FEMFLEX Mindi O'Brien
High Flexocity
Abstract
Actual SCREEN TIME: 73 minutes
$/MINUTE: $.48/minute
PRODUCED in: 2004
GENRE: Femuscle Posing/Workout Video
FORMATS available: DVD only
COST: $35
CAST:
Mindi O'Brien, Canadian IFBB Pro Fitness Champion, possesses blonde
supermodel good looks along with perhaps the most muscle ever seen on a
winning fitness competitor. Ms. O'Brien's long lean lines are etched with
hard, ripped, sweetly-cut muscles. This 5' 5", 130 lbs. hardbody began
training with weights at the age of 10! A former national-level gymnast and
track athlete, Ms. O'Brien sports 13" biceps and has barbell curled 100
lbs. Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Mindi began competing in fitness
in 1999, reaching the pinnacle of the sport with a win at the 2004 Canadian
Fitness Championship. She definitely looks like a champ in "High
Flexocity"!
COSTUME DESIGN
Musclicious Mindi dons an assortment of muscle-revealing outfits including
sports bras, bikinis, overalls, and lots of short-short shorts. Her attire
is intended to give maximum muscle exposure without venturing into anything
TOO revealing.
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FEMFLEX's "High Flexocity"
"High Flexocity" opens in studio with Mindi wearing a yellow-grey-black
striped sports bra and clingy black stretch pants. No time is wasted. She
starts flexing from the very beginning to a jazzy instrumental tune...and
she pretty much never stops until the final fade-to-black. Make no mistake,
"High Flexocity" is for those who admire upper body muscle, especially
biceps. Mindi shows off her suprisingly thick, striated, unenhanced chest,
a muscular V-tapered back, and of course, her gorgeous guns. She hits 13
separate front biceps poses (with repeat, pumping flexes in many), not to
mention multiple back biceps, triceps, side chest, and pec shots--nary a
leg shot in this segment. And Mindi looks like she really enjoys showing
those muscles off, always a key to a good performance. A reluctant flexer
can kill the mood. Mr. FEMFLEX, Tre' Scott, captures all the action with
multiple angles and mostly close-up and super-close-up viewing.
The initial scene dissolves into yet another studio segment with Mindi
clad in a pink sports bra and the same clingy black stretch pants. Again,
focusing on the upper body, the bicepuous blonde bombshell confidently,
seductively poses to rather avant garde synth music, giving the viewer an
in-depth look at her serious muscularity. Mindi's biceps are incredible for
a fitness competitor. Some might argue Debbie Kruck has a bit more mass.
Some might say Lindsay Mulinazzi, in her fitness period, had much bigger
biceps--but Lindsay's always really been an FBB, in my opinion. No, Mindi's
symbols of strength are sizeable, magnificently shaped, and well-defined
with superb peaks. Her triceps round impressively below the bulging flexed
biceps creating an alluring vision of strength. Her forearms look hard as
rock. Yes, Mindi has the best arms in fitness history. So far...
With a display of editing skill, Mindi seamlessly fades into a white
bikini top and those ever-present black stretch pants to pose in studio to
the same tunes. Continuing the theme, she shows of her magnificent upper
body development in a variety of hardcore bodybuilding poses. No open hand
biceps flexing or Playboy artsy-fartsy dance routines here. Mindi continues
to show us the fruits of her labor in tight to very-tight close ups as the
music shifts to French soft rock. The Canuck Cutie's superior biceps peak
is lusciously examined in beautiful back biceps shots. You can see the
pride in her eyes as she looks at her muscles. Mmmm.
Next, Mindi fades into a camoflauge tank top with her favorite black
stretchy pants. Her biceps are the focus of this brief segment as well, but
in between Ms. O'Brien shows off her armor plated pecs to more French soft
rock in a rousing display of hard femininity.
Before long, the bicepuous blonde fades into blue jean overalls with
a pink sports bra underneath. A muscle flexin' hoedown ensues and by the
looks of her muscles, Mindi wouldn't have any problem with the heavy
lifting down on the farm. The Pro Fitness Champion goes on flexing her
hard, round delts, wide back, and awesome arms with an ever present smile.
However, even this hardcore biceps lover began to get a bit bored with the
same poses over and over again. Desensitized is the word. Time to mix it
up.
FEMFLEX answers the call. After a little more than 15 minutes of non-
stop flexing, "High Flexocity" fades to black and returns with Mindi in the
gym wearing a sexy black bikini top and tight black shorts. The luscious
valkyrie of the North puts those muscles through their paces, accompanied
by a bouncy R & B tune, with lat pulldowns shot from both back and front,
including a never-before-seen one-armed pulldown that really emphasizes
Mindi's serious delts and biceps' fullness and peak. Next, Mindi performs
triceps pushdowns, Roman Chair situps, hamstring curls, bench presses,
behind-the-neck presses, and machine chest presses in a nicely edited
montage that slides subtly from exercise to exercise. The viewer is treated
to a comprehensive look at musculicious Mindi's entire physique. Bravo.
However, "High Flexocity" is committed to documenting the best fitness
biceps of all time and soon moves to an in-depth examination of Ms. O'Brien
working her symbols of strength. She warms up with 20-pound barbell curls,
before fading into a set of alternating dumbbell curls with what looks to
be about 40 pound weights in each hand. Her arms begin to swell, her veins
etching engorged patterns as the camera zooms in on her bodaciously-bulging
biceps. At the end of her sets Mindi hits a variety of front and back
biceps poses highlighting her perfectly pumped up biceps. Um-mmmm.
Next, believe it or not, Mr. FEMFLEX focuses on Mindi doing a set of
surpirsingly muscular leg extensions for almost a minute before she does
yet another set of triceps pushdowns, then poses the muscular
undercarriages of her fabulous biceps. But before long Mindi fades into yet
another set of 30-pound EZ curls clad in a very,very tight white half T-
shirt to a funky hip-hop tune. The cold temperature of the gym is
evidenenced by the sharp "points" of her pecs. Here you see the Canuckian
Cutie's arms at their best, though it's difficult to pull your eyes from
her pert, naturally thick chest. Long lean arms explode with hard, rounded,
peaked biceps, thick rope-like veins pushed to the surface of her creamy
white skin by the bulging muscles beneath. She shows off those pumped up
biceps with front and back biceps shots then resumes her workout with 20-
pound dumbbell curls. Super close-ups capture the essence of Mindi's
strength as she works her biceps. YAHOOOO! Of course, she flexes those
pumped arms to display her hard work in some of the best shots of the
entire DVD as she wraps up the gym portion of "High Flexocity".
In a semi-bludgeoning edit, Mindi fades from the gym to the beach.
She's wearing a pink bikini top with very short jean shorts that display
her marvelous physique in all it's glory. The softly cresting waves of the
Pacific Ocean provide a nice backdrop for Mindi's sensual display of her
extraordinarily muscular fitness physique. On the beach, the blonde
beachbabe gives her audience a sexy taste of how her impressive muscles set
her apart from other "ordinary" yet attractive bikini-skinnigals that might
lounge on the sands of West Coast shorelines. The Canadian StrongGal hits
pose after pose, giving her audience a spectacular view of her muscular
development, focusing on her awsome upper body. If you enjoy Charles Atlas
fantasies, where a women flexes before kicking sand in the face of "lesser"
women or men, this definitely is your cup of tea.
Again, a fade-edit introduces a blue, bikini-clad Mindi as she
continues to pose on the beach to a terrific and funny distaff-pop song,
"Ugly Girl". A metal tower is her "prop" in this segment and she hits shot
after shot emphasizing the full muscle bellies of her arms, as well all the
long, strong muscles of her thin, yet curvy physique. I'm not sure I'm on
board with this prop. Though the crossbars offer great grips to flex her
muscles, they hide as much as they reveal. And again, I began to be bored
with flex after flex for the 10 full minutes of this segment. But I'm being
very picky. There are tons of great muscle shots here.
So subtly that you almost don't notice, Mindi fades into a black,
studded bikini as she continues to flex by the tower. The content is very
similar to the preceding, so the viewer can't help but start to think the
producer is struggling to fill out the video. During this segment, she
fades even more subtly into a black-studless bikini. Don't get me wrong,
there are lots of nice close-ups and super close-ups of Mindi's
beautifimous biceps. But it's definitely more of the same, though what it
repeats is high quality, especially the hands-in-the-hair-bis.
As musclicious Mindi hits a final back biceps shot, she blends into
further beach posing wearing a tight white half T-shirt and white shorts. I
must confess, watching this segment I was involuntarily transported into
yet another beach musclebabe fantasy. Mindi flexes the "right" muscles, all
the while looking so proud of the incredible physique she's built with
decades of hard, disciplined labor. Her undeniable supermodel good looks
paired with a long, lean physique that explodes with muscle when she
flexes...well, let's just say slo-mo is mandatory.
At almost exactly the one hour mark of this DVD, the "High Flexocity"
interview commences. In a non-ground-breaking effort, Mindi is queried
about how she got into fitness, her contest history, favorite diet and post-
contest foods, how folks react to her physique, and how she's fared in Mr.
FEMFLEX's own FVF Canuckian competitions, as she sits on a hotel room bed--
the preferred schmoe studio. My god, this is a beautiful woman. But in
addition, she's bright, motivated, intelligent, and fun. The viewer can not
help but believe, as he watches Mindi, that there is a Darwinian mandate
for Ms. O'Brien to bear his children.
As the interview closes with FEMFLEX graphic information on screen,
the viewer ready to hit the Stop/Eject button, the generous Mr. Scott gives
the consumer a bonus: five minutes of real audio outakes. The majority of
these cutting room floor bits involve Tre' trying to coax a semi-reluctant
Mindi into schmoe-friendly muscle talk. Definitely a nice bonus.
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FINAL EVALUATION
FEMFLEX's "High Flexocity" is a terrific DVD. The model is first-rate
for my idiosyncratic desires--blonde, model-like, but very muscular. In
terms of Muscle Flexes/Minute, it's a great value. Flexing her gorgeous
guns hundreds of times, Mindi's strengths, perhaps the most muscular upper
body of any fitness gal in history, are captured well with almost exclusive
close-up and super-close-up shots. In fact, the vast majority this DVD
features close-ups for in-depth, exciting examinations of Mindi's alluring
attributes. This is for Biceps Lovers Only. If you're looking for lower
body worship, or super beefy FBBs, you need to look elsewhere. But Biceps
Men will love Ms. O'Brien and want more, more, more. The variety of
eclectic music, not the same boring techno-junk over and over for a hour,
significantly enhances the viewing experience.
However, "High Flexocity" is not perfect. Though I always wished WPW,
the gold standard of schmoe videos, would utilize more close-ups of bi-
flexing, I found I became a bit bored with non-stop upper body posing. More
lower body shots, more organized interview muscle talk, muscle measuring,
verbal strength stats, and perhaps a Ray Martinesque muscle oiling segment
could provide more variety and reduce boredom.
These are very picky criticisms. FEMFLEX'S "High Flexocity" is a MUST
BUY for fans of the lady with the long lines and beautiful face of a
supermodel...and suprisingly big, hard, strong muscles.
|FINAL EVALUATION |RATIONALE |Rating...1-10 |
|CASTING |Mindi has the face and|8.5 |
| |lines of a movie star | |
| |with magnificent | |
| |muscles. | |
|CINEMATOGRAPHY |The majority of this |7.5 |
| |offering provides | |
| |close-up and | |
| |super-close-up views | |
| |of Mindi's magnificant| |
| |muscles. Upper body | |
| |focus gets a little | |
| |repetitive. | |
|PRODUCTION VALUES |Editing is first rate.|8 |
| |Paced well. But upper | |
| |body focus is very | |
| |repetitive | |
|PERFORMANCE |Mindi looks gorgeous |8.5 |
| |and seems to enjoy | |
| |showing off her | |
| |incredible physique. | |
|VALUE |Minutes/Cost x |3.89 |
| |Evaluation Factors | |
| |(Avg. of top 4 | |
| |Ratings) | |
|OVERALL |TO SUM |8.5 |
| |UP...Terrific!!! | |