Darla Joann - Amazing Abs

Darla from fitness-4-you blasts her amazing abdominals

WOW!

Tanji Johnson Returns as Stealth to American Gladiators

Click the photo for her full performance gallery on femalemuscle:

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NBC Official Gladiators Profile of Stealth (Tanji Johnson).

And do not forget last year’s Huffingtonpost piece (via Amaz0ns) where Tanji came across as “too smart” for the AG producers.

Mother of 2 - Abs of Steel

So speaks the title of one of our favorite Flickr girls contributor, Amproshoot. Posted May 5, 2008

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Musclefemmetv.com

Musclefemmetv.com

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.”

The photographs of Joachim Ladefoged explore the “weird” world of bodybuilding

Saturday, 3 May 2008, The Independent, London

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.

‘Mirror’ by Joachim Ladefoged is published by Ajour, priced £33. Buy it online at viiphoto.com or forlagetajour.dk

Melanie Roach Women’s Weightlifting Arnold Classic 2008 and Now New York Times Sports Feature

I shot this video earlier this afternoon (February 29,2008) (Lori):
Click the photo below to download the video in wmv format

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REPOSTING THE ABOVE LIVE FEMALEMUSCLE.COM VIDEO COVERAGE OF MELANIE ROACH in light of this morning’s sports cover story on Melanie: complete nytimes.com story HERE

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“May 6, 2008
Finding Inner Strength
By GREG BISHOP

SUMNER, Wash. — Melanie Roach is a former gymnast who owns a gymnastics facility. Her husband is a state legislator. At 33, she is the mother of three young children, including 5-year-old Drew, who is autistic. And she can lift 238 pounds over her head.

All of which makes her one of America’s most unlikely Olympic hopefuls.

For a start, Roach, who is 5 feet 1 inch and 117 pounds, looks nothing like a weight lifter. She was a gymnast until 10 years ago, when she left behind a middling career, took up weight lifting and in 1998 set an unofficial world record by lifting twice her body weight, a first for an American woman.

But she hyperextended her right elbow four months before the world championships in 1999 and had a herniated disk in her back eight weeks before the Olympic trials in 2000. She attempted to compete despite the injury, only to end up crying in the stands.

The back injury bothered her for seven years — through three pregnancies and three times as many comeback attempts.

“She rose to greatness so quickly, and then all of a sudden it was over,” said Roach’s training partner Alexis Reed. “You almost asked yourself, a year or two later, ‘Did that really happen?’ ”

What is a “Turkish getup”

is it this?

“Chanty’s 32 kg turkish getup”

or this?

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Kettle Ball lifting before a cheering crowd.

Flickr Reluctant Muscle Girl of the Day

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The caption on this Flickr member photo reads: “A couple of days ago I noticed in the bathroom mirror that my biceps have become rather hench and muscly, or at least more than they used to be. If it carries on this way I’ll soon be playing women’s rugby and winning arm wrestles!”

Comic Muscle Heroines

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Artwork by Plinius, available exclusively on his yahoo group HERE