FMS favourite Jamie Pinder hard at work before her triumph at the Chicago Pro earlier this year, sculpting her sensational legs, 'Mountain Dog' style.
Check out Jamie's youtube channel for more.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Monday, 19 August 2013
Freak: Helle Nielsen
Before her back injury in 2005, Helle Nielsen was a phenomenon, and not least because of her legs. Now, having made her comeback in 2011, her legs are still as jaw-dropping as ever. And what's more, advances in technology mean that she no longer has to rely on pro photographers to capture those freaky muscles. She can snap her bad boys and get them uploaded and onto our screens any time she feels like it.
Thankfully, that's often.
Here's Helle the day before her return to the stage at FIBO Power 2011.
Lots of leg close-ups after about the three-minute mark...
Visit Helle's website or Facebook page. Get transformed by Helle at Evolution Hotel.
Enjoy!
Sunday, 18 August 2013
Calves: Jen Rish
Ever heard of Nanci Tringali? How about Tracey Gaither? Elena Renteria? Noella Downs? No? Me, neither, but I bet you know who Jen Rish is. The reason I ask is that back in 2008 at the California Pro, the four women you haven't heard of finished higher that the one you have heard of. In fact, Jen Rish finished dead last. But despite her almost negligible career as firstly a figure competitor, and then a fitness competitor, she is known to us all.
At the 2008 California Pro (top) and NPC Border States Championships (bottom)
It’s easy to admire her subtle, girl-next-door muscularity and intense beauty, said Kriv Studios blog in June 2008. Her deep, soulful brown eyes, it went on, her warm, disarming smile... And, oh yes, there’s Jennifer’s calves.
In 2008, Jen and her calves were all over not just Kriv Studios, but also HerBiceps and Femflex and FT Video and The Valkyrie and She Muscle, and from those sources, onto the screens and into the consciousness of thousands of female muscle fans.
As quickly as she came, she was gone. She's Jen Surovec now. FMS does NOT recommend it, but if you really want to upset yourself, you can have a look at her and her husband's wedding website.
Or instead, you could relive those heady days of 2008 when Jen's 'deep, soulful brown eyes' seemed to be looking right at you, and you dreamed that her 'huge, powerful, melon-crushing calves' (Kriv Studios blog again) could be yours to have and hold (and worship) with this rather good little compilation.
The choice is yours.
And if that hasn't quite satisfied you, enjoy a full eight-minute edit of Jen in a black dress from the same channel here.
More legs and stuff tomorrow!
Saturday, 17 August 2013
The Way Legs Were
With the notable exception of the (then and now) freaky pair of legs that belonged to a certain Bev Francis, back in my formative years as a female muscle head, the only legs around were rarely as muscular as the majority of women who compete in the physique division today. However, it is, as Einstein once said, all relative, and at the time, the women I saw in the muscle magazines I obsessively bought were more than big enough to get my teenage eyes popping out of my head (among other things).
So today, courtesy as ever of the heroes who scan and upload images from those 1980s mainstream muscle magazines, a trip down memory lane, a bit of nostalgia for all those furtive purchases we made in newsagent's all over the world and the women that made those purchases so urgent. Today, we remember the way legs were.
Rachel McLish
I don't remember this image particularly, but it serves to indicate how little muscle (by today's standards, and even, in some ways, by early 80s standards) it took for a woman to be 'muscular' back then. I arrived at the female muscle party just a little late for Rachel McLish in her competitive pomp, but it seems to me she actually got bigger after she stopped competing.
Carla Dunlap and Clare Furr
Brian Eno named-chacked Carla in a recent interview, provoking some bizarrely hysterical reactions from the female muscle brethren (more about that on FMS in the future). He says, I remember in the early 1980s when female bodybuilders first started appearing and there was one I really liked, Carla Dunlap. She was Ms Olympia or something like that. She was this amazing black woman, absolutely musclebound, beautiful. 'Absolutely musclebound', he says, and that's exactly what Carla would have seemed to be at that time, not just to Eno but to me too. To her right, Clare Furr's (slightly later) thighs seem positively other-worldly compared to Carla's. 'Absolutely musclebound' back in the early to mid-80s could become 'hardly musclebound' almost overnight.
Tonya Knight and Mary Roberts
As I recall, images of women training like this one of Tonya squatting were far more numerous in the magazines of the 1980s, and only if you were lucky would there be the kind of 'glamour shot' the we can see Mary Roberts in here on the right. It sometimes came (again, this is as I recall, so don't take this as gospel) at the beginning or end of a training photoset, I guess as a way of showing how the hard work pays off. I found, in general, that these shots were much more attention-grabbing, presumably because they were more unusual.
Marjo Selin
And gradually, legs got bigger. Compare the next few groups of images. I really can't say if they are at all chronological (this post is simply not that well-researched!), let's call it 'legological' or perhaps 'podological' (!). I just wanted to illustrate the point somehow. By the time you get to Jackie Paisley, who is (and I do know this) very much late 80s and into the early 90s, legs have, well, you can see for yourself, changed.
Lisa Lorio, Janet Tech and Juliette Bergmann in her early days.
Sue Gafner and Dorothy Herndon
Marie Mahabir, Rene Casella and Jackie Paisley
Sandy Riddell and Anja Langer
Two of my favourite pairs of legs of the period (among many). I was especially taken with Anja's calves. Even today, as I look at the way they bulge outwards so that you can see them even when looking at her leg front on, they are magnificent, so at the time they would have been quite literally breathtaking.
Cory Everson
This image, for me, evokes a lot about that time in my female muscle life, not least the way the women in the magazines used to always seem to be glistening. The style of photography of the time, no doubt, nothing more, but I came to think of that sheen as the glow of health and vitality that only female bodybuilders possess. Impossible to post anything about the 80s without her, Cory is the epitome of female muscle in that decade, her legs as much as any part of her wondrous physique. Funny now to think that once upon a time I couldn't imagine Cory and her contemporaries getting any bigger or better.
Enjoy!
So today, courtesy as ever of the heroes who scan and upload images from those 1980s mainstream muscle magazines, a trip down memory lane, a bit of nostalgia for all those furtive purchases we made in newsagent's all over the world and the women that made those purchases so urgent. Today, we remember the way legs were.
Rachel McLish
I don't remember this image particularly, but it serves to indicate how little muscle (by today's standards, and even, in some ways, by early 80s standards) it took for a woman to be 'muscular' back then. I arrived at the female muscle party just a little late for Rachel McLish in her competitive pomp, but it seems to me she actually got bigger after she stopped competing.
Carla Dunlap and Clare Furr
Brian Eno named-chacked Carla in a recent interview, provoking some bizarrely hysterical reactions from the female muscle brethren (more about that on FMS in the future). He says, I remember in the early 1980s when female bodybuilders first started appearing and there was one I really liked, Carla Dunlap. She was Ms Olympia or something like that. She was this amazing black woman, absolutely musclebound, beautiful. 'Absolutely musclebound', he says, and that's exactly what Carla would have seemed to be at that time, not just to Eno but to me too. To her right, Clare Furr's (slightly later) thighs seem positively other-worldly compared to Carla's. 'Absolutely musclebound' back in the early to mid-80s could become 'hardly musclebound' almost overnight.
Tonya Knight and Mary Roberts
As I recall, images of women training like this one of Tonya squatting were far more numerous in the magazines of the 1980s, and only if you were lucky would there be the kind of 'glamour shot' the we can see Mary Roberts in here on the right. It sometimes came (again, this is as I recall, so don't take this as gospel) at the beginning or end of a training photoset, I guess as a way of showing how the hard work pays off. I found, in general, that these shots were much more attention-grabbing, presumably because they were more unusual.
Marjo Selin
And gradually, legs got bigger. Compare the next few groups of images. I really can't say if they are at all chronological (this post is simply not that well-researched!), let's call it 'legological' or perhaps 'podological' (!). I just wanted to illustrate the point somehow. By the time you get to Jackie Paisley, who is (and I do know this) very much late 80s and into the early 90s, legs have, well, you can see for yourself, changed.
Lisa Lorio, Janet Tech and Juliette Bergmann in her early days.
Sue Gafner and Dorothy Herndon
Marie Mahabir, Rene Casella and Jackie Paisley
Sandy Riddell and Anja Langer
Two of my favourite pairs of legs of the period (among many). I was especially taken with Anja's calves. Even today, as I look at the way they bulge outwards so that you can see them even when looking at her leg front on, they are magnificent, so at the time they would have been quite literally breathtaking.
Cory Everson
This image, for me, evokes a lot about that time in my female muscle life, not least the way the women in the magazines used to always seem to be glistening. The style of photography of the time, no doubt, nothing more, but I came to think of that sheen as the glow of health and vitality that only female bodybuilders possess. Impossible to post anything about the 80s without her, Cory is the epitome of female muscle in that decade, her legs as much as any part of her wondrous physique. Funny now to think that once upon a time I couldn't imagine Cory and her contemporaries getting any bigger or better.
Enjoy!
Friday, 16 August 2013
Freak: Athena
The freaky thigh of Canadian Athena Signakis, made all the more hypnotic for having been touched by the genius that is Muscular Girls in Motion on Tumblr.
I can't stop watching. Can you?
Enjoy!
I can't stop watching. Can you?
Enjoy!
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Denise Masino
You want to do WHAT?!
Half the bite of a meatball sub accompanied the exclamation out of the FMS editor's mouth. He surveyed the mess he had made on his desk and glared at me with contempt.
A clean Denise Masino post, JJ. No pussy.
He half-heartedly wiped meatball fragments, sauce and spit from one of the prints he had splattered, gave up and threw the print and the napkin down with disgust.
Denise Masino. And not one shot of her pussy?
Not one.
Swell, he said, picking up the half-eaten sub again. You're a freaking madman.
He bit into the sub and eyed me suspiciously. He hadn't noticed but sauce was oozing out of the end of the sandwich, covering any of the remaining prints that had escaped the initial splattering.
It's never been done before JJ. That's the point.
It was an idea that had been germinating for some time, and in Legs Month I saw an opportunity to finally realise it. After all, Denise may have spectacular bits, but so much else about her is equally spectacular, and those bits are framed by a pair of spectacular legs. And due to all the fuss about and focus on her bits, I'd always felt those legs had been criminally underrated. But the genesis of the idea had come many many months before, and had been born out of what I perceived as a slight on Denise the competitive bodybuilder, Denise the IFBB pro, rather than Denise the female muscle porn mogul.
It came while watching a youtube clip of her at the Arnold, or, more accurately, while listening to the commentary while watching her Arnold routine. What irked me so much about the commentators was their complete lack of acknowledgement for Denise as one of the competitors. Instead, she's described as an 'enterprising young woman', who has 'made quite a lot of money'. Her success in that respect shows, according to the commentators, that 'what happens on stage doesn't necessarily dictate what happens off stage'.
And then they talk about how her routine is good and sexy and how this fits in with her off stage persona, as if she's bothered putting together the routine purely as advertising for her other activities. In fact, that had started to piss me off by that stage too, the way they never once spelt out exactly what her successful enterprises involved directly, but kept referring to her 'business activities', as if she had invested in restaurants or something.
Maybe I was being too sensitive, but Denise Masino, whatever her 'activities' outside the competitive arena are, was nevertheless one of the top professional female bodybuilders of her day. She competed at the highest level for over ten years, and during the golden age of weight classes, had a string of top six finishes as a lightweight. My point is, and this is pretty much exactly how I put it to JJ that day in the office, Denise Masino can be appreciated for her 'liberation' of female muscle. I have absolutely no problem with that. But equally, there should be times when we simply wax lyrical about her hard-earned muscles and the wonderful physique she has sculpted. Just as we would for any other top pro.
Denise and pussy go together like... he looked around, searching for a similie, and noticing the sauce-covered prints, finding one. Like freaking meatballs and sauce.
The anger had gone from his voice, replaced by resignation. He didn't want to argue, he wanted his PA to get the cleaner in and then get him another meatball sub - not necessarily in that order. I could sense victory. JJ would let me put the post together.
Enjoy!
Half the bite of a meatball sub accompanied the exclamation out of the FMS editor's mouth. He surveyed the mess he had made on his desk and glared at me with contempt.
A clean Denise Masino post, JJ. No pussy.
He half-heartedly wiped meatball fragments, sauce and spit from one of the prints he had splattered, gave up and threw the print and the napkin down with disgust.
Denise Masino. And not one shot of her pussy?
Not one.
Swell, he said, picking up the half-eaten sub again. You're a freaking madman.
He bit into the sub and eyed me suspiciously. He hadn't noticed but sauce was oozing out of the end of the sandwich, covering any of the remaining prints that had escaped the initial splattering.
It's never been done before JJ. That's the point.
It was an idea that had been germinating for some time, and in Legs Month I saw an opportunity to finally realise it. After all, Denise may have spectacular bits, but so much else about her is equally spectacular, and those bits are framed by a pair of spectacular legs. And due to all the fuss about and focus on her bits, I'd always felt those legs had been criminally underrated. But the genesis of the idea had come many many months before, and had been born out of what I perceived as a slight on Denise the competitive bodybuilder, Denise the IFBB pro, rather than Denise the female muscle porn mogul.
It came while watching a youtube clip of her at the Arnold, or, more accurately, while listening to the commentary while watching her Arnold routine. What irked me so much about the commentators was their complete lack of acknowledgement for Denise as one of the competitors. Instead, she's described as an 'enterprising young woman', who has 'made quite a lot of money'. Her success in that respect shows, according to the commentators, that 'what happens on stage doesn't necessarily dictate what happens off stage'.
And then they talk about how her routine is good and sexy and how this fits in with her off stage persona, as if she's bothered putting together the routine purely as advertising for her other activities. In fact, that had started to piss me off by that stage too, the way they never once spelt out exactly what her successful enterprises involved directly, but kept referring to her 'business activities', as if she had invested in restaurants or something.
Maybe I was being too sensitive, but Denise Masino, whatever her 'activities' outside the competitive arena are, was nevertheless one of the top professional female bodybuilders of her day. She competed at the highest level for over ten years, and during the golden age of weight classes, had a string of top six finishes as a lightweight. My point is, and this is pretty much exactly how I put it to JJ that day in the office, Denise Masino can be appreciated for her 'liberation' of female muscle. I have absolutely no problem with that. But equally, there should be times when we simply wax lyrical about her hard-earned muscles and the wonderful physique she has sculpted. Just as we would for any other top pro.
Denise and pussy go together like... he looked around, searching for a similie, and noticing the sauce-covered prints, finding one. Like freaking meatballs and sauce.
The anger had gone from his voice, replaced by resignation. He didn't want to argue, he wanted his PA to get the cleaner in and then get him another meatball sub - not necessarily in that order. I could sense victory. JJ would let me put the post together.
Enjoy!
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