Winners of 2014: Part Two

WBPF International Austrian Championships (Bodybuilding)
OANA HREAPCA

Her absness cropped up this year at the World Bodybuilding & Physique Sports Federation’s Austrian Championships and (I think) found herself in a field of one. However, she didn’t seem to mind and looked as thick and gorgeous as ever.

Watch a man who can’t help himself

NPC North Carolina State (Class B & Overall Physique)
IFBB North American Championships (Class B Open & Over 35 Masters Physique)
GILLIAN WARD

Former gymnast, dancer and martial artist Gillian Ward has had quite a first year as a Physique competitor. I am intensely driven and truly believe that I am capable of anything that I put my mind to, she says. Well, believe! She won her first ever contest in April, and by the end of August had won open and over 35 classes at the North Americans and was promptly awarded her pro card. I know nothing other than being strong, says Gillian, in reference to her athletic achievements both past and present. I very much enjoy it. Being strong makes me feel capable and empowered.

Watch Gillian’s gymnastic fantastic routine

IFBB Brazilian Championships (Bodybuilding)
IFBB South American Championships (Bodybuilding)
SELMA LABAT

The next Brazilian female muscle sensation off the rank, Selma Labat also graduated to the pros in 2014. We haven’t been able to find too many images of Selma’s triumphs, but we have managed to find her routine from the Brazilian Championships.

Follow this glorious woman on Facebook

NAC Universe (Physique)
MONIA GIOIOSA

Isn’t it good to know that somewhere there’s a federation where hardcore female muscle is still appreciated? The NAC judges its “Physique” women on muscular development, muscular proportions, symmetry of development, and muscular definition, allowing the biggest hardest woman to win every time. Monia Gioiosa was that big hard woman in 2011 and 2012, and won for the third time this year.

Watch Monia’s surprisingly (?) graceful winning routine

IFBB North American Championships (Class D Over 35 Physique)
TWANA BARNETT-FERGUSON

She’s a loving wife, a Krav Maga expert, a rare beauty and now an IFBB Physique pro. Twana caught our attention earlier in the year and has held it tight ever since. Has there been a woman in 2014 who has enjoyed her stage experience more than TBF?

Marvel at her muscular beauty on Instagram

IFBB Tampa Pro (Bodybuilding)
SHEILA BLECK

She’d been MIA since 2012, so it was great to see the legendary Sheila Bleck return to competition in 2014, bringing her trademarks – incredible conditioning and the captivating artistry of her posing – back with her. She won the Tampa Pro and consequently qualified for her fourth Ms Olympia, where she finished 7th.

Watch Sheila’s post-win interview

Enjoy!

August Picture Post: The Queen of Tampa

They could have given her the Best Poser award before the contest began. The overall victory, though, was still in doubt until Jennifer Sedia‘s name was called in second. After the South American female muscle beasts had claimed the first three IFBB pro female bodybuilding titles of the year, it was refreshing to have Sheila Bleck triumph in the final show before the Ms Olympia and claim her first pro title.

I feel that there’s something reassuringly old school about Sheila. The aesthetics of her physique, and her belief that conditioning can beat sheer size takes me back to the years in which I first fell in love with female muscle. There’s the unenhanced chest, and her conviction, à la Diana Dennis, that she is, above all, an artist, and that her physique and her routines are her art, her means of creative expression.

Plus, there’s the basso profondo voice (sexy sexy SEXY), and the memories of the camshows I’ve been fortunate enough to have with her as well (and they are as artistic, gymnastic and captivating as her routines (if not more so, for reasons you can imagine, I’m sure). Her win in Tampa (after she’d had a pretty tough 2013) reminds me of the old sporting adage that “form is temporary, but class is permanent” quite simply because Sheila Bleck is, for me, one very classy lady bodybuilder.

Congratulations to the Queen of Tampa!

And there’s a bit of that award-winning routine, more hard yet elegant flexing (and the basso profondo – YES!) in this post-contest interview with RxMuscle.

Enjoy!

Prof. Pennypacker’s Pectarium

The passing of Prof. Philpott Pennypacker, who died, according to his obituary in the New Scientist, ‘peacefully, surrounded by family, friends and colleagues at his Berkshire home’ on October 28th 2012, was of little apparent interest to all female muscle fans (excepting those who study or work in the field of applied mathematics). However, the ensuing legal battle over the fate of the late Prof. Pennypacker’s estate, and yesterday’s High Court ruling that brought an end to that battle, is quite a different matter, revealing as it does, the nature of the professor’s final project.

The challenge to the will, brought by members of his immediate family, focused on one clause Professor Pennypacker had inserted into the will in 2010. The clause made provision for a fund to maintain, in the state in which he left it, a converted out-building on his property, and for members of the public to be allowed access to it. Initially, his executors had assumed the professor had used the building as a study/workshop, and his wish was to allow future applied mathematicians a glimpse of his working processes. Only after entering the building did they realise he had designed it for a purpose they could never had imagined.

They found the building is divided into six rectangular rooms of roughly equal size. In each room there are six large screens, two on each of the longer walls, and one on each of the shorter sides. [There has some speculation as to the significance of the 6 rooms and the 6 screens in each. In his 1972 work It’s Magic: How Anybody Can Prove Anything with Selective Statistics, Pennypacker noted that ‘If 3 is, indeed, as is claimed, a “magic number”, then surely it follows that multiples of three should possess that “magic” incrementally.’ However, it may simply be that the building lent itself or was previously divided along similar lines and that the size of the screens Pennypacker chose to adorn the walls were simply large enough to allow no more than six of them to fit comfortably along each wall.]

In the centre of each room sits a reclining swivel chair, apparently specially designed for the professor according to his specifications. From the chair, the screens can be operated by means of a touch screen control panel which is fixed to the left arm of the chair and can be lowered across the lap of the sitter. And it was once the executors had sat down in the chairs and used the control panels to turn on the screens that the true purpose of the building, the rooms and the screens was revealed.

Images of female bodybuilders, specifically, the pectoral muscles of female bodybuilders, started to appear on the screens. In some rooms, there would be six different images, one on each screen, followed by six different ones again, then six more and so on. In another room a single image travelled from screen 1 to 2 to 3 and so on around all six, followed by another image, and another. In yet another room the six screens all displayed a looped clip of a female bodybuilder performing cable flyes. Another room had combinations of each of the above, and it was soon established that the user/viewer could control the images exactly as they wished.

And on they went, images, loops, clips both long and short, some speeded up, some slo-mo. There was contest footage, even some artwork, and what they all had in common was the pecs of female bodybuilders and other muscular women.

The executors were, quite understandably, stunned. The final project of Professor Philpott Pennypacker had been nothing to do with the work he had made his career. Rather, it had been the result of his secret passion, kept private from all who knew him until after his death. His final project had been to construct his own personal temple of female muscle, a place where he could privately enjoy and worship his favourite part of his favourite type of women. He called it ‘The Pectarium’.

The fund he put in place to pay for the upkeep of The Pectarium naturally put a considerable hole into the inheritance of his beneficiaries, and consequently the will was challenged, ultimately unsuccessfully. In his summing up yesterday, Lord Justice Laws explained that ‘While a feeling of incomprehension at the curious uses to which an estate may be put is, in this case, quite understandable, there is no basis in law for revoking a will on those grounds.’ Fortunately, the FMS legal department is on hand to simplify that to ‘Just because you don’t understand why he wants his money used in this way, it doesn’t mean you can change it.’ And as a result, you, me, and anyone else who wishes to do so will, as soon as all the legal bureaucracy has been cleaned up, be able to arrange their own personal visit to Professor Philpott’s Pectarium.

If you can’t wait, FMS will this week be giving you a taste of what you might find there in the rough and ready way we can. And even more exciting perhaps, is the fact that we have also been granted access to Professor Pennypacker’s private diaries. In these diaries, he put down his thoughts on female bodybuilders, being a female muscle worshipper, and the place of female muscle and those who follow it in society as a whole. We are both honoured and delighted to be able to bring you some extracts to accompany a selection of items from within The Pectarium.

Enjoy!

Legs in Leggings: Anatomically Correct?

If you don’t own a pair of these pants you pretty much suck at life lol,
says Stephanie Rodriguez (above).

They certainly seem to be taking off judging by the number of pics you can find of women showing off their pair in various poses, positions and states of undress.

Popular, and most-definitely eye-catching, but I have to admit I am far from convinced. I mean, take a look at this slimmer-than-we’d-like babe and Simoninha Oliveira (with Sheila Bleck) below. Are the leggings really adding anything here? Especially in the case of Simone, wouldn’t you rather she didn’t have them on?

Unsurprisingly, Jill Rudison has them for sale on Quads Not Included if you must.

Most Muscular of the Day

Monday’s Most Muscular Masterclass: Sheila Bleck

Thankfully, Sheila has been around long enough to have been competing when the pose was still ‘legal’, and consequently images like these, which could be used for training purposes in the future when the pose is allowed back, exist. Clench, flex and roar!

The Ennis Effect Needs You

FMS don’t like to blow their own trumpets, but we did, after all, coin the phrase The Marsh Effect to describe the increase in women lifting weights as a result of Jodie Marsh’s foray into bodybuilding and its subsequent press. However, credit where credit is due, The Sun has beaten us to it this time, today reporting on how Jessica Ennis’ showing at the Olympics has given rise to what they are calling ‘The Ennis Effect’: a surge in women craving six-packs just like Team GB’s golden girl Jess.

So far, so good. And the article goes on to say that personal trainers are reporting a huge rise in women seeking washboard stomachs.

But before you start dreaming of a nation of women working out and toning up those abs in sweaty gym sessions, the next sentence betrays the true nature of the article: And one Harley Street clinic, LoveLite, has had a 200 per cent increase in women booking in for tummy-fat removal since Jess’s triumph.

Oh dear. So this isn’t going to be about the sweat after all?

Well, yes and no. The article focuses on three women inspired by Jessica’s bod, her abs in particular, and the lengths they have gone to to achieve the Ennis look. But two of the three have gone to clinics rather than gyms, one to have ‘non-surgical lypo’, the other a ‘tummy tuck’.

Nevertheless, Natalia Ryumina, an actress from Croydon, deserves our congratulations for taking the hard way. I could never get rid of that last layer of fat around my tummy, she says. Consequently, a top personal trainer was hired, new movements targeting specific abdominal areas were introduced, Natalia started travelling with an abdominal exercise gadget so she’d never miss a workout, and now, she says, I look at my tummy in the mirror and I can see the definition I’ve always wanted.

However, Natalia had a pretty good exercise regimen going even before she was allegedly struck by the Ennis bolt during the Olympics, so if we’re going to take the article at face value, we can only conclude that ‘The Ennis Effect’ is going to be good news for Harley Street clinics, and not such good news for fans of female muscle.

But if Claudette Santana hasn’t managed to bring a smile back to your face, don’t despair, for there is a ray of hope in the article. Apparently, 72% of women would rather have an athletic figure than a skinny one. Now, even if that means two out of three of them go to the clinic, that still leaves one out of three hitting the gym.

So, at this dark time of the year, let’s focus on the positive. One in three of 72% of women who want washboard abs might go to the gym as a result of Jessica Ennis’ Olympic exploits. It’s something to cling to, isn’t it? Certainly better than nowt.

And it gives us an excuse to post some sexy abs, so it can’t be all bad…

81% of men, according to The Sun, would prefer a woman with an athletic build to a skinny one, so let’s all do our bit to help the Marsh and Ennis Effects and refuse to settle any longer. Let’s start insisting on it, shall we?

It might involve us getting off our arses and getting ourselves into the best shape of our lives. I mean. You can’t expect her to do all the work while you sit on the sofa and scratch your plums, can you? Too much effort? Well, what about if you ended up cuddling a woman with abs like these every night?

FMS can only conclude that if we are to avoid becoming a nation whose female stomachs are all the result of cosmetic intervention rather than exercise and sensible diet then we all have to do our bit. New Year is approaching. Resolution time.

So, in a final bid to make you resolve to make your resolution increase the amount of female muscle lovin’ happiness in the world today, I leave you with…

Enjoy!

Gymnastic Fantastic

Be Careful What You Wish For

I’ve been sitting on this set of photos of Minna Pajulahti for a while now, letting them work their magic on me. There’s something about Minna, who I’ve recently seen described as a combination of porn and fitness, that really gets my mind working, and it’s not just beacause of the way her legs and glutes stretch those 80s-style leggings to the max. There’s something about that look she has, straight into the camera, straight to you, the viewer, or in this case, straight to me. It’s a look that says Imagine…

I imagine the photographer, hired to shoot the girlfriend of some hulking Eastern European whose sources of income are copious, but somewhat shady. His instructions were to ‘make beautiful photo’, but as soon as he leaves she strips off into a little bikini and asks if you know any other women who can ‘do this’ as she effortlessly does the splits. What’s a man to do? You know Vlad will be baaack, but something tells you she might have a few other moves, and you really would like to see what they are…

I imagine this leads to a relationship with a pole dancer. You thought the novelty would soon wear off, but how wrong you were! In fact, you’re finding more and more ways to exploit the situation for your own enjoyment. Now, apart from the obvious pleasures, you’ve taken to going to work with her, just so you can see the looks on the faces of the men (and women) watching her shows. If only… is what their faces say, if only I could be with a woman so supple, so strong. You are living the dream! Or one of them, anyway, because the grass is always greener…

And I imagine the combination of strength, power and flexibility that fitness competitors have could take a man to a whole new level of pleasure. You sit in the audience and purr with satisfaction, knowing that every guy (and girl) around you is getting turned on by your woman’s body and what she can do with it, that they’re dreaming of the very thing you have.


I imagine she’s a winner, and now your lady is in demand for photoshoots all over the world with some of the top photographers in the industry. The forums you used to visit are now full of her pictures along with the lewd and ill-spelt comments of ‘fans’. These same guys send her gifts of underwear, posing suits, and even whole outfits with shoes, begging her to send them pictures of herself with them on, at times enclosing large sums of money. And the next time she goes on stage you realise she’s wearing one of the outfits she’s been sent…

And I imagine that if you can’t handle the adoration your fitness woman gets any more, then the only way left for you to go is a female bodybuilder. The pinnacle, you think, it can’t possibly get any better. She’s just as flexible as the others, but she has so much more muscle. And it was always the muscle that turned me on most.

I imagine You reckon there won’t be so much hassle from other guys now. FBBs don’t have the same mainstream appeal as fitness women. It’ll be a quiet, blissfully happy life. Except now you discover that, yes, OK, fewer guys are into her muscles simply because they are so exceptionally big. But the few guys that are are really really really into her and her muscles. You feel like you need to carry a big stick around to fight them off. But she loves the attention. In fact, she seems to crave it.

I imagine her introducing you to the other guy. Is it over for you and her? Not at all, she says, but let’s face it, I am a goddess, and who ever heard of a goddess that has only one worshipper?

Jeez, where did THAT come from?! I need a lie-down.

Enjoy the pics anyway!

Abs Fix

According to statistics, you’ve probably ditched your New Year’s resolution by now, decided you don’t like your job anymore and applied for another. You are also probably dealing with a little post-Christmas downtime, and it’s still (here in the UK anyway) going to be at least a couple of months before spring, when the ladies start to shed those winter layers, and the possibility of a little female muscle perving arises again. You might need a little cheering up then, and there’s nothing that cheers me up more than some sexy, muscular tummies…

If You’ve Got ‘Em, Flaunt ‘Em

And this cute little thing isn’t going to let the fact that a) it’s cold, or b) she’s in a public place stop her from showing off her hard work. Pity the frumpy girl walking in the background, who’s about to get a peek at what a superior woman’s abs look like. That probably won’t help her winter blues, will it?

Veins and Vanity

I would love to find out where those pulsing tributaries on Iara Beltran’s midriff end up. Our lady on the right is trying look as if she’s just discovered that she has visible stomach muscles. Ooops! Where did they come from? Not fooling me, she just can’t help showing off. Love it!

Sexy By Definition


There is a hypothesis that the more defined a woman’s abs are, the keener she is to show them off. Female Muscle Slave is actively engaged in researching this, and expects to deliver his final report some time this year.

Worship These!

From left to right, Kashma heats up her National Championships last year; Sheila Bleck‘s cuts (not to mention her ‘bulge’); and Nicole Ball (who’s switching from Bodybuilding to Physique) heats up the gym.

Bedroom Abs

What self-respecting female muscle fan wouldn’t want to come home to a scene like this. A fine night every night.

The Closer You Get, The Better They Look

Same Asian MILF in both pics here, not sure of her name, I’m afraid, but absolutely certain her abs are sexsational. I can’t help myself when those veins run up the sides as well as the front. I won’t tell you what I can’t help myself doing. That’s better all round.

Just Abs (And Belly Button Piercings)

Such different sets of abs, but both oh so lickable.

Enjoy!