whether rightly or wrongly) of the week that began with <a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2014/04/dani-gets-chills-in-orlando.html" target="_blank"><b>Dani Reardon</b> getting "the chills" at the Orlando Pro</a> in 2014; of the seven-part piece of fiction that makes up <a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2013/11/prof-pennypackers-pectarium.html" target="_blank">Prof. Pennypacker's Pectarium</a>; and last year's <a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2017/05/never-better-sarah-hayes-tampa-2012.html" target="_blank">Never Better</a>.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarah and Simone, at their peak</span></i></b><br />
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I've <b><i>LOVED</i></b> reporting on the big pro and amateur shows, and the best of British female muscle. I've also <b><i>LOVED</i></b> choosing <a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/search/label/Women%20of%20the%20Year" target="_blank">FMS' Women of the Year</a>, and - with your very great help - compiling five lists of alternative female beauty - the <b><a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/search/label/FMS%20Hot%20and%20Hard%20100" target="_blank">Hot and Hard 100</a></b>. <br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Hottest Hard Woman in the World 2017-2018</span></i></b><br />
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I'll still be about on the forums, in the chatrooms, on Skype, on Discord, MyCircle, and Tumblr - look out for 6ft1swell (or similar) and say hi - or steer well clear, it's up to you! <br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some highlights from <a href="http://6ft1swell.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">6ft1swell's Tumblr</a> so far this year</span></i></b><br />
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I look forward to resurrecting FMS (hopefully) in the not-too-distant future.<br />
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Thank you for reading. 6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-57899882283396261022018-09-16T10:51:00.001-07:002018-09-16T10:51:28.893-07:00FMS @RP2018: No Comparison? <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/455287976489234" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/ec/34/ac/455287976489234.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/0de36f976489254" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/3e/9b/31/0de36f976489254.jpg" /></a> <br />
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And we finish our week at the world's premier Female Bodybuilding contest (bit belatedly today, sorry about that) with the competitor who most exceeded the pre-contest expectations. Canada's blond bombshell <b>Nicki Chartrand</b> was barely mentioned in the lead-up to the event (not least by me), but ultimately walked off with the (previously monopolised by <b>Sheila Bleck</b>) Best Poser prize, and 4th place.<br />
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We have already waxed lyrical about her performance on the day - and particularly on the night with that scintillating winning posing routine (see <i><a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/09/fms-rp2018-tales-from-feed-part-2.html" target="_blank">Tales from the Feed</a></i> ) - so instead we decided we'd try to piece together the <b>Nicki Chartrand</b> story so far.<br />
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Unfortunately, we didn't find much to piece together.<br />
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We do, however, know how she looked back in c.2015, when she seems to be competing at regional Canadian level, as a Bodybuilder too. The research team have really struggled to find any definitive list of her contest placings from the early part of her career - which really bothers me (can you tell?) and is the main reason why today's post has gone up so tardily. Anyway, it'll have to do. Here is our first comparison.<br />
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<b>COMPARISON #1</b><br />
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<i>Nicki v.2015 and Nicki v.2018</i><br />
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By 2016, we do know, she was the CBBF Nationals Women's Bodybuilding champion - a title previously held by (among others) <b>Negrita Jade</b>, <b>Laura Binetti</b>, <b>Desiree Ellis</b>, <b>Sophie Duquette</b>, <b>Autumn Raby</b>, <b>Nicole Ball</b>, and <b>Fabiola Boulanger</b>.<br />
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Not a bad list at all.<br />
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However, and despite being a Heavyweight, it is not in Women's Bodybuilding that <b>Nicki Chartrand</b> makes her pro debut, but in Physique - at the 2017 Toronto Pro.<br />
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<b>COMPARISON #2</b> <br />
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<i>Toronto Pro 2017 and Rising Phoenix 2018</i> <br />
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There's so obviously too much muscle on her for IFBB Physique judges that it's almost funny imagining their faces, and within weeks Nicki debuted as a pro Bodybuilder. At the Lenda Murray/Norfolk Pro she beat the fan fave <b>Theresa Ivancik</b> (also on debut) and beat her well. Then she finished off 2017 with 12th place at the Rising Phoenix.<br />
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And then this year, she began her season early, at the Hawaii Pro, again in a less than numerous line-up, but up against a woman on debut who many fans were excited about seeing - Alina <i>protégé</i> <b>Jennie Roosa</b>. And the result? Nicki 1st, fan fave 2nd. Nicki could now celebrate her 2nd professional title and start prep for her second RP.<br />
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Which pretty much brings us up-to-date, but before we go, one more comparison.<br />
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The thought occurred to me while I was waiting for the Research Dept. to tell me they hadn't found much about Nicki's early career. There's something about her double biceps pose, the way she positions her long, muscle curvy legs when she hits it. Her general statuesqueness (well, it's a word now!), and I guess her colouring too, reminded me of a legend from the not-too-distant Female Bodybuilding past...<br />
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<b>COMPARISON #3</b> <br />
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<i>Brigita MsO2011 and Nicki RP2018</i><br />
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Perhaps not a fair comparison in terms of where Nicki is right now, but instead a peek into the not-too-distant future at where Nicki has the potential to be before too long. <br />
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Just me?<br />
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Enjoy!6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-90776754852298621712018-09-15T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-15T01:00:07.179-07:00FMS @RP2018: Jill Blondin's Good Year<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/e47e20973419894" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/2f/51/ad/e47e20973419894.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/4952b5973419954" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/e3/4e/f2/4952b5973419954.jpg" /></a> <br />
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The above HD Physiques samples were taken at the cusp of a remarkable contest season for <b>Jill Blondin</b> (aka <b>Jill Diorio</b>). A couple of days after this shoot she made a promising competitive start to 2018 at the IFBB Champions of Power and Grace (good name!), winning the Over 35 title and placing 2nd in the Open Physique class.<br />
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Her next three shows were, however, less successful. 7th at the Optimum Classic was followed by a barely believable 11th in Toronto. She did one more Physique show in Omaha, and placed 6th. It proved to be the turning point in her year. As their booth toured the pro shows, Wings of Strength had been reaching out to some of the Physique competitors - Jill included - but ultimately she was pushed, rather than pulled, in their direction. <i>[It wasn't] because of my placings, but the reasoning behind those placings and the judges' feedback that I found myself having to make some decisions,</i> she said. <i>After Omaha, the decision was made <b>to follow the judges' suggestions</b> [my bold] and move up to Women's Bodybuilding.</i> She would compete again in just four weeks.<br />
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The fact that just one month later in Chicago Jill won her first Female Bodybuilding title at her first attempt says a lot for the strength of the line-up and blurring of the line between the two divisions. It also says a lot for her muscularity and, above all, her conditioning. Though she has bigger calves than anyone, she is no giant by any means. To cut it in pro Female Bodybuilding, she needed to be razor sharp. And she was.<br />
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She beat other Physique to FBBing novices - <b>Natalia Kovalyova</b>, <b>Amanda Smith</b> - <b><i>and</i></b> she beat bigger, more experienced women - <b>Maria Mikola</b>, <b>Jay Fuchs</b>, <b>Rita Bello</b>. <i>I had zero expectations going into the show because this was all new for me,</i> she confessed afterwards, clearly in shock. <i>My only goal was to not look out of place or like I didn’t belong. Regardless of what happened, I was proud of myself to taking on a new challenge, pushing myself out of my comfort zone. I’m still not sure I’ve really grasped that I actually DID win. I’m waiting for someone to pinch me.</i><br />
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So Jill started to prepare for her night on Female Bodybuilding's biggest stage, and the "pinch Jill next time she can't believe that she's won" queue started to form... <br />
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Predictions on the forums before the show (you may remember from <a href="https://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/09/place-your-bets-and-take-your-seats.html" target="_blank">FMS <i>passim</i></a>) made mention of Jill as a possible top 6 finisher, and so it proved. She was - to my eyes (on stalks) anyway - even more cut than she had been in Chicago, and bigger too. <br />
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Her pre-routine film suggested she knows which side her bread is buttered too, with a montage of some of her better-known shots, including the very big finish of a closing zoom into <b><i>that</i></b> shot of her bulging vascular calves (taken some time ago now). <br />
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If any of the ladies' films on the night whipped the heads in the audience into a female muscle lovin' frenzy, this (or should I say <b><i>these?</i></b>) was it. Probably the best calves in the world, and probably in the conversation for the best calves ever, but clearly Jill is so much more than just the sum of these bulging, epic wonders of the female muscle lovin' world, and I think the judges' decision to place her in the top 6 - ahead of <b>Virginia Sanchez</b>, and way ahead of <b>Jay Fuchs</b> - was a fair reflection of that.<br />
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Congratulations to Jill, and I hope she'll forgive me for ending by returning to those calves once again, but this female muscle lovin' boy just can't help himself...<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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<i>For Elms, enjoy my friend!</i><br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-19493390217902316782018-09-14T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-14T23:46:48.267-07:00FMS @RP2018: Swell DigsSix women across three divisions (sorry Benny Boy, no "proper" FBBs today) that made quite the impression on ol' Swell during (and since) last weekend's IFBB Arizona Pro.<br />
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In the order they stepped on stage...<br />
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<i>FITNESS</i><br />
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<b>KRISTINE DUBA</b><br />
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We've already featured Kristine's breathless routine (see Tuesday's <i>Tales from the Feed</i>) but any excuse for a few more of Gene X's pictures of this bouncy blond goddess. She's been a Fitness pro for five years now, and though - amazingly - she's never won a title, Kristine has been to the Olympia twice - 8th in 2016 her best placing. She won't, sadly, be there this weekend though. Sadly for the Olympia audience that is. <br />
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<i>FIGURE</i><br />
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<b>TRACY WILLIAMS</b><br />
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<a href="https://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/09/fms-rp2018-tales-from-feed-part-2.html" target="_blank">Earlier in the week</a> I may have been guilty of giving the impression the Figure division was a bit of a one-woman show - that woman being <b>Cydney Gillon</b> - but in fact there were 24 other women in the line-up. And in a division that only lets in bottoms that provide the most extreme aesthetic pleasure for the viewer, the pleasure was all mine when <b>Tracy Williams</b> faced the back. Probably the most ripped Figure competitor on the night, Tracy (11th) was not as loved by the judges as she was in my house. <br />
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<b>KAREN REYES</b><br />
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We couldn't help but notice her in Tampa (when James Cook took a LOT of photos of her - see <a href="https://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/08/tampa-closer.html" target="_blank">FMS <i>passim</i></a>) and she finished 15th on her pro debut. Here, she had enough going on to finish just outside the top 6. Karen hasn't got much attention from the female muscle lovin' community thus far, but I'm sure it won't be long before her smouldering beauty and banging Figure bod start to get much more <a href="https://www.instagram.com/karena_kaliany_ifbbpro/" target="_blank">IG</a> monitoring.<br />
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<b>PHYSIQUE</b><br />
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<b>RESHANNA BOSWELL</b><br />
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Any women who starts her thirty-second "presentation" with a full frontal most muscular (even Physique-style) is fine by me, and Reshanna went on to display her obvious charms with similar gusto for the other twenty-nine seconds too. Sadly, as she finished outside the top 10, we didn't get any more of this gorgeous woman in the evening, but she's on the FMS Watch List now, so she can expect a bit of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reshanna_boswell_ifbb_pro/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a> surveillance. "Bigger and better" next time, promises this mouth-watering hunk of Chicago-based muscle. A physique worthy of the biggest division of all?<br />
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<b>DENISE CADENAS</b><br />
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The Physique Masters Winner, the well-enhanced Denise finished 7th in the Open class. Like Reshanna, Denise added a full frontal most muscular to her presentation, and thankfully so. It's the only angle from which the judges (and audience and 600+ live feed viewers) could see past those mighty enhancements to her (almost as) plentiful pec meat. With all that going on upstairs her posing suit was in mortal danger - note her tight, tanned, muscular glutes and what's trying to disappear between them.<br />
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<b>AMANDA PTAK</b> <br />
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And our last bit of diggery may be somewhat sentimental, but all the same we very much dug the fact that finally the woman formerly known as <b>Amanda Folstad</b> got to make her pro debut. Once (in a galaxy far far away, ie. 2011) Amanda was <a href="http://contests.npcnewsonline.com/contests/2011/npc_usa_championships/amanda_ptak/" target="_blank">a young Heavyweight(!) at the NPC Nationals</a>. Eight long years later and now an Over 35, <a href="http://contests.npcnewsonline.com/contests/2018/npc_teen_collegiate__masters_national_championships/amanda_ptak/" target="_blank">she won her pro card at the NPC Masters Nationals</a> earlier this year. Great to see the Viking Blond Goddess pose on a pro stage, however briefly. She had "zero expectations" on this occasion, but is determined to be back. <i>Much to improve on!</i> she says. <br />
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Enjoy!6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-335128484620695052018-09-13T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-13T21:37:36.594-07:00FMS @RP2018: #risingphoenixA small selection from social media before, during and after...<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kristina womans the booth</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Even THE Ms Olympia never won anything like this</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">WLTM: Shawna and friend, dressed for the show; next day, and 5th place Figure phenom Kristine Finsaas gets to stand next to the dethroned but still Most Muscular at the RP</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pauline was a bit hungry after</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jill's food porn</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Welcome to our party...</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">After the feed: Virginia </span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wake up in the morning slaving for schmotographers</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The muscle (gene) pool</span></i></b><br />
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Enjoy!<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-65245268540083301862018-09-12T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-12T01:00:09.062-07:00FMS @RP2018: Queen Alina - Reaction<i>Where should I start?</i> wondered Alina in the immediate aftermath of her victory. <i>Adrenaline rush, feelings of elation, chills, tears, enthusiasm, such a mixture of wonderful feelings. I am so overwhelmed I couldn’t even sleep last night.</i><br />
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Truth be told, I wouldn't expect the new #1 Female Bodybuilder in the world to sleep much the night after, though exactly what I imagine her doing all night is probably best left unsaid. Alina, we do know, graced the after party in a tight (what else could it be?) black one-piece, tiara still on. What we don't know is when (or indeed if) she left.<br />
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<i>I'm hoping Alina will get it,</i> wrote one chat room lurker before the show started. <i>It'll piss Margie off and she'll come back next year as massive and ripped as ever.</i> <br />
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I have to admit, my own foresight for Female Bodybuilding doesn't stretch quite that far ahead, but at least <b><i>he</i></b> was pleased with the result. Five or six years ago an Alina triumph at the Olympia would have been met with (metaphorical) dancing in the streets by the female muscle lovin' community. That's not been the case with her Rising Phoenix win though. <i>Fine - I guess,</i> was how <a href="https://implantsandmuscles.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Implants and Muscles</a> greeted the news. <i>[Sheila] Shoulda won, but what do I know? I'm just a pervert into muscle women.</i><br />
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Others were not so modest about their judging qualifications, nor - it seems - very clear about how many women actually get to finish first. <i>[Alina] Has no calves and [was] not so dry - top progress but for me not place one,</i> observed one (apparently highly knowledgeable) forum head. <i>Margie and Sheila is [sic] for me first place.</i> <br />
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<i>Alina is AMAZING but I agree,</i> reads one response. <i>It's almost like the judges were taking her injuries into account and grading on a curve. Or, they thought she was so phenomenal from the knees up that she won regardless. Who can say?</i><br />
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Well, the judges could probably tell you if you asked them nicely. Her lack of calves is the result of an injury apparently, I'm not up on all the facts. A lot was said about them after her win in Tampa in early August, and again there has been a lot of focus on them (or the lack of them) since the weekend. However, while I thought there might be some controversy if Alina won, I imagined conspiracy rather than calves would be the cry.<br />
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After all, Alina is as close to the centre of the Wings of Strength world as it is possible to be. There's even an enormous Alina at WoS headquarters - making it, whether or not other FBBs hang there as well, FMS' official Most Desirable Workplace in the World. It was bound to look like a fix to someone, and here he is - <i>Who are the judges?</i> "outraged" demands to know. <i>Does Jake Wood have a big say in these things?</i> <br />
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Yeah, man. He set the whole thing up just so his girl could win...<br />
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Nonsense of course, but you can see how the right combination of great ignorance and a little information could lead a weak mind to that conclusion. Jake was, in fact, at pains to thank the judges on Saturday night "for making sense of everything going on on stage for us. Without them," he continued, "we'd all just be..." I didn't actually catch exactly what he said - "running around" is what I heard, but I'm not sure. <br />
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Might be a good competition for WoS to run that. Perhaps the first prize could be a day at the WoS booth with all the ladies (or better still a month-long internship at WoS headquarters!). Simply complete the following sentence in no more than 12 words: <i>Without the judges at Female Bodybuilding contests, we'd all just be...</i> <br />
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Driving off into the sunset with Alina in her new Corvette?<br />
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Oh wait! That's probably what Jake did! <br />
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Big cheque she won too. Big enough to wear it seems. <br />
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All of this moaning, however, is fake news really, just a lot of wind (as my ol' Nan - God rest her soul - used to say). The vast majority of fans and Alina's peers (ie. the women who really know what's going on) have been falling over themselves to congratulate her. Along with all her fellow competitors on the night, <b>Dana Shemesh</b>, <b>Jessica Martin</b>, <b>Cristina Maffeis</b>, <b>Ekaterina Grima</b>, <b>Hannah Hallman</b>, <b>Jeannie Paparone</b>, <b>Zoa Linsey</b>, <b>Kennedy Ledgerwood</b>, <b>Noelle Rockwell</b>, <b>Janine Lankowski</b>, <b>Christal Cornick</b>, <b>Valentina Mishina</b>, Aleesha, and of course, her friend, countrywoman and <b>2018 Hottest Hard Woman in the World</b> <b>Oana Hreapca</b> are just some of the thousands - literally <b><i>thousands</i></b> - who have left messages of congratulations for Alina on social media in the last couple of days. <br />
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I do have a soft hard spot for Valentina's touching tribute: <i>You deserve it, my Queen.</i> But if you had to pick one of them to express the sentiments of all, it might be this one: <i>CONGRATULATIONS, Alina. In my opinion, you absolutely should have been a World Champion before, but what matters is you are FINALLY a World Champion... NOW.</i><br />
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6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-69431196985452312652018-09-11T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-11T15:50:03.380-07:00FMS @RP2018: Tales from the Feed (Part 2)<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/bea34c970706244" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/f4/88/e4/bea34c970706244.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a> <br />
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1am UK time. And the evening show feed somewhat bizarrely begins not with a view of the stage but with a male and female host preparing to do their bit to camera. Though their handheld mics are not on, we can hear everything they say. The male host takes exception to the light a member of the audience's phone is shining on him, and gives the unfortunate chap a right dressing down. "See that camera?" says the host, indicating the feed camera after embarrassing the poor man. "The whole world saw that." <br />
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Bit of an exaggeration. There were, at the time, fewer than 200 people watching the feed (according to the on-screen counter anyway). Hardly "the whole world".<br />
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The hosts do their bit, the female host telling us she's just come out from backstage (bit of an exaggeration too, she's been standing right there in plain sight for the last 10 minutes!) and "you can feel the excitement back there". Indeed. <i>Get on with it!</i> I yell at my computer screen, and mercifully they do. The camera pans up to the stage again, and to emcee <b>Sarah Hurrle</b>, who tells us we are about to see the Fitness routines. <br />
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They were, and always are, essential viewing. One by one they came on and performed moves of considerable athleticism and power in breathtaking combinations and at breathtaking speed. Such strength and grace, such flexibility. They are gymnasts and dancers; they are tumblers and contortionists. They are, quite simply, amazing.<br />
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Pick of the routines for me and ultimately the judges were those performed by the eventual top 3 - winner (again) <b>Ryall Graber</b> (above, bottom right), runner-up <b>Jeanine Taddeo</b> (top), and the <b><i>gorgeous</i></b> Duracell-bunny <b>Kristine Duba</b>.<br />
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Time for <b>Cydney Gillon</b> (or "Gillian" as emcee Sarah kept saying - you'd think she'd know how to say Ms Olympia's name!) to pick up her (modest) cheque plus sash plus medal plus tiara plus massive sword (although not necessarily in that order). <br />
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It took a while to get it all on her - <i>She must be used to winning by now!</i> joked Sarah as the licensed schmotographers waited for the medal and sash to get untangled so the post-victory photo could be taken. Cydney, who was one of FMS' <i><a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2017/12/women-of-year.html" target="_blank">Women of the Year</a></i> in 2017 as well as being a big riser on your <b><a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/03/2018-hot-and-hard-100-countdown-40-31.html" target="_blank">Hot and Hard 100</a></b>, looked every inch the flawless champion again here, and this fan - who can never keep his hands above when Cydney's doing her stuff - will definitely be rooting for her at the Figure O this weekend. <br />
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I sent my (sincere and respectful) congratulations to Cyd as the Bikini girls started to come out. When I was done they were still coming out. I did a bit of social media research, made a cup of tea, and checked the chatrooms - and was amazed to find the majority of the female muscle lovin' world were just having a normal Saturday night. Bikini was still going. Almost 3am. Photos from the prejudging had gone up on <a href="https://maximummusclereport.com/contests_category/2018-ifbb-pro-league-arizona-pro/" target="_blank">Maximum Muscle Report</a> I noticed so I browsed - as you do - impatiently. When the FBBing pics started to go up I got even itchier. Bikini awards... Over 40 Bikini...<br />
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<b><i>FINALLY!</i></b><br />
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The top 4 from the morning were again the standout competitors. First out was Michaela - fan favourite of the fan who "only likes the big, freaky FBBs", and then there was <b>Natalia Coelho</b> - emcee Sarah didn't exactly cover herself in glory again: "Natalie Culo"?! The glootilicious <b>Heather Grace</b> was third of the four to perform her routine, and lastly a woman who truly deserves more attention from the female muscle lovin' community than she currently gets - the beautiful, beastly <b>Jennifer Taylor</b>.<br />
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It was close. The judges had the four out again for a comparison, and had them switch positions over and over. What a treat to get to see these four Physique Dreams showing off their spectacular bodies together - a treat, Sarah reminded us, that we will may well get to have again this weekend at the Olympia. Right to the edge they took me - and then, as the judges still couldn't make up their minds, the whole line-up at once. <br />
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<b><i>Posedown!</i></b><br />
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I almost lost it as Michaela elbowed her way to the front and centre and stood slap bang in the spotlight, almost lost it again as <b>Jodi Boam</b> did exactly the same. The only thing this stopped the show of erotic muscle theatre taking me over the edge was the fact that all of a sudden it was over. The judges had decided. Last year's champ Heather took 4th, Michaela 3rd... And then, Sarah announced it. Despite Jennifer's magnificence, the future had won. At just 22, and having only made the switch from Figure after the Olympia last year, Natalia had claimed her 3rd pro title.<br />
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<i>What a body!</i> I said out loud as they all gave her a kiss and a hug in congratulation. Over the music I could just about hear there was plenty of whooping and hollering going on. I pictured myself there, whooping and hollering my appreciation as well, and noticed there were now 600+ watching the live feed. A-whooping and a-hollering all over the world for Natalia and the rest of the Physique Dreams, or like "Benjamin Harrison" (see <a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/09/fms-rp2018-tales-from-feed-part-1.html" target="_blank">yesterday</a>) had they just tuned in too early for the main event?<br />
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And an event it certainly was. Build-up and then build-up for every single one of the 20 women in the line-up via their own personal "films". These ranged in style and quality from Margie's Q&A with herself (who was asking the questions was never made clear, and it had apparently been filmed on someone's phone) to <b>Virginia Sanchez</b>'s much more high production effort, complete with drone shots of Spain's most beast jogging through <i>El Retiro</i>. <b>Pauline Nelson</b>'s included close-ups of her body so close you could see the sweat emerging from the pores - <b><i>HOT!</i></b> - while <b>Jay Fuchs</b> somehow managed to make a day in the life of a top FBB look (and sound) rather dull. We learned <b>Susanna Jacobs</b> and <b>LaDawn McDay</b> are both inspirational teachers, and the best part of Helle's day is taken up with personally training children with disabilities.<br />
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At their best, the films heightened anticipation for the posing routines. And many of these routines - as different as the styles of the films had been - were truly spectacular.<br />
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You expect Sheila's is going to be great, and she never disappoints. As I watched her film, her <i>basso profundo</i> voice got me all excited and ready for her, and as she posed flawlessly in between getting down and sexy on the stage, I was hypnotised.<br />
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<b>Nicki Chartrand</b> was a revelation. Sexy, sassy and quite obviously loving every second of her spotlight moment, she almost flexed her suit off (in my head). Gene X's marvellous shots of her in full flow really capture the ecstasy of it all - for Nicki and this viewer! Her routine was good enough to win the Best Poser award and deservedly so.<br />
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You can hear the crowd - those of them capable of more than a gasp and moan at least (which was all I could manage at that point) - loud and clear. That routine was <b><i>HOT!</i></b><br />
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Margie, who had pretty much outsexied everyone in 2015 and 2016, couldn't quite match it on this occasion. Not that she wasn't very very big and very very sexy, but Nicki held those poses between the killer moves just a bit longer. Margie's routine was, in fact, the shortest of all - less than 90 seconds, in fact - and finished in terms of posing long before the song had finished. For the first time I seriously wondered whether Margie - who looked below her absolutely killer best - had done enough to win again. I noted it at the time (I will send you a pic of the page in my notebook if you like, not that that will prove much regarding when I wrote it, but on request, it's yours to inspect). <br />
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Once again, the Rising Phoenix was producing a show with no clear winner.<br />
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McDay, Mikola and McCready kept my intensity levels high, and then <b>Pauline Nelson</b> took to the stage like a pantheress on heat determined to mate. The 600+ stream viewers the Physique final had had had now dropped to just over 450. <i>Some people don't know what they're missing,</i> I thought to myself, emitting the first of the many long moans of pleasure that Pauline's intensely sensual routine would get out of me. <br />
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Somehow though, I survived Pauline's onslaught. Alina was up next...<br />
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If the clip was up (at the time of writing it wasn't), I'd post it. Unlike Margie, Alina rushed nothing. Every pose lingered - she eyed the muscle, she eyed the judges. Calm, composed, big and beautiful. The word that came to mind at the time (again, notebook if you want it, it's one the same page as my Margie musings Margie) was <b><i>REGAL</i></b>. <br />
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Only Helle left of the "serious contenders". Last year she had, in fact, turned a deficit from the prejudging around in the evening to tie <b>Sheila Bleck</b> and ultimately get the decision. Could she do it again? It would have to be special. I watched <b><a href="http://tour.ftvideo.com/content/genex/contests/2018/RisingPHXAZ/10852_WoSRisingPhoenix_RAW-01144f.jpg" target="_blank">Virginia Sanchez</a></b>, one of the bigger upper bodies in the show, perform a routine fitting of her new-found status as a top 6 regular. But when Helle came on - at least one application of Protan darker than that morning - suddenly Virginia didn't seem quite so big.<br />
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The shock and awe Helle of the 2016 Rising Phoenix was back, and I was shocked and awed for real. Monster mass, massive meat. I made other exclamations as I watched (no doubt actually drooling, my eyes on cartoon stalks, and my hands, well, you can imagine where my hands were) but the one I can print without fear of editorial cutting it out for obscenity was: <b><i>MMMMUSCLE!!!</i></b> It was everywhere. Clearly, Helle had decided that if she was going to lose her title - and all signs from the prejudging indicated that she would - she was going to go down blazing. And it was glorious.<br />
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5am had come and gone. I'd been awake now since 7 the previous morning, and had spent well over 7 hours watching the show's two parts. The last 80 or so minutes had been the most intensely exciting of all. I was 100% ready for my big finish.<br />
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There were comparisons, but I have very little memory of them. <br />
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Sheila v Alina v Margie - Helle, it seemed, hadn't moved into contention.<br />
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I waited for the magic word... <b><i>POSEDOWN!!!</i></b><br />
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I knew this was the end right away. That feeling, that very familiar feeling that I was about to be overwhelmed by muscle, slowly started to work its way through my body. I love that feeling - I probably love it a bit too much, truth be told, and it's a feeling I have never been able to stop craving. But this was not your normal Saturday night feeling, not after the best part of 7 hours of fine female muscle, the last 80 minutes of which had grown gradually more and more intense. This was rather special. <br />
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These (amazing) Gene X shots are not what you see on the feed, which was a wide shot, taking in the entire stage. I struggled at first - where to look with so much meat to choose from? Then individuals and groups came into focus - Isabelle and Margie getting themselves to the front and centre; McCready and Mikola doing the old school thing of hitting the same poses side-by-side, muscle on muscle; and then I see Helle off to the left of the stage, so near the front her toes might actually be over the edge...<br />
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She's demanding attention from the audience over there, pointing at them, then pointing where she wants them to look. The feeling rises in me, I wait for it to reach its climactic peak... Quad shake, that's what she's pointing at, that's where she wants them to look, now the other leg, shake... and <b><i>BOOM!</i></b> No more visuals necessary, my eyes are rolling back in their sockets, my cock engorges in my hand, I <b><i>AM</i></b> that guy in the audience looking up at her, still the reigning Ms Rising Phoenix for another few minutes and the biggest woman on that stage, and she's shaking her quads for my eyes only, because she knows, she knows what it does to me and giving me that feeling of being so helplessly lost in total muscle ecstasy is the last thing she is going to do as the reigning Queen of Muscle and I'm peaking now, <b><i>THIS...</i></b> I can barely talk... <b><i>IS...</i></b> and she can't possibly hear me ... <b><i>ALLL...</i></b> but for some reason I need to tell her... <b><i>FORRR...</i></b> I feel it come and when it comes it comes like... like I don't remember... <b><i>YOUUUUU!!!</i></b> <br />
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<i>It's 5.45am my time. I am somewhat tired and more than a bit boss-eyed. Alina's just been crowned Ms Rising Phoenix 2018, but it was the joyous 20-woman posedown before the prizes were handed out that led to my own - explosive - personal climax.<br />
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Finally, it's over. Helle, thank you. I hope it was wonderful for you too.</i><br />
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</i>6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-48604927568890127442018-09-10T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-10T01:00:06.025-07:00FMS @RP2018: Tales from the Feed (Part 1)<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/8d043b969447884" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/bd/bc/b0/8d043b969447884.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a> <br />
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<i>It's 5.45am my time. I am somewhat tired and more than a bit boss-eyed. Alina's just been crowned Ms Rising Phoenix 2018, but it was the joyous 20-woman posedown before the prizes were handed out that led to my own - explosive - personal climax.</i><br />
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<i>Finally, it's over.</i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Emcee Sarah Hurrle </span></i></b><br />
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Just over 12 hours earlier the live feed from the prejudging had started with the Fitness ladies' two-piece round. Not my favourite bit of a Fitness show - is it anybody's? - so initially at least I was only half-watching. I dipped into the chat. "Benjamin Harrison" (his first language probably not English) was ruling the roost there, his moronic comments ("What is this? Why we have to see Barbie show? We want FBBs!!!") didn't just put me off joining in the conversation, but ultimately everybody else too. <br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cydney Gillon & Karen Reyes</span></i></b><br />
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Figure was next, I heard former Olympian and emcee <b>Sarah Hurrle</b> announce. OK, <b><i>now</i></b> you've got my undivided attention - if not Benjamin's. Unsurprisingly, <b>Cydney Gillon</b> looked - and proved to be - the class of the line-up, and she, together with the sultry <b>Karen Reyes</b> and the ripped <b>Tracy Williams</b>, had me reaching below the keyboard and fantasising I was in the front row for the first time on the day.<br />
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Bikini seemed to last an eternity, so I flicked around social media. Plenty already up from the previous day's check-in and meet-and-greet, plenty of make-up and hair done head shots. However, I clicked back to the feed quick snap when emcee Sarah addressed the crowd: <i>OK you guys, are you ready to see some <b>MUSCLE?!</b></i> <br />
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You couldn't hear the crowd much on the feed - the music and Sarah's microphone very much dominated the soundscape - but this was one of those occasions when you could hear the cheers and whoops and whistles. Then the music started up again, and Michaela came out. After well over an hour, the first beautiful biceps, pecs, back, glutes, abs and thighs were flexed at the Arizona Pro. I sat back and let myself go. In all, 24 Physique Dreams of all ages shapes and sizes brought their muscle to the stage. I imagine the "guys" were impressed, but like I say, you couldn't hear them much.<br />
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The first callout had Michaela, Natalia and <b>Jennifer Taylor</b> at its centre. It looked close between them - not just to me, but more importantly to the judges, who had the ladies changing places during both the first callout and when the top 4 (those three plus defending champ <b>Heather Grace</b>) lined up again for a last callout. Meanwhile, Benjamin had piped down a bit after someone had pointed out to him there was actually a schedule so he shouldn't be too surprised about the running order.<br />
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The Physique Over 40s were going through their comparisons, and backstage a "still waiting!" Sheila passed the time taking selfies with Isabelle, Helle and Alina. I can't speak for Benny, but my own anticipation level was way past 11 by now. Tributes were paid to Tim Gardener, Jake Woods, and Lenda Murray, without whom etc. and Sarah worked the crowd a bit. Once again, she referred to the crowd as "guys", making me wonder if the Rising Phoenix audience really is just a bunch of obsessive drooling heads like me (but with better travel opportunites). <i>Be sure to join us for the after party upstairs at the Chrome Night Club,</i> Sarah said. <b><i>Really?!</i></b> <b><i>Anyone</i></b> can just go hang out?! For a moment, I imagined something pretty damn close to heaven...<br />
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And then it was time for the main event. A bit of bombastic build-up video (heavily featuring, I noted, Yaxeni, <b>Irene Andersen</b>, and <b>Lisa Cross</b> - none of whom were competing this year) and Benny Boy got his wish - the FBBs came thundering on.<br />
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It's such a rare treat to watch female muscle live, even rarer [once a year in fact! - ed.] to see the biggest and best of all. The gulf of size between them and even the biggest of the Physique women was obvious, and - to me, and I dare say to Benny Boy too - quite overwhelming. Gasping and moaning, I didn't know where to look as these beautiful beasts came out five at a time in alphabetical order for a round of initial comparisons. <br />
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<b>Jill Blondn</b>'s epic, thrilling calves; <b>Barbara Carità</b>'s posing top stretched to its absolute limit; Jay's huge quads - the way they have to walk because of their massive legs is in itself fascinating - and that semi-visible coming-together of strange crotch muscles only FBBs have; <b>Tananarive Hue</b>'s apparently<b> <i>immense</i></b> back muscles... <br />
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Maryse is just immense; Wendy's beautiful beefy British bum; <b>Pauline Nelson</b>'s slow, sexy posing style takes me right to the edge; Virginia's massive arms keep me there...<br />
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By the time the first callout is announced, I'm in quite a state. The actual excitement of the competition brings me back above the keyboard though. As I watch, I type this: <br />
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<i>Margie, Alina, Helle and Sheila in first callout <br />
Plus <b>Jill Blondin</b> and <b>Nicki Chartrand</b><br />
Shocker is Helle is at the edge<br />
Margie, Alina and Sheila in the middle<br />
Helle and Jill kept there for 2nd callout plus Virginia<br />
Helle no better than 5th?! <b>Nicki Chartrand</b> 4th maybe - well-deserved she looks great but Helle visibly shocked and Margie seemed to be shocked about it too</i><br />
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It seemed as though both Sheila <b><i>and</i></b> Alina had a genuine shout, and that one of the "Big Four" - Helle - wasn't actually going to be <b><i>in</i></b> the top 4. The women thundered off to very audible applause, cheers, whoops and whistles. That's all folks - for now. <br />
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I opened the chat box. Benny Boy had been typing too:<br />
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<i>###############################################################################################################################ALINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</i><br />
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Only one winner for him then.<br />
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I checked out the social media updates, one hand back down below.<br />
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And realised I probably wasn't going to get much kip before the finals. <br />
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<i>Tales from the Feed</i> continues tomorrow.6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-23434795354752308982018-09-07T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-07T01:00:11.854-07:00Place Your Bets! (And Take Your Seats)<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/ba3377966884674" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/b0/76/7a/ba3377966884674.jpg" height="210" width="400" /></a> <br />
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Pro Female Bodybuilding's biggest night of all is almost here. Extreme weather may have caused a venue change to the Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino, but as scheduled, tomorrow at around 5pm UK time the prejudging will begin, followed by the finals from around 1 in the morning. Get all your jobs done, get some kip while you can, and get comfy. <a href="https://www.digitalmuscle.com/digital-muscle-news/live-webcast-announced-for-rising-phoenix-world-championships/" target="_blank">Digital Muscle</a> will once again be broadcasting the entire Arizona event.<br />
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We previewed the show before the official line-up was announced - see <i>Save the Date <a href="https://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/08/save-date-part-1.html" target="_blank">(Part 1)</a></i> and <i><a href="https://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/08/save-date-part-2.html" target="_blank">(Part 2)</a></i> - and of the 22 qualified women we featured over those two posts, only <b>Tara Silzer</b> and <b>Amanda Smith</b> do not appear on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BnWV8RSFYcG/?hl=en&taken-by=wingsofstrength" target="_blank">the official scorecard</a>.<br />
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Maybe next year?<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The "Big Four" - the last time: Rising Phoenix 2016</span></i></b><br />
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One the great strengths of the Rising Phoenix since its inception has been the lack of a clear favourite. It's been a genuine contest every time, and this year is no exception. Ruth Silverman, in <a href="https://www.digitalmuscle.com/master-archive/previewing-the-rising-phoenix/" target="_blank">her preview for Digital Muscle</a>, reckons there are "four serious title contenders", and overall, those forum posters who have expressed an opinion agree.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Margie - winning @RP2016 </span></i></b><br />
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No prizes for guessing who comes first on the list!<br />
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The winner of the first two RPs is back again after a year of "retirement" in 2017. She qualified without any fuss at all in Toronto, simply overwhelming the rest of the line-up, however this will be a much much tougher test. This year she has neither the momentum that carried her from her Tampa win in 2015 straight to the inaugural RP title, nor the advantage of having only one contest to prepare for as was the case in 2016. Still, she definitely has an aura about her these days, and if you follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marvelousv/?hl=en" target="_blank">her Instagram</a>, you'll know she's in absolutely jaw-dropping shape. Comebacks are never easy, but Margie is definitely the most fancied horse at the starting gate. <b>[what? - ed.]</b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Helle - winning @RP2017</span></i></b><br />
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Reigning champ <b>Helle Trevino</b> is the most popular choice for runner-up, though some predictions on the forum (whose first rule is) place her 1st, others as low as 4th. In her favour is the only one contest to prepare for thing, against her is the fact that the last time she beat Margie was Chicago in 2015 - and by the end of that season it was Margie who was beating <b><i>her</i></b>. She was, without question, a worthy champion last year, but needed a Head Judge tie-breaker decision to beat <b>Sheila Bleck</b>. The general consensus is that she probably won't win for a second year running, but will once again be - as she has been at every RP - the best she can be and in the first callout.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Queens of Tampa - Sheila 2017, Alina 2018</span></i></b><br />
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3rd and 4th will, according to the forum heads, be between the other two "contenders": last year's runner-up <b>Sheila Bleck</b>, and the one-time Iris challenger and Tampa Pro champion <b>Alina Popa</b>. Interestingly, no one has predicted Sheila to win, and of these "Big Four", Alina has the biggest spread of predicted placings - from 1st to 6th(!). Neither of them, it seems to me, have been especially lucky in the past - Alina's repeated futile attempts to snatch Iris' Ms Olympia crown, Sheila's two 2nd place RP finishes in 2016 and 2017. Alina tends to do worse than forum types imagine she will do, but Sheila better, so if there is to be a "surprise" winner, I'd bet on Bleck.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jill & Jay (Chicago, 2018); Isabelle (Omaha, 2018) & Virginia @RP2017</span></i></b><br />
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Other than those four, <b>Jill Blondin</b>, <b>Jay Fuchs</b>, <b>Isabelle Turell</b>, and <b>Virginia Sanchez</b> all get "votes". Ruth Silverman - and let's face it, she knows more than the collective "we" put together - thinks Virginia and Britain's <b>Wendy McCready</b> most likely to repeat their top 6 placings from 2017. Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing <b>Pauline Nelson</b>, who didn't place last year, and who I think is as good a dark horse bet as any. <b>[ah! we've returned to the equine motif I see - ed.]</b><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The darkest of horses?! - Pauline (Tampa, 2018)</span></b></i><br />
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I'm <b><i>SO</i></b> excited. In a perfect world FMS would be hosting a "Watch the Rising Phoenix" event in some swanky Central London private venue, a place where we could all meet up and show our appreciation all together... but second prize isn't too bad - by accident rather than design, the wife is out of town. For the second year in a row on RP weekend I've got the house all to myself, so however predictable or not the result proves to be, I intend to enjoy myself to the full. It's definitely going to be a <b><i>BIG</i></b> <b><i>BIG</i></b> night! <br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Helle v Sheila: Rising Phoenix 2017</span></i></b><br />
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As we (and, I dare say, you) are going to be rather busy this weekend, there won't be any posts. FMS will be back on Monday - news from Arizona, and tales of the live feed.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-15941964731331551292018-09-06T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-06T01:00:03.935-07:00Woman of the Week: FBBUK: Emily Brand<i>She's my current dream girl,</i> my internet female muscle head friend tells me - he has a bit of a penchant for the younger ladies, you see. <i>Her transformation pics are hot af!</i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Relax, Emily's 20 now</span></b></i><br />
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To be honest, I'd never heard of Lincolnshire's <b>Emily Brand</b> before my friend told me about her - me having a bit of a penchant for the more mature muscle ladies, you see. And, quite honestly too, I found her transformation pics more upsetting than "hot af", because her story begins with an anorexic teenager. Her weight: 5st 3lbs (just 33kg).<br />
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At 14, Emily spent a year as a child mental health in patient. <i>The doctors tried to put me on a feeding tube,</i> she says. <i>I ripped it straight out. Then they tried to get me to drink these high calorie shakes and I would just sneak out of bed and tip them out the window.</i> Though she did get well enough to return home, she soon relapsed, and at 17 she was readmitted. This time though some tough love helped her turn herself around. <i>When you go into the unit you're not allowed weekend home visits until you've got to a certain weight,</i> she explains. <i>In the end, I ate my way out. I just did what I had to do to get home. I still hadn't completely overcome the psychological side of my anorexia but I was more determined to get better and I joined the gym.</i><br />
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It wasn't an instant cure by any means - to begin with, and despite the fact Emily plucked up the courage to enter some Bikini shows - she was, in her own words, "still trying to function on way too few calories". It was only when she met her current coach, Rob Reinaldo, that Emily truly began to overcome her illness. And he did it with a little more tough love. <i>He said he would train me and get me into bodybuilding but he really put his foot down when it came to my eating,</i> recalls Emily. <br />
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A year on, and she has gained 3st (almost 20kg!) of muscle - and it shows! <br />
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As a result, she's moved up a division or two in her competitive outings. Athletic Figure (or equivalent) is I believe where you will find Emily now. And the chances are she's competed at a PCA or WABBA show near you in 2018. She'd done seven by mid-August, according to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6058459/Anorexic-weight-plummeted-FIVE-STONE-turned-life-bodybuilding-champion.html" target="_blank">the Mail Online</a>, and "has consistently placed in the top four and been crowned champion three times". Since then, she's competed - and won - at least once more, and with the PCA British Finals not happening till October, I wouldn't be surprised if Emily got tanned and oiled for another two or three shows this year!<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">To the victor... (pick 'n' mix out of the trophy!)</span></i></b><br />
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<i>I can't believe how much my life has changed,</i> says Emily. <i>It's amazing to think I was in a wheelchair just three years ago. People say that weightlifting hurts but what I put my body through with my anorexia was so painful that weightlifting is nothing...</i> <br />
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<i>I really love it, and I'm loving life.</i><br />
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Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_emjbrand98_/?hl=en" target="_blank">Emily on Instagram</a>. Her story was first reported by <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/pics/woman-overcomes-anorexia-which-left-her-in-wheelchair-to-become-bodybuilder/" target="_blank">Unilad</a>, then picked up by <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6058459/Anorexic-weight-plummeted-FIVE-STONE-turned-life-bodybuilding-champion.html" target="_blank">the Mail</a>, and also featured in <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/7011330/former-anorexic-weight-dropped-qualified-bodybuilding-world-championships/" target="_blank">The Sun</a>. And if you do have a moment spare, perhaps a letter to your local MP, or whoever is in charge of the Department of Health in your government right now, asking them to read Emily's (or another FBB's) story and get weight training on the list of recommended treatments for anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders. It will probably fall on deaf ears, but if you don't try...<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-39117847432600046202018-09-05T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-05T01:00:00.870-07:00Pearl @Venice Film Festival<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/29be2e962374004" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/17/77/7e/29be2e962374004.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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The last update we gave you on <i>Pearl</i>, French director Elsa Amiel's debut feature, was back in April, and big news it was - news that Swiss sizzler <b>Julia Föry</b> had been cast as the film's eponymous heroine. <i>The film is currently "in post-production",</i> we noted, <i>meaning it could well be doing the festival rounds as early as this summer.</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Julia Föry as Pearl </span></b><br />
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And that is indeed what has happened. Shown in Venice last Saturday, the film has had "strong word-of-mouth" according to <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20180830-hilarious-royal-comedy-leads-feisty-female-films-venice" target="_blank">France24</a>. And the first review - on <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2018/08/pearl-review-venice-elsa-amiel-julia-fory-peter-mullan-1201997325/" target="_blank">Indie Wire</a> - praises both the film for "subverting the male gaze in striking fashion", <b><i>and</i></b> Julia, "whose acting debut suggests her abilities as a performer aren’t confined to the stage".<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Julia (with Peter Mullan) in <i>Pearl</i></span></b><br />
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There's also the first stills, <b><i>and</i></b> the first preview clip, which - though we don't get to see what shape Julia is in - demonstrates that she has more than enough star quality to hold the camera's attention. Plus we all get to play a bit of "Spot the FBB Extra".<br />
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What we'd really like to see though, is the film in its entirety! Even more so after reading Indie Wire writer Michael Nordine's description of its opening moments...<br />
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<i>The first close-up is almost microscopic, so close to the skin you can see sweat emanating from individual pores as you try to discern what body part you’re looking at. Then the camera pulls back ever so slightly, just enough for you to realize you’re inches away from the base of a woman’s neck — might this be Pearl? — as she pushes herself to the limit on a weight machine. The music, a dreamy guitar riff that wouldn’t be out of place in a David Lynch film, isn’t as loud as her pained exhalations.</i><br />
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More news on <i>Pearl</i> as soon as we get it.<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-88015144519355735752018-09-04T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-04T01:00:04.689-07:00ROARRRRR!!!<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/676f8f961468854" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/6d/fa/94/676f8f961468854.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/abb54a961468874" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/4e/b8/68/abb54a961468874.jpg" /></a> <br />
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With <b>Shannon Rabon</b> (<b>-Perdikis</b>) the Overall Bodybuilding champion (we warned you! - see <a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/08/more-summer-lovin-summer-of-shannon.html" target="_blank">FMS <i>passim</i></a>) and one of three new Female Bodybuilding pros, plus <b>Dana Shemesh</b> (<b>-Meirovitch</b>) among the 20(!) new Physique pros, this will not be the last and only time FMS pays a visit to last weekend's NPC North Americans in Pittsburgh.<br />
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However, our initial research hasn't got much further than the (always) stunning (especially so because she now competes in Physique) <b>Lauren Martin-Stow</b>.<br />
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There were a lot of ladies in the Physique division, but I seriously doubt any of them had as good a time on stage as Lauren. Or at least that's how she makes it seem.<br />
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Hardly the biggest, hardly the most ripped - she doesn't even look that tanned, or oiled up for that matter. But these normal prerequisites just go right out of the window when there's so much emoting going on. Just her range of expression as she performed her chest pose was surely enough to cause all sorts of mess for heads in the audience. <br />
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And as for the side triceps... <br />
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Was anyone lucky enough to have actually been there? Did she actually roar? Did it shake the auditorium to its foundations, make the building's structure unsafe? Did subsequent classes have to be held in a hastily rearranged alternative venue?<br />
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Answers on a postcard please.<br />
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And as an extra treat, here she is emoting in motion.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/laurenforshehulk/?hl=en" target="_blank">Lauren for She Hulk!</a> And She-Ra. And Wonder Woman...<br />
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Oh, and she was 2nd in her class. Good enough. Lauren is a pro now.<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-2290950286222064232018-09-03T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-03T01:00:06.911-07:00Underrated: Tatianna Butler<i>A new occasional series, Underrated is not intended to be about judging decisions - if it was, we could probably run a post about every single woman who's ever competed! Instead, we aim to (re)focus on women who we think do not enjoy the prominence they deserve in the collective female muscle consciousness - someone a new recruit to the female muscle lovin' world would not necessarily come across.</i><br />
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<b>UNDERRATED?</b><br />
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Less than 30 pics on GwM, and no more than a five-page thread on the forum whose first rule is... and the majority of those pages are taken up with more recent, post-retirement pics (more about that later). It's highly unlikely - as it is with all of the women we feature on <i>Underrated</i> - that you would underrate her if you know her, but with that kind of coverage, then it's also unlikely you have come across Tatianna unless you're old enough to remember her from her turn of the millennium pomp. <br />
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She was of that era when the line-ups at the USAs and the Nationals read like a list of all-time favourites compiled by some 40-something muscle head (like me). <b>Sarah Dunlap</b>, <b>Heather Policky</b>, <b>Bonnie Priest</b>, <b>Gina Davis</b>, <b>Colette Nelson</b>, <b>Michelle Tuggle</b>, <b>Lora Ottenad</b>, <b>Sherry Smith</b>... I could go on. She competed with distinction against all of them, she totally looked the part, but ultimately Tatianna - despite a couple of top 6 finishes - never placed high enough to win her pro card and compete at the very highest level. After a (thankfully) brief (and unsuccessful) dalliance with the Figure division, she would only ever get out her posing suits again for paying clients. She went "under the radar" as I believe they say on the dark side.<br />
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<b>CAREER</b><br />
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If she was competing now and at her 2001-2002 peak, I'd say she would have won just about all of the IFBB shows so far in 2018, with only the Toronto Pro a possible exception. However, in her time she was just one of a thunderous cohort of soon-to-be greats and others, like her, who would have been greats in another decade.<br />
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From Baltimore, we first find her competing locally at the Eastern USA Championships in 1996 as a "novice". Four years later she is at the Atlantic States Championships earning her only class and Overall win.The year after that, at her first national level show - the NPC USAs - she makes the Heavyweight top 6, and then at the North Americans places 4th behind <b>Lisa Aukland</b>, <b>Colette Nelson</b> and <b>Carmen Brady</b>.<br />
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Though she undoubtedly looked great in 2001, her peak, I would say, came in 2002 at the NPC Nationals. In a Heavyweight division packed with some of the best female muscle ever (not only compared to today but also any other day) Tatianna placed 4th, a 5'9" ripped ebony Amazon showing off her genetic gifts and exceptional development in all their glistening pumped glory. In the judges' opinions, she was bettered on the day only by <b>Sherry Smith</b>, <b>Alley Miesch-Nie</b> and Overall winner <b>Sarah Dunlap</b>. She never reached such competitive heights again - placing 13th at the Nationals in 2003, and the less said about the return as a Figure competitor in 2005 the better. <br />
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If you haven't noticed already though, it's time to point out that as well as being a 5'9" ebony Amazon, Tatianna was (and still is, more about this later), an absolutely gorgeous woman. This muscle + beauty combo was then, as now, much in demand on the schmotography circuit, and while it's not easy to find contest pics of Tatianna, she did more than her fair share of glamour work. WPW/Ray Martin (as always) got in earlier than most, much of their work with her done while she was very much in her voluptuous (and quite frankly f***ing <b><i>ginormous</i></b>) off-season shape.<br />
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There was work with Physique Art (remember them?!) and others that showcased Tatianna in pretty much a "mainstream" glamour kind of way - a model who just happened to have massive muscles! Awefilms, on the other hand, tended to use her as an "action girl", beating up unfortunate/fortunate (depending on your point of view) male weaklings in mini-movies "Sista Paine" and "Gladiatrix FemMuscle Action".<br />
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She was also memorably (in my house) shot by Ivana Ford (again, remember <b><i>her?!</i></b>) and perhaps most memorably of all by Bill Dobbins, <a href="http://img186.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=20788_page1_jpg_122_77lo.jpg" target="_blank">wearing nothing but some sand</a>.<br />
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<b>APPRECIATION</b><br />
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The day after the muscle worship episode of <i>Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends</i> aired, I overheard four women in my office discussing the show, and particularly the Female Bodybuilders it featured. "Yuk!" was pretty much the capsule review - Louis spends most of his time talking to <b>Maria Calo</b> and her (short-lived) husband, you may recall. I expected nothing less, I'd been bitterly disappointed not so much by the portrayal of the world I was so fascinated by, but more the choice of subjects. They could have had <b>Yaz Boyum</b>, but instead we got Maria, and the fans Louis spoke to... embarrassing. But then one of the women says, "except Tatianna" and to my delight they all agreed. She was "lovely" they said, "such a sweet person", "so girly", "yes, very feminine".<br />
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And it wasn't just on British TV that Tatianna got noticed. She was a regular on those US chat shows that used to feature FBBs from time to time in a kind of "all woman" pro-female muscle way (those were the days, eh?!). Hardly surprising then that Dobbins selected Tatianna (not, note, <b>Maria Calo</b>) to represent his work on <i>The Tonight Show with Jay Leno</i> when doing publicity for his (racy) book <i>Modern Amazons</i>. <br />
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She was - on top of being an outstanding amateur Bodybuilder at a time when future legends were all over the NPC - an articulate, funny, stunningly beautiful, strong woman. And whatever "it" is that makes some muscle women capable of reaching out towards the mainstream and not being mocked, she had that in spades as well. <br />
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<b>NOW</b><br />
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As you can see, she has still got most of those qualities today. <i>She's still hot,</i> one forum poster says. <i>She's just not big anymore.</i> Oh <b><i>really?!</i></b> That bicep is an illusion, is it? <br />
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Watch that (mostly cringeworthy) Louis Theroux episode in full <a href="http://www.documentarytube.com/videos/louis-theroux-bodybuilding" target="_blank">here</a>, or just the "Meets Fans of Female Bodybuilders" segment <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OWqz5FMEY0" target="_blank">here</a>. I haven't turned up any of the Jay Leno footage, so if you know where it can be found then please do get in touch.<br />
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<i>Underrated</i> will return.<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-81616895762393935762018-09-02T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-02T01:00:07.498-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': SizzlerNot an "official" <i>Sunday Sizzler</i>, but it is Sunday and this woman is volcano hot, so...<br />
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Kim is one half of "The Dynamic Duo", a couple "working on their fitness" and documenting that work on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/the_dynamic_duo_life/" target="_blank">their shared Instagram</a>. Don't be scared though, I say "shared", but you could count the pics that feature Mike on one hand, while you'll need more than one hand to count the pics of his hot and hard better half posted today.<br />
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We're posting just the one.<br />
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We think it'll make you want to see more...<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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Summer and <i>Summer Lovin'</i> ends here. FMS is back to normal tomorrow. <br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-21418321162729028092018-09-01T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-01T01:00:01.221-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': Bumbum #1<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/553357958887984" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/51/da/d5/553357958887984.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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Despite hot, hard and disproportionately developed competition from the likes of <b>Suelen Bissolati</b> and more recently <b>Alessandra Alvez</b>, <b>Gracyanne Barbosa</b> remains Brazil's <i>bumbum</i> #1. Heading towards <a href="https://www.instagram.com/graoficial/?hl=en" target="_blank">7 million Instagram followers</a> - Suelen and Alessandra both have less than half a million, and even <b>Eva Andressa Vieira</b> with 4.6 million isn't in the same league - and, although not a competitive Bodybuilder, Gracyanne was in your <b><a href="https://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/03/2018-hot-and-hard-100-countdown-100-81.html" target="_blank">Hot and Hard 100</a></b> for the fifth consecutive year in 2018.<br />
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Mostly, it's Gracyanne's spectacular lower body, her world-renowned <i>bumbum</i> and thunder thighs, that get all the attention - and rightly so. However, I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed that recently as well as adding definition to her prodigious size down below, Gracyanne has also been getting bigger and more defined up top.<br />
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This is all good. As a female muscle lover, more muscle is <b><i>always</i></b> good. But spare a thought for Gracyanne. Suddenly nothing in her wardrobe (that isn't super stretchy) seems to fit anymore. <i>For a while I could still do my jeans up as long as I didn't have any underwear on,</i> she explains. <i>But now I can't even do that.</i> Worse still, her ever-growing body has actually <b><i>destroyed</i></b> a fair portion of her wardrobe. <i>Not that anyone's complained, but it's pretty awkward when your top just rips open in public,</i> she says. <i>And I'm having my lingerie custom-made now because everything off-the-peg bursts at the seams as soon as I put it on.</i> Not that her husband's complaining...<br />
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Is her love of pole fitness responsible for this growth spurt?<br />
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Or is it - notwithstanding somewhat ridiculous accusations that she is the "Queen of Fake Weights" (ie. that in her training videos the amount she seems to be shifting is just a few actual weights plus a load of 0kg "fake" ones) - simply that she trains <b><i>really</i></b> hard?<br />
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Whatever she's doing, it's working.<br />
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<i>Ai karamba!</i><br />
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<b>[NB: Gracyanne Barbosa had nothing to do with the making of today's post, and all quotes attributed to her are completely made up - FMS Legal]</b><br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-47601227158609950842018-08-31T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-31T01:00:02.670-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': Wild & Wholesome<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/0af936958740894" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/21/4e/dc/0af936958740894.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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As women who feature heavily in <a href="https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/images/?order=scoreday" target="_blank">GwM's High Score Today</a> go, <b>Amanda Ballengee</b> is - in my experience - rather unique. <i>Exquisite muscle beauty,</i> one comment reads, <i>but completely different to the usual on this site - no gym pics found at all!</i><br />
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No gym pics found on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/amandaballengee/" target="_blank">her Instagram</a> nor <a href="https://www.amandaballengee.com/" target="_blank">website</a> either. Instead we have Amanda picking blueberries (she can pick and carry a lot with those arms). There's Amanda with her gun dog artwork. There's Amanda with her guns (handguns and semi-automatics) and her other weapon of choice, her bow. And there's Amanda "checking cams and taking names" (eh?!) in the West Virginia woodland she calls home.<br />
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The title of today's post - <a href="https://www.amandaballengee.com/blog/" target="_blank"><i>Wild & Wholesome</i> - is the name of the blog</a> which you can read on her website, and while she clearly has an affinity for "the wild", just how "wholesome" you find her will be very much a matter of personal opinion. To some, she is simply "a lovely country girl", "a strong, confident woman representative of our Western Christian culture". To others, she is "a crazed Christian conservative".<br />
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Find out how "wholesome" <b><i>you</i></b> think Amanda is on <a href="https://www.amandaballengee.com/" target="_blank">her website</a> and/or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/amandaballengee/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. <br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-40431333458100217402018-08-30T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-30T01:00:00.394-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': That Intellectual Look<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/0d29dd958549164" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/2f/6c/22/0d29dd958549164.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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A few years ago an old friend of mine (real not online), very successful in his field of business, decided he was going to get himself some glasses. He didn't need to wear them, there was, and as far as I know still is, absolutely nothing wrong with his vision. He just felt he needed to look a bit more intellectual in meetings, where he was often up against guys who "just looked so f***ing intelligent" with their specs on.<br />
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There's quite a lot of him in C. Moore Glootz - the bluster, the sideways point of view, the egocentricity (not that he isn't a lovely guy underneath all that!). Strangely though, some recent research reported in the UK media has suggested that not only was my old friend correct in thinking wearing glasses makes you <b><i>look</i></b> smarter, but also that there may actually be a link between having poor eyesight and being intelligent.<br />
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<i>Research commissioned by Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care and carried out by OnePoll.com found one third believe spectacle wearers look more intellectual than those who don't have prescription eyewear. The research also found 32 per cent of glasses wearers think they are perceived 'differently' when they wear glasses.</i> <br />
[<a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5467408/wearing-glasses-really-does-make-you-look-more-intelligent-survey-shows/" target="_blank"><b>The Sun</b>, 31 January 2018</a>]<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Built to last: <b>Gaby Quiros</b> is smart enough to find the Corinth Canal</span></i><br />
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<i>A new study published in the journal</i> Nature Communications <i>has found that needing to wear glasses is associated with higher levels of intelligence. In the study, the largest of its kind ever conducted, researchers from the University of Edinburgh analyzed cognitive and genetic data from over 300,000 people aged between 16 and 102 that had been gathered by the UK Biobank and the Charge and Cogent consortia. Their analysis found “significant genetic overlap between general cognitive function, reaction time, and many health variables including eyesight, hypertension, and longevity”. Specifically, people who were more intelligent were almost 30% more likely to have genes which might indicate they’d need to wear glasses.</i><br />
[<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/30/glasses-smarter-study-intelligence-bad-eyesight-link-health-benefits" target="_blank"><b>The Guardian</b>, 30 May 2018</a>]<br />
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Whether what's brought it on is the (sometime) glasses wearing Swoon of the Year <b>Shannon Seeley</b>, or my recent deep exploration of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/amandinha1/?hl=en" target="_blank"><b>Amanda Machado</b>'s Instagram</a>, or something else entirely, over the last couple of weeks I've been actively searching for and collecting images of bespectacled muscular beauties for FMS. <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Jana Beeckman</b> makes sure everything matches</span></i><br />
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Am I entering some kind of brawn plus brains period?<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Rachael Chaskey</b> has read at least one book</i></span><br />
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Anecdotal evidence on the forums abounds with suggestions that some muscle women are, in fact, just as "meat-headed" as (I imagine all) male BBs (to be). I've never seen FBBs as anything less than brilliantly intelligent simply because they've chosen right, chosen the correct answer if you like - a life devoted to Bodybuilding. <br />
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So I dismiss that kind of forum chatter. For one thing, there are the actually academically qualified and professionally high-achieving types (see below), but what about <b>Cory Everson</b>, who plotted a career into the mainstream that remains unrivalled? What about <b>Denise Masino</b> or <b>Lisa Cross</b> or <b>Brandi Mae Akers</b>, who have turned their talents to money-making via muscle erotica? What about <b>Emery Miller</b>, chatting away to her fans on cam and managing to be engaging and apparently knowledgeable across a wide range of subjects? The most popular Female Bodybuilders, more often than not it seems to me, appeal not only to our baser physical instincts, but can also reach the largest of erogenous zones - our brains. <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Doctor <b>Alex Mossbarger</b></span></i><br />
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In a thread called "Female Bodybuilders with a High IQ", <b>Bettina Kadet</b> (now <b>Salomone</b>) (optometrist), <b>Kathy Connors</b> (well-read, knew "an impressive amount" about a minor African conflict according to a head who met her), <b>Cerra Aredia</b> (lawyer), <b>Dina Al Sabah</b> (polyglot, BSc, MSc, MBA), Dr. <b>Michelle Neil</b>, Dr. <b>Dena Westerfield</b>, <b>Heather Darling</b> ("accomplished" lawyer), the late great <b>Renee O'Neil</b> (BSc, MSc, missile defence program director), <b>Chris Lydon</b> (did Neurobiology and French, then graduated from Yale Medical School before discovering Bodybuilding), and, of course, <b><a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2017/02/then-now-2007.html" target="_blank">Kristy Hawkins</a></b> (chemist) all get shout outs. <br />
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None of them - as far as I know - are famous for wearing specs though...<br />
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Neither are many of the women we've featured today, and some I was genuinely surprised to find wearing glasses - <b>Cass Martin</b>, for example, <b>Michaela Aycock</b>, <b>Ashlee Potts</b>, and <b>Megan Elizabeth Colvin</b>. Only one or two - <b>Paige Sandgren</b> being the obvious example - are more commonly seen <b><i>with</i></b> than without eyewear, and much of Paige's geeky-girl-next-door appeal stems from that very fact.<br />
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Do the rest of them know what my old friend worked out and the later research confirmed (sort of) - that glasses really do make you look more intelligent? <br />
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It's win-win as far as I can tell. If they really do need to wear the glasses then research shows they are likely to be have clever genes anyway. And even if they are wearing them solely for effect, well that just shows how smart they are too. Either way my suspicions are confirmed. Muscle women are as brainy as they are beautiful.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-5047712656362815312018-08-29T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-29T01:00:01.905-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': MmmmarelizeJust the one pic today, but if you haven't come across South African <b>Marelize Stander</b> before, we're guessing it will spur you on to further investigation.<br />
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<i>Hair, naels</i> [sic] <i>and striations</i> is Marelize's own title for this selfie <i>meesterstuk</i>. This 34-year-old muscle beauty reckons she has been training for 20 years, and looking at that right royal <i><a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2016/06/pectus-cibum.html" target="_blank">pectus cibum</a></i>, I see she hasn't had many days off in that time. Easy too to see why she recently became South Africa's national PCA Trained Figure champion.<br />
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More of Marelize's irresistibly gorgeous muscle meat on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marelizestander_/?hl=en" target="_blank">her Instagram</a><br />
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Enjoy!<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-65393756418713201912018-08-28T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-28T01:00:02.168-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': Summer of ShannonNo, not <b><i>another</i></b> gushing tribute to Swoon of the Year <b>Shannon Seeley</b> (see <i>Summer Lovin': My Summer of Shannon</i>). Instead, a gushing tribute to another <b>Shannon</b> - <b>Rabon</b>, or <b>Rabon-Perdikis</b>, or even <b>(Rabon) Perdikis</b> as she is known now.<br />
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Shannon, <b><i>that</i></b> Shannon, you may remember, had a bit of history with the female muscle lovin' community in the (very) early noughties - "the Shannon Courtney of her day" according to one forum poster - and then disappeared completely. A couple of years ago though, she came back to us, even more glorious than before... and competed in the Physique division at the Jr. USAs, with predictably disappointing and "judges said I was too big" results. We, however, were a lot less immune to Shannon's charms - both those she had retained and those she had built over the top of those familiar ones - and she smashed into your <a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2017/03/2017-hot-and-hard-100-countdown-20-11.html" target="_blank"><b>Hot and Hard 100</b> top 20</a> in 2017, and was there again <a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/03/2018-hot-and-hard-100-countdown-20-11.html" target="_blank">this year</a> despite not having done a show since that 2016 appearance.<br />
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Well, on August 5th at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel...<br />
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She was no Physique competitor this time. Shannon - in all her suit-threatening glory - was the sole Female Bodybuilder at the NPC Stewart Fitness Championships.<br />
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More than enough woman.<br />
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And, excitingly, this is only the first of her planned shows for 2018. Very soon, Shannon will be chasing her pro card at the IFBB North Americans. And as she's an over 40 now, so limited competition, I'm fairly confident that she'll get it.<br />
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Follow her final preparations <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shannonrabonofficial/?hl=en" target="_blank">on Instagram </a><br />
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Read the Shannon story (up to and including 2016) on <a href="http://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-return-of-shannon-rabon.html" target="_blank">FMS <i>passim</i></a>.<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-21099040554520565722018-08-27T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-27T01:00:06.109-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': Sun's (Still) Out...<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/e2c2bc956297664" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/95/c4/b7/e2c2bc956297664.jpg" height="299" width="400" /></a> <br />
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<b>Kim Gutierrez</b><br />
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A continuation of/companion piece to our <a href="https://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/07/summer-lovin-suns-out.html" target="_blank"><i>Summer Lovin'</i> post with (almost) the same name in July</a>. FMS proudly presents another installment of hot and hard women out and about and showing off their muscles - at times outrageously so - in the sun.<br />
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<b>HIKE</b><br />
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Unidentified lady with calves <br />
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<b>RIDE</b><br />
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One thing that <b><i>hasn't</i></b> changed about Shannon is her love of equines<br />
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<b>GO TO WATER</b><br />
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<b>Jennifer Keller</b><br />
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Whether it's the pool or a (real or artifical) lake, there are cooling alternatives to the beach for the terminally land-locked when the mercury rises. Having said that though, it's hard to imagine any of these bodies truly having a cooling effect on the local environment, particularly <b>Maria Garcia</b> emerging Bond-girl-of-my-dreams-like from the pool in a Bikini that reveals only slightly less than no Bikini at all would.<br />
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<b>Anna Laskowska</b> (left) and unidentified ripped beauty<br />
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<b>Jacquelyn Hickerson</b><br />
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The definition of <i>caliente</i>?<br />
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<b>HIT THE STREETS</b><br />
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<b>Vivi Winkler</b><br />
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No excuse necessary, but high temperatures mean fewer clothes - the perfect chance to expose all those parts of your body you've been working so hard to perfect. <br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/37dcb5956297804" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/cf/43/0a/37dcb5956297804.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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<b>Kristina Moser</b> <br />
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<b>Laura Gallardo Herrero</b> (left) and <b>Zsoka Halasz</b> boost tourism<br />
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<b>Diana Schnaidt</b> (left) and <b>Ashley Hromyak</b> entertain the locals<br />
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<b>FLEX FOR FOOD</b><br />
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"Roxy" is the only name we have for her, unfortunately. We're pretty sure, however, that a lady as good-looking as she is, who has such thick, suckable biceps as she does, won't have later walked out of The Protein House having paid for her meal.<br />
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<b>SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TEAM</b><br />
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Flamengo, in case you were thinking of joining <b>Alessandra Alvez</b>'s tribe.<br />
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<b>KEEP US SAFE</b><br />
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"Misty"<br />
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Summer is not all play. Someone has to pull us out of the burning building, someone has to arrest those perps. I feel I would sleep more soundly if I knew all fire fighters and police officers were a) female, and b) carried as much muscle as these gems.<br />
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<b>Inja Damjanovic</b><br />
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<b>GET THOSE JOBS DONE</b><br />
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Gutters don't clear themselves, you know.<br />
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Today's late August Bank Holiday here in the UK (not Scotland) always serves to remind us that autumn chills are indeed not far away. Until then though, we hope that all our friendly neighbourhood muscle women continue to show it all off. <br />
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<b>Frida Paulsen Stern</b><br />
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Enjoy!<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-21465914696629816962018-08-26T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-26T01:00:10.094-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': Stalker?Saw "Not Emma Paveley" again today (time of writing). She's still got it, but this time it wasn't quite as exciting as previously (see <i><a href="https://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/07/woman-of-week-not-emma-paveley.html" target="_blank">Woman of the Week: NOT Emma Paveley</a></i>, see <i><a href="https://femalemuscleslave.blogspot.com/2018/08/street-of-joy-street-of-shame.html" target="_blank">Street of Joy, Street of Shame</a></i>). Although I did one of my silent moans, for the very first time I resisted the urge to turn around and follow her (and her "normal" friend). <br />
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Now this may be because I've discovered a bit more self-control (as if!) but more likely it's because yesterday (again, time of writing) I sighted another muscular woman, a woman that "Not Emma" - for all her impressive muscularity - simply couldn't compete with. Probably the hardest, most ripped woman I have ever seen up close, <b><i>and</i></b> she was properly gorgeous - in a sultry Mediterranean way - too. There was <b><i>zero</i></b> debate in my head yesterday, just a voice, quickly rising to a kind of hysterical crescendo. "Oh my God! OH MY GOD! <b><i>OH MY GOD!!!</i></b>". I stared, I swooned, and I turned. <br />
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As she passed me I'd noticed a fair bit - olive skin, great round deltoids, huge flowing jet black hair, bicep veins, her powerful stride. All that in what must have been well under a second - I must have been gawping like a fool! She passed, I turned. I didn't walk after her, not at first anyway, I was kind of rooted. There was her super-tight bum in skin-tight black leggings, her angular calves, and - either side of her mane of hair - rear delts and lats twitching with every move she made. I may have moaned audibly.<br />
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She powered inside one of the shops further up the road from where I was, and only then did I start to zombie-walk towards her. New Look it turned out to be, not a shop I'd usually go into, but there I was. She was walking up the escalator to the upper floor I noticed, following the hair more than anything else. I paused, noticing that apart from a couple of bored looking boyfriends, I was the only guy in the shop, and even including the bored looking boyfriends, I was probably the only person over 30.<br />
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I stepped back towards the entrance and took stock. Despite all my protestations that at times like this I am not in my right mind, I was, apparently, fully aware of what I was doing on this occasion. She had to come out sooner or later, I reasoned, wouldn't it be better to position myself across the road and wait? I could hardly be seen snapping pics in the store - an older guy caught taking pics where young women shop... "Snap Perv Nabbed in New Look" would not be an easy headline to explain to the missus. <br />
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So I waited for her to come back out of the entrance, imagining that as I waited she was in the fitting room, trying on all sorts of revealing outfits, no doubt doing a bit of posing in the mirror, maybe the sight of her beautiful muscular body getting her a bit worked up. I imagined a lot. And I waited... And I waited... And I waited...<br />
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A full twenty minutes later I couldn't resist any longer and went back in. She wasn't on the ground floor, so I took the escalator up - turns out there's menswear upstairs, who knew? I could have gone up, looked at some ties or something. Fool! And then... <b><i>OH MY GOD!!!</i></b> I saw there was another entrance. Superfool! She was long gone. <br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/765265953150344" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/62/5e/5e/765265953150344.jpg" height="400" width="371" /></a> <br />
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To me it is <b><i>totally</i></b> inconceivable that I could be around a woman like that and not want to get a stalk on - even if some time later a wave of guilt stopped me. So, when I see some random dude in the back of a photo such as that of Australian WBFF deity <b>Rach White</b>, I can't help but project all my stalker tendencies onto him.<br />
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<i>Look! There's nobody else in the gym. In my experience, that means it's either very early, or very late. Coincidence that he's there when she's there? Coincidence he just happens to be looking up as she proudly displays her beautiful rock hard muscle body in the mirror? Coincidence my arse! He's perving on her, and I don't blame him.</i><br />
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And he's doing a good job at keeping his subject in sight! <br />
<br />
But I could be wrong. Maybe he just has a busy schedule, has to work out late (or early), and though he might be having a look, he might be <b><i>admiring</i></b> Rach, it doesn't mean he's planning how best to position himself to snap a cheeky secret pic later.<br />
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I could be wrong...<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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<i>(More) Summer Lovin'</i> continues next week.<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-36178169882381783212018-08-25T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-25T01:00:11.183-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': Julie Mayer in Motion<i>I really like to perfect what I'm working on...</i><br />
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She turned pro way back in 2011, a shadow of her present self, and has been to two Olympias since (2014 and 2015). But for my money <b>Julie Mayer</b> has never looked better than she does this year. Her extensive stage experience gives her presentation polish, and that beautiful body does indeed appear to be honed to absolute perfection.<br />
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This monster 8-minute edit from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrmuS2UE2RH75EpIUkK_Nrg" target="_blank">Best Muscle Video</a> of Julie at the Europa in Dallas (where she placed 4th) gives you ample time to fully appreciate all her hard work. <br />
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MaAZlj79i2I" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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Enjoy!6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-63938887597047871722018-08-24T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-24T01:00:00.518-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': Dressed to Impress<i>I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes...</i><br />
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Except none of them ever look like this!<br />
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Dressed up muscle is just about - after glammed, tanned and oiled on stage muscle - my favourite thing. Not so much because of the obvious masculine (muscles) v feminine (style) juxtaposition, more I think because they just look so damn amazing. Women who don't lift can look good if they know how to accentuate their assets and cover up their faults. Women with muscle, however, look great whatever they're wearing because their entire physique is one great big asset and they literally have no faults.<br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/180bd5953410814" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/59/47/da/180bd5953410814.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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Muscle women can expose as much - or indeed as little - of their beautiful bodies as they wish. Often, and quite understandably, they wish to expose a lot. Particularly beloved of female muscle heads are outfits you can see the muscle <b><i>through</i></b>, and for me, abdominals straining against tight fabric is the hottest hard thing of all. <br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/7123d4953410844" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/12/1f/ae/7123d4953410844.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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Pity the women who have to grin and bear it while a glamorous muscle goddess sucks all the air out of the room and gets all the attention. If you don't want to be completely upstaged, on no account should you invite a Paige or a Marjorie to your wedding...<br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/003fae953410864" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/47/9d/35/003fae953410864.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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Ooops! Too late.<br />
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At the time of the pic, Paige's friend was still managing a smile. I do though wonder how long that lasted. Marjorie looks like she knows how her dress is going to go down at the reception. And that raised eyebrow tells me that's exactly the way she likes it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/33a3ee953410914" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/6b/ba/4c/33a3ee953410914.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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And Paige's and Marjorie's outfits are relatively modest. Nothing see-through...<br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/00d6b0953419014" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/07/36/b9/00d6b0953419014.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/91b103953419044" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/33/fe/5b/91b103953419044.jpg" /></a> <br />
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And they expose the upper but not the lower body, not both.<br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/e12e46953410934" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/8e/23/0b/e12e46953410934.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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The fact <b>Samantha Frost</b> (above) has chosen to preview her dress in the gym seems to be really rubbing it in. <i>You know how good I looked in my leggings and vest, sweating and groaning as I powered through my workout, all the boys drooling all over the place. Well look at me after my shower, glammed and dressed to impress...</i><br />
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Or at least that's what I imagine she's thinking!<br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/e7d991953410954" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/51/b5/a7/e7d991953410954.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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To be the man who helps <b>Audreana Cornilissen</b> with her dress choice!<br />
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<i>Does my back look big in this?</i><br />
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<i>Massive, darling, but why not try that tighter, shorter one again?</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/dfaa95953411004" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/8c/8d/5f/dfaa95953411004.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a> <br />
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Even bigger beasts are on the way, but first, proof that despite my assertion at the top of the post, muscle women can make mistakes when it comes to their outfits.<br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/8bffdd953419104" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/8b/0c/e7/8bffdd953419104.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/6e8c6b953419144" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/9b/eb/78/6e8c6b953419144.jpg" /></a> <br />
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You could, as <b>Lauren Finley</b> clearly has done, incur the wrath of the undisputed undefeated Ms Physique Olympia and wear a slightly too-similar outfit to the party. <br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/b4186e953411054" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/2e/c0/71/b4186e953411054.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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Or, like <b>Suzanne Davis</b>, you might make a <b><i>slight</i></b> size miscalculation.<br />
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Although to be honest, the thought of being at a party where you can witness the sight of a muscle women literally bursting out of her clothes is <b><i>not</i></b> an unpleasant one.<br />
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And so to the big beasts...<br />
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I honestly tried to find recent dressed up pics of as many Rising Phoenix qualifiers as possible. Know how many I actually found - <b><i>recent</i></b> ones? Just these two.<br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/1d3a45953411084" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/97/9d/24/1d3a45953411084.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a><br />
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The ever dependable Ms Martin. <br />
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<a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/1ae572953419154" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/d9/48/2f/1ae572953419154.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/600a2d953419174" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/70/44/cc/600a2d953419174.jpg" /></a><br />
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And Virginia, busting out everywhere.<br />
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What a sight!<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-20554554178282031662018-08-23T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-23T01:00:01.016-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': Michaela's MindJust on the off chance you were in the mood for a bit more Physique freakery...<br />
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Erotic and genuinely disturbing in equal measure (which makes her even more erotic, the will to go to such extremes and revel in doing so!) is what <b><i>I</i></b> say. <b><i>You</i></b> say, among other things, that she is "amazing", and "awesome", and that "she's on another level now". That you look at this picture and all you can think is "I love muscle women! WOW!!!", and that "even a train would stop to look at that". "Look how happy you are!" exclaims one of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/michaelaaycock/" target="_blank">Michaela's Instagram</a> devotees. Exactly my point. What woman in their right mind would get so much pleasure from being so disgustingly muscular?!<br />
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<b><i>Our</i></b> kind of woman.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622680399338683301.post-6539946659709752202018-08-22T01:00:00.000-07:002018-08-22T01:00:08.676-07:00(More) Summer Lovin': FBBUK : Hard All Over (Hayley Brylewski Turns Pro) <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/ca1fa9952641994" target="_blank"><img alt="imagebam.com" src="http://thumbs2.imagebam.com/04/12/2c/ca1fa9952641994.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a> <br />
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This is what Hayley's leg looked like the night before at "bedtime". How you sleep when your veins are poppin' out of your skin I know not - guess there is the exhaustion from depletion, but wouldn't you spend the whole night just looking at your freaky self?!<br />
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Maybe touching...<br />
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The next day - show day - and Hayley has a cheeky abs check in the hotel lift before breakfast. I wonder if she got her trousers back up and her jacket closed before the door opened? Wonder if she even bothered. Perhaps she just sauntered into the buffet with clothing arranged exactly like that, a treat for the early birds in the dining room.<br />
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She had, even by her own gnarly standards, been looking particularly hard in the lead-up to her show - her glutes in particular. As last weekend approached, she proudly displayed them in the gym (left), and by the time she'd arrived at the hotel (right), they seemed to have become harder still. I was reminded of her fellow Brit <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BU8yEiilKQH/?taken-by=cai57" target="_blank">Corinne Ingman</a></b>, and when it comes to peeled glutes, there is no greater praise than that.<br />
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I've thought about this long and hard, and I really would give up a body part to be the guy who gets to take the photo of Hayley lounging on the bed in her sparkly purple posing suit. I might even be prepared to give up a limb just as long as that guy is also the guy who can go back to worshipping (with body parts of his own choosing) those delicious walnuts right after he's posted said pic to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hayleybrylewski/?hl=en" target="_blank">her Instagram</a> for her.<br />
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Anyway! <br />
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The contest Hayley was getting (as Corinne herself puts it) "truly, disgustingly peeled" for was something called the Ben Weider Worldwide Classic British Championships Pro Qualifier, and, as befits a contest with such a magnificent name, it was held in... <br />
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Coventry.<br />
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It is one of a series of shows "worldwide" - clue is in the name! - designed to make new pros. There's been one in Rimini, and after the Olympia there's another in Alicante... OK, so maybe not "<b><i>world</i></b>wide" yet, but the concept is still young. The number of contestants vying for the coveted pro card hasn't been massive either. As in Rimini so in Coventry - just two Physique ladies: Hayley plus (also from the UK) <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sandi.griffin/" target="_blank">Sandi Griffin</a></b>.<br />
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Hayley got the nod, and the big red envelope.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hayley, with big red envelope (and sword) and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jenna_bfit/" target="_blank">Jenna Beckworth</a></span></i></b><br />
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<i>I’ve competed with Hayley for many years,</i> Corinne wrote by way of congratulation. <i>A genuine person with a lovely heart.</i> FMS too, is genuinely delighted to be reporting one of the nicest, most down-to-earth UK Physique Dreams' dream has come true. Perhaps, as Corinne adds, Hayley has "set the tone" for more British Physique success. <i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/linnyg_walnut/" target="_blank">@linnyg_walnut</a> </i>[<b>Linda Gartside</b>]<i> is up next,</i> predicts Corinne. <i>Then myself.</i> <br />
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Amen to that.<br />
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Check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Tf86zP0vs" target="_blank">FitVids preview of their latest work with Hayley</a>.<br />
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Enjoy!6ft1swellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340253705001376915noreply@blogger.com0