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Strong is the new skinny, is the latest battle cry and trend in the female body building world.
The rest of the world is starting to take notice.
Capital Arts Online is written by Carleton University’s fourth-year arts-journalism students. On Mar 31, 2015 they reported, “The 2014 European Championships is cited as just one record-breaking example, with 783 competitors participating. The Bikini division proved the most popular: 189 women out of the 394 females competing did so in the Bikini division.
Bikini is the most recent example of a new category that contradicts the stereotypical image of bulky, masculine women competing in the Bodybuilding division. In 2002, the IFBB implemented the Figure, or “Body-fitness,” division for women who wanted to build less muscle mass and maintain a more feminine silhouette. The IFBB took one step further in 2011 with the addition of the Bikini division, which requires women to build significantly less muscle mass and, according to the IFBB, calls for its competitors’ appearances to be “similar to that of models.”
As the expression goes, it’s like a beauty pageant with muscles.
Fitness over bulk are becoming the new gorgeous skinny in our female grappling world.
At a recent Femwrestle event they featured a video of some of our beautiful fitness muscle girls in an arm wrestling contest.
http://wrestling-movies.com/catalog/vendor/MAy_2015_Event_Armwrestling_.html
So as a customer, are you excited about this trend?
If so, there are some newer girls providing sessions out of Europe and if you haven’t met them so far, we would like to make a few introductions.
WILD TIGER – MILAN
Here is what her bio says. “I come from Brazil; I am an IFBB body-fitness athlete who practiced, at amateur level, capoeira, judo and boxing. Later I fell in love with bodybuilding, a sport that I have been practicing for 15 years. I have a very dominant nature, yet I am very sensual and feminine. I am very strong too, especially with legs, being able to lift and make squats with a 75 kg (165 lb.) man over my shoulders. I speak Portuguese and Italian, not English.”
Her email is bbstrong1@yahoo.com
ANNI FLEXFUN – HAMBURG
We can never encourage enough beautiful German women to wrestle and provide sessions. Our industry is happy to introduce you to Anni. Her email is anni-flexifun@web.de
ANGELA – Chambery, France
Gorgeous female fitness muscle is always welcome.
Angela says: “I have been a professional bodybuilder since 2005, aerobics instructor, Fit Box instructor and personal trainer. I like to do sessions and submit men. I m a real mistress. I live in Chambery where I will do sessions with a day’s notice.”
Her email is angela.70mar@hotmail.it
THE SPARTAN – Bicester, Oxford shire
Isn’t she gorgeous? Wouldn’t you love to wrestle her?
Here is her email: ccornickmw@gmail.com
Now that was for the customers.
Are you a female wrestler who would like to venture into the trend? We have a guest writer who will speak to us on the subject.
Intermediate Bodybuilders: Stage Two And Beyond
by: Emile Jarreau
Ok, so now your training wheels are off. You have been bodybuilding for 6-12 months, made some fantastic progress, and are ready to take your bodybuilding workouts to the next level. It is in this stage of bodybuilding where some of the most impressive gains are made, OR, the bodybuilder simply loses hope of ever achieving the body they desire. The key to getting into and through the intermediate phase is sticking to the basic principles while adding new movements and concepts on a consistent, but safe basis.
While you are no longer relegating yourself to mainly compound movements, you don’t want to give up making big lifts life squats, deadlifts, and bench presses the core of your workout. These exercises will ALWAYS remain core exercises and should never be discarded completely. Even so, as an intermediate bodybuilder, you are ready to make some changes and begin honing and defining your physique.
First of all, you will want to begin to focus on isolation movements in your routine. These exercises will focus on just one muscle at a time and will be the keys to your muscles developing density and definition that will turn heads. Make a list of all the isolation movements for each of your muscle groups. Now, you will want to organize a workout that features 2-3 exercises per body part and workout 2-3 body parts per workout. For example, you might choose to work out your back and chest one day and pick the exercises pull-ups, machine rows, and dumbbell rows (for your back) and bench presses, dumbbell presses, and dumbbell pullovers (for your chest).
Another principle that can be effective for intermediate bodybuilders is super setting. This means that you will work opposing body parts one right after the other non-stop. Here’s how that would work:
– Do a set of pull-ups followed by
– A set of bench presses followed by
– A set of machines rows
Your body should be able to take this kind of punishment now that you have already put some serious time into bodybuilding. These supersets will allow you to workout using the principles of isolation in about the same time as a workout of only compound movements such as the squat or bench press.
Another aspect of intermediate bodybuilding routines is the actual frequency of the workouts. As a beginner, you probably only worked out 3-4 times per week. Now, as an intermediate bodybuilder, you should be able to add a day or even two to your workout schedule. This may mean you work out 2, 3, or even 4 days in a row nonstop followed by a day of rest. As an intermediate bodybuilder, you should have a better sense of how much time your body needs to recover so you can decide how many days in a row you work out. You MUST add a day of rest after several consecutive workouts because intermediate or not, your muscles will only grow during periods of rest.
Keep in mind these principles are mainly for offering tips on developing exercise programs at different facets of your bodybuilding development but of course a whole other important aspect is nutrition. While we don’t mention it here, nutrition does play an important role in the growth, development, and recovery of your muscular physique.
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Sources: brainyquote.com, Wikipedia, fciwomenswrestling2.com, FCI Elite Competitor, photos thank you Wikimedia Commons. Femcompetitor.com, grapplingstars.com, fciwomenswrestling.com, fcielitecompetitor.com, fciwomenswrestling2.com Andrea-Piacquadio-pexels.com-photo-credit.
About The Author
Emile Jarreau, aka, Mr. Fat Loss is fascinated by health, nutrition and weight loss. For more great info about bodybuilding for losing weight and keeping it off visit http://www.mrfatloss.com
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