Pic of the Week

THE CONSOLATIONS OF FEMUSCLE PHILOSOPHY

Yesterday our post about Theresa Ivancik's preparation for this weekend's NPC Nationals ended with an extremely apt quote from a forum member in response to a recent Theresa selfie - Such confidence in her eyes about how hot she is. Female bodybuilders seem to understand tacitly that they have it all over other women.

I'd barely pressed the "Publish" button when yet further proof (as if any were needed) that this is true landed in my inbox courtesy of an FMS reader - Subject: O M F G!!!

It wasn't a picture of Theresa, but of Tanya Hyde...



So, after cleaning up getting some fluids down, I wondered what it was that had turned Tanya from the undeniably attractive but hardly overwhelming young muscle babe of three or four years ago into the devastating creature we see before us now.

There are theories out there that it's all because of Shannon Courtney, you know. The idea is that because Tanya was hanging out with Shannon so much while filming her for her website Tanya Fitness, she got all inspired and has subsequently set about "realizing her Amazon goddess potential" as our picture sending reader put it.

It's a comforting thought. Like Boethius' wheel - the idea that history is in a state of constant motion. You're either going up as the wheel turns, or you're going down. Don't get too despondent when times are bad, says Boethius, nor too proud when times are good, because neither the bad times nor the good times will last. Why should female muscle history be any different? Don't get too hung up on the new "big thing" - Shannon, for example - for her time will pass. But nor should you get too upset if she goes off and starts doing Spartan races instead of bodybuilding, because there will surely be another muscle goddess on the rise. Theresa Ivancik, for example. Or Tanya.

Whatever the reason for Tanya's new bigger and bolder muscle sexiness, whatever it is that gives those extra special women that tacit understanding "that they have it all", Tanya has most definitely got it. It's right there when you look into her eyes.

And it's also right here in a new clip from her YouTube channel.



Now clean up and get some fluids down.

August Picture Post: Sexy Selfies

Welcome to another installment of Sexy Selfies. Themes today include casual gym flexing, hand bras, mighty quads, and abs at their most rippedest. Heidi Vuorela, a woman I'd LOVE to know the name of, Emery Miller, and the marvellously monikkered Kallioph Matraka (you heard) get us up (wink) and running.





Jaimie Bernhardt
Fitness Model, jaimelynnfitness on Instagram




Virginia Sanchez Macias
IFBB Pro Bodybuilder, Ifbb Pro Virginia Sanchez Macias on Facebook




Looking Good, Feeling Good
I don't know who this lovely below is, but I know what I think she's thinking, trying to look all casual and everything as she admires her muscle sexy self and particularly that beautiful bulging shoulder of hers. And she's about to share it all with the world.




Shayla Turcotte
CBBF Physique Competitor, shaylaturcotte on Instagram



'Twas the night before the 2014 CBBF Nationals, and all through the hotel, not a creature was stirring, 'cept Shayla Turcotte, who was taking pictures of her shredded abs and thinking about how much she loves her contest ready body...


Asha Coulthard
IFBB Bikini, asha coulthard on Instagram



What a lovely colour!


Tanya Hyde
NPC Physique Competitor, her website



A professional chef who is "funnier than you", and, in my opinion, a woman who can smell the emerging hot fan dream female muscle talent a mile off. Shannon? Tanya was in there before anyone else. Dani? Same again. Plenty of both on her website. Did you know she was born in Australia? Was news to me. And it looks like Tanya's got a grow on. Maybe hanging out with Shannon and Dani is pushing her that little bit more. Maybe it's just all part of the Hyde masterplan for physique domination.


BONUS!

Emery Miller posing at the 2014 Toronto Pro (from watatiwatatio)




Enjoy!

100 Biceps: Day 3

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Once upon a time this female muscle fan was forced to survive on a monthly ration of female muscle that consisted of the handful of pictures mainstream muscle magazines would have. Invariably, it was only the very top female bodybuilders that were featured. What a contrast with today. More images of female muscle appear every day than I could possibly view, more than I ever saw in all those early magazines put together. And it's not just women who compete that are showing off their muscles. Women from all walks of life are snapping themselves and their biceps. Women like Jean (above left, bicep #023), a Clinical Nutrition student who posts her progress pics on her Eat Clean & Train Mean blog. Women like Marika Lejon (above right, #024), a Norwegian pop singer with a bit of a muscle fetish (I kid you not!).

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With the glorious exception of Michelle Davis (her world's first double bicep selfie was featured in Pic of the Week earlier in the year), bicep selfies are of the single variety, whoever the woman holding the phone is. The gorgeous Paige Hathaway (#025) creates a nice impression of having an identically muscle hot twin sister, but despite sending me into an (all too) brief daydream about what a night with the Hathaway sisters might be like, it's still just the one bicep there, lovely as it is.

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I'm not complaining. Far from it. One of the great things about the bicep selfie (and blogs like Eat Clean & Train Mean) is watching these (not too) young women's biceps GROW. And, even better I think, watching the women themselves blossom as that growth occurs. Our unknown #026 above looks a little sceptical about her own progress, but by the time she reaches (below, #027) Graciella Carvalho's size, she will no doubt have a lot more of Graciella's sexy confidence about her.

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And by the time you get to bikini competitor size biceps like those of Nissan Nohea (#028), well, she probably NEVER stops flexing in the mirror, probably NEVER stops smiling, she's probably CONSTANTLY aroused by her own sexy biceps.

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And the next thing you know you are snapping your own bicep not just at home, but everywhere you go. You're (#029) Diana Lanpher sneaking off to the toilets just to make sure your followers know how hot you look tonight in your new dress, and you suddenly find yourself compelled to show off that sexy mound of muscle on your arm, muscle that makes you feel sexier and sexier the bigger it grows...

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Unless I've got it all wrong. Unless it's not all about arrogance, nor all about pride, nor all about feeling more and more empowered by your ever-growing strength, about feeling sexier and sexier in your ever harder, more muscular body...

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But I look at the unknown goddess in the making (bicep #30, above), or at Debra Terpstra (#31, below), and I really can't imagine what the alternative explanation for all his selfie taking could possibly be. If these two women, and the thousands of others like them, are not showing off themselves off because they are proud of their biceps to the point of arousal, then what, exactly, are they doing?

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So what if selfies are sometimes a bit rough and ready? So what if the camera on the phone isn't of the best quality or the lighting is a bit rubbish? I think they are pretty much all winners - it's the motivation of whichever woman is holding the phone with one hand and flexing her other arm that makes them so very very delightful.

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But when the selfie is taken by a muscular woman who is herself an accomplished photographer, and when that woman has got the kind of peak on her big bicep that can make female muscle heads swoon with desire, it can become a little work of photographic art. All bicep selfies by muscular women are, in my opinion, good selfies, but not all selfies are as wonderful as those of or by the likes of Tanya Hyde (#32).

Not all selfies are equal.

Enjoy!

(Female) Muscle Beach of the Day

That gorgeous Tanya Hyde has a remarkable muscular physique to go with her looks should be obvious to anyone. But did you know that Tanya has recently become the first female bodybuilder to hire herself out to her local council as a tourist attraction?

Tanya was signed up to 'appear' on the boardwalk on the second and fourth Sundays of the month as part of the municipality's bid to reinvigorate the area. Tanya just has to turn up in a bikini and 'preen and pose', according to her job description. And it's no surprise that visitor numbers on these 'Tanya Days' are on the up. Consequently, local politicians are currently sounding out other female muscle babes with a view to populating the seafront with a bevvy of muscular beauties every Saturday and Sunday.

FMS will be keeping a close eye on how the scheme develops.