Backstage of the Day

Ever been backstage at a female bodybuilding show and seen those magnificent contest-ready bodies up close? No? Didn't think so. And neither have I.

If female muscle worship is a religion, if we, the female muscle brethren, are the mad monks, then the backstage area, the 'pump room' at a female bodybuilding show, especially a big pro show, is the holiest of holies.

If the show itself is the place of pilgrimage, backstage is the forbidden inner sanctum. Like the Catholic who travels to Rome and sees the Pope on the balcony but doesn't get an audience, you might get to the show, but it's unlikely you'd get yourself backstage, no matter how good your blagging skills are.

And speaking for myself, that's probably a good thing. I've always had serious doubts about my ability to control myself in an environment crammed with the women I adore in their peak condition. All that oil, all those tanned, glistening bodies, all those pumped-up carbed-up muscle on show - I'm sure I'd end up being escorted from the premises if I was lucky, and carried out on life support if I wasn't.

Fortunately, there are better men than me who not only make it backstage, not only remember to take their camera with them, but also manage to hold themselves together and get some wonderful images so the likes of you and me can see exactly what we're missing.

This week on FMS, thanks to these heroes, we're going backstage.


Absolutely the kind of scenario I couldn't be trusted to handle. I'm pretty sure that this is Fabiola Boulanger's rear view that we're looking at here, and if I'm not mistaken, that's Gillian Kovack on the right. Way way too much excitement for Slave. In fact, I'm starting to feel quite dizzy just looking at the image, so I'd better move on.


I've heard it said that competitors do a lot of eyeing each other up in the backstage area. Here, in this image from the olden days, there doesn't seem to be much of that. Instead, there seems to be a lot of mirror-gazing self-admiration. Me? I can't take my eyes off Tazzie's upper body. Her golden posing suit, her bloated abs, the way she's looking so intently at herself in the mirror and above all, those veins popping out of her bicep. Yeah. Couldn't be trusted here either!


Or here. Talus, Cadeau, Masino and more backstage at the 2001 Miss International.



Pump room gold.

Enjoy!

Thighs of the Day: Know Your Thighs

The quads, quadriceps, quadriceps extensor, or, to give it its full name, the quadriceps femoris is a muscle group - and a large one at that - that includes the four major muscles on the front of the thigh. Apparently, 'it is the great extensor muscle of the knee, forming a large fleshy mass which covers the front and sides of the femur'. In fact, quadriceps femoris means ‘four-headed muscle of the femur’ in Latin.

left: Rene Marven right: Kashma Maharaj

Kashma has already competed, taking the heavyweight class at the Arnold Amateur recently. Rene should, all being well, take her pro bow at the start of June at the Toronto Pro. So there's four four-headed muscles of the femur to watch in 2013.

The quads is, unsurprisingly, subdivided into four ‘heads’, each with its own name. And there are worse ways of getting to know the four heads than looking at pictures of female bodybuilders and their sexy, ripped thighs. It's certainly more fun than looking at anatomical diagrams, isn't it? Imagine you're a medical student. Which image would you recall more readily? Could female bodybuilders be a potential teaching aid?



left: Fabiola Boulanger right: Gillian Kovack

Considerably more interesting to look at than an anatomy book.

The rectus femoris occupies the middle of the thigh. The vastus lateralis is on the outer side of the femur, and the vastus medialis (can you guess?) is on the inner thigh. The vastus intermedius is the one muscle of the quads you are unlikely to see unless you are a surgeon, as it’s under the rectus femoris. Female bodybuilding judges are only really concerned with three of the four 'quads' then. Interesting...

left: Roberta Toth right: Anne Freitas

Even in their native Brazil, where most women's thighs seem to have impressive structure, muscularity and tone, Roberta and Anne's three visible heads are standouts. Coxas muito sensuais, as they say in Bahia. Probably.

All four of the quads are extensors of the knee, and come in handy if you want to walk, run, jump or squat. They can be trained by doing leg presses, squats, or, if you really want to isolate them, leg extensions are boss.

left: Lisa Giesbrecht right: Amy Sibcy

Just look at the vastus lateralises and the vastus medialises on them, he said.
To which I could only reply, And their rectus femorises ain't bad either.

More quadriceps femorises (femori? femorae? help!) tomorrow.

Enjoy!

I'd like to say...

First off, I'd like to say that I'm as unhappy as anyone that it's been all quiet on the Female Muscle Slave front since the start of the Olympics...


I'd like to say that the lack of activity here has caused some women to take the initiative and start sending me their photos, begging me to post them. I'd like to say I've been playing it cool and demanding ever more revealing pics from them, refusing to update the blog in the meantime, threatening never to update again unless they play ball and send in those sexy snaps...


I'd like to say that the reason for my silence is that I've been spending a lot of time with Gina Stone. I'd like to say that Gina has been using me as her wardrobe adviser, putting on outfit after outfit for my approval as part of her search for the perfect white vest and the ultimate pair of mini-shorts...


I'd like to say that I've been in the middle of a tug-of-love-war between Virginia Sanchez Masias and Geraldine Morgan, both of whom have been so impressed by the cut of my jib that they have fallen head over heels in love with me and I have spent the last month or so travelling between Spain and the USA. I'd like to say that at first I was resolved to choosing between them, but thought of a better idea and so have dedicated the more recent visits to trying to persuade them, with some success, that they will just have to share me...


I'd like to say that I've been on a Caribbean island with Tina Chandler and Zoa Linsey, who employed my services as a suncream applicator after I beat hundreds of other applicants during a rigorous interview process. I'd like to say that by the end of the holiday I was doing so much more for the ladies than merely applying suncream, and that they've already booked me for a two-week break in a remote Alpine chalet over the New Year...

Unfortunately, apart from the fact that not being able to update has been frustrating, none of the above is true. Now, I know that may come as a shock, but the real reason is too mundane to be of any interest. Let's just say real life-type stuff has been a bit full-on in the last few weeks.

There, told you you wouldn't be interested.

But I really would like to say a massive massive thank you to all of you who have got in touch during the downtime, whether it was to ask after the future of the blog, or vote in the Fantasy Contest poll.

So here is a massive massive thank you, courtesy of the massive massive Fabiola.


On the plus side, taking a break from the blog has left me with plenty to say, and a backlog of images with which to entertain your female-muscle-lovin' eyes. There will be a post every day, though don't get too excited, I'm only committing to at least one image every twenty-four hours!


There will be a weekly theme to the daily images - it could be a spotlight on a particular lady or item of clothing or genre of pic etc etc. It could be Stuck In A Lift With... or Fishnet Week (see above). This week it's Alina Popa.

So, apologies to everyone who has been checking in here only to find nothing new, and thank you so much to those who have taken the extra step of getting in touch. It's really gratifying to know that there are readers out there who have actually missed the blog as much as I've missed updating it.

But not as quite as gratifying as discovering Holland Canter...


Woof!

Enjoy and stay tuned!

You Can’t Trust A Man Called Piers

News that Piers ‘Morgan’ Moron (© Private Eye) thinks Madonna’s arms are too muscular is resolutely refusing to go away. Once a self-publicist, always a self-publicist, and re-locating to the USA (my condolences) hasn’t affected Piers’ ability to generate column inches for himself. Seeing as David Furnish had already put the boot in on Her Madgesty after the Golden Globes, Piers, couldn’t resist kicking a woman when she’s down, and getting himself all over the media just before a new series of his US talk show begins. Yawn.

Wait! I hear you cry. Aren’t you just adding to those column inches? Don’t do it! Walk away!

I hear you, but here in the UK we haven’t forgotten exactly why it is that Mr ‘Morgan’ Moron has gone stateside. The condensed version is that when he was the editor of the UK daily newspaper The Mirror, it was, according to one of the senior journalists who worked for him, ‘very unlikely’ that he did not know that phone hacking was used by representatives of his newspaper, and Piers said as much to the recent enquiry into the phone hacking scandal: Mr Morgan admitted he had listened to a tape recording of a voicemail message left by Sir Paul on his then wife’s mobile phone was how it was reported by The Daily Mail. So, someone played him a tape recording of a message left on Heather Mill’s voicemail, but he didn’t know that people who worked for his newspaper were hacking phones. Yeah, right. And this from the man who resigned because his paper had printed fake pictures of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, and I think you can see why Piers thought a trip West would be a good move.

You can’t trust what comes out of Piers. In some instances, the opposite of what he says is, in fact, the truth. So let’s assume that Piers wasn’t breaking the habit of a lifetime and that what he said about Madonna and her arms isn’t really what he thinks at all. He’s given us no reason to believe him before, why should we do it now?



And if Piers was lying, how does he really feel about Madonna, and her ‘caveman’ arms? The only reasonable conclusion is he thinks they’re hot. He doesn’t want her on his show because he knows he won’t be able to control himself. Minutes into the interview the urge to jump over his desk, grab Madge’s bicep and start slavering all over it will be too much. And then he’ll be finished in America too.

Since the Piers/Madonna story broke, Female Muscle Slave has been tirelessly hacking Mr ‘Morgan’ Moron’s phone and personal computer, and we can reveal, exclusively, that Piers is one of us. A female muscle addict. Some of the evidence is presented below. All the pictures were recovered from the ‘Morgan’ Moron phone or PC.


Heather Foster left a voicemail on Piers’ phone soon after the TV interview threatening to come over and punch him into next week if he mentioned any other woman’s arms again. Lisa Giesbrecht left a similarly angry message, promising Piers that he had licked cream off her biceps for the last time, while Betty Viana was so angry she had to resort to her native Spanish to express herself fully. The Female Muscle Slave translation team are still working on the English transcription of the message. So far, they have Now listen you hairless boy who licks fuck sticks… We imagine much of the rest of the message will be unprintable.


This picture of Kim Perez was recovered by our hacking team from a folder named ‘You’re So Vein’. Get it? His gift for language is stunning, isn’t it? Also in the folder was a document in which Piers laid out what he’d like to do to poor Kim’s vascular pythons. Needless to say, it wasn’t ‘ban them from television’.


This stunning pic of Aleesha Young was Piers’ most recent screensaver. No, really.


Skadi Frei actually sent this picture of herself to Piers after she heard his comments on a Swiss news channel. These are big arms you silly little man, her e-mail read. Now I dare you to come to my house in the Alps and call me a caveman to my face. Julie Bourassa was also in touch soon after the interview. I could crush your head like a grape, she said on his voicemail. And if you bag muscular women publicly again, I just might. Marja Lehtonen also called to say that Thursday at 2pm is fine. Piers hasn’t been seen since he boarded a flight from New York to Helsinki on Wednesday night.


A hacked e-mail exchange with Sarah Hayes further reveals Piers’ female muscle lovin’ tendencies. Mr ‘Morgan’ Moron begs Sarah for a muscle worship session, and when Sarah explains she doesn’t do sessions, Not for anyone, and especially not for you, there follows much undignified pleading from Piers.


Sarah finally threatens to forward the entire exchange to his wife in order to get him off her case, to which Piers replies, Do it! I’m leaving her for Fabiola Boulanger anyway! Now, a terrible liar and a bit of a pest he may be, but at least he’s got good taste (when it comes to muscle women anyway).


And finally, this image of the magnificent Brigita Brezovac looking particularly magnificent was one of the ones that came up when the hacking team searched his phone for ‘Most Recent Documents’. In fact, if our time calculations are correct, he must have banged one out to Brigita just after his interview finished, rushing to the studio toilet as soon as his mic was off. No, that’s unfair that last bit. That’s just something I made up. He probably waited until he got in the lift to do that. Or the limo. Or both.

Enjoy! And remember, when Piers says he’s repulsed by women with muscular arms, what he means is he loves them.

He probably reads this blog.

Women of the Year

It's that time of year when idiot journalists and TV producers make stupid lists of The Best/Worst/Biggest/Dumbest/Most Earth-Shattering Moments/Men/Women/Songs/ Whatevers of the year. You can't turn on the TV for these shows. So I'm not going to do that. It's not a list, it's a collection. It's not the same thing at all. Really.

I've chosen six because six is the number of finalists in most bodybuilding contests (if there are at least six competitors anyway - aren't those scenes of female muscle contests where there is only one competitor in a class odd?). Six it is. And they are in no particular order. They're all winners.

I'm not saying they are the best bodybuilders in the world today, nor that they have been the best in the world in 2011. But I am saying that these six women, some new to me this year, others familiar from 2010 or even before, have been on swell's mind (and screen) rather a lot this year.

So, without further ramblings, I give you what is the inaugural
Female Muscle Slave's Women of the Year.


Kashma Maharaj: The Caribbean Queen


Unknown to me at the start of the year, Kashma’s magnificently muscled body was all over the forums by the summer, even if often mistakenly identified as being from India! When we all realised where she was really from, this year’s national championships in Trinidad suddenly became an event that was eagerly anticipated. And I for one was not disappointed by the clips of her victory once they in turn had been posted. In the last couple of months, photo sets and clips on female muscle sites have been appearing, and she’s spoken of plans to compete in the USA in 2012.


Kashma is clearly a very smart woman. Apart from having impressive professional qualifications in Finance, the fact that she has come so far in so little time is all the more impressive as she has made such a splash while coming from a part of the world where widespread recognition has traditionally been hard to get without relocating to North America. And nobody can she that she’s unambitious: My goal is to be the future Miss Olympia and revolutionise this sport with a new look and attitude, encourage more women to compete and adopt the BB lifestyle and be a role model for a healthy lifestyle to all people. ‘All people’? Wow.


Her dark, exotic looks, her Trinidadian accent, and her big sexy muscles have certainly all worked their magic on me. I could watch her pert Caribbean bottom walking along the beach till the sun goes down, and her whole upper body is beautifully developed. I could spend hours rubbing my hands over that deliciously wide back. In fact, I have probably spent hours fantasising about it this year!


Some men are intimidated by me, not only because I am a female bodybuilder but also because I am a smart, independent and extroverted woman naturally. Women have questioned my sexual preference and even made suggestions to me but while I may entertain conversation, I make it quite clear that I am totally into men. Good. That’s cleared that up. We can all go on dreaming.


Kashma says, I love being big, strong, powerful and seeing the changes in my physique. I also love getting up on stage and posing. I love watching her being big, strong and powerful. I take great pleasure in seeing her physique change, and when she gets up on stage, ripped, oiled and strutting around in her bikini, well… let’s just say it gets the blood pumping. Are we sharing the same dream?


Predicting big things for Kashma in 2012. If she keeps on achieving like she has been this year, the world will be hers before long.


Fabiola Boulanger: Professional Female Bodybuilder


This year, Fabiola Boulanger joined the pro ranks, her victory at the Canadian Championships no surprise as her body has been a thing of wonder for the last couple of years. There are few women in the sport now (and not that many women in the sport ever) who have the ‘total package’. Fabiola is most definitely one of them.


Those shoulders, like plates of armour. Huge, pulsating veins snaking all over. Her abs, so thick and defined. Solid solid pecs, beautifully striated. And her legs! Definition everywhere. Look at the teardrops above the knees, have you ever seen anything so kissable? A sight to set a female muscle addict’s heart racing.



She is covered, top to bottom, with the kind of bulging, rippling muscularity that I am more used to seeing in female muscle art than on real female bodybuilders themselves. She’s like a fantasy superheroine. I can totally see her in a skin tight bodysuit with a big F on the front, flexing her biceps before saving the world. Perhaps in her first pro routine she will whip the audience into a frenzy by flying around the auditorium and back to the stage as a big finish!


I wish to show the world that female bodybuilders can be feminine and beautiful, says Fabiola, and I think we can all agree that she’s certainly doing that, and is certainly not a woman who could be accused of ‘looking like a man’. She hasn’t sacrificed any of her femininity while getting such mouth-wateringly huge muscles, and I think as a direct consequence of that she received quite a lot of media attention in Quebec after her win at the Nationals.


From the articles and TV appearances of hers I’ve seen and my O-level French can make out, Fabi makes a fantastic spokeswoman for the sport. I’m proud of the way I look, and will stick to my regimen forever because I couldn’t stand to look different. It gives me confidence and great self esteem. I have a healthy lifestyle and it gives me the independence that most women could just dream to have.


Fabiola is going to be competing in the USA in 2012. Competing and winning I dare say. And fighting crime and injustice in her spare time. Go Super Fabi!


Ginger Martin: Hot Muscle (Grand)Mom


I am a sucker for her husky Southern accent and the way she obviously loves showing off every inch of her hard work. Her clips on Gincraze2009, her You Tube channel and the previews at Physique Dreams on Daily Motion are all winners, and I’ve also seen a few webcam clips of her that are so hot they can roast your chestnuts. She’s got four children, and this year became both a grandmother and overall champion at the NPC Texas State Championships.


Now, if I was a teenager with a friend whose Mum looked like Ginger, well I’d probably be doing all I could to spend as much time as possible at their house. Ginger working out in the garage, me sneaking away from the Xbox party to watch from the bathroom window… And if I was the father of one of her kids’ friends, I wouldn’t be complaining about picking up my spawn from Ginger’s house. Ginger working out in the garage, me casually strolling up the drive and offering to spot her…


But enough of that. Seriously, what an advert, what an inspiration to women. Middle-aged? Not getting the admiring looks you once did? Train the Ginger way and soon men half your age will be tripping over their tongues as you walk by. Set yourself up for a webshow and watch the schmoe dollars cascade into your bank account. More older women training and looking like Ginger? Por favor seňor!


The pics from her Texas win show her very very ripped and very very vascular, a look I go completely gaga for. So part of me is sad that she has decided to focus on the Physique Class next year and won’t be going for the same pumped-up look. But at the same time, she does seem to be more naturally suited to that category, and if she’s successful, the fact of her age will hopefully be enough to generate a bit of positive media for the sport. Here’s hoping!


Remember. This woman you are drooling over is a grandmother!


Cinderella Landolt: Fitness Princess


Once upon a time there was a beautiful fitness fanatic from Switzerland, whose face was so beautiful and whose body was so fit and sexy that when she posted pictures of herself on the internet, lots and lots of men from all over the world started to send her money… check out her website if you have some spare cash … and she became more and more famous and more and more people signed up for her training programs. And she lived happily ever after, and so did her fans, whose insatiable appetite for images of this fairytale princess had made her rich, and no longer in need of a prince charming, although she could still have one if she wanted. But on her terms.


More seriously, is this a blueprint for female fitness women or what? I’m not saying Cinderella invented this career path, but she’s pulling it off very slickly, don’t you think? Mind you, she has a first-rate product to market. Tall, athletic and stunningly beautiful, and with one hell of a memorable name, she does have everything going for her. But still, you have to run with it, and she is sprinting.


Long dark hair, and a set of abs that were made to be massaged and licked all night. Eyes shine with health and vitality, and then there’s her long shapely legs. And she’s very friendly on the forums, always replying to compliments from other members and seeming genuinely pleased to hear from fans. ‘You’re so beautiful – awesome physique.’ ‘Cindy, you’re an angel. We love you.’ ‘Simply the hottest female fitness model out there now.’ ‘The body you have built is perfect.’ ‘I’m sure that you were just as lovely before you ever touched your first weight.’ Now what woman wouldn’t want to get compliments like this on a daily basis? And how many women would be able to deal with it so nicely?


She says, It’s ALL down to the Alp air and Swiss cheese.

PS. I haven't been able to locate any clips of Cindy for the downloads or tube videos pages. Just want to be clear that this is due to lack of material. It's certainly not that I don't think she's worth watching in motion!


Penpraghai Tiangngok: Webcam Star


Another woman on the list who was utterly unknown to me at the beginning of the year, and furthermore, a woman whose name I am not 100% sure how to pronounce, Penpraghai, like Kashma and Cinderella, came to my attention on the forums, and I have spent more and more time ‘with’ her as the year has gone on. This is mainly because I’ve got hold of some of her webcam clips, and they are among the most stimulating I have ever had the pleasure of viewing.


But before I go on to wax lyrical about this exotic beauty’s sensational physique, there’s something that needs to be said. WTF can’t people look at a gorgeous muscular Thai woman without thinking that she must have been a he once. For God’s sake, or maybe that should be Buddha’s sake, not all Thai women used to be men! And what exactly is it about her that makes these people think she’s a transsexual, or a ladyboy? Can’t see it myself. She looks like she’s all woman to me, and she’s got more of what most women want than most women have. Pure sex appeal. Feminine sex appeal. Now please, put your stereotypes in a box and throw them in the river. That’s better.


She is also a really really exciting poser. She really seems to understand the fetishism of sthenolagnia, the thrill of seeing muscles displayed. As mentioned before, her webcam clips are off-the-scale hot, full of knowing glances to camera, and adoring gazes at her peaking biceps as she flexes. She knows how to rub the oil on and make you wish it was you doing the rubbing, and she’s also a muscle control pro, especially good with her glutes. Check out the downloads page if you don’t believe me. Or check it out anyway if you do. I’m sure my words aren’t as erotic as the clips are!


After viewing her latest webcam clip, a friend of mine said she made him think of a tribe of exotic, strong Amazons all looking like Penpraghai. I knew what he meant immediately. Who among us hasn’t dreamed of a strange island populated by gorgeous muscular female warriors who need a man to mate with them? When he washed up ashore a group of female warriors welcomed him, tended to his wounds and took him to their queen, who was the strongest and most beautiful of all, and who told him that he would die unless he mated with the entire tribe…


Katka Kyptova: Horký Materiál


According to Google Translator, that’s Hot Stuff. And although I doubt that works, I like the sound of the word, horký, sounds like a combination of hot and horny with a k in it. Katka Kyptova, definitely one of the horkíest women alive.


Let’s not relive her 2nd place at the Arnold Europe, collectively we have said enough about it, see previous post. What I want to talk about, and what makes Katka one of my Women of the Year was the decision she made before the Arnold Europe to dye her hair black.


Don’t get me wrong, I thought Katka was well horký with blond hair. But I’ve always preferred sultry, dark-haired women, so when I first saw Katka had gone that way, she went off my horký scale completely.


Worryingly, she also announced that she was quitting bodybuilding. I wish she wouldn’t. Her horkíness aside, there’s something about Katka, that star quality that female bodybuilding needs. Someone who has the ability to reach out to people outside the female muscle sub-culture, someone who cannot be dismissed as a manly steroid-freak, and make them see muscle women in a new light.


Ravishing. I look at this picture long enough and I actually feel like she has ravished me. Those eyes, those lips, and oh my, those pecs! Phwoarrr! And another bonus we’ve had this year from Katka is that she has spent more and more time taking her top off and getting her groin-tingling pecs out in all their glory. Horkíssimo!


Let’s hope Katka continues dying her hair, taking her top off and, most importantly, bodybuilding in 2012. It will be a sad loss if she turns her back on it.




Check the tube videos and the downloads pages for more from my Women of the Year.

Enjoy! Horký Christmas and an even horkíer New Year!