Another great year at the Arnold Classic.
Here are the 2009 women's results:
Bodybuilding
1. Iris Kyle
2. Debi Laszewski
3. Yaxeni Oriquen
4. Heather Armbrust
5. Dayana Cadeau
6. Betty Adkins
7. Cathy LeFrancois
8. Rosemary Jennings
9. Maria Carmen-Gomez
10. Brenda Raganot
11. Isabelle Turell
12. Dena Westerfield
13. Mah Ann Mendoza
Fitness
1. Jen Hendershott
2. Julie Palmer
3. Tracey Greenwood
4. Regiane DaSilva
5. Tina Durkin
6. Shannon Meteraud
7. Trish Warren
8. Erin Riley
9. Mindi OBrien
10. Tanji Johnson
11. Jessica Clay
12. Oksana Grishina
13. Bethany Gainey
14. Heidi Fletcher
15. Nicole Duncan
16. Nicole Wilkins
Figure
1. Ziville Raudoniene
2. Gina Aliotti
3. Amy Fry
4. Kristal Richardson
5. Felicia Romero
6. Monica Brant
7. Heather Mae French
8. Sonia Gonzales
9. Sherlyn Roy
10. Erin Stern
11. Chastity Stone
12. Latisha Wilder
13. Juliana Malacarne
14. Huong Arcinas
15. Lenay Hernandez
16. Brenda Smith
17. Georgina Lona
Showing posts with label figure competitors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label figure competitors. Show all posts
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Saturday, 7 February 2009
Arnold Classic 2009: official line-up
I received the official press release for the competition.
The Ms International, Figure & Fitness invitees are all detailed below. There are some top names on the list - this should be a great year!
Here it is: the official line up for the 2009 Arnold Classic in Ohio. Just click on the image to see it full-size.
The Ms International, Figure & Fitness invitees are all detailed below. There are some top names on the list - this should be a great year!
Here it is: the official line up for the 2009 Arnold Classic in Ohio. Just click on the image to see it full-size.
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
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.
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.
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