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Aleesha Young (born November 10, 1984) is an American bodybuilder who won the NPC USA Championships in 2014. [citation needed] At her largest, her biceps measured over 18 in (457 mm) and her quads over 28 in (711 mm).
Iris Floyd Kyle (born Mildred Carter; [11] August 22, 1974) is an African-Indian American professional female bodybuilder. [12] [13] She is currently the most successful, female or male, professional bodybuilder ever.
2019 Romania Muscle Fest Pro Female bodybuilding Nataliya Kuznetsova , also spelt Natalia ( née Trukhina ; born July 1, 1991), is a Russian professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter .
It was one of the fastest times in the country among high school girls last year—except Amaris was still in middle school. In fact, she had only started running competitively the year before. By the time of this race—the Foot Locker South Regional in Charlotte last fall—Amaris had already captured an Alabama high school cross-country ...
However, her body began responding quickly to resistance training and once she started intense weight training, soon people were asking her if she competed in muscle competitions. She didn't see herself as having enough size and development to compete as a bodybuilder, but liked the way the figure competitors looked in the magazines.
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.
The attempt to increase muscle mass in one's body without any gain in fat is called clean bulking. Competitive bodybuilders focus their efforts to achieve a peak appearance during a brief "competition season". [53] Clean bulking takes longer and is a more refined approach to achieving the body fat and muscle mass percentage a person is looking for.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.