I have several reasons to smile, says veteran Greek muscle goddess Konstantina.
Now I remember her from the glory days of greekmuscle.net (now sadly no longer with us) as a woman who was never backward in coming forward to show off her own particular brand of ripped WABBA muscularity. Recently though, the addition of some enhancement to her pectoral enhancements has apparently made her even bolder.
And this newly-enhanced boldness reached thrilling freaky peak (so far) in early June. Gosh! exclaimed one forum poster. She's reached a whole new level. Very hot!!!
Don't you find it comforting to know that there are others, like our forum poster, out there who are just as impressed by such gnarly female muscle as you yourself are? We know full well that we could totally explain the attraction of - for example - Cindy Landolt to a non-female muscle head, but not this. Never this. This is just for us.
A lady in the street, a freak in the gym, is the philosophy Konstantina signs up to. I'm sure the first half of that is true, but a (reasonably) thorough search of her IG doesn't show a lot of evidence of it. Plenty of the other though. And not just in the gym.
For what must be about five years, uber-sexibitionist (and some time IFBB pro competitor) Angela Salvagno has struggled with digestive issues. They left her "feeling bloated and sick" every time she ate carbs, which is obviously far from ideal for a Bodybuilder. While it didn't stop her continuing to make her (rightly legendary) pay-per-view output, the thought of ever competing again or even returning to her (thrilling) more ripped look was, by her own admission, an impossible dream.
She tried all number of remedies. Raw fish every day was one I recall, nothing but "bone broth" for 10 days another. Neither of those or any of the diets she was advised to go on worked, at least until she found Florida Alternative Medicine. You don’t realize how lucky you are to be able to eat certain foods like veggies, rice, or any kind of carbs for that matter until it’s taken away from you, she wrote. That's when you realize eating those simple kinds of carbs was actually pretty damn amazing, and wish you could have that chance again. Florida Alternative Medicine changed my life. I've got that chance again, and I'm savouring every little bite.
If only for all the pleasure Angie has given me over the years, I was happy to hear she was healthy and enjoying eating again. But the effect of this new diet on her body has been nothing short of spectacular. And she loves it almost as much as I do.
It's nice to finally see my abs ripped like I use to be able to, she announced recently. Them and my obliques as well! Veins too are popping out at unexpected times for unexpected reasons. It is, as she tells it, something like a miracle. Damn! she writes. Never thought a salad would give me veins in my abs but hey I’ll take it!
Of course, Angie's social media is only ever a window onto what you can get for your dollars elsewhere, only ever the prelude to what you have to pay for, but it's also where she communicates most effectively with her wider fanbase, and the news is she's feeling so good she's going to compete at the Tampa Pro at the start of August...
This will be Angie's first contest since 2015 I believe, but the really exciting news is that unlike then, she won't be competing in Physique. Instead, and for the first time since she came 6th in Tampa in 2011, she'll be returning to Bodybuilding!
Angie @Tampa Pro 2011
Until then, let's enjoy (some) of Angie's (unusually covered up, pre-ripped again) work with Awefilms in this recently posted preview: Why I Love Being A Muscle Girl.
As we saw the last time we featured the beautiful Kristy Enos on FMS, her social media heat goes all the way up to 11 when she's preparing for a competition. So her IG has been essential viewing in the last few weeks as she treated us to all sorts of up-close-and-personal shots of her ever more shredded IFBB Physique pro body.
The contest she was prepping for was the San Jose Pro last weekend, and for my money she has never looked better. Ultimately her placing (in a very high quality line-up) probably didn't reflect that, but the sight of the thin skin over her vascular (and in motion) abs 10 days out is one of my personal female muscle highlights of 2018 so far.
Check out Kristy's caption for this though:
I wasn’t trying to show my ***** off here, but a bit difficult to cover. Flex 'n' film but anyways, just showing my conditioning 10 days' out before showtime...
And a few days before, she had wondered aloud (in a social media kind of way) why she gets so many "dick pics" sent to her. From guys, she thinks, "who don't know the difference between progress pics and tryin' to be a ho on IG for attention".
Then, 2 days' out...
Not trying to show off her boobs, I would guess, but they're a bit difficult to cover!
A "progress" clip for sure! I bet it got her a few more unwanted pics of dicks though.
Joking aside, what Kristy is missing here I think is that her motivation for posting her beautiful barenaked bod is irrelevant (to them). This is about the feelings, the urges that they trigger in the dick pic sending community. I wouldn't for a minute condone sending pics of your dick to any woman (or man for that matter) who hasn't expressly asked for one, but at the same time I do (kind of) understand what drives them to it in Kristy's case. First (and second and third etc.) time I watched the clips above - I'm almost ashamed to say it now - but my hands were far from being above the table.
So, if you ever want a pic Kristy, just let me know.
Wish I could use my tongue to show my admiration of your beauty...
Hot pose. Gorgeous veiny guns and boobs. Wanna kiss you all over. YUM!
Marry me my goddess! I WANT YOU!!!
Awesome, strong and sexy. I'd love a photo of you from the front with nothing on!
Wish you could actually show everything. You are a work of art.
Sexiest woman on the planet. I am speechless.
Phyllis Huang aka chinesegoddess777 has never been shy about showing her beautiful body off, but recently she really has upped her tease game. Since the beginning of this year she has treated us to more and more nudes - tasteful enough to get by the Instagram police, but nudes nonetheless. And as you can probably tell from the (tiny) selection of (the many many) comments, her fanbase approve.
Phyllis - I would imagine - won't stop giving us what we want. A woman in her 40s, pretty much a nobody in terms of competitive achievement, and she is adored by (tens of) thousands. She poses and posts and the compliments and the offers (marriage, tongue, "moustache chair"(!) etc.) come flying in. Must be great for her confidence.
Unlike many of the women who us male fans flock to on social media, Phyllis doesn't - as far as my cursory survey of her Instagram suggests anyway - have a lot of "fitspired" female fans. Some, yes, but the vast majority follow her for a very different kind of inspiration. Some of those other women are not especially keen on their male fans' comments. For Phyllis, however, it seems to be all about inspiring the boys.
Who wants to join me? she asks.
2,791 of us (at the time of writing). And counting.
There was a grand total of only 14 Physique competitors at the recent NPC Jr. Nationals. This, compared with 22 in 2017, 28 the year before, and over 40 in 2015, might indicate that it will not be long before the WPD goes where the FBBing division at this show went in 2013 - off the bill. However, and much to my delight, what the Physique line-up lacked in quantity, it more than made up for it in quality.
We saw the Overall winner - the gorgeous Jessica Booker Williams - on Tuesday. Today, it's the best of the rest plus some news about one of the more well-loved competitors which (if you haven't already heard about it) is liable to have you punching the air with joy - or at least that's what happens in my experience.
Among the many beauties who left without pro cards were she-hulk Teneacia Smith (top left) and Amanda Martin - who looked good from the front but even better from the rear. Blond beauty Jessica Uthe surely has the thickness to nail her pro card at some point this year if she comes in with better conditioning, and then there was the very appropriately named Gentry Manley - not that Gentry is very manly herself, you understand, it's just a great name for any muscle woman to have!
One woman who did leave with a pro card and a big beaming smile was D class winner Alyssa Isley, whose glutes alone were probably worth the price of admission.
I woke up this morning still in shock, Alyssa wrote the morning after, before asking the question that many a new pro must ask themselves? Now what, what is next?
Even more shredz on the glutes, perhaps Alyssa? Just a suggestion.
And then there was the other Alyssa - Kiessling - bringing her own unique style to the stage, posing like a dude of yore, and going home a pro after winning the A class.
Here she is, "ready to bring back that pro status to room 2533!"
This is what I loved most about the weekend, she said afterwards. Posing to some music with my best friends watching and hyping me up. Vibessss man. Vibes.
More than a little crazy (in a good way), and certainly at least as crazy about female muscle as the most vehement among us, I don't ever see her stopping. The self-styled "Classical Queen" will be lighting up stages for years to come. Pro stages.
And so to the C class, where it was "buff" v "beef", a "nugget" v "nuggette", and former FMS Woman of the Week, the beautiful Destinee Bruch fulfilled her destinee.
It's time to relax, recover, eat a lot of food and have a lot of fun, "Miss Buff Nugget" told her Instagram followers, and while we didn't get to see so much of the relaxing and recovering, she did give us some eating, and seemed to be having a lot of fun doing so!
Destinee's victory, however, left C class rival Paige "Beefnuggette" Sandgren feeling rather deflated, which coincidentally is how she had been feeling at the start of the week before the show - Bloated, flat, tired, blah blah blah... although she looked absolutely sensational both then and at the end of her week in her red posing suit.
"Reflecting on the show and judging feedback", Paige came to a decision.
Get ready for the air punching thing... Since I’ve already come this far, she wrote. I’ll be doing another show in 3 more weeks to try again for my pro card... but this time, it’s in a division I think will better suit my thicker-then-a-snicker shape and size.
Need a translation? Paige will be competing in Bodybuilding now. Watch out for the Ms Wings International Classic, July 1st, Chicago. This feels right, is Paige's current take on her preparation. If things go well we could be seeing her at this year's Rising Phoenix.
Over the years in this forum and others, I thought he was a unique presence. Someone who had an interesting perspective and whose contributions had a consistent point of view. I still remember his coming-of-age encounters with muscular women, which were always fun to read. And of course all those amazing video posts, which must have taken hours of hours of time to construct - and to a Luddite like me, most appreciated! One of the real grown-up presences as opposed to the many trolls.
Reported on the forum whose first rule is... in mid-May, the passing of the man known (most recently) as "the street fighter" has prompted a number of heartfelt tributes.
I'm certainly going to miss hearing from him. He not only spent countless hours editing and posting the vintage [FBBing clips] that we all love seeing here, but he'd make great posts with a lot of enthusiastic insight, which included his own past experiences. He kept things light-hearted and entertaining and the best thing about this board was always reading one of his new video posts with commentary. I had the fortune to exchange several PMs with him over the years. Just a great guy.
His legendary posts brought us edited footage of contests from the entire history of the sport. A 1988 IFBB women's invitational event held in Japan which I'm pretty sure only a handful of devoted heads even knew about, let alone had footage of. The 1990 Iron Maiden, wrong result he reckoned, and complete - as always - with his own technical data: This has been floating around the web and I am unsure who made the original capture. I've attempted to reduce the artifacting from the original compression. I cropped tracking noise and resized the clip with a subtle sharpen. 11:03 Duration 720x540 25fps MKV container X265 compression. Enjoy!
But his love of the sport didn't stop when the moon pose was outlawed. Right up until last year he was still posting his own edits of shows - from Asia, Germany, North America - his love of the contest as great as ever, new divisions and all. Female bodybuilding is my first love, he wrote in 2017, but Physique is my mistress.
Today, we offer just a few of our favourite street fighter gifs, along with some choice quotes. A tiny selection of what he so passionately shared with his fellow heads.
I know there are a number of implant haters on this sight.
However, if you have never experienced feeling a woman with implants under the muscle flexing her chest you should try it once.
The reason being is that the because of the pressure on the implant from the contraction of the pectoral muscle the entire chest becomes hard.
It feels like the entire breast is muscle.
I quickly laid on my back.
My eyes had started to adjust to the darkness and the way she moved to get on top of me was like that of a powerful lioness. Her long golden hair cascading over her muscular body.
Once again she took my cock in her hand and put me inside her. As my dick slowly squeezed in, it felt like it was going to start sweating because she was so hot inside. It was then I realized that just like a bodybuilder does before going on stage she had pumped up. She had pumped up her vagina muscles.
I always watch British competitions with trepidation. I'm worried my estranged wife will show up in the Extreme/Super Body class with the intention of making me regret separating from her.
However, no Extreme Body class in this event - a double edged sword.
I love the huge muscle but not sure how I would deal with seeing my wife on stage again. Anyway, lots of muscle flexing in heels and thong bikinis.
Sabine Wick poses really fast on stage and a lot is happening that we miss so I had this idea. I made these gifs from the clip that stitchface posted (the best footage of Sabine Wick I've seen).
I used software to create tweens (short for in-betweens) making frames based on weighted motion and inverse movement.
This took the existing footage from 3 minutes to about 12.
Then I combined the original and extended footage and slowed down her flexing but left her transitions at normal speed.
If you guys think this is cool let me know.
If you think it sucks let me know too!
I briefly corresponded with him in late 2013, asking for permission to use some of his fantastic gifs. He was only too glad to oblige, and very encouraging about the blog. I particularly remember him saying that "you've really started to find your own voice", which - coming from him, a man whose knowledge of female muscle past and present was so great it was actually kind of intimidating - I found incredibly flattering.
We talked about our love for muscles several times. He seemed like such a nice man and he was sincere in his passion, his love of sharing so cool. I will miss him!
For any forum member to get such a send-off is absolutely unheard of, and probably says more about the way he touched so many with his generosity and skills than any cack-handed attempt from me to eulogise him could. He will, indeed, be missed.
