Summer Lovin': Lola

As usual, FMS will be shutting up the office for a couple of weeks and enjoying a bit of beach-based downtime. As usual, we've endeavoured not to leave you completely female muscle free during this time, and this summer holiday's offerings we have called Summer Lovin'. Because it's summer, and it's a selection of clips/pics we love.

Setting the bar ridiculously high on Day 1, it's IFBB Figure Pro Lola Montez*.



All too brief, I'm sure you'll agree, but memorable nonetheless. FMS loves the way her eyes widen in the last couple of seconds, fully aware of the effect she is having on the viewer. She almost seems to be saying, I see you. And I see what I have done to you.

More of this sort of thing on Lola's Instagram.

More Summer Lovin' tomorrow...

* On the (fairly likely) chance this clip gets taken down by the YouTube police, you can find it here on Lola's IG, and also (looped so she never stops!) on GwM here. Enjoy!

Freaky Friday: Konstantina Kaskani

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.

Enjoy! (You freaks!)

The Sexhibitionists: Cindy's Game

And so, to end our week of show offs, perhaps the greatest tease of them all.



These days with Cindy it's a lot more about the t&a than it is about the muscle, and it's pretty much been that way since she unveiled her enhanced look a few years ago.

Few women show so much so often but Cindy never shows it all.



It's the hook that keeps us coming back for more. How exactly is she going to expose herself without actually exposing herself this time? we wonder, imaginations running wild. How could the next photo shoot possibly be any hotter than the last?



Most recently though, there was a kind of new land(olt) mark in this ongoing saga.

I confess I did have to look at the pic long and hard before I could truly believe what Cindy was giving me the privilege of seeing for the first time after all these years...



There they are. Zoom in - the pic can take it - and enjoy.

Where will she go from here?!

The Sexhibitionists: Angie Gets Her Bod Back

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.



Enjoy!

The Sexhibitionists: Julie Pereira

What I wouldn't do just to run my fingertips across your body...

I love your chiselled body. A goddess to worship, I throw roses at your feet.

You are a slayer of hearts and I bet you know it.

All very familiar if you were with us for Phyllis Huang yesterday. A muscular amateur competitor over the age of 40 with a mostly off relationship with clothing is adored by her (mainly male) following on social media. And superficially, yes, the life of Northern Ireland's Julie Pereira has many parallels with Phyllis Huang's.



Fit and over 40 never felt so good, Julie tells her adoring horde. She invites them to "follow the map on the Vein Gain Train", she "complains" she'll have to spend the entire off-season "au naturel" because none of her clothes fit her now she's got so thick, including a pair of fishnet tights that "won't even pass my bulging hamstrings".

Talk about fish(nett)ing for compliments!



There are, however, key differences between her and Phyllis, the first of which is that Julie (in British amateur terms anyway) is a serious and successful competitor. Among her achievements are top places at NABBA shows both at regional shows in her native Northern Ireland and on a national level. She's competed at NABBA and WFF World Championships, and last year became the Overall PCA British Trained Figure champion. Do I love the stage? she asks, somewhat unnecessarily. Hell YES!!!



The other key difference between Phyllis and Julie is best expressed numerically - Phyllis has 18,500 Instagram followers (give or take), Julie has 108,000!

To put this in perspective, Brittany Rhodes - a NABBA Toned Figure queen and a woman whose looks and attitude often see her quoted in the mainstream media like she's the spokeswoman for British female muscle or something, has just over 17,000 IG followers. Louise Rogers, who's been at this a bit longer than Julie (who's trained for competition for just four years till now) has about half as many followers as Julie does. Rosie Harte? 25K. Donna Murphy, UKBFF British Physique champ and the face and body that launched a thousand FitVids purchases? 36K. Carly Thornton gets a bit closer at 60,000, but Julie has 50 followers for every one following NABBA British champ Jayne Tingle. Even Lisa Cross, surely a match for any woman in the "attract a crazy loyal following" stakes, has around 40,000 followers on each of her Instagram accounts. Whatever "it" is that attracts us female muscle heads to certain women in very large numbers, Julie Pereira apparently has quite a lot of it.



Such popularity has allowed Julie to "monetise" her social media via the "Only Fans" route - see also Suzy Kellner for example. What's on her free-to-air social media is just the beginning of her sexibitionism, she promises. I'm sure many of her tens of thousands of fans are currently finding out if that's true. I strongly suspect that it is.



Enjoy a glootilicious Julie at the WFF Worlds in 2016.

She's slightly more covered up than she normally is (out of necessity rather than preference I would guess!), but still, that is a proper sexhibitionist's posing suit.



Enjoy!

The Sexhibitionists: Phyllis Huang

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.

Enjoy!

The Sexhibitionists: 3 from the East

While none of the women (one Russian, one Latvian, one Ukrainian) featured today are quite in the class of (yesterday's featured woman) Nahla Monroe, they all have a penchant for exposing more than usual when at their contest ready most ripped.

I don't have anything to go on except my own intuition, but I imagine that urge to expose is not uncommon among competitive female bodybuilders as they near or reach their "peak" physique, and quite right too. They may be as prone as any other woman (or, in these more body-conscious times, man) to self-doubt and dissatisfaction with their bodies at other times, but when the time comes to peel away the body fat and reveal their muscles, they don't just look - they also feel - beautiful.

Anyway, here are our three for today.

Follow the links for more on each of these Eastern delights.

ALINA ISIDOROVA



Powerlifting, kickboxing, Bodybuilding... If it involves strength, Latvian Alina probably does it. She also runs Healthy Girls, a collective that that puts on events and promotes the benefits of strength training for women and girls in her native Riga.



She doesn't seem to mind jumping out of planes either.

Think of her as a Latvian Action Woman. See her Facebook for more.

IRYNA KOZLOVA



An IFBB and WBPF competitor, Iryna has won World and European titles in Bodybuilding, Physique, and Figure (or equivalent classes) over a period of some years (and if that sounds a bit vague it's because it is - I haven't, sadly, been able to find much detail about her contest history). What I can say is that she's been at it for over five years, and there are lots of pics of her, with and without heels, arms raised in victory at unspecified contests, and clips of her on WBPF TV that are - in my opinion - essential viewing. Here she is in glorious HD in 2016 at the WBPF Worlds, for example.



She wasn't always such a bold social media poster, but - pleasingly - the more time passes, the more she refines her body, the more of it she seems to want to show off.




The stories that microwave could tell...

Iryna on Instagram

MARIA TARASOVA



This will be the Russian then...

Maria Tarasova, former NABBA World champion, probably exemplifies my little get-ripped-get-clothes-off theory better than any of the other women featured today, perhaps better than most women full stop. By off-season she is the angel-faced Maria, the girl-next-door at the gym; but by contest time she is a bona fide ripped freak.



She could do with cleaning her mirror.

If you need any help with that, Maria...



The one on the right - been keeping it in the "Special Favourites" folder.

Maria has a private IG but isn't (in my experience) too picky about who she lets in. Plenty of her on GwM if she does decline though, and you can also watch her doing her thing at the NABBA Universe here, and the NABBA Worlds here - both from 2015.

Enjoy!

The Sexhibitionists: Nahla Monroe

A week of women who would clearly rather spend their entire lives naked begins with Nahla Monroe, an "Alpha Mom" of three children with over 130,000 IG followers.



Somehow, despite her almost religious dedication to showing herself off in her entirety, the IG censor police have not come and shut her down - and that is perhaps because, as well as being rather gorgeous, she's also a bit scary...

Before people complain about me, it's best to take a deep breath, put it in perspective, then decide precisely why it is I'm offending you. If it’s because I slay these bitches like seven days a week and I'm the real MVP... Well, then I agree.



Tricks of her trade include those silly sticker things to cover nipples etc. (not a fan of those), being really adept at the hand bra and the hair bra (very much a fan of those), and being at just the right angle so the camera doesn't quite get the naughtiest bits in (or perhaps that is smoothed out in the editing process, I'm no expert).



Oh, and wearing a fishnet bra to drive around town in.

I create my own objectives and I want a specific physique, a physique unlike the "typical" body, she says. I love seeing my body evolve because of my dedication, hard work and discipline. My body displays how dedicated I am to my image.



I wake up and show everyone the outfit I work so incredibly hard for!

More of Nahla (not much more in terms of surface area but plenty more of the same sort of thing) on her Instagram. Maximum Muscle on YouTube have (so far) put together four edits of Nahla strutting her considerable stuff (gym, beach, bathroom etc.) for your viewing pleasure, or perhaps it's all in the name of "fitpiration"...



Enjoy!

Alpha women who can't keep their clothes on all week!

Amateur Week: The Big Lil Beast

Previously featured on FMS as part of our Pic of the Month selection in May, Amy Neelands is "photographer, bodybuilder and rock 'n' roll hillbilly delux" in her own words, "an absolutely gorgeous meaty tattooed beast" to one of adoring (male) fans.



Amy, aka "Lil Beast", was almost completely unknown at the start of 2018, but has - first via her social media and more recently a couple of NPC shows - gradually worked her way onto the forums and into the collective female muscle lovin' consciousness.



That back, those arms and her "winning smile" have all been singled out for particular admiration so far, and then there's those pictures (often accompanied by really very sweet messages of love and thanks) with her lady. The skinny girl looks so happy, notes one poster. She takes THAT to bed every night, reads the reply. I'd be happy too!




The world of NPC Women's Bodybuilding isn't exactly enjoying a resurgence. On both the occasions Amy has competed this year, she's been the sole entrant in the class. She's also gone home with class wins in the Physique division at both shows - at the Pacific Coast Championships in mid-May she won the Overall as well; at the Cascadian Classic in Oregon at the end of that month she lost out on the Overall (somehow).



Amy got into lifting after gaining weight during rehab for a series of injuries she suffered while working in "loss prevention". According to Amy, this involves "basically chasing and throwing shoplifters around". I wanted to better my lifestyle and I knew some people in the Bodybuilding industry and they said I had a lot of potential, she explains. At first I didn't want to do it because to be completely honest I love food too much, but I gave the diet a try and fell in love with it the first time I jumped on stage.



Thanks to Best Muscle Video we can enjoy an interview and posing with a glammed and tanned Amy right after she jumped off it at the Pacific Coast Championships...



Ain't she cool?



"Skinny" may be happy, but Amy looks plenty happy with her new self too. Next, the Nationals. FMS, and the rest of her growing (male and female) fanbase will be watching.

Amy on Instagram