12-Year-Old Arm Wrestling Champ Grace Houston is an All Star Student
Grace Houston kicked my butt in arm wrestling. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering I’ve always been a horrible arm wrestler. But more importantly, it’s because the 12-year-old Kennedy...
View ArticleTrip Of A Lifetime For Powerlifter
Anna Thompson found out last week she had been selected to represent New Zealand in the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championships, less than a year after entering her first powerlifting competition. The...
View ArticleTeen Gymnast Wows At Bodybuilding Competition
The winner of the 2015 Michelob Ultra Guam National Fitness Championships and International Invitational was 53-year-old competitor Jaime Rodriguez. The biggest shock, however, was a competitor nearly...
View ArticleFerguson Tops All Rivals In Strongest Woman Competition
Prior to competing for the North America Strongest Woman’s title, Jen Ferguson knew in her mind she was already a champion. In the last year she was dedicated to training four days a week, undergoing a...
View ArticleLocal Competitors Pursue Goals Through Bodybuilding
There are times in life when it seems like a goal that one wants to obtain is unreachable. Sometimes, that can be as simple as losing a couple pounds or going back to school to pursue a degree....
View ArticleBodybuilding Beauty Takes Plea Deal In Theft Of $2,000 Ashtray
A body builder accused of swiping a $2,000 Hermes ashtray and a $10,000 check from the luxury car of a man she’d just met in a nightclub took a plea deal Tuesday in Manhattan court. Kelly Keiser, 32,...
View ArticleThe Woman Behind The Muscle – Gerbel Mikk
Estonian Gerbel Mikk, now living in Belgium, is a fitness trainer and bodybuilding competitor in the WBFF. She stands 5’3″ tall and steps on stage at 132 lbs. Gerbel has also competed in powerlifting...
View ArticleLIndsay Mulinazzi Armwrestles Steve Harvey
The Fitness Inferno, Lindsay Mulinazzi appears on the Steve Harvey show. Lindsay discusses the issues with dating as a female bodybuilder and later takes on Steve in an armwrestling match.
View ArticleBodyshaping with Cory Everson
Let’s ThrowBack Thursday to 1988 and the premier edition of Bodyshaping with then 5-time Ms. Olympia, Cory Everson (Cory would eventually go on to win her 6th Ms. Olympia title in 1989). If you grew up...
View ArticleLocal Teen Is A World Champion Powerlifter
It’s a typical after class activity at Whitnall High School; athletes lifting weights, trying to get stronger and better for their particular sport. But there is one athlete there that stands out from...
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Teen Powerlifts Her Way To Recovery From Anorexia
Recovering from anorexia is a feat of its own. Overcoming anorexia to become a powerlifter, all by the age of 16, brings new meaning to the word recovery. Antonia Caruso, a junior at Scarborough High...
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Siguenza Credits Chamorro Food In Ohio Powerlifting Win
Destiny Siguenza, originally from Malojloj and now residing in Ohio, recently won first place in powerlifting in two divisions she entered at the Ohio State Regional Meet for Natural Athlete Strength...
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Kamloops Athlete Headed To Commonwealth Championships
Bianca Liberatore was afraid people wouldn’t like her unless she was skinny. So, for a time, she was willing to do whatever it took to be thin. “When I was younger — I think I was about 13 — I was...
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Teenage Bodybuilder Uses Tanzania Tragedy To Spur Her On
The 19-year-old was one of a group of Harton Sixth Form College pupils on a trip to Tanzania last year when 18-year-old Jack Burden tragically died from a severe allergic reaction. Since then, Marnie,...
View ArticleAngel Warriors Tackle Bodybuilding’s World Stage
Two Mornington bodybuilders will take part in the Natural Olympia competition in Las Vegas next month. Ultimate Fitness owner Nicky Jacobson, who is team coach of the Ultimate Angel Warriors...
View ArticlePowerlifter’s Nine Older Brothers Sparked Her Interest In Lifting Weights
Wellington woman Maria Brightwater-Wharf reckons her enthusiasm for lifting weights has something to do with growing up on a farm with nine older brothers. “If you’re the second to youngest in the...
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Local Bodybuilder Shows No Mercy At Competition
A local woman lost 30 pounds and won big at the Ultimate Fitness Experience (UFE) No Mercy bodybuilding show on October 3 in Regina. Tanya Chester brought home two first place trophies: one for Bikini...
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Former Ballet Dancer St Huddersfield University Becomes Successful Bodybuilder
t’s not your normal career path. For years Chelsea Dyson was a keen ballet dancer, and harboured ambitions of becoming a professional. When she accepted that wouldn’t happen, she switched her sights in...
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A Figure Athlete Shares Her Fitness Mantra
Getting into fitness and figure athletics I began when I was 28 years. Before that, I had never dreamt of this. It was an accident. I was under lot of stress at home. My husband suggested that I should...
View ArticleMV Middle School Teacher Banaian Performs Well At Armwrestling Championships
New Hampshire’s Debbie Banaian traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, for the 37th WAF World Armwrestling Championships and showed plenty of Granite State strength. Banaian, who teaches at Merrimack...
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