From Bodyspace profile, a 50 year old Vancouver woman training really hard: ” Bodybuilding.com *Transformation of the Week* February 14, 2008
I have lost 55 pounds and 12 1/2 inches from my waist. My bodyfat has dropped from 41% to 17%. I have gained muscle in areas that I didn’t even know I had lol Now at 50 years old I feel good about my appearance once again and know that bodybuilding and clean eating is a lifelong commitment that I’m prepared to accept. When I look in the mirror I don’t cringe and when I shop for new clothes I can wear a size XS instead of a size 18! My focus now will be to gain more muscle.”
From one Amazon review: “It’s a mix of straight sets and superset total-body workouts with emphasis on functional fitness and periodization, so it’s built around 6 basic multi-muscles moves (such as squats and deadlifts). There’s also a progession with a mix of variations to prevent workout boredom. It’s a little hard to figure out the charts at first glance, but what they’ve done is spell out every workout for you.”
59 kg/130 lbs: Sally Roberts (Gator) dec Breissa Macera (Cumberland) 4-1, 6-0
Photos by Danielle Hobeika, hobeika@post.harvard.edu (her wrestling video filmed by femalemuscle) covering the 2007 NYAC Holiday International Championships: Women’s Freestyle for AmateurWrestlingPhotos (complete gallery here)
All female muscle television is good television. Here is a female muscle video upload site that you can check out. This embeddable video carries the promising title “Bellissima Pullups.”
Popeye biceps, rippling six-packs, and supernaturally dark tans: these pumped-up people have trained for a Scandinavian bodybuilding contest by shaking off every last ounce of fat. But even if you admire their commitment, it is hard not to recoil in confusion at such asexual specimens.
It was this reaction – something between respect and disgust – which prompted the Danish photographer Joachim Ladefoged to photograph this slew of hard-bodies. He took a mixture of black and white and colour photography at the Danish Bodybuilding Championship in 2001 and similar events in the ensuing years, underexposing the subjects to make them appear darker still. The resulting snaps are assembled in a book, Mirror (the title a nod to his models’ narcissism), to be published later this year.