Nebraska Journal; Female Bodybuilding

There is unfortunately a still of you that women with muscles are not feminine. Good evening and welcome to Nebraska Journal, I'm Alice Caterland. For years the sport of bodybuilding has been dominated by muscular hemen like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Competition such as the Mr. Universe contest have usually been sponsored by men, four men, with only men participating. But now women are joining the ranks of those who pump iron and they're finding not everyone is happy about the change. Tonight Nebraska Journal features a film, The New Bodybuilders, about women who compete in the sport. The film was produced by Billy Strand of ETV's Instructional Television Unit. It focuses on two women who are among the most successful entrants

into the world of female bodybuilding. Parts of the film were shot at the 1981 Central States Competition in Des Moines and at the 1981 Nebraska Competition in Lincoln. And now The New Bodybuilders. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Boone is gonna wash muscles, and a good presentation. In general, the same

criteria are applied to the newcomers to the sport. Women. This is no traditional beauty contest. For the first time, women are being judged for the quality and quantity of their muscles. It's certainly a new idea for most people. I saw it here on TV a couple weeks ago and I was really surprised I'd never known about it until then. If that's what they get their kicks out of, that's great. Don't bother me. It's completely unfaminen. Absolutely. A woman isn't supposed to have muscles that stand out like that. It's great for the sport. It's great for women. They get to use muscles they didn't know they had. I think it's feminine, yes. Whether it's acceptable or not, you know, everybody has a different opinion of that, but I'm attracted to it. It's not attractive to me. I don't know if it would be appealing to men or not, but at least they're in shape.

What does it mean for a woman to be in shape? Is there an ideal female form? For centuries, the ideal female shape changed according to the dictates of nature and fashion. But today, woman herself is becoming the sculptor and there is a new power and strength to her form. A power and strength necessitated by women's changing and expanding role within

society. Charlotte Hiller Anderson is a bodybuilder. I was working at a small figure salon and across the street was a huge gym and the owner of the gym sent over an application for a competitive bodybuilding miss Iowa. The trouble was, though, that I'd only been lifting weights for four months. I'd never even been to a bodybuilding contest. Well, bodybuilding was so new and I was helping other women to lose weight the way I had been doing with weights and so they all encouraged me. They said, well, why don't you try? What have you got to lose? You might even bring back a trophy. And then I found out that there were only ten contestants and there were five places. So I thought I'd gamble and I went up there nervous and scared. And I didn't know what I was getting into, but I come out with a second place

trophy. So after that, I decided to keep competing and keep trying. My husband had the two -sided opinion before and after. Before he was totally against it. Truthfully, I didn't know anything about the sport and I didn't know what she was getting into and I was kind of worried. They'd get up on stage. It was hardly anything on and I thought maybe it was a different kind of show than what it really was. Then we got up there and we were in the contest. We both were surprised. They were yelling for muscles, not the sexual image of the posing suit. They were yelling for the muscles for what you had done for your physique and that even changed my attitude completely about bodybuilding. I know it. It helped my husband. He's watched how my physique has changed. He trains me and there's a togetherness there. When I'm training, the only person I see is my husband who is my trainer. I listen to his voice. I let his mind become

mine. He feels terrible too. He has days when she doesn't feel like lifting. That's when the trainer comes in handy to motivate him, to build him up and yell at him and get her mad at me. No! Crazy! Bodybuilding is not for everybody, but it is for a woman who is able to be determined to get up in the morning when she feels like not working out and drive herself to go into that gym. You learn to control your mind because when it hurts, you must work out to the muscle exhaustion before you really start forming the muscle and getting rid of the body fat.

You work with your diet, making sure that you have a very natural and very balanced type of diet because if you're working out more obviously, you're using more vitamins and minerals. Therefore, you have to supplement them. I am never stopped training for a contest. As a matter of fact, the Saturday I have a contest, Monday I'm right back in the weight room starting all over again. I'm just lifting heavier weight trying to build more mass and if I'm already in proportion and I just drop down my repetition from 20 for contest to 15 to maintain the tone, I'm always training. I don't believe in putting your body under the rigorous stressful training of two weeks before the changing of the diet. I think it's too much stress on your body. I think that's the reason that in only a year of competitive level training I've been able to do as well as I have is because I keep my body that way. I don't change anything. I think if you feel good first, look good second, you're naturally going to have a lot more pride within yourself. I've been able to excel in my sports fast and if all it takes is a few seconds of pain

to do it to me, yes it's worth it. Now that women have begun the pursuit of muscles, how far can they go? How does a woman's potential as a body builder differ from that of a man's? To answer these questions, we must first look at the facts about the physical differences between males and females. Before an immediately following birth, girls seem to be stronger constitutionally. They are less susceptible to diseases than boys. For example, more males are born than females, but there are more females than males alive at age 70. Because girls

go through puberty earlier than boys do, they are generally stronger and larger at ages 9 to 12 years. However, boys take longer to mature and therefore have more time for skeletal growth. The result is that men as a group are taller and larger and stronger than women as a group. The first major difference in size has to do with the percentage of body fat to actual body weight. Untrained males have about 15 % while untrained females have between 20 to 25%. Other differences include, first, endurance. Endurance depends on oxygen flow. Men usually have larger lungs than women and they have more hemoglobin in the blood, permitting a greater flow of oxygen. Second, body sweat. Men are

generally able to sweat more and therefore are more readily adaptable to unfavorable heat and humidity. The major difference in size between the bodies of men and women can be attributed to testosterone. This male hormone, which is prevalent in males but not absent in females, adds to the bulking of muscles. This is one reason why the muscle mass in men is twice that in women. Some studies indicate however that there are no discernible differences between efficiency or quality of muscles between males and females. This is

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like, she's one of the guys or one of the gang. Come back. My neighbors had different opinions. Some of them think it's great. And other ones don't quite understand why I would want to look weight. So you're doing it? They don't think females should have muscles. And of course, everybody has muscles. It's just that they don't show. You know, my daughter understands. She thinks it's great. She's going to grow up and have muscles. She's already left in weights now, little ones. And she's athletic. She just thinks it's the norm around here. No, what should I do, OK? OK. Do this now. Work here. Yeah, all of that. There, all your strong. Let's take a look at your muscle now. This is your

muscles. Oh, that's pretty good. Jodie coaches me. She can really make me work more than I can myself. Come on, try that. Not going to help. Good. I work for overall symmetry and muscle definition. I work with heavy weights and light repetitions. And now that it's closer to competition, I'm doing a lighter weight and more repetition. So the heavy weight builds up muscle size and bulks a mountain and a lighter weight will make him more defined to stand out more. Well, my husband thinks that bodybuilding has been good for me because he's competitive too. He's very competitive. And this will be my first

time ever competing at anything. I'm going to do a little bit of it. I'm going to do a little bit of it. I'm going to do a little bit of it. I'm going to do a little bit of it.

I think every judge has a different idea of what's for the bodybuilder. So they have set guidelines down to follow and go by. What I think it should be is a physique contest, not a beauty contest, because there are a lot of bathing beauties out there. And anybody can come in and a two -piece bikini and inner. I think it should be fair that you should look at the muscle group overall and look and say, hey, she's been working out. You can see this muscle and that muscle. But before, I think a lot of women's competitions have been judged very strictly beauty rather

than a physique. How should a woman's competition be judged? Should femininity of form play a part? Or should it be strictly a show of muscles? Men have been competing so long that their guidelines are well -established. Here, the more muscles and the greater the mass, the better. For most people, a muscular man is by

definition masculine. Can a muscular woman be feminine? There is, unfortunately, a still of you that women with muscles are not feminine because there are women in the sport who have overdone it with the use of steroids drugs or perhaps even those who have lifted weights incorrectly. However, if you look at a man's physique and he's in shape and he's developed his muscles, he looks even more masculine. The same with a woman. The more she lifts, the more in shape she is, the more shapely the better she looks. I've watched my body change and I watch it every day how it becomes more feminine. I have no desire to look like a man. I have no desire to be built like a man and I have no desire to take steroids so I talk like a man. No, I want to be able to enter the bodybuilding

world on a female level. I always want to be considered a feminine female. She really improved her figure with lifts and weights. She made her happy, so I guess in a sense it made me happy too. She gets all the glory and the attention and I'm kind of in the background. We go to the wide for her to work out or meet or work out for there together. Most of the talks about her and they want to find out what she's doing and it's kind of leaves me in the background. That's something you've got to put up with, I guess, because it's normal. I guess everybody want to know about her because she's the one that's accomplishing that things. If things go good, we'll probably be competing for the next couple of years and then we'd like to have a family. Having a child is in my future.

I'm not going to say tomorrow. Maybe three or four years down the road. I will say this. I will not put on very much weight during my pregnancy. I'll work very hard on that. I will have that baby and I will go right back into competing. Whenever you change anything on your body, it becomes a stress. A new diet, a new type of exercise. So I usually start basically about three months before a contest. Up until then I've been trying to build any mass in any muscle that needs to be bigger so that I'm proportioned well. Then I begin doing a lot of repetitions. I use a lighter amount of weight rather than heavy weight. I do a lot more running, a lot more cardiovascular exercises so I can get through those workouts. You're also under the stress of knowing that you're going to be competing perhaps against some friends or some former acquaintances. You've got the stress of

traveling to get there and yet getting rested up. So the next day you can lift all those weights to get pumped up so that the blood rushes to your muscles so that they stick out better. You've got the stress of five judges. It's going to have to decide whether or not you are the winner. For those 90 seconds that I'm up there giving my freestyle posing, someone loves me for what they see or someone hates me for what they see. No past prejudices, no future goals, no directions, nothing else is involved in this. Just what I give them is what they love or hate me for. And you name me any other part of your life that you can do that. You have expectations from your spouse, you have expectations from yourself, you have expectations from your employers, from your businesses, from your children. But for 90 seconds when I'm up there, I'm only like for what they see and what I give them.

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