DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah -- What does it take to make a woman strong? There's a lot of free advice out there to help women merit the qualities of a strong woman: Stand up for yourself. Believe in ...

In June 2011, I competed in a figure/bodybuilding competition as a form of embodied research. This photograph shows me standing onstage during the Northern Alberta Bodybuilding Championships, wearing ...

A foot injury derailed Wendy Fortino’s Olympic aspirations in 2008, cutting short her promising career. The injury could have marked the end of her career, but instead became a turning point in her ...

Nancy explained that bodybuilding (sometimes called physique bodybuilding) results in a very muscular, manly look. Figure bodybuilding results in a lean, toned, muscular look that is more feminine.

LOUISVILLE – Pumped up, spray-tanned, made up and hair done, Angi Lampkin and Michelle Reynolds-Madden gazed together into the mirror of the hotel bathroom. They had wiggled into itsy-bitsy contest ...

When Alissa Podber dons a sparkling bikini and flexes for the judges at a figure competition next month, she’ll bare a thumb-sized device on her arm that monitors her blood glucose levels. It’s her ...

In her 16 years as a weight loss coach and figure competition trainer, Melissa Johnson has 23 professional shows, finishing in the top four in 21 of those, and went on to win a world American Natural ...

It was an event that, according to promoter L. Brent Jones, took a lot of phone calls and emails to get a 15-minute interview with Kentucky Derby Festival officials. And even then, Jones thought he ...