The Muscular Asian Woman

I came across this blog the other day whilst surfing.
It's called The Muscular Asian Woman:






It's a great site that focuses on the Asian female bodybuilding & fitness scene.

This is an excerpt from the blog: "A muscular physique is a thing of beauty regardless of gender and ethnicity; this webblog attempts to show special support and consideration for the Asian female, who, in many cases, has extra barriers in pursuing athletic passions, whether they are bodybuilding, fitness, athletics, or recreation".

I couldn't say it better myself!

Recognition for Rosie

Female bodybuilder Rosie Trimble has been awarded the Leeton Sportsperson of the Year award.

Hailing from Australia, Rosie competed in the 2008 New York World Natural Bodybuilding Federation (WNBF) championships where she placed a respectable sixth in the International Figure World Titles and 10th in the International Fit Body World Titles.

The WNBF describes itself as a “truly drug-free bodybuilding, figure and fitness federation” and athletes must pass both a polygraph and urine test.

Rosie also competed in the Australian Masters Fit Body Titles where she took third place.

It's encouraging to see the increasing recognition of female bodybuilding. Awards like this help bring the sport into the mainstream where it belongs.

Dorra Zaier stirring it up in Tunisia

Dorra Zaier has been breaking a few taboos in her home country of Tunisia. According to a recent article from Reuters, it seems this dynamic 28 year old female bodybuilder is leading the way in a country where attitudes towards a strong female physique are less accepting than many countries.


















Later this year Dorra will be entering a female bodybuilding competition: there are only two contestants and the event is to be held in private as Tunisians are not used to seeing muscular women flexing in public.

It may seem archaic to some, but at least it's step in the right direction. I always admire anyone who challenges the status quo: way to go Dorra!

Alina Popa

Alina Popa is now featured on the site.

Alina competed at the IFBB Santa Susanna 2008 and was the over 55 kg category winner and overall winner female, bodybuilding. Since winning the show, the internet's been buzzing with news and pictures of this amazing woman.




Video of Alina's routine at the IFBB Santa Susanna 2008:

The difference between bodybuilding, figure & fitness (or why we should all get along)

I've spent a long time trying to understand where, why and how people draw the lines between bodybuilding, figure & fitness. Indeed, do we need to draw a line?

The term aesthetic is, by it's very nature, subjective. One person's rose can be another's thorn; and there lies the rub: we all have our own interpretation of beauty. When it comes to crafting an aesthetic physique, beauty really is in the eye of the beholder: size, symmetry and shape all play their part; so why are we obsessed about categorizing this into the simple classes of big, medium and small?

In many respects, there really is no line between bodybuilding, figure & fitness - they each represent various points on a spectrum. Try thinking about it another way; look at the image below:














Where does the red end and orange begin, or the green turn into blue? There really is no absolute difference, no place to draw a line. And yet when it comes to bodybuilding in it's various forms, we seem compelled to break it down into simple groups.

Much of this is driven by the shows and competitions, after all, it's difficult to judge between a bodybuilder and fitness competitor as they each have a very different personal preference for their own physique, not to mention how they may or may not temper this in order to please the judges depending on whatever the official 'flavor of the month' is at a given moment in time.

People have written and blogged about this a thousand times - here's a great example. So, back in the real world, the one we all inhabit when not competing or viewing a show: does it really matter?

Of course not. As TC writes in this post: Believing that.."anyone with a different philosophy or goal is an asshole, is misguided... The truth is, we're all freaks and there's plenty of room in our circus."

See what I mean?

Be who you are, do what you enjoy and cut the others a little slack. We spend enough time dealing with the haters out there who don't like the sport at all to waste it by fighting amongst ourselves.

Female Muscle & Fitness Blog

Welcome to the Female Muscle & Fitness blog.

Female Muscle & Fitness promotes the sport of female bodybuilding, figure and fitness.

As we all know, it takes a lot of hard work, dedication and focus to be a bodybuilder; particularly at competition level. Although bodybuilding itself has moved into the main-stream, female bodybuilding is still some way behind in terms of public acceptance and support.

To help change this, Female Muscle & Fitness has been set up as a central hub of all things related to the sport. It has listings of the home pages of female bodybuilders, figure and fitness competitors (as well as information on other female muscle related sites) and works hard to promote the sport in an honest and favorable light. The site helps raise awareness of the sport and provides web-traffic and exposure to the individuals themselves.

fbblinks is young and growing faster every day, so if you are a female bodybuilder, figure or fitness competitor, own a site that is directly related to female bodybuilding or you are an aspiring competitor with a web presence, please get in contact with me and I'll be only too happy to help promote you by listing your own website in the directory.