09.20.2005:Flak Magazine and Bodybuilding Women
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 11:46 thanks to flakmag for publishing my photo and covering female bodybuilding:
Muscle Mania
by Claire Zulkey
Apparently, the female body is running out of parts to be coveted. Women throughout the country are obsessing about a certain element of their body, and it's not their face, their hair, their breasts or even their butt.
We're talking muscles.
It may have all started back in 1991, with Linda Hamilton fiercely performing pull-up after pull-up in "Terminator 2". Audiences were wowed by this sweaty, rock-hard, yet attractive female. At the time, it didn't seem that many women ran out and bought themselves chin-up bars, but it set a precedent: Muscles on women can be sexy.
In just the last few years, however, female muscles have become de rigueur. In 1997, during my freshman year of college, pumping big-time iron wasn't the thing to do; girls worked out, maybe a little 'body sculpting,' but that was it. Sophomore year, everybody seemed to be reading "Self." Junior year it was Tae-Bo. Suddenly, in fall of 2000, I had a roommate who took Hydroxy-Cut, spent two hours a day at the gym and lamented that she only had a visible four-pack gripping her abdominal muscles, instead of the desired full six. And she was far from alone; the gym was packed with weight-lifter women.
And, suddenly, the athletic female is everywhere.
Complete article HERE
