2016 Review: January

Time to look back at the year that was on FMS.

It was cold in January, but there was much heat on the blog.

Sasha Rudenko



In the UK media, The Mail runs a story about Russian bodybuilder Aleksandra "Sasha" Rudenko, pictures of whom were reported to have "shocked followers in social media". Apparently, "fans claim her shock of grey hair is a sign she's destroying her body", but FMS is rather impressed, especially with Sasha's lovely legs.

Remember this story. It will be relevant later in the year.

Sadistka: Valentina Mishina

FMS falls in love for the first time in 2016...



Such model looks, and at the same time she's so into making her body more and more freakily muscular. It's an addiction for her, a fetish almost, or even in fact. Her VK and Instagram name is "sadistka" with a 666 at either end. For Valentina, it seems, pain really is pleasure, because pain means muscle and muscle means pleasure.

How Natalya Turned Pro

I was at the competition where the controversy took place. She was reminded of the right poses several times. She looked really pissed off at the stage most of the time. After the results she did not raise the trophy, and left the stage very swiftly. Cannot recall whether she left the trophy. No respect for other competitors, judges or the audience. Her body looked good (too much muscle for physique, rightly placed at the bottom) but her attitude sucked totally. ("ummelvirta", FMS reader)



And the pro card turned up soon after.

We still have no idea how she did it.

missbeast25

FMS begins its "IG stalk" of Melissa Lesage, aka Miss Beast. A woman who gets so disgustingly ripped she even disgusts herself. Last summer when I was shredded peeled & nasty, she says, I loved every last second of it! YES my liver, kidneys, and heart took a hit but did I DIE??! NOPE! And being a nurse, she would know.



If you want a laugh, says FMS, just look up some of the other million or so woman who dare to call themselves "Miss Beast" and compare. I'll tell you, there's barely a muscle between them, not to mention a damaged vital organ.

Check out more from FMS in January here.

Tomorrow, it's February, the LOVE month...

From Russia Enhanced: Sasha Rudenko

Hello again, and a belated Happy New Year to all of you lovely readers.

FMS is back, refreshed and this year beginning the week on Monday and ending it on Sunday, like "normal people", as opposed to our customary Saturday to Friday run. No reason, just felt like the right thing to do. And we've also decided, after a brief experiment, to disallow anonymous comments again, not because there were any negative or offensive ones, but because it opened the door to online marketeers, and we have, quite frankly, been inundated with shite we had to moderate away. So if you want to comment, you'll need some kind of Google etc. ID. Apologies if that's a problem, but there are ways you can get in touch apart from the comment box like the old email 6ft1swell@gmail.com, and the new(ish) Twitter @6ft1swell for starters.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

And to kick off 2016 on FMS, we've decided to spend a week with some enhanced Russian athletes. Not the type who were so vilified in the media after the IAAF's drug-testing procedures were called into question, but those enhanced with muscle.



Today, a Russian Physique competitor whose notable legs we met briefly on the blog last year (see Rolling Thunder 089-100), and who gained some unexpected publicity in the UK around the same time that the IAAF story was breaking, Sasha Rudenko.



The story appeared at the end of November courtesy of the Mail Online, the internet arm of the Daily Mail newspaper, not a publication I go anywhere near in the normal course of things - think Trump's point of view then go a bit tot he right an you're about where the Mail stands on most things. However, as we've noted in the past here, the Mail Online has a penchant for picking up female muscle stories from the UK and elsewhere. And they are, pretty much all, positive. Though not, sadly, this time.



I am, of course, using the term "story" lightly, because if ever there was a non-story, it's here. Woman bodybuilder, 24, posts photos taken just one year apart showing her transformation but fans claim her shock of grey hair is a sign she's destroying her body, read the (rather long) headline. Apparently, "snaps of Aleksandra Rudenko shocked followers in social media". Those followers then "hit out, saying she had 'ruined' her body by over-training and looked 'unrecognisable' after just a year of competing".



The shocking pics in question were Sasha's own and showed her at her absolute driest just before her appearance at the IFBB Worlds. As we all know, the conditioned to within an inch of her life pre-contest feed female bodybuilder doesn't always look her best, but according to the Mail, this was too much for the "haters who descended onto her social media". After much horror andhand-wringing, the article moves on to how Sasha herself "gracefully" replied. And she pretty much said what I have just said.



How it got there, I cannot even imagine, she said in reference to the article afterwards. Well, Sasha, I imagine things went along something like this...

There's a journo, a journo who knows female muscle stories get bought by the Mail, maybe they've sold the Mail a few even. And perhaps a bit of extra income wouldn't go amiss as Christmas approaches. Time to find another of those money-spinning female muscle stories. Now, at this point I like to imagine that the journo went to their favourite resource for female muscle related knowledge, that well-regarded blog Female Muscle Slave. Just as easily it could have been the FMS quoting (and I mean in FULL) Body of Evidence (see Mr Evidence, I credit you, why don't you credit me?) But anyway, for whatever reason, our journo ends up visiting your VK page.

This must have been soon after November 20th when you posted your progress pics. Journo uses Google translate to decipher the comments (or is fluent in Russian), culls a few pics from when you looked "normal", and the story basically makes up itself after that. Got a new female bodybuilder shocker for you, says the journo to the Mail's editor. And as soon as the cheque is cashed, the kids' Xmas prezzies are upgraded.



Some of the images the journalist ignored are here in our post today. Sasha looks far from drawn, doesn't seem to be prematurely ageing - she turned 24 in December - and hardly displayed a "ruined" body at the Russian Championships (5th), the Worlds (8th), or the Arnold Europe, in a quite successful first year of international competition.




At least I could see myself in comparison with the world's strongest athletes, she said of her contest season. The real indication of your form can only be made standing in line with the best. I could see my mistakes in posing, style and carb loading.



I'm just looking at her legs, mostly.



And I'm pleased to report that Sasha was by no means upset by the publicity, bad being better than no, she reckoned. She [author Phoebe Jackson-Edwards] even read and translated comments! Sasha noted with delight as she linked the article. Made my day!




I hope she enjoys this even more. Bad publicity may be better than none, but good publicity is better than bad. Maybe there's a journo reading this right now and wondering what positive Sasha Rudenko story they can cook up - "Ruined 25-year-old Russian female bodybuilder is back to her gorgeous best after premature ageing scare" for example. Or maybe they're reading this post tomorrow on Body of Evidence...



CORRECTION

In our only previous Sasha post we claimed she was Norwegian. We were wrong. Russian by birth and nationality, she's only at university in Norway. Apologies, it's what we believed to be true at the time. She's obviously Russian. She's on VK.

Celebrating prime enhanced Russian beef all week. Enjoy!

Rolling Thunder 089-100

QUEEN OF QUADS

The last day of Rolling Thunder, and yes, the Queen has some treats for you...

1. ALEKSANDRA RUDENKO

NEW LEGS ON THE BLOCK



Despite the name, "Sasha" is from Norway, the 2014 Norwegian Masters Physique champion, most recently in action at the Arnold Europe in Madrid, where her incredible legs weren't quite enough to get her into the top 10 in her (up to 163cm) class. Fear not, though, because she and they feature in Muscle Appeal's new preview of Beautiful Muscular Women from Europe - Sasha is on after sexy Susanna Tirpak, and, yes, there is up close quad flexing included. Short but very very sweet.

2. LAURA CAROLAN

SHOCK & AWE



In Tampa this year, and at her first pro show since 2012 (and only her second since 1995!) Canada's Laura Carolan certainly had the kind of conditioning that catches the eye. But it was her work with Awefilms after the show that is likely to live longest in the memory, and it's a screen cap from this that we present today.

It's the kind of look (and you can see a few more caps from the video here) that can make the non-female muscle headed community panic and run for cover, and can even divide female muscle lovin' opinion like an "in/out" European referendum.

I'm in. Very in. *SWOOOON*IN



The Queen approves.

3. CYNTHIA COLON

THUNDER THIGHS



She started in Figure, would you believe, but after some initial success was told she was "too big", had "too much muscle". This was back in 2009, long before the Physique division had been created, so Cynthia went straight up to Bodybuilding, first as a Middleweight and then as a Heavyweight - despite being only 5'2" (1.57m). She earned her pro card in 2011, and was next seen in the Physique division at the New York Pro in 2013, where she finished 14th and which was the last we saw of her on stage.



She doesn't seem to have any concrete plan to compete again as yet, or if she does, she isn't letting on, but that hasn't stopped her magnificent legs becoming the stuff of female muscle lovin' legend. She owns some [!} of the most gorgeous, super pumped up dancer's legs ever on an FBB, says one forum poster, clearly too overcome by Cynthia's thunder to count to two. And the rest of her is damn nice too, he adds.

Follow Cynthia to "whichever contest is next" on Facebook and Instagram.

4. LOANA MUTTONI

ALL IN THE DETAIL



Our last pair of Brazilian thighs this week turns the freakometer all the way up to 11. We've posted this picture before, and swooned all over it on too many occasions to remember. And if I'm not mistaken, I feel another one coming on right now!

5. ROBIN DEE

RIVERS OF BLOOD



Who would have thunk it? It turns out the freakometer goes up to 12.

Imagine the incomprehension on the faces of your friends as you try to explain how unbelievably erotic you find pictures like the ones of Loana and Robin above...



The Queen understands though.

6. ALINA

ALL OF THE ABOVE



Rather ironically at this stage, it occurs to me now that just about everything I've been enjoying about the other 98 thighs we've featured this week could have been summed up with just two. And both of them belong to Alina Popa. Thickness, curvaceous aesthetic sweeping lines, ripped and rippling quads. She has it all. In spades.



And with Iris having announced her retirement over, I can't help thinking that female bodybuilding needs Alina to get back to her swoonworthy best in 2016, because as much as I can admire Iris for her achievements, the last thing the sport needs is for her to monopolise the Rising Phoenix as she did the Ms Olympia. And with all due respect to the Queen of Quads, Alina is still the best chance there is to stop that happening.



Turns out it is no easy thing to choose your favourite Alina quad shots, no easy thing at all. I'm exhausted I tell you, it's been swoon after swoon after swoon. Seems I really like how Chris Zimmerman frames those prime pieces of female muscle meat.



And I even set myself the thankless task of picking a favourite Alina quad gif as well. I have to admit ths isn't the highest definition example I could find, but there's something about the way all those different peaks of quad muscle start popping (Popa-ing!) up as she jiggles her feet up and down that I find absolutely irresistible.

You are probably expecting Alina to be the "big finish", but cool your, er, thing there fella. The Queen has one last beautiful treat for your viewing pleasure, so I hope you have just a little left for our final pair of thunder thighs...



7. KASHMA

THIGH FANTASY IN MOTION



She basks in the sunshine and beckons you over. You obey, and let her direct you into exactly the position she wants you. Are they big enough for you? she asks rhetorically, stretching out one, and then the other leg. You are hypnotised by her rippling quads, in awe of the muscle. You can feel your heart pound and your cock hardening.

Don't just look at them! she snaps, the sudden firmness in her voice jolting you out of your reverie, and then, more softly, coquettishly even: Don't you want to put your lips on them? Again, the question needs no answer, and you don't answer, you just DO...



Enjoy!