Women’s World Bodybuilding Championship, Part 1 By stra1742 Six continental champions square off to find the most muscular woman in the world. The six continental champions strode confidently onto the stage, ready for the final posedown to determine the true women’s bodybuilding champion of the world. They took their places in line and snapped to attention, heads held high with dazzling smiles and arms dangling away from their bodies. Their coats of oil amplified even the briefest of movements, so that the stage was filled with six glistening crystals of muscle. On the far left was Aisha, the North American champion out of Washington, D.C. Aisha was a total package, and definitely one of the favorites. She had been able to pack an enormous amount of dense muscle onto her frame, which was cinched together at her 20-inch waist. The muscles that set her apart from all the other competitors, however, were her incredible quads. Two massive teardrops wrapped in a thick sartorius ribbon decorated each of her thighs to a circumference of 28 inches; those teardrops were a symbol of the tears she had shed building them with set after set of squats, lunges, and 1000-pound leg presses that left her crying in satisfied pain. She alternately flexed and relaxed her quads, looking down at them with a pleased smile. Her bright white posing bikini contrasted sharply with her beautiful black skin. Next to Aisha stood Gabriela, the gorgeous South American representative from Chile. Her hair was ebony black, cut short and swept up from her lovely face, which exuded a contagious passion for life, probably because her life was lived with an animalistic physique that was absolutely ripped to shreds. Her body was sliced with cross-striations in every muscle group. But, Gabriela was growing impatient. She knew her best body part was her back, and she was anxious for the command to turn around so she could show it off. She held her arms out a little farther from her prominent lats, just to let the crowd (and the judges) know what she had in store for them, and then touched her hands to her hips and flashed the briefest of lat spreads. Golden muscle emerged from behind her – the muscles were large enough that she could see them out of her peripheral vision just by looking straight down. She licked her lips in anticipation of the back poses that were to come. Gabriela’s blood-red posing suit was matched nicely by the nail polish on her pretty toes. Beside her was the African continental champion, a native of Egypt named Saraya. Saraya was the tallest competitor on the stage, and the body she had manufactured was well deserving of her center stage position. Two things were striking about Saraya. The first was her incredible vascularity. Her entire physique was a textbook study in venous anatomy, as she was covered in a road map of veins from head to toe. She had somehow managed to vascularize her glutes, as the audience was soon to find out during the side profile shots. The second, and probably more noticeable, feature was her amazingly seductive stage presence. What Gabriela had in earnestness, Saraya more than matched in base sexuality. Her forest green posing bikini had two small triangles sitting on her breasts, and a teardrop-shaped piece of fabric over the middle of her pelvis. The thong bottom had no back; it was simply a piece of string that ran around her waist and connected with another string that ran between her buttocks to the teardrop. Early in her bodybuilding career, Saraya had discovered the value (and personal sexual arousal) in icing her nipples before taking the stage, and tonight was no different. Prominent nubs stretched the sheeny green material of the top, rimmed by wet water stains from the melted ice. She was not smiling, but instead picked out several faces amidst the crowd and fixed them with a primal lusty stare that was frightening in its intensity. Surprisingly for her height, Saraya possessed the best calves of all the competitors. Cloaked in a net of vascularity, tonight they stretched the tape measure to 18 inches, and bulged so far from her shins that she was unable to keep her heels together in the semi-relaxed pose. Fourth from the left, Jennifer provided a stark study in contrast to Aisha, Gabriela, and Saraya. It was almost comical to see the Australian titleholder next to the nearly six- foot Saraya, as she proudly rose up to her full 4’10” height. Jennifer had long, straight, shiny red hair, and she loved the “natural” look so much she never tanned, which for a redhead meant a shockingly ivory, yet very attractive body. With her black posing suit, she was Aisha’s optical inverse three physiques over. And while Gabriela was a picture of serene inner peace, Jennifer was a tiny firecracker, with an exuberant smile and a face that revealed her cheerleading background. She exploded into every pose with an enthusiastic nod of her head. In some unthinkable way, she had managed to find a place for 150 pounds of sinewy muscle on only 58 inches of Jennifer. Her arms were simply a distraction from the rest of her world-class physique. Her deltoids had perfect grooves that resembled miniature pumpkins, triceps jutted from behind like fleshy horseshoes, and her biceps were like two heart-shaped softballs with a sliced valley between the heads. Altogether, she had constructed 18-inch guns, and she made sure to give short gratuitous flexes whenever she got the chance. Next to Jennifer was Song, the pretty South Korean whose mind-melting abdominals had breezed her through the Asian championships, which was no small feat considering the size and strength of her Chinese, Japanese, and Malaysian rivals. Song had fashioned a ten-pack to the front of her torso, with cobblestone muscle squares disappearing below her bikini bottom into her loins. While waiting for the instructions to begin, she would twist at the waist, use one hand to raise her sizable breast, and give a little crunch to the side to display her latticework obliques. You could tell she was having fun up on stage, and her bright smile and sunny yellow posing suit completed the package. Song was ecstatic with how her body had grown, especially when she recalled the eternal isometric ab workouts that would leave her moaning and sobbing on the gym floor. You responded, she told herself, and it was all worth it. Finally, stage right, was Danielle. Bouncing excitedly up and down on her tiptoes, she had a look of pure girlish giddiness, which was fitting, since she was only 17 years old. Still a high school student in France, she had managed to come out as the representative from Europe, arguably the most competitive continent for female bodybuilding. Slabs of muscle were stacked everywhere on her body, but everyone knew what had gotten her this far: her grossly overdeveloped chest. Danielle’s immense pectorals stretched the tape to 43 inches, and each attachment to her breastbone was perfectly outlined with a clear jagged cut. Their vascularity was remarkable, too; her chest was riddled with writhing, snake-like veins reminiscent of Paul Dillett. In case they weren’t already the picture of feminine perfection, each muscle sheet was topped by a cute little dollop of breast, just the right size to fill out her bright blue bikini top. With her blond pigtails, deep tan, and French pedicure, she could have been any other teenager heading to the beach for the afternoon, except most teenage girls don’t need the width of two beach towels to accommodate their chest muscles. Much to the delight of the audience, she would make her pecs dance; first the right, then the left, then both together. She would watch her muscles while they bounced, and then flash the audience an “aren’t you impressed?” grin. “Quarter-turn to the right!” came the instruction. The women did so. Aisha wasted no time in trying to find an advantage; she raised a bare foot into the air and squeezed an inch of flexed hamstring from behind her thigh. Song tensed her obliques. Jennifer and Danielle thrust their arms to their sides as hard as they could, emphasizing their respective best features. “Quarter-turn to the right!” The crowd gasped audibly as Gabriela’s back came into view. It was even more shocking than the rumors that had been circulating. Her traps swelled, tongues of muscle that seemed to want to give her earlobes a seductive flick. Her lats shielded her teres muscles from view like an old-fashioned dressing screen, and minor and major peeked out over the top and fought for the most attention. Gabriela arched her shoulders and then slowly spread her wings, eliciting more gasps and awe-filled expressions from the audience. “Number three, feet together please.” Not to be outdone, Saraya was trying her best to comply with the request, but her calves simply would not allow it. “Feet together please,” repeated the voice, and Saraya struck one heel against the other several times to show that placing her feet together was impossible. A professionally dressed woman hurried to the announcer’s booth and whispered in his ear; soon after, the voice said, “I’m sorry, please do the best you can.” Saraya rose slowly up and down on her tiptoes to magnify the objects of the confusion, and her diamond-shaped cows stole a large portion of the crowd’s attention from Gabriela’s quarry. “Quarter-turn to the right!” The scene was much the same as before. Jennifer’s right triceps was repulsive in its immensity; the tiny woman looked as though she would fall backwards, so imbalanced was her mass distribution from front to back. “Face front please!” Once again the women snapped to attention, ready to begin the battle. “Front double biceps!” The ladies had various methods of slowly bringing their arms to a climactic flex, but of course none was more entertaining than Jennifer’s. First, she flexed her right biceps, and immediately the grooved heart-shaped knot jumped to the occasion. She used her left hand to display her arm like a model from “The Price is Right,” and shot the audience a look that clearly said, “Tell me what you think.” The audience responded accordingly. She repeated the process with her left biceps, with the same result. She then blasted into the double biceps pose with her trademark animated grin, and rightfully received twice the applause. “Side chest!” The girls relaxed their arms and turned to their sides, pulled in their elbows and thrust their pecs forward. The sides of Saraya’s calves, with their sliced serrations, were no doubt gorgeous, but in this pose no one could hope to compete with Danielle. And, no one could anticipate the display she was about to put on. She started with the standard pose, 43 inches of power in all their glory that strained her top to the limit. Then, she reached behind her head and slightly loosened the knot that tied up her bikini top, lengthening the strings between her neck and the nipple coverings. She secured the string at that length, and flexed again. Once again, her muscles stretched the string to the breaking point. She loosened the knot, lengthened the strings, resecured it, and maxed out the fabric again. She did this five times, until the knot hung on by the barest of margins! And still, she was able to use her chest to bring the string fully taut. The crowd heartily cheered her efforts, and her five muscle-laden competitors bravely held their own side chest poses (all very impressive in their own right), knowing that they were witnessing something special and wanting to provide the proper muscle background for the scene. This contest was fiercely competitive, to be sure, but the respect and esteem each of the women held for each other was unmatched. “Back double biceps!” The audience sat forward in anticipation. Everyone had seen Gabriela’s sheer canyon before, but not fully flexed. Slowly and sensually, Gabriela extended her arms high above her head, pulled her elbows down as far as they would go, and eased into her back pose. The audience gasped again, louder this time. The judges tried to regain their composure; one of them turned away, visibly shaken by the almost disgusting degree of development the Chilean woman was exhibiting. Heads of muscle had emerged from every corner of the expansive surface, like a field of prairie dogs. Veiny rivers ran between the hard, distinct mounds of flesh. The other women were trying their best to keep up. Aisha had once again drawn attention to her luscious, chocolate hamstring muscles, holding her back pose while standing on one foot. A hurricane could have blown through the auditorium and she would not have wavered, her balance was so impeccable. Song had taken to performing an upright row motion, and had worked up a healthy pump by the time the announcer gave the command to relax. Saraya could still rely on her enormous calves, and the toe raises she was now engaging in did not disappoint. “Side triceps!” The ladies gracefully turned to their sides and extended their elbows. Jennifer was once again the easy winner in this pose, but at this level, all of the women possessed absolutely magnificent arms. Danielle displayed some of the best definition of all the women, the venomous fang of the lateral head of her triceps almost reaching her elbow. Saraya had developed lovely striations in her triceps, and she rotated her shoulder forward so as to give the judges the best possible look at them. “Could I have number one and number five move to the center of the stage, please?” came the voice. The crowd cheered; they knew that the judges wanted a head- to-head clash between Aisha’s quads and Song’s abs. “Abdominals and thighs!” The outer four girls placed their hands behind their heads and planted their heels on the floor, toes in the air. They crunched into their pose and looked at Song and Aisha, like a picture frame waiting to be filled. Song smiled and began her routine. She flexed her left obliques, and immediately a confused mass of muscle appeared that resembled a cross stitch project gone awry. When she felt she had reached sufficient shock value from that side, she turned to the other side to flex her right obliques, which were just as beautiful. She placed her left hand behind her head and flexed her right arm in front of her for maximum effect. She then faced forward, and tensed her incredibly defined quads (when you want to feature your abs, you had better dry yourself up as much as possible, and the rest of Song’s body benefited from her dehydrated state). She put her left hand behind her head and held up her breasts with her right forearm. She put her heel to the floor and slowly crunched forward. Her abs came into view, block by block, brick by brick. It was amazing how cute she managed to look throughout this gladiatorial display, and the cutest thing about her was that, while she held the pose, she wiggled her upturned toes. The audience broke into thunderous applause. But Aisha was determined to outshine her Korean competitor. She gave Song an appreciative clap of the hands, and then settled into her own routine. She put the toes of her right foot on the floor and began to shake her right quads. She waved her hand over the muscles while they quaked back and forth across her femur, smiling at her development and at the crowd’s appreciative “Oooh!” She changed to the left side, and began to shake again. Every so often, she would stop and lock her knee, and watch the striations appear, crisscrossing her quads like a garden trellis. She flexed her abs – each row of Aisha’s granite 8-pack overlapping the one below it, like roof shingles. Then, she chose her left thigh (because it was closer to Song) to complete the pose, and rotated it slowly back and forth at the hip. Her coating of oil gave the movement a disco-ball effect. A roar went up from the audience. Hopefully, the judges had an idea of who won that pose, because if the audience had to choose, they would be mystified. “Please relax” said the voice, and the ladies resumed their semi-relaxed stance. Each one began the small subtle flexing they had engaged in before, anticipating the next two minutes that would decide the winner. They breathed heavily, the rise and fall of their ribcages accentuated by the glistening oil. Their arms dangled away from their torsos, ready for battle. They tried to grip the stage floor with their toes; they held their pretty smiles bravely. It was time. “Music please….OK ladies, pose down!” TO BE CONTINUED