Nina's Secret

Just about this time last year FMS was noting a rare win for a British woman at an IFBB pro event after Lisa Cross unexpectedly took the title at the Omaha Pro. Female muscle fans up and down the country were, we imagined, silently celebrating Lisa's win but the title of the post - A Nation Celebrates - was also somewhat ironic as Lisa's rare achievement went completely unreported by the mainstream media (and actually wasn't really given much attention by the British muscle media either).

Twelve months on we have another British IFBB pro winner to celebrate. Though if you were relying on the mainstream media for your information, you wouldn't know it! We don't spend a lot of time in the Bikini division here on FMS, but unlike the media in the UK, we couldn't ignore this particular British success story.



Congratulations to Nina Ross - who became the first ever British IFBB Pro Bikini champion at the Mozolani Pro in Zilina, Slovakia on May 22nd.



I DID IT!!!!!! Nina told her Facebook followers the following day. It's impossible to put into words how I'm feeling, I don't think it has yet sunk in... I set out to reach the Olympia stage at the beginning of my career, even tho I knew nothing about bodybuilding and it seemed like a goal that I could only ever dream of...

Oh yes, of course, double congratulations are in order. Nina's now going to be the first ever British Bikini competitor to do the ol' T-walk on the Olympia stage.



Nina was awarded her pro card back in 2014, but her journey to the Olympia had begun - in a competitive sense - three years earlier. I started off with Figure/ Bodyfitness and then changed to Bikini, she says. She won her first ever show, a BNBF (British Natural Bodybuilding Federation) regional qualifier, and from that moment was hooked. The bodybuilding world was nothing like I had expected. I loved every minute of it, met incredible people, and was driven to compete more. And by the end of 2011 she had acquired no fewer than four winner's trophies and competed at a World Championship event in Italy and at the prestigious Yorton Cup in the USA.


The first and still the only woman to have won UKBFF national titles in two categories

And over the next few years Nina continued to acquire titles, including that of UKBFF British champion twice - once in Bodyfitness, once after she made the switch to Bikini in 2013. On top of that, podium places at international events led to her being awarded her pro card in 2014. She made her pro debut at the Asia Grand Prix that October, and just kept on with the same plan she had had all along.


Nina, making her pro debut (left) & 18 months later, the Mozolani Pro champion

Year after year just chipping away, getting better each time, focusing on my own path and not getting caught up with the negativity that could rip me down. I have strived hard, remained focused and most of all had faith in myself. I know the ins and outs of this sport and so many said I wouldn't get there because of the "politics" etc. etc. but I just kept faith and came back better improving 5% each time...




The plan clearly works, as does what she calls her "secret", her design for living that transforms both the bodies and the minds of her clients, and is the method by which she transformed her own life from that of a struggling single Mum into that of an IFBB pro Bikini champion.



Read more about Nina on her website, and you can follow her journey to Las Vegas and beyond on Facebook, or with her 35,000 Instagram followers. Much more success and her secret might be in danger of getting out.



Watch Nina in action on the Team Andro website.

한국인 of the Day: Lee Jin Won

Stunning Asian female bodybuilder Lee Jin Won would not look out of place in one of those magazine lists of 'the 10 most beautiful women in the world', said Real Female Bodybuilding in October 2013. The 35-year-old 5'4" [1.63m] fitness athlete with a string of titles to her name presents an incredible blend of old-fashioned 'Ms World' type feminine beauty and a rather more modern rock hard physique.




And ripped, very ripped for a fitness/bodyfitness competitor. And those ABS! Perhaps not quite as wonderful at first glance as those of her compatriot Park Soo Hee, but what it's what Lee Jin Won does with them (especially when she's on stage), that makes her infinitely more exciting. She KNOWS they are incredible, and OMG does she let you know that she knows. Witness, for example, this abstastic 7½-minute compilation (from the marvellously named Hardslammer's You Tube channel).

I bet some of you won't make it past what happens in the first few seconds, but if you do, you will be rewarded with highlights that include backstage abs rolling from the 15-second mark, looped AND slowed down for your viewing pleasure - nice work Mr Editor - and on stage abs rolling from about 1.15. And there is still another 5+ minutes to enjoy after that, so you really need to pace yourselves on this one!



Ain't she just a HEARTBREAKER? Very hard to believe this woman was around 35 when the majority of these pics and video were taken, as some sources report. Easier to believe she was born in 1987, as other sources claim, putting her in her 20s.



See, what I'm HOPING is that the reason why we haven't heard much about her this year is that she's on a mission for muscle. That the fact she so obviously enjoys showing it off means she's made the decision that she needs to get bigger before moving up to physique. Imagine! That 'Ms World' (Korean style) beauty with bigger and bolder muscles, rolling those abs all over the stage as the crowd goes WILD...




Want more?

Another Hardslammer compilation

Contest footage from 2013 from her very own You Tube channel

Workout

Talking with Her Coach AND Working Out (with English subtitles)

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Muscle Babe by Bambs79

Some real, some UNreal Crimbo Eve muscles for your viewing pleasure.


Denise always gets the wood up; Aleesha, naughty or nice?

Our traditional end of year posts will be up before the New Year, 
and daily posting will resume some time in January.


Xmas FBB by vatorx; Christmas Lin by kob13 by vince3; Santa Muscle Baby by Plinius

FMS wishes a very Merry Christmas to all you lovely readers!

Inspired by... Aiden

It's always nice to know that someone is reading my musings, and even nicer when they actually bother to share their thoughts and/or reach out a mutually female muscle appreciating hand. So, this week on FMS, for some of the lovely readers who have been in touch (whether by email or the comment box), a whole post inspired by them as a way of saying thank you for supporting the blog.

I hope they, and you, will enjoy them.

Back in June, Aiden became FMS' first (and so far only) Guest Editor and introduced us to his favourite Crossfit women. His love of muscular women started first emerged when 'finding female athletes beguiling when I was about 10 years old,' he told us, so we'll kick off today with a few 'athletes'...


Britian's Shelley Rudman, Skeleton World Champion


Snow (which clearly does wonders for the legs) and surf


Can Aiden have his bike back, please?

After the athletes came the female bodybuilders, as Aiden, like so many of us, 'plucked up the courage to buy the magazines'. (Read more about the newsagent's here)

So, as another thank you to Aiden for his outstanding contribution to FMS this year, some selections with him in mind...


'Compact and thick'

We certainly haven't forgotten that way back in January, Aiden described the magnificent Jamie Pinder as 'fucking glorious'...






Jamie winning the Physique class at the Chicago Pro this year



And competing at the Olympia (12th, really?!)



Glorious indeed.

But we couldn't do a post for Aiden without his number 1.

'She is a very appealing woman, attractive, amusing, great body and the crowning glory, she knows how good she looks and she likes showing it off.'


Miranda thinks 'that guy who wrote all that cool stuff about me on that blog... I wish there was some way that I could thank him...'

Just another normal night in Miranda's hotel room


Something like Aiden's idea of heaven?

Thanks again Aiden, hope you enjoyed today's post, a Merry Christmas to you, and may all the women you meet in 2014 be 'compact and thick'!

Miranda shows her power (with Emily Friedman)

Enjoy! Another reader inspired post coming tomorrow...