Vika Victorious

Vika certainly seems to love showing it off, said FMS when we first met the 2016 Ukrainian Bodyfitness champ in January, and that confidence (/arrogance) is also apparent in her contest shots, I think. She looks very comfortable and very happy up there. You wouldn't know the Europeans was her first international competition.



"The Europeans" we were talking about was last year's EBFF Championships, Vika's first international competition, and she placed 3rd in her Bodyfitness class. She was back at the Championships again last weekend, and this time she achieved two firsts - it was her first show as a Physique competitor, and she placed first in the Open Physique class.




Nothing is more pleasant than winning, says Vika, it was a real honour to stand on stage and hear the Ukrainian anthem. (It's also been the case for a while that there is nothing more pleasant than perusing Eastlabs' contest galleries, but as you can see, those days are over and their images now come with the dreaded watermark.)



Still, Vika is as proficient as any at sharing her own souvenirs of her contest experiences, so thanks to her we can enjoy (unwatermarked) images of her trip to Santa Susana before the tan went on, and later as she reflected on her triumph.



My [Physique] debut and I became European champion, she says. I'm very happy!



And not finished for 2018 yet. A day of rest after the show and she was ready to go again. I've eaten delicious food, breathed in fresh sea air and warmed myself in the Spanish sun, she said. I completely rebooted and am ready for competitions to come.

Physique competitions.



Vika on Instagram

Enjoy!

Abs Week: Just Abs (Six-Pack)

The gorgeous midsections of six (no doubt gorgeous but we ain't interested in their faces, not today) women, kicks off with, unfortunately, an "unknown". No less gorgeous for that though. The closer you look, the better (ie. more tempting) they get, and once you've gone all the way down, taking in the individual muscles and the overall effect, to that confluence of emerging veins just above where she's (so modestly - not) holding her orange short shorts, any hands still above the table won't be there for very long.

In my experience at least.



Nuria Ferrero is a Spanish Bodyfitness athlete who likes to show off her veiny abs a lot. She's clearly ambitious for more than just our admiration (and tribute), however. She already runs her own fitness centre - Nufitnesscenter - in Valdemoro, just south of Madrid. And recently she was feliz de haber mostrado mi mejor físico hasta la fecha (happy) as she made the top 6 in both the Open and Junior tall classes at her national championships. Cue lots of Instagram clips and pics of her freaky sexy veiny abs.

Instagram gold.



These are "natural" apparently, and belong to NGA Pro Figure and NPC Figure/ Physique competitor Samantha Feenburg. In March, Samantha truly cleaned up at the (All Natural) NPC Lee Banks Natural Championships, winning the Physique, Figure and Figure Masters classes, although she didn't so much compete as turn up to win the last of those. Watch Samantha preparing for that contest (and flexing her exquisitely sweaty midsection) three weeks before that show on NPC News Online, and Samantha's contest gallery - including an impressive abs and thigh - can be found here.

Also on Instagram - just 302 followers?! Well, 303 now.



No such poxy numbers for IFBB Bikini pro Frida Paulsen Stern. 66,000+ are already glued to this Swedish phenomon on Instagram, and it's not difficult to see why. That sexy tan, every single muscle in her glorious midriff exactly where and as it should be... Hang on! Did I just type "Bikini"?! These perfect abs are Bikini abs?!

I must pay more attention - the kind of attention paid by the mainstream muscle media to Frida. It's her "amazing abs and hypnotic stage presence" that makes her so "exciting", says Mike Carlson, who interviewed Frida for Ironman. Well, I can't say I've much experience of her stage presence, but the abs... See them in motion here.

She's just 22, by the way.



No such tidiness in the abdominal area for the freakishly vascular Vika Pogribnyak, but that certainly hasn't stopped the forums falling for her - it's all hands below all over the place for Ukraine's 2016 Bodyfitness champ. Granted, her midriff isn't always as vascular as shown here (this was after a pre-contest "force feed", apparently) but even so, those are truly impressive tributaries that I can't seem to stop drooling over.

WOW!

Don't bother putting it away before visiting Vika on Instagram.

And finally...



On the off chance that you weren't already nursing a raging Zardon.

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Enjoy!