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Prior to 1977, bodybuilding had been considered strictly a male-oriented sport. Henry McGhee, described as the "primary architect of competitive female bodybuilding", was an employee of the Downtown Canton YMCA, carried a strong belief that women should share the opportunity to display their physiques and the results of their weight training the way men had done for years.
Iris Floyd Kyle (born Mildred Carter; [25] August 22, 1974) is an African-Indian American professional female bodybuilder. [26] [27] She is currently the most successful, female or male, professional bodybuilder ever.
Dayana Cadeau posing against Iris Kyle at the 2007 Olympia Press Conference on 27 September 2007. Iris Kyle doing an abdominals and thighs pose on September 26, 2008 during the 2008 Ms. Olympia finals. From 2007 to 2014 Iris went on to win the next 8 overall Ms. Olympia titles and winning 9 consecutive overall Ms. Olympia titles in a row.
When the camera landed on one beefy guy, he leapt out of his seat to flex his muscles. He seemed to be enjoying the attention, flexing his muscles in a tight T-shirt and striking a body building pose.
I set a goal to transform 50 percent of my body weight into muscle within a year. So, I took Orangetheory circuit training classes three times a week, working on both strength training and cardio.
After becoming the first woman to bench press over 300 lb (140 kg), a picture of Francis striking a most muscular pose, or "the crab", while wearing a bikini appeared in several bodybuilding magazines around the world. She possessed far more muscular size than the most muscular female bodybuilders at the time.
FILE - American Olympic champion Noah Lyles holds this gold medal before an interview in Paris, France, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Pre-programmed victory poses by fictional characters in video games have been the subject of controversy, particularly where the victory pose has been regarded as overly sexualized. [1] Strategy first-person shooter Overwatch (video game) in particular was criticized by press for its overly sexualized victory poses, [ 2 ] leading to certain ...