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REMEMBRANCE OF HOT AND HARD PAST

3. Iron Woman

Cory. So many many images, so many many moments spent with her…

I had thought it would be impossible to pick one, that I’d have to compile some sort of ‘Best of’ post, but when I closed my eyes and remembered, immediately and vividly one did, in fact, come to mind. A magazine cover. Ironman, November 1991. Cory.

The pose. Left hand in hair, her bicep full, defined. Her right suggestively pulling her suit up, the veins on her bicep. The look. Straight to camera. Boring into the viewer, into me. Intense, powerful. Her mouth, her lips, slightly opened. Her abs, a fissure running from top to bottom, separating hard slabs of muscle. Beautiful. Animal.

This was Cory as I’d never seen her before. I guess now I’d say she was more ‘swole’. At the time, I didn’t have the vocabulary. Just the feeling, The Madness, adrenaline pumping, hypnotised by her beauty, her power, her sexuality, her muscle.

Perhaps this cover, this shoot, is bringing back special memories for you too, dear reader, and it really is a female muscle landmark. Perhaps not, and it was merely the time in my life and the time of the year that has made this cover stay with me for so long. I was 17, and the long winter nights were drawing in, if you know what I mean. Perhaps it’s because 1991 was towards the end of her career as a cover model, that she’d stopped competing and had filled out because she didn’t have to toe the Weider-winner line anymore. Honestly, I don’t know why this cover photo and the few images inside that Ironman, November 1991, made such a big impression on me. But they did.

Remembrance continues tomorrow…

And P.S. ONLY FIVE DAYS OF HOT and HARD VOTING LEFT!

Ge busy if you want your women to make the list this year!

Peak of the Day

BAM! Amanda Aivaliotis makes a muscle around the time of her Masters win at the 2014 North Americans. And, yes, that means that beautiful bicep and its 45-year-old owner will be competing as a pro this year. It’s hard to build the perfect physique, says Amanda, and as a sculptor of my own body, will it ever be perfect in my eyes? Probably not, but it is fun trying to achieve it and seeing it change year to year. Seems to me she’s getting close to perfect in one department at least – that vein, OMG!

Watch the taller but considerably smaller IFBB Bikini Pro Ashley Kaltwasser interview the shredded Amanda after her 2014 triumph here. Sadly there’s no flexing during the interview, but on the page there is a link to Amanda’s contest gallery.

Enjoy!

FBBUK: Exciting Times with Laura Madge

It seems to me, having done my research (of course), that there is a wave of new young British female muscle talent on the cusp of international success. Yesterday, for example, we highlighted the prodigious achievements of our 23-year-old Fitness champ Emma Paveley. Readers will already be familiar with the likes of Ria Ward and Hayley Brylewski, who have already competed in the US, and Georgina McConnell, who will surely be doing the same before long. And later in the week we will be meeting an emerging talent competing in the world of NABBA.

Exciting times.

Laura Madge is another of these emerging talents. As gorgeous and muscular as any of the women in this British new wave, it could be argued that Laura is, perhaps, our most exciting prospect of all, simply because she has, uniquely among her peers, already won an international amateur competition and achieved professional status.

Her win came in Las Vegas this August at the WBFF Worlds. Laura was crowned Diva Figure Model, achieving pro status in only her second year of competition.

True, the WBFF (World Beauty Fitness & Fashion Inc.) isn’t exactly the IFBB, but all the same, she’s now entitled to go sparkly bikini to sparkly bikini with some high calibre physiques. Emily Stirling, Anne-Marie Lassere and Louise van der Nat are all top WBFF Pro Figure competitors, as is Northern Ireland’s finest, Leslie-Ann Armstrong, who became a pro after having finished runner-up to Laura in Las Vegas.

For Laura to have gone from winning her very first show as a Bodyfitness competitor – a regional UKBFF national qualifier – to winning her pro card in a touch over twelve months is impressive stuff. I am so proud of what I have achieved in a short space of time, says Laura. And FMS, at least, thinks she damn well should be.

Her success is no doubt partly down to the fact that from the age of 5 to the age of 23, when an injury ended her career, Laura was a gymnast. Her professional and personal alliance with her fiancé Scott Leeson, himself a successful WBFF Pro, and the man who has been her coach since the beginning of her muscle journey has also been crucial – and at this point I should warn fragile egos who are going to get depressed when they see the body of the man who snags a woman like Laura that Mr Leeson features prominently (and always shirtless) on her Facebook and Instagram.

Sport and training have always been a massive part of my life since such an early age, she says, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s a lifestyle. And you wouldn’t bet against Laura’s relentless energy and competitive nature taking her to the very top of the WBFF very very soon. [I’m] Already so excited about competing at the WBFF Worlds Pro Figure next year, already working hard on my weaknesses.

So I guess this is where I have to admit that the aforementioned Mr Leeson is probably a better trainer than I could ever be, because when I look at Laura, I’m afraid I don’t see any “weaknesses” at all. And by the way, he’s also a photographer, so he gets to snap his soon-to-be missus in lingerie in their down time, don’t you just hate him?!

And we leave you today with Laura’s trailer for her work with FitVids.

Enjoy! And remember no fragile egos on her Facebook or Instagram!

Gif of the Week

From one of our 2013 Women of the Year (Georgina) to another as Sexy Sophie Arvebrink pumps up (Look at her! OMG!!!) in this week’s gif selection.

Doesn’t that just set off all sorts of bad bad thoughts???

What’s that? More you say? Well, OK then…

Had enough?

Thought so, but seeing as you’ve had the two, you may as well have the full set, but like the online poker ads say, just remember to enjoy Sexy Sophie responsibly…

Genius by Female Fitness & Bodybuilding, whose no nonsense tagline tells us These women are bigger and stronger than you. You are a pathetic excuse for a man!

Yikes!

Haway the Lass! Georgina Wins Again

Delighted to report that while it was all going down at the Olympia in Las Vegas, FMS‘ favourite 20-year-old from the north-east of England was winning the Women’s Physique Division at the UKBFF North-West Championships in Leeds. In doing so, she qualified for what will be her second crack at the British Championships, which take place in a couple of weeks in Nottingham. Congratulations Georgina!

On stage pics of the event are thin on the ground at the moment (or have a big watermark across them saying DO NOT COPY), and there’s no report or official results as yet, but from the little I have, there were at least two other women competing in Physique for Georgina to blow away with her size, and, particularly at this show more than any of her previous outings, her insane conditioning. And still only 20!

As the show approached, Georgina was clearly feeling her legs looked better than ever, posting selfie after selfie of ever more shredded pins on her Instagram. So many, in fact, that she actually felt the need to apologise (sort of) for the glut. Sorry for all the leg pics, she wrote in the week leading up to the show. But look at me calve!!!

Freaky! And it seems those legs, along with the rest of this remarkable young woman, are providing inspiration to other bodybuilders male and female within and outside the UK. Georgina’s had her problems with social media abuse in the past, but these days the messages of encouragement and admiration are all over her Instagram.

And since the contest, it’s been back to work, getting a “crazy pump” on as she begins her preparation for the British Championships. Last year, regular readers may remember, that show didn’t work out so well for her (see FMS passim). I get the feeling that this year she’ll fare much much better in the biggest UK show there is.

Haway the lass!

And we leave you with a tiny bit of video of the mighty Georgina winning in Leeds.

[Word of warning – to save your ears you might want to turn your sound down a touch before watching, them’s some serious bellows of support she’s getting!]

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Read Georgina’s recent interview with RxMuscle here.

Enjoy!

Ms Olympia 2014: Christine Envall AT LAST!

The year: 1994. At a local IFBB sanctioned bodybuilding show in the Australian state of Victoria, a 21-year-old with a prodigiously developed physique takes the stage.

Three years have passed since her first appearance at the show, when she had finished third as an 18-year-old. Since then she has won local and state titles at IFBB and NABBA contests, and finished in the top six at the Australasian Championships.

This time she wins the title of “Ms Bendigo”. Her name: Christine Envall.

July 5th 2014. Four women are still standing: Lisa Giesbrecht, Juanita Blaino, Rita Bello, and Christine. This is her third show in just over a month. She was 6th in Toronto at the end of May, and finished 3rd in Omaha the following week.

If her name is called next, she will only gain a single point from this show to add to her two from Omaha. She knows three points probably won’t be enough to qualify. She will have to compete again, in Tampa in August, and attempt to add to her points tally.

Or wait another year.

But, if another name is called next, she is guaranteed 3rd. Another two points would make a total of four. And four points would be enough. Enough to get her to Vegas.

Christine hears Juanita Blaino‘s name called in fourth…

A little over-dramatic, perhaps, but sadly I wasn’t there so I hope you’ll forgive the poetic licence. The double… got the 3rd place I needed… I think should be enough for the O!!! said Christine, sounding a little unsure on her Facebook page after the show.

It was enough. No matter what happened in the final qualifying show of the year in Tampa, no one could push Christine out of the top 5 places. She was, as they say, “Olympia bound”. For sure. Brain not comprehending yet!!! she added.

Her incredulity was understandable. Getting to the Olympia is a long road for most female bodybuilders, but Christine’s road, which began in her hometown of Bendigo back in 1991, has been longer than most. It has included three NABBA World titles, and two distinct periods of competing as an IFBB pro with an ten-year break between them, punctuated by a one-night-only return to NABBA competition in 2005.

But despite being out of the limelight for the best part of a decade, she had certainly never been forgotten by the female muscle lovin’ brethren. When FMS invited readers to select their all-time Fantasy Contest line-ups a couple of years ago, Christine comfortably made the top six. When she returned to the stage last year in Toronto, the pre-contest buzz on the forums was, predictably, all about Christine’s return.

She was, after all, the original super freaky muscle woman. She was a “growth experiment fantasy made flesh”. She was a huge, rippling female muscle wonder of the world. My own personal Christine highlights would include footage and images of her at the New York Muscle Club; the occasional (and given the sheer amount of muscle on her 5’3″ frame and the gusto with which she displayed it, inevitable) posing suit malfunctions; the Awefilms clip where she “discovers” she can flex her pecs; and, best of all, the unbelievably arousing images of her bronzed, naked and ever so slightly coy.

By common consensus, then, it was good to have her back. Of course, there were comparisons with her younger self, comparisons that were not always complimentary (shorter hair, implants) but those who know about these things – those who know more than the likes of you and me, anyway – pointed to the refinements she had made to her physique and agreed Envall v.2013 was presenting the judges a much more pleasing overall look than she had left the scene with a decade earlier.

She did three shows in 2013, her best placing 7th in Chicago. She may not have been as excitingly super freaky as before – while she’d been away, all the girls had got bigger – but up close and personal with Annie Riveccio‘s camera for Muscle Angels, or even more so with her more intimate Instagram pics – Christine was still packing plenty of freaky size and freaky vascularity for the female muscle head to get excited about.

And, better yet, Christine hadn’t come out of “retirement” just to embark on one final lap of the pro circuit. She was going to be back in 2014. 40 years old, promising myself my best years are NOT behind me. Don’t sit around re-living your glory days… Get out there and start creating new ones, she told her Instagram followers.

She began with a 6th place in Toronto. No disaster that, but no Olympia qualifying points, either. Then, the following week in Omaha, she finished 3rd…

Finally, at her fifth attempt since her return to competition, she had equalled her best previous pro placing (at the South West Pro Cup in 2002), and she had Olympia points on the board. AND she had got to meet Iris Kyle backstage! What an awesome show! she commented later. It’s not every day you get to meet Ms Olympia!

Which brings us to the events in Toronto which guaranteed that this Friday, at the age of 41, the legendary and much-loved Christine Envall will make her Olympia debut.

Less than 2 weeks till the Ms O! she wrote last week. Can’t believe the workouts I’ve been having… Must be the extra motivation of the biggest show of my LIFE. It’s an understatement to say I’m looking forward to stepping on the Olympia stage…

It’s an understatement to say she has earned it.

Good luck to you, Christine!

And to whet your collective whistles at the prospect of the original super freak on stage in Vegas in a few days, Christine’s routine from this year’s Toronto Pro show.

Enjoy!

Fiction?

You know the feeling when you come across a female bodybuilder you’ve not been aware of before and she just takes your breath away. Or when you find a Tumblr blog, or a forum you didn’t know about, and they’re like just little goldmines.

And you think, why have I never heard of her, never heard of this, before?

Well, when I came across Her Muscular Grace on Tumblr, thanks to a repost on Shirtrippers of a story from way back in October 2012. Why have I never seen this before? I thought to myself. This is one of the most erotic stories I have ever read!

The blog is, in the words of the author, An artistic erotic experiment on the awe-inspiring subject of muscular females, and the essence of their relationship with the men who worship them, through short stories inspired by photos of said females.

It began with a bang in September 2012 with 16 pieces of fiction, got slightly less intense the following month with just three, and then there was nothing until a single post in January 2013, and that was it. Sadly, there hasn’t been anything since.

If you are or know of this author’s whereabouts now, I’d really love to get in touch.

By far my favourite piece is Warrior Queen, which I have taken the enormous liberty of reproducing here and adding images to the original photo of Zoa Linsey in full flow, which inspired the original piece, I believe. I have, though, kept the original (poetry like?) punctuation and spacing as far as possible.

Like all the best erotic female muscle fiction, it tells the story from a woman’s point of view (though not necessarily a muscular woman’s). Quite honestly, I find it so convincing that I wonder whether it is indeed a piece of fiction at all…

WARRIOR QUEEN

She groans and goes through one more rep. Teeth clenched. Veins popping.

I don’t care that I’ve paused in the middle of the gym.

I am a girl, a neophyte to the gym, watching in awe this display of muscle dominance. I am not alone.

Everyone in the gym has stopped in their tracks and are looking at Her.
Witnessing.

She’s in a trance, intoxicated with her fury.

“I don’t believe it, she’s pushing the whole stack” a guy next to me whispers in religious awe to no one in particular. I feel dizzy and grasp his arm, my heavy breasts brushing him.

He might think I’m coming on to him some part of me thinks.

I’m not and anyway he doesn’t.

Steadying myself I release him.

He’s also hypnotized by the sight of Her. Under the same spell. His mouth open.

She yells, a primal thing, and Her veins become angry snakes under Her skin. Blood pumping, Her face turns red.

She completes the movement. She must be done. Must Be.

But No.

One more rep.

I’m wet.

She roars, a barbaric scream, a howl and moves the metal. Her muscles expanding, growing as I watch, She defeats the steel.

Surely this is it.

“ONE. MORE!” She Demands and my knees grow weak.

I am on fire below, my tension following Hers, vibrating at the same frequency as Her titanic movements, building to release in tune to Her feat.

She will do this I realize. I do not know to what I’m referring to.

Unmistakable sounds of pleasure escape my mouth now. I moan. My breath becomes heavy.

I do not care, nor is there anything for it.

She is the Steel, She has locked on the Steel and She is One with it, bending it to Her will.

Her face contorted in rage, in pain.

Or is feverish ecstasy?

Rapture.

Orgasmic.

Hers are the sounds of Orgasm I realize. Fulfillment. Not pain but conquest.

As her muscles expand in one final thrust, she releases a scream, in triumph and holds it.

Holds it.

Holds it.

No one breathes. The tension is feverish.

I bite my lip. I taste blood on the tip of my tongue.

She controls the steel.

Only Now releasing the weights.

As they slam violently into place, I can feel, we can all feel, the tremor, a small quake.

I come.

Violently. Completely.

I close my eyes and my moan of surrender is swept in the sound of metal on metal.

Eventually,

Time starts again. Sounds of people and metal moving are heard.

I manage to place my ragged breath under a semblance of control.

I dare to raise my eyes.

She sits there still. A Warrior Queen on Her throne.

Looking straight at me.

Looking into me.

My eyes grow wide.

Her Muscular Grace, October 2012

August Picture Post: Rivers of Blood

Even if you happen to be the kind of guy (or girl) who is open about their attraction to muscular females, you probably leave this particular aspect of it unsaid (I imagine). Not an easy thing for the non female muscle head to, er, get their head round this one, if possible at all. In fact, do we even truly understand our own endless fascination for the mighty rivers of blood that traverse the muscles of our goddesses?

Perhaps they are just another example of the “otherness” of the female bodybuilder. Sure, there are some naturally vascular women out there (just as some FBBs are naturally more vascular than others), but being covered from traps to calves in pulsating cord-like veins only seems to occur in our beloved muscle babes.

Perhaps they serve as our guidelines for worship. Are them veins showing us exactly where to lick/kiss/touch for her pleasure? Unfortunately, I have never had the chance to put this theory to the test so I’ll have to take someone else’s word for it, but I have been told that if you tap the inner base of a flexed female bicep it activates a neural pathway that runs all the way to the vaginal wall, so that does make me think there might be something to it. Anyway, if true, it’s yet another good point to make when explaining your sthenolagnia to friends, family or therapist (“You don’t even have to find their erogenous zones! They’re all marked!!!”). Nice idea, isn’t it?

And that would mean that for some, if not most, if not ALL, female bodybuilders, well, that erogenous zone pretty much covers their whole body. Yep.

Returning to something akin to reality [surely not! – ed.], perhaps we should just file these under “Freaky and I Love It!” and not worry ourselves too much with the whys and wherefors. Let’s just sit back, relax and get our vascular freak on.

And there are few freakier and (therefore) few sexier sights in the female muscle lovin’ world than pulsating rivers of blood adorning magnificently muscled legs. Now I’m not normally a “quad” type of guy, but I have to confess that if you delve into the freakier corners of the FMS collection, you’ll find plenty of this sort of thing.

These women embrace their “otherness”, and it’s not just about the veins that adorn their muscles, it’s the muscles themselves. They celebrate their freakiness, delight in being different. They revel in their rivers of blood and make no apologies for doing so. Maybe the confidence that takes is the key to the attraction of it after all. Or maybe it’s just that I’m wired to find, say, the vascular mosaic of Margie Martin‘s quads (below) every bit as unique and beautiful as a work of art – and a lot more erotic!

And finally today, a little nostalgia: the “classic” vascularity of Robin Parker.

Giffed for your pleasure by Erotic Muscle Beasts on Tumblr

Enjoy!

August Picture Post: Sexy Selfies

Belinda Kiriakou
IFBB Pro Bikini, belindakiriakou on Instagram

Sue Lasmar
WBFF Pro Fitness Diva, suelasmar on Instagram

Hand & Hair Bra happiness! And she’s Brazilian too!!!

SELFIE MASTER #1

Shannon Peters
IFBB Pro Bodybuilder, shacourtneyx on Instagram

Currently “on that thermoxyn and hemavol”, Shannon gives you more look how I’ve grown… SINCE YESTERDAY! selfies than anyone I reckon, as well as all those ain’t I just gorgeous head shots. And with her being off season now and all, there’s been the odd night in, and even the night out selfie (top) to make me swoon all over the place.

Sonya Urff
NPC Bikini, twurff on Instagram

So much more than a woman who clearly adores her own bottom, Sonya Urff (really, “Urff”) is a self-confessed Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering nerd, an undergraduate who describes herself as a “Future Rocket Scientist”. So that’s beauty, brains and a beautiful bottom she’s got going for her. And if you like Sonya, you will probably also like her fit and very hot sister Kyrsten, NPC Figure competitor.

If she discovers a planet in the future, will it be the Planet Urff?

Giovanna Bottero (left)
Italian Bodybuilder, pictures of Giovanna at Girls with Muscle

Kim Ji-Hyun (right)
Korean Bodybuilder, pictures of her at Girls with Muscle

SELFIE MASTER #2

Michelle Davis
NPC Physique, mshelllll on Instagram

FMS has already drawn your attention to the skill “mshelllll” has with the phone camera, so it won’t surprise regular readers that having both her hands full and her phone on charge is not going to stop her treating us to a good hard bicep flex. After 4th at the Jr USAs this year, she’s been packing on the muscle (see top). YES!!!

Rebecca Sanders
Bodybuilder & Gym Owner, Rebecca Sanders on Facebook

I did wonder whether this was faked but some intensive investigation proved, in fact, that it is true: Rebecca Sanders really is this hot. Her goal: to bring the beauty back into bodybuilding. Good job so far, Rebecca. Quite possibly the next big thing. We’ll be keeping a very close eye on Rebecca. Hard job, you know, but somebody’s…

BONUS!

Double your pleasure as Kim Ji-Hyun poses for Muscle & Fitness

Enjoy!

August Picture Post: Gym Bodz

Disgust? Intimidation? Arousal? What would your reaction be? (I know it is hard to believe but there are some who would be disgusted at the sight of a genuine female muscle beast at their gym. Or at least they would claim to be disgusted…)

Reasons why it is probably not a good idea to get competitive or try to impress her by lifting as much or more weight than she is: 1. Risk of serious injury. 2. She is hardly going to be impressed if you can only do half a rep with that weight, is she?

Arousal? Looks to me like Marthe Sundby is plenty aroused by the pump she’s got going here. Training is my passion, she says. And she obviously means it.

Intimidation? Looking powerful, feeling powerful. And if you don’t get your scrawny self off that machine and into a far corner of the gym tout de suite, Virginia is going to demonstrate how powerful she is by throwing you through the wall. Yikes!!!

Arousal? Muscles bulging in and out of revealing skin tight gym wear. Mouth-watering muscles, mouth-watering curves. Curves where lesser women don’t even have bits. Superior women know what their muscle curvy bodies do to you. Aleesha knows. Kashma knows. Margie knows. One look and you’re scurrying to the locker room.

Alpha. Gillian won’t take that selfie till the last man/woman has been inimidated out of her space, until her ownership of the gym is absolute. Lisa, meanwhile, well, Lisa loves an audience, loves to have all eyes in the gym on her. Lisa loves a reaction, and judging from the position of the guy on the right’s hands, she’s getting one here.

Be warned. Your fascination for female muscle is limitless, but, as a man, multi-tasking is not your strong point. Attempting any kind of actual lifting while simultaneously checking her muscles out is going to be a fast track to injury and/or humiliation. Do not, under any circumstances, do as this Freitas-fixated fella is doing and attempt to press anything without giving it your full attention. Focus on ONE thing, dude!

Be warned. Tape it down! Seriously, if you know Shannon Peters trains in your gym (or you’ve found out where Shannon trains and made it your gym despite the fact it’s a four-hour round trip) then you only have yourself to blame if everyone can see your mini Mars bar causing a commotion in your gym shorts. What did you think was going to happen? And now you are ‘Stiffy Guy’ to all at the gym. Including Shannon. Doh!

Enjoy!