Excerpt: “Stuczynski was only days away from leaving for the United States Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Ore., where she hopes to continue a remarkable ascent in this event. It was only four years ago that her coach watched her in a basketball game and persuaded her to pick up a pole for the first time.
Now, at 26, Stuczynski holds the American record, clearing 16 feet ¾ inches at the Adidas Track Classic in May. Only one woman in the world has vaulted higher: Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia, at 16-5 1/4. The qualifying round at the United States trials is Wednesday, with the finals next Sunday afternoon.
“Going into this thing she had so much stacked against her,” Stuczynski’s coach, Rick Suhr, said. “She’s not a gymnast. She has no gymnastics background. She has an unproven coach. She doesn’t come from a pole-vault area.” Read more…
Jodi Fonfa is 42-years-old with three children, but she’s in better physical shape than most high-school cheerleaders. She has worked as Sharon Stone’s personal trainer; held the title of Miss National Fitness Champion; and most recently, reports daily to her office at 24 Hour Fitness, where she’s a master instructor.
Though Fonfa looks like she should be on the cover of Muscle & Fitness magazine, she’s not the type of mother who wakes her children up to the sound of a trumpet, requesting that they give her 20.
“It’s about keeping a healthy attitude,” she said. “I just want them to have fun and enjoy life without taking it so seriously.”
cincinnati.com (enquirer, june 21,2008
“Amber Carpenter is a busy mother to (from left) 10-month-old Eowyn, 4-year-old Arden and 3-year-old Eden, but she still manages to squeeze workouts and figure competitions into her schedule. She entered her first competition about two years after Eden was born and placed third.”
In addition to the clever article title, the writer goes on “You wouldn’t know it to look at her, relaxing at Town & Country Sports & Health Club on a Monday morning. Her athletic build is overshadowed by her swathed and propped-up left leg, the result of a recent varicose vein surgery.”
There are females that have muscle and there are females that use muscle.
Marta Vieira da Silva: (born February 19, 1986 in Dois Riachos, Alagoas), better known as Marta, is a Brazilian women’s football striker, considered the best female soccer player in the world. She plays as a midfielder for Sweden’s Umeå IK, and was a member of the Brazilian National Team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was also named the Golden Ball (MVP) at the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women’s World Championship (six goals in tournament), in which Brazil finished fourth. She is the 2006 and 2007 FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year. In the 2007 Women’s World Cup, she won both the Golden Ball award as the best player and the Golden Boot award as the top scorer. (source: wikipedia
I was born in Romania in 1982, and am the youngest one among my brothers and sisters. When I was 13 years old, I started to practice athletics like throws, javelin, hammer and shot put. I became a champion at the the juniors and had the opportunity to be a competitor at the first Mondial Championship Juniors II in athletics.
After I graduated from High School, I went to University in sports. There I started to practice weightlifting where I did very well as a junior and became a national champion as well. My best lifts when I was doing weightlifting were: Snatch 80 kg, Clean & jerk 105 kg, Total 195 kg.
While I was training for weightlifting, I started to work all my muscle groups to gain more power for the sport. At the same time I also practiced rugby for a year as well. I started to compete in BB competitions, but was not ready for this until I gave up weightlifting and told to myself to work seriously on my bodybuilding. So I started to train seriously for BB at the end of 2003, but was still competing in weightlifting too.
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I was born in Romania in 1982, and am the youngest one among my brothers and sisters. When I was 13 years old, I started to practice athletics like throws, javelin, hammer and shot put. I became a champion at the the juniors and had the opportunity to be a competitor at the first Mondial Championship Juniors II in athletics.
