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QUEEN OF QUADS



The Queen claiming her throne at the inaugural Texas Pro, mega quads and all. Quite apart from being the first Ms Rising Phoenix (and the winner of the biggest prize female bodybuilding has ever seen - CHA CHING!) Margie was once a marine, and claims to be "The Bringer of Quadgasms". Too many athletes stop when their muscles begin to burn, she says. Me - I'm just getting warmed up! Ah! So that's her secret...

QUAD TREASURE FROM THE ARCHIVE

KIM KING



WPW cover star and 1991 NPC Nationals Heavyweight and Overall champion Kim King is a name (and body) many a female muscle head of a certain age will remember. Her glorious amateur career was followed by a single pro appearance at the 1992 Jan Tana, where she finished 9th, but I simply could not resist finding a place for her and those "legendary" thighs in one of this week's posts. She was one of my favorites in those times, one forum poster recalls. She had extraordinarily built legs!



To be honest, I was desperate to get the on stage shot of Kim in her old school posing suit (above right) into the week. Just look at how she presents that super ripped, super flexed, super massive thigh of hers to the judges with such full-on animal intensity.

Suddenly I'm 18 again! *SWOOOOON!*

(KNOCKIN' ME OUT WITH THOSE) BRAZILIAN THIGHS



1. CLAUDIA BONAVOGLIA



From Belo Horizonte, Claudia says, I'm feminine, yes! My muscles are only part of my strong personality! More feminine than many women without muscles. That's me!!! Readers may recall from FMS' Images of 2014 that Claudia likes to take that femininity of hers to the beach and make other women look somewhat inferior. Yes, that's her!!!

2. MAYARA BARROS BUENO



And our second brasileira do dia is the reigning NABBA champ of southern Brazil and a top 3 finisher at this year's NABBA Brazil to boot. Yes, 2015's been very boa for Curitiba's Mayara Barros Bueno. Follow her next move via her Facebook page.

THIGHLIGHT

INSTANEZZY



The other day we had a first for FMS with Hulda Lopez, our first female bodybuilder from Honduras. Well, here's another first. "Instanezzy" or "Inez" is based in Perth, Western Australia, but though we have had our fair share of Aussie muscle freaks before, we've never (knowingly) featured one who's originally from Indonesia.



She's also the first female bodybuilder we've featured here who prefers to call herself a bodyrebuilder, which suggests there may well be a stunning transformation picture out there somewhere that the research team haven't managed to locate as yet.



But thankfully she isn't shy of taking a selfie or two, and even better she's into juxtaposing said selfies in order to demonstrate her spectacular progress. I wonder how she got those thighs so big so quickly... Sunday legs session: 1. Legs extensions super set with leg press; 2. Seated hamstring curls; 3. Lying hamstring curls; 4. Hamstrings extensions on seated calves machine; 5. Calves raises on leg press machine; 6. Glute kickbacks machine; 7. High reps good mornings; 8. Back squats.



She's cute as a button. And on Instagram pretty much daily.

CLOSE-UP

HELLE



Anyone else get the feeling that the realest things, perhaps the only real things you can see in this picture are Helle's magnificent thighs? Get busy with the oil, darling.

QUADS IN MOTION

CAUTION! DANGER OF HYPNOSIS!

Aleesha. Not so much "quads in motion" as "camera in motion", and I dare say a sight that sets a few "hands in motion" too! We've already seen Aleesha this week so these two fantasy thighs don't add to the total, but a gif worth posting, I'm sure you'll agree...

YOU CAN COVER (BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE)



Belle, Buck and Triple Dee and muscles that will take more than a skin tight outfit to cover up. A lot more. Just imagine walking in the gym and copping an eyeful such as these! "Death by sudden blood reassignment" is, I believe, how the coroners have phrased their verdicts in similar cases of female muscle headed misadventure.

Be warned my brethren!



Enjoy!

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Today, we pass the halfway point in our Week of 100 Thighs. We've got a classy Canadian favourite, an exotically-named Swede, Brazilians - of course - and the woman who makes us (and much of the rest of the female muscle lovin' world) go NG! And as if that weren't enough, the self-styled "Musclebunny" of British Physique too.

You lucky people!

(KNOCKIN' ME OUT WITH THOSE) BRAZILIAN THIGHS



1. ANGELICA TEODORO



BOOM! Meet Angelica Teodoro. Well, her bombastic thighs anyway. What we can tell you about Angelica, aka Angel Maromba, is that she's Brazilian, and er... that's about it, I'm afraid. She seems to have been around for the last five years or so, and seems to be the kind of woman who isn't shy about lifting up her little skirt to give us a good old-fashioned gander at those bad boys. That is to say, my kind of woman!



Maybe you can work out more than the entire FMS research team has been able to when you visit her Facebook and Instagram. And even if you can't, there's plenty more quadtastic images to enjoy. Boa Caçada! as they (probably) say in Porto Alegre.

CLOSE-UPs

JODIE "MUSCLEBUNNY" DURKIN



From the beautiful south-west of England, comes the very beautiful and utterly charming British Physique competitor Jodie Durkin. I'm a regular girl, she says. Working a normal job earning a normal wage. No sponsorship, no fancy pants anything, just a very determined, hard-working girl with a BIG dream. It'll take as long as it takes but I'll make sure I enjoy every step along the way. Operation grow quads is a go-go this off season. Watch her go go go on Instagram and Facebook.

TINA NGUYEN



Time was we could barely last a day without spending some quality time with Tina and her perfect parts. On medical advice though we have managed to keep ourselves largely Nguyen-free for the past month or so (although a recent photoshoot with Tina, Spain's Ana Cozar and Brazilian legend Larissa Reis did cause us to go into remission for a few days). Everything's back under control now. Sort of.

TUA-CECILIA ROUGE HENRY



When a Beautiful Girl Falls in Love with Muscles... is the name of the clip. Its maker - whose Oldschoolfbb channel is well worth thoroughly investigating - reckons the 23-year-old Tua Cecilia is "the most beautiful fitness woman in the world". Someone get her a Hollywood contract, he adds. She has amazing features. Angelina Jolie has nothing on her. And he isn't the only female muscle head to have fallen for this crossfitter/weightlifter's super-cute + super-thick combination. Get busy getting acquainted with Gothenburg's "Tiny Beast" on Instagram and Facebook.

(KNOCKIN' ME OUT WITH THOSE) BRAZILIAN THIGHS



2. SUELEN BISSOLATI



How does anyone get anything done in this country? Seriously. Women like Suelen Bissolati walking around, dancing, their "monumental" legs and bombastic bums barely covered as they pound the weights in the gym right before your eyes.



Seriously. Imagine walking into your gym and encountering Suelen in selfie mode. Which of the two outfits above would make you pass out more quickly do you think? The midriff-covering bum-revealing little black number on the left perhaps? Or the abs-revealing my-swelling-thighs-are-gonna-rip-these-leggings-apart fantasy costume on the right? Could your body cope with such urgent, massive blood relocation?



Suelen never seems to run out of new and exciting outfits. And she never seems to stop snapping herself, either. Damn door of the lift hasn't even closed yet (above right) and she's already at it. She's on Facebook. She's on Instagram. I am SWOOONING!

THIGHLIGHT

ZOA LINSEY



Zoa, the FMS editorial team decided, has been criminally overlooked on this blog. She always seems to deliver beauty, definition, and some of the most aesthetically-pleasing quads in whatever show or division she competes in (these days it's Physique).




And though these days every woman with a bit of freaky quad development is taking these POV selfies, Zoa's been doing it for years. She may even have invented this mini-genre, so the team also decided that from now on we're calling them "Zoas".




Zoa has been based in Osaka, Japan for a while now, where I imagine she has cornered the market in personal training for those Osakans with the money and desire to get up close and personally-trained by a bona fide blond Canadian muscle goddess.



Watch Zoa guest posing in Nagoya recently.

And finally, if you've been following all week, perhaps you were wondering where the Queen was today. Well, we decided to save the QUADGASMIC best for last...

QUEEN OF QUADS: IN MOTION

*SWOOOOON*

Enjoy!

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QUEEN OF QUADS



And there are those who still maintain that female bodybuilders have no curves!

CLOSE-UPs

ZRINCA KORAC-FISER



Zrinca and her lovely thighs have been representing Croatia at international level in the Bodyfitness division for nearly a decade - so no wonder she puts her feet up once in a while! She has been the Overall IFBB European Bodyfitness champion twice (2008 & 2012), and was crowned Overall IFBB Bodyfitness World champion in 2009. Still competing - she was runner-up in her class at this year's Europeans - you can follow her adventures (and see that impressive contest history in full) on her Facebook page.

MMMICAELA & MMMIAVA



Thighs that make you go MMM.

SQUATZILLA



"Squatzilla" is the monniker of 26-year-old Kentucky single mum and powerlifter Sarah Cattan. She reckons she "can squat almost everyone", and looking at those thighs, I ain't going to be the one to doubt her claim. Sarah has only been lifting since she gave birth three years ago - I just walked up to the free weight areas without really having a plan, and if I didn’t know how to use something I would watch other people, she says. You can read more about Sarah in a Girl Gone Strong interview here, and marvel at her transformation pictures there and on her Facebook page too.

And in case you were wondering what four-letter word beginning with "F" preceded "Me" on the back of Sarah's T-shirt, it actually says "Suffering Unleashes Greatness".

And you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.

QUADS IN MOTION - LEG EXTENSIONS

1. Sit on machine with back on padded support and shins under padded lever.
2. Move lever upward by extending knees until legs are straight.
3. Return to starting position.

In Brazil, apparently, there is a step zero as well. I believe it translates from Portuguese as something like "Put on colourful, provocative workout gear and go to gym".

(KNOCKIN' ME OUT WITH THOSE) BRAZILIAN THIGHS



Not just any old run-of-the-mill Brazilian thighs today...

1. SELMA LABAT



First up, the 2014 Brazilian and South American champion thighs of Selma Labat, perennial FMS fave and our readers' choice as #39 in this year's Hot and Hard 100. I am a bodybuilder, I never give up! says Selma. And I never stop dropping my pants, flexing my quads and admiring myself. OK, I may have made that last bit up.

2. CARLA MARIA BRADLEY



And our second dose of Brazilian Thunder today (which is one more dose than good doctors recommend, by the way) comes courtesy of the 28" (71 cm) megaquads of the big and very beautiful Maria Aparecida (aka Carla Maria) Bradley.



Now recently I was chatting to a fellow female muscle head from Missouri. I confessed that, as a Brit, the USA has always seemed to be the Promised Land of Female Muscle, to which he replied that as an American, the Promised Land of Female Muscle has always seemed to be Brazil! The majority of FMS readers are from the States too, and may have a similar view, so I thought it important to point out that, proud Brazilian though she is, Carla Maria has for various reasons relocated to the US now. I love the USA 'cause here they give me a chance to prove I'm the best, she says.



Now if that isn't a much-needed positive immigration story then I don't know what is. And I sincerely hope for my new friend's sake that, rather than California or Florida, Carla Maria has decided to settle herself and her wondrous thighs in Missouri!

THIGHLIGHT

JESSICA RIVERA CARDENAS



Mexican Jessica has been on the FMS radar since she won her national championships back in 2012. Now they clearly don't f*** around in Mexico, because the title you get isn't "Ms Mexico" or anything as dull as that, but Senorita Perfección!!!



After that win, Jessica turned her competitive eye to the States, though sadly for US readers, unlike Carla Maria Bradley, "Ms Perfection" is still based in her hometown of Mexico City, where, I imagine, she causes all sorts of trouble at her local gym.




When she strips down to her panties and flares those bad boys (above, top left) or even just struts around in her pink leggings (above, bottom right) and her quads bulge through the fabric, her fellow gymgoers' eyes must be bulging out of their heads.




This year, Jessica - a lightweight - won the Overall title at the IFBB North Americans - beating heavyweight Theresa Ivancik in the posedown - and with it secured the IFBB pro card she's been after for so long. Note how that even during the presentation, Jessica couldn't stop herself flexing her quad (above, bottom right) and the effect said quad flexing has on the presenter lady, whose hand seems poised to do exactly what I'd be totally unable to stop myself doing if I were faced with the same situation!



Check out this interview with Jessica just after her win (it's in Spanish, but if you don't speak the language I promise you that you won't care when she starts flexing). And you can also follow Jessica - and her new pro thighs - on her Facebook page.

Disfrutar!