Womens Bodybuilding Blog

I just came across a news story on Gabriela DeSilva, who is a 25 year old female bodybuilder. I always like seeing these things because they should motivate you. You’re not the only female that is doing this. It’s nice to see that you’re not going down a dark and lonely road on your own. You have people that are struggling through this journey and you need to know that sometimes.

Here is the rest of the story on this female bodybuilder:

Gabriela DeSilva could look forward to spokesmodeling, travel and the spotlight if she impresses judges at her first body building competition.
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The 25-year-old Fishkill resident plans to compete at a fitness competition in Poughkeepsie organized by the International Natural Bodybuilding Fitness & Federation in October.

“I’m going out there as a personal goal. It should be fun,” DeSilva said.

She was scheduled to compete in Manhattan June 27.

“I ended up not competing because the tanning stuff they put on my body burned me. It was horrible. I was all ready to go,” she said.

Most bodybuilders don’t compete for money but do it for the challenge and to get their physique in excellent shape.

However, there is some money to be made eventually depending on success.

If DeSilva wins a national amateur event, she is allowed to compete on a professional level. If she wins a professional national event, she could find herself in photography studios posing for fitness supplement advertisements, calendars and more.

The lucky ones become fitness celebrities and that fame often leads to entrepreneurial opportunities such as fitness centers and personal training, maybe even Hollywood. Think of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Kim Koelbel, a trainer and nutritionist at the Millbrook Training Center, spent three years doing competitions in the 1990s, winning titles such as Ms. Fitness Eastern States Champion and Ms. Fitness USA New Jersey Champion.

As a result, Koelbel got the attention of Pump Magazine, HotSkins Fitness Wear, Pinnacle Supplement Advertising, Muscle Mag Publications and Powertek Ab Roller.

“If you win a national competition you will be splattered all over the place,” said Koelbel, 42, of Pleasant Valley. “If they like you and your look, you will get work. Can you make a living? A select few will, but it’s good to have a degree in the field.”

The International Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation’s Web site boasts it has 5,000 competitors and 35 events per year.

DeSilva will flex in a bathing suit, focusing in the figure competition.

I thought I should finally put up some women’s bodybuilding pics for everyone to see. I know a lot of people that search my site are looking for that sort of thing. I thought it was about time that I showed them. Remember these are powerful ladies that worked hard to get to the level they are in this sport. If you put in the hard work too, you can achieve it as well. Here are the women’s bodybuilding pics:

Just make a comment if you’re looking for more women’s bodybuilding pics. It just lets me know what you guys want. If you don’t comment than I don’t know.

Here is another weekly summary of what I have included on the female bodybuilding blog. This is an easier way to read through what you need, when you live a much more busy life and can’t get updates everyday.

The Power of Potassium – Potassium plays a huge role in the development of muscle tissue and a lot of people don’t seem to realize that. When it comes to the diet, most focus on protein, carbs and fat, but completely forget about important elements like potassium.

Breakfast: The Most Important Bodybuilding Meal – I know you’ve heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well that is true for bodybuilders too. After a long night of sleeping, your body is actually craving any form of nutrients coming into the body. Don’t ever skip this meal. Always eat something.

Spinach is really Popeye Steroids – We all know that Popeye would eat some spinach and he’s give big muscles. What you may not realize is that there is truth to that. There is actually a natural type of steroids that grow in spinach that will help increase your overall growth.

Myths About Female Bodybuilding – There are a lot of myths and taboos associated with the sport of female bodybuilding, so I decided to investigate those myths and set the record straight.

Like many sports that are dominated by men, there is always taboos and fallacies attached to it when women do it. It’s really a shame because this is a real great sport for women. Feeling empowered, stronger and achieving success is great. Surprisingly it is mothers that need a challenge in their life that inevitably turn to it because it provides purpose and something to build toward. I thought I should do a post about the myths about female bodybuilding because there are a lot of them.

Female Bodybuilding is Manly

Becoming a muscular female is very hard to do as a female. We only produce a fraction of the testosterone that a man does. We are just not geared to put on a lot of muscle. That’s not to say that we can’t looked rip. When you’re ripped, you look like you have huge muscles, when you really don’t.

Cardio is Better For The Female Physique Than Weight Lifting

This is probably one of the biggest misconceptions. I think the only place people don’t like the look of a bodybuilder (both male and female) is when there body fat percentage is really low for a competition. Most people don’t sustain that for more than a few days. It is weight lifting that makes you firm and toned, not a treadmill. Take a look at the female trainers at the gym. They know exactly how weights can help them and their body is completely toned.

Muscles Will Turn to Fat, When You Stop Training

I’m not really sure where this myth came from, but on the basis of biology, it’s not true (or possible). Muscle is muscle and fat is fat. They’re not going to change.

I think everyone is aware of Popeye the sailor man and how he would eat a can of spinach, become very strong and protect Olive Oil. I think most bodybuilders realize that spinach is just a plant and probably isn’t going to help you like eating a piece of chicken breast would. That might be overly simplified thinking because spinach has a lot of the effects that steroids do. It is probably beneficial to add this to your diet.

Here are a few benefits of eating spinach:

• Spinach is rich in vitamins
• Spinach acts helps to detoxify the body
• Spinach can help to fight cancer and a lot of other diseases

I guess you’re wondering about the ME stuff, as in “What is in it for me?” Well research has shown that by eating spinach alone, your body will produce 20% more muscle protein because spinach has a natural type of steroid in it known as phytoecdy. By adding in some spinach to your diet and you’re essentially more productive at building muscle tissue.

Obviously you can’t just eat a little amount of spinach since there isn’t much phytoecdy, but they say if you can eat about 2lbs of eat each day (I know, it’s a lot), you can get great results from it.

I’m not really sure what has changed in our culture, but breakfast used to be eaten by people. It seems like most people don’t have the time anymore and skip it. I never really understood how people could skip. I was brought up on breakfast and I just need it. It is the most important bodybuilding meal that you should be eating, so I really feel the need to help persuade you to start eating it.

The first thing you have to recognize is that you have gone a period of over 8 hours without eating when you get up in the morning. As a bodybuilder, you should recognize how important it is to get food in your body ever few hours, so your muscles have nutrients to repair muscle tissue with. After a long night of sleep, your body is just dying for something to come into the body. It is very important to start eating breakfast. This should be reason enough as a bodybuilder.

The other reason is that it helps to jump start your metabolism for the day. Basically your body slows down when you sleep, so essentially you have 8 hours of slow time. You get up and your body remains slow because it doesn’t have any hard digestive work to do. A dead metabolism is just a waste of potential. EAT!!

And breakfast typically allows you to be much more liberal with your food. I typically eat 4 egg white, 1 yolk omlette with cheese, with two pieces of toast with jam on them and a cup of orange juice. It’s a good meal.

I think everyone understands the importance of the diet. You’ve probably taken a lot of time learning how to properly eat to have success. I won’t deny that you have had success, but you will never know everything that makes up a good diet for bodybuilding. It’s just physically impossible. Outside of protein, carbs and fat, most bodybuilders don’t understand what other nutrients they could be using for their benefit. That is why I thought it was appropriate to do a post on the power of potassium because this happens to be a very excellent item.

I guess the main thing that potassium will help you with is nerve development of the body, brain functions and the functionality of your muscles. I suppose it is a nerve related substance that keeps your body functioning properly. The real issue with potassium is that it is quite difficult to determine when you’re lacking it. Symptoms could include slowed reaction times, a loss of muscle power, constipation, etc. They’re not the most concrete of symptoms because there are a lot of other things that could cause these problems.

When it comes to getting your potassium, you have a number of ways of getting it. I think everyone recognizes bananas as an easy source for this. You can also eat things like baked potatoes, green beans, spinach, etc.

The staggered sets principle was created by a man known as John Weider. I’m trying to think of the proper way to explain this to you. You obviously have a lot of different muscles, both big and small, but all of them will have a different density. A different density means there will be a much longer period of time for them to develop properly. The idea behind the staggered sets principle is training these smaller and more dense muscle groups in between sets. They don’t require as much energy, so it isn’t that big of a deal.

Since you obviously can’t work any major muscle in between a regular set, you have to focus mainly on forearms, neck, calves and trapeze muscle. The idea here is that you should focus on these muscles in between sets. After you finish your set of squats, grab a barbell and do some wrist curls.

The idea here is that as you go through the workout you will work all of these major muscles and they will all feel loaded. Typically you can feel all the lactic acid starting to build up in them, so this is a much better approach to your regular training and getting much more out of this for your dense muscles.

I wanted to take some time to show you the characteristics of strength training. I know a lot of you out there want to become stronger and bigger, so obviously understanding what makes up the characteristics is very important to you. Some of this might actually surprise you, so I hope you really enjoy this post.

The first is complex movements. I know we like to think when we isolate a muscle that we are going to focus on it more, and inevitably get more strength out of it, but that frankly isn’t true. The reason it isn’t true is that it isn’t even remotely realistic. If you working on a farm doing heavy lifting, there is no way to isolate the muscles. That’s why you need to focus on complex movements.

Posture is another important characteristic of strength training. I think a lot of people gt too worked up on the idea of how much weight they can move right now. Don’t worry about it so much. Don’t move your body into bad positions, just so you can lift some weight. It is important to have proper posture while you’re lifting the weights to demonstrate your body is in control.

Lastly, people tend to have a problem with their breathing. Breathing is an important characteristic of strength training. People will work hard, but they’re so focused on the form and the feeling produced by the lifting that they’ll completely forget to breath. You’ll actually lift more if you can focus on your breathing properly.

I was just reading something very interesting that might surprise you. I think a lot of us understand the importance of stretching and probably do it before we do any strenuous activity, but studies have confirmed that this might not be the right approach. I remember when I was in high school hearing that it was more beneficial to stretch after you do something, than before.

Recent studies show that if you do stretching before you workout, you’ll find that your results will be hurt and your strength will decrease. This is the hard facts and I find it is better to accept them as facts, instead of arguing against them for some sort of benefit.

I know that stretching can help to prevent injuries(There has been no studies to back up this claim though). That is the main reason that people do it, so let me show you what you should be doing. Basically, you want to warm up your tissue before you start doing anything too hard with it, but there are more ways of doing this than stretching. The best thing you can do is some warm up sets at a much lower rate. It doesn’t have to be heavy, it just needs to help pump some blood into the muscles you’ll be working, so they warm up.

That’s all you need to do.

Stretching does help with the muscles if you do it AFTER you workout. It’s away to get your tissue stretched out before you leave the gym for good.