Hevumisa's Gülüzar Gold

It didn't take long for FMS' favourite YouTuber to start posting new work from this year's FIBO. Girls at FIBO Power 2018 went up just a few days after the event had finished. Been waiting patiently for these, wrote another fan, any more coming?

You are in for a treat tomorrow, replied our hero.

We really were.

Gülüzar Tüfenk features briefly in the Girls at FIBO Power 2018 clip, about a minute (of the 7.22 running time) is devoted to her. Black sports bra, tight bright red "shorts". She looks amazing - tight and ripped. And there's the usual slow, sexy delight she takes in exhibiting the results of all her hard work. It's groin activating stuff.

Sixty seconds of magic that leaves you wanting more.

Well, that "treat" he mentioned, how about ten minutes and fifty-five seconds more?!



Looks like he's found his new muse.

Hevumisa on YouTube (we hope there's more coming!)

Enjoy!

Woman of the Week: Traci Stone

Feels good to keep my hard-earned work and still lean out. It's definitely not easy and I'm definitely not smiling like this all day long. The sacrifices I made up until this point has been challenging. At times I look at my meals and supps and just stare at them blinking. I get invited to places by people that don't understand my lifestyle. Sure I could go out and take the chance of missing meals and supps or being the laughing stock because I brought my own. No thanks, I'd rather suffer and endure the journey and fulfill it to the best of my capabilities. That way if I fail I can only blame myself. Traci Stone



Yes, I'm sorry that clip is so short too.

The upper body (in particular) of Traci Stone has set more than a few pulses racing lately, and here at FMS we have found ourselves far from immune to her charms.

Though largely unheralded on the forums before around mid-2016, the earliest reference to Traci that FMS has discovered goes all the way back to November 2011, the poster managing to be extremely complimentary and super creepy at the same time: I infiltrated the Facebook of this mysterious girl from San Diego (the creepy bit, "infiltrated"?!) and she might be the perfect woman! She is cute, she is clever, she is rich (the CEO of a clothing company for Bodybuilders), and she is strong.



This is how Traci looked around then, and though we can't vouch that being the CEO of a Bodybuilding clothing company necessarily entails great riches, there's no faulting the majority of our creepy/complimentary forum poster's description otherwise.



A couple of years on, and her now familiar upper body awesomeness was becoming all too apparent, and (no doubt as a result of that) Traci's social media posts started to reappear with increasing regularity and to increasingly effusive praise on the forums.



She gained not just size, but also a following - one, that is, outside the female muscle head community, a real following. Among them you find names like Mmmmonique Jones and Heidi Worrell-Osborn, and countless women inspired by Traci's journey, women who tell her "you motivate me every day" on an almost daily basis. Currently her following stands at a very healthy 52,000+ - compare that to, for example, (the much more "famous") Mmmmonique's, which is just under 35,000.



What's different about the last few months has been the extent to which Traci has leaned out and allowed us to see all those "amazingly sexy muscles" in such detail. She's getting into contest shape (perhaps for the first time, I can't be sure). What contest it will be I have no idea, but it's soon, very soon, possibly this weekend. And reading some of the comments on her Instagram, it seems a pro card will be on offer - her followers not surprisingly confidently predicting that Traci will be getting one.



I wouldn't argue with their assessment.

Traci (you may have guessed) mostly posts short clips rather than pictures of herself these days (which is something of a treat given the shape she's in right now). We leave you with one of my personal faves. It's hard trying to be cute when you have no fat in your face, she says. Somehow though, she manages to pull it off - in some style.



Traci on Instagram

Enjoy!

Woman of the Week: Slava Galagan

She juxtaposes the seemingly incompatible: she has the shape of a seriously built amazon and the face of the prettiest, most innocent girl. Long shiny dark hair, big eyes with curly lashes and a charming smile somehow go along with the widest shoulders. (Vasilina Pazdnikova, "Vladislava Galagan, the Female Bodybuilder")



Not me gushing, but a female admirer, a would-be journalist and student at the Anglo-American University in Prague, where "Slava" (as she is more commonly known) was enrolled for a while. But it could have been written (though perhaps not so well) by pretty much any of the many female muscle heads who have fallen under her spell.


Young(er) Slava, already "selecting outfits that make sure her achievements don’t go unnoticed"

A teenage athlete, she had first found beauty in female muscle at local meets. There were girls in good shape with beautiful leg muscles, she says. If I saw them now I wouldn't be so impressed, but at that time, at 16, they amazed me. Weight training not only improved her as an athlete, it gradually became her obsession in life.



Slava is, like her Prague-based trainer Olha Zhelamska, originally from Russia. Specifically, she hails from what she calls "a tiny town in the God-forsaken Taman Peninsula" (which, if your Russian geography isn't all that it should be, is about as close as you can get to eastern Crimea without actually being in it), and it was there she first began to dream of becoming a pro FBB. I was on the phone with my ex-boyfriend while scrolling through Bodyfitness models on the Internet, she explains. Suddenly, as though something or someone inside me had put the words there, I thought: 'I know what I want to do with my life'. Item #1 on the agenda was escape from Taman...



Relocating to Prague gave her freedom from a family who failed to understand (and support) her. She became financially independent as well, but the demands of being a student and being a bodybuilder proved incompatible. Happily, she ditched the former. Bodybuilding requires a lot of investment, she says. I had to work and train. Studying was just too much. I loved it, but it stood in the way of my dream.



And one part of that dream was realised last week when she stood on stage for the first time at the IFBB Diamond Cup in Malta. Not as one of those Bodyfitness models she had been scrolling through when she had that epiphany, but in the Physique division. She was the Physique division actually, all of it. Perhaps not quite as she had dreamt it then, but still... Best experience ever! she told her Instagram followers. Even though I was the only one, I still stepped on the stage. It’s always so hard the first time.



Yep, she's already planning to do it again. And that is very good news for the female muscle lovin' community because, although a very select few have had her on their radar since late 2016, it has only been during the prep for her contest debut that Slava has really made a name for herself. And she's really made a name for herself.



On top of all that single-minded dedication (which is always a winner), she's an "Amazonian" 5'9", has the looks of "a buffer Aspen Rae", and has made the kind of progress every head with a 22-year-old skinny but athletic girlfriend dreams of on a nightly basis. To say Slava has slayed us all is (not easy but) no understatement.



We don't seem to be able to decide whether "to look into her eyes or at her pecs" for one thing. She is "huge, but still cute as a button", "growing like a weed", and "her sex appeal is off the charts". It's been said she is "the future of bodybuilding", and "the future sexiest woman on Earth". The reply to which was, predictably: "She already is."



It is, apparently, almost impossible not to get a bit carried away (as you gaze into those big brown eyes or at those beautiful beefy arms). Her student interviewer felt it, FMS is very much feeling it, and her fans, including her 20,000+ Instagram followers (Angelica Enberg and Yeon Woo Jhi among them) are no doubt feeling it too.



I build this dream, she says. I never had a doubt. Good, but by no means 100% perfect English. And that is both something of a relief and perfectly excusable considering just about everything else about Slava Galagan is, apparently, absolutely perfect.



Enjoy!

Another Petition...

Back in June 2013, FMS lent its support to a petition set up by the (then mighty) Real Female Bodybuilding in an attempt to save the Ms International. We urged you all to sign. Now I don't know how many of you eventually did, but on June 20th, five days after I had posted the link (which was a few more days than that since it had gone up), over 800 people had added their names to it. As we now know, it changed nothing.



Jim Lorimer, Arnold Classic promoter, had done what he could. Apparently he'd been accosted for years by fans demanding that the Ms International be replaced by a smaller Men's Bodybuilding class. He stoically put up with the continual harassment. But every man has his breaking point, and by 2013 Jim had finally reached his.

The Arnold Sports Festival was proud to support women’s bodybuilding through the Ms. International for the past quarter century. But in keeping with demands of our fans, the time has come to introduce the Arnold Classic 212 beginning in 2014.


Jim Lorimer

Tripe like that can only come from the mouth of a man who knows he can do whatever he wants. Despite the name and the face on the banner, it was and still is Jim's show.

It wasn't like he was excluding women completely.



Say hello to Beth Mandyck, the 56-year-old Ms Buffalo, centre shot above.

Beth won the Female Bodybuilding class at last year's show. Not the most competitive line-up you will ever see, but at 56, good on her. She's only been at it 3 years, and has thus far competed "exclusively" as a Bodybuilder. Closed fists for double biceps etc.



You may have heard of Beth. Jim Lorimer certainly has. She filed a gender discrimination complaint with the City of Columbus on January 5th in response to being told she couldn't register in a "Female Bodybuilding" class at the Arnolds.

And her husband has got another petition going...



His petition focuses on the fact that the Arnold Amateur is an NPC, not IFBB, event. The IFBB may have crossed Female Bodybuilding off their love list some time ago (even though the Wings of Strength shows are still held under the IFBB umbrella), but there are NPC shows with Female Bodybuilding, quite a few actually, and most of the national level events still include Female Bodybuilding classes, however small.

Cue more Lorimer tripe.

The IFBB discontinued the women's bodybuilding event in their program, he said in response to the "unfair" Mandyck complaint recently. So we felt that it was best to back away from that event. Women were getting so muscular and so into the development of their muscles that it was not at all aspirational for other women.

Apparently, Jim knows what women want.




Women like Aleesha Young, Kristine Mele, Melissa Fanning, and Susanna Hand. Women like Mary Cain, Brittney O'Veal, Pauline Nelson, and Theresa Ivancik. All have competed at NPC national level since the end of the Ms International. None, according to Lorimer, inspired by the competitors of the Ms Internationals past. Not the most recent ones anyway, with women "so into the development of their muscles that it was not at all aspirational". Not them. No way.




After two weeks the Mandyck petition has just reached 100 names. Hardly the most popular "bring back Female Bodybuilding" petition ever. It, and the gender discrimination complaint are, it has been pointed out elsewhere, a good few years too late. And so, if reports are to be believed, is Iris Kyle's support for it.



Jim's still talking like the man who can do whatever he wants.

And that's probably because he is.

The World's In Love... With Female Muscle?!

Recent news from the US that some proper science has proved women prefer a toned, muscular look over a skinny one was most welcome here at FMS, not least because it implies the collective "we" now know for sure we've been backing a winner all along.



The study, carried out at the University of Missouri-Kansas, involved accessing photos of the Miss USA winners between 1999 to 2013. These winners, the researchers concluded, have become more muscular over time. In addition, 64 undergraduates were shown pictures of 14 women. "There were two pictures of each - one version depicting her real body, and another where any muscular definition had been digitally removed. This resulted in one 'thin only' image, and another 'toned and thin' picture."



"When participants were shown each image individually, there was no difference in how each was rated. However, when participants were shown the twin images side by side, the more muscular versions of the women were deemed to be more attractive."



The conclusion? There has been a shift in the thin ideal female figure to one that now includes the appearance of physical fitness via muscularity.



Of course, none of this should really be "news" to us cognoscenti. If you saw the story yourself - and it was hard to get away from at the end of January - you were probably, like me, nodding vigorously as the study credited the shift towards muscularity to "an increasing number of women discovering the benefits of weight-training in the gym, 'fitspiration' Instagram accounts, and #strongnotskinny trending on social media."



We shouldn't get too carried away. The 'toned and thin' look is not, I imagine, one we would even recognise as "muscular", unlikely to even hold a candle to your average amateur Bikini competitor, a world away from even the Figure phenoms we adore, light years from our Physique dreams, and in an altogether different universe from the so-called hardcore FBBs. Nevertheless, the study strongly suggests that the women we love are now a step (albeit a baby step) closer to becoming the female physical ideal.



Though this seems unlikely to happen - at this rate anyway - in our lifetimes, I suddenly now feel with absolute confidence that it is going to happen eventually.



In the meantime...

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NPC Nationals 2017: Jacquelyn Hickerson

I lost one time, says Jacquelyn Hickerson. I did NOT like it.




Two years ago, Jacquelyn made her first appearance at the NPC Nationals. She didn't look that bad, did she? But in a class of 17 women (coincidentally including the 2017 NPC Nationals Bodybuilding champion Fallon Brinson) she finished 11th. I assume this is the loss she is talking about, because she hasn't, as far as I can tell, lost since.



In the time since that Nationals debut first brought her to the attention of the collective female muscle lovin' world, Jacquelyn has become something of a pin-up. Her combination of ever-growing muscles topped with one of the most beautiful faces of any female bodybuilder and a playful, articulate and defiant Instagram presence has won her many an admirer. "A beauty", "awesome", "gorgeous", they said. "One of the best off-season looks around", they said. One of? Who else was on their list?!



So in August when she returned to the stage at the NPC Cajun Showdown, there was a bit of buzz on the forums. She didn't have a whole heap of competition, and she won.




She didn't mention it once on social media. Not a peep. Not a "look-my-posing-suit-arrived" pic, not a "here-we-are-in-the-car" travel shot, not a "tanned-and-ready-to-go" hotel number, not a "chillin-backstage" selfie, no "thanks-coach" with the coach and the trophy proudly displayed post-stage. Nothing. Nada. You wouldn't have had any idea she had even competed unless you knew she had competed, if you see what I mean.



Quite clearly, the Cajun show was just a formality for Jacquelyn, an i that needed a dot to qualify her for the Nationals once again. That was the title she really wanted, and wow was she focused on it. Or maybe my imagination... Sometimes you just gotta go off the grid and get your soul right. It's okay to get quiet and re-evaluate your goals. You're allowed. Not everyone should have the luxury of knowing all the things.

Told you she was articulate.



Anyway, the buzz. Come the weeks before the Nationals it was back. Anyone following her prep couldn't help but be excited when they saw, for example, how magnificently massive her shoulders (and everything else you can see in this pic) were getting.

And when images of Jacquelyn on stage in Miami appeared, we were not disappointed.




She f***in' ruled. Not just her class, but the whole Physique division (perhaps with the notable exception of Rachael Chaskey). No one even came close to her level.




And to my untrained eye she looks a lot like Jacquelyn knew it too. The smile never leaves her face, her eyes shining so brightly. She exudes confidence, arrogance even, and seems to have almost taken her own breath away. This should be interesting, she wrote, tanned and suited up before she took to the stage, the same smile, the same arrogance, already there. In every image I've seen of her at the show (and I've seen a few, believe me) she is so alluring, so powerful, so sexy. Utterly irresistible.



Two poses in particular I think capture her moment.



She looks nothing less than ecstatic.

And that aura didn't disappear when she did her round of post-match interviews either.

"Awkward interview", reckons one commenter on YouTube. I beg to differ. I think Ms Figure Olympia is more than a little overcome by the heaving mass of muscular womanhood that has just thundered up beside her. And Jacquelyn is just on another planet. I'm sure they communicated a lot more than the few words that actually are exchanged for the camera. Or is that just my imagination going a bit wild again?



Decide for yourself!

Happily, this was one of those all too rare occasions when the judges and my loins were in full agreement about the outcome. And obviously Jacquelyn felt like the right woman was going home with the trophy as well. Soon afterwards though she revealed that while her status in the sport may have changed, the motivation remains exactly the same. No win will ever taste more sweet than how bitter that one loss does...



In my head she's moving up to Bodybuilding for her pro debut.



Another Physique dream!