Month: August 2010

Mascha Tieken

Mascha Tieken in an incredibly beautiful figure competitor who also works as an IFBB judge, coaches numerous fitness athletes, owns a gym, and writes for Oxygen Magazine. All this in addition to doing a bit of fitness modeling. This lady stays busy! Mascha lives in the Netherlands. She stands 5’5″ tall and weighs about 130 lbs.

I really can’t find a single weak point anywhere on Mascha. A competition is much like a Nascar race, the fastest car doesn’t always win. It takes a confluence of things coming together so that the tan, the diet, the presentation, etc all result in a win. So whether she is winning competitions is independent of me saying – this girl has an amazing body.

She is best known for her balance of muscularity and femininity. more Mascha Tieken

Stephanie Collins

Stephanie Collins was a pretty big deal a few years ago. She placed well in several shows, but then seems to have dropped off the radar. She is 5’8″ tall and weighs about 145 lbs. She started in sports with the rest of her family at a very early age. This included swimming, cheerleading, basketball, and baseball. She earned a degree in exercise physiology in the late 1990’s.

Stephanie is known for training extremely hard. It shows in her super-hard physique. Her abs, hips, and upper thighs show some extreme dedication.
Stephanie Collins

Christine Pomponio-Pate Part 2

It’s been a few years since we talked about Christine Pomponio-Pate but she certainly hasn’t slowed down. She had her first child in 2007, and she was on the cover of Muscle & Fitness Hers in August of 2009. Christine was a soccer player for 10 years, but interestingly enough, it’s her upper body that has no equal in the competitive arena.

Maybe everybody has already heard about the horrible car accident she went through years ago. She survived a tremendous amount of damage to her face, and to look at how beautiful she is now it’s hard to believe any of that ever happened.

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Rachel Gichert

Rachel Gichert may or may not have some French ancestry – the “Gichert” last name has me wondering. Either way, she has some HOT ancestors, cause she is sure smoking. She is a curvy 5’4″ tall: 34D-25-35 and 120 lbs. Her blue eyes are known to sparkle when she’s on stage for NPC Figure Competitions. Rachel lives in Texas but travels a bit for both photo shoots and competitions. I know Rachel has shot with Dan Ray, a very talented photographer well-regarded in the fitness modeling world.

Rachel has been very successful in the last few years in the Figure Contests she has entered. Her competition history is below.

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Meaghan Faragasso

Although she grew up in Virginia, Meaghan Faragasso now lives in San Diego. She is 29 years old, fairly tall at 5’8″, and measures 34D-22-34. Her green eyes look great whether she has her hair blonde or with a tinge of red as I’ve sometimes seen her. This girl is a professional fitness model – by that I mean she does it for a living, she gets paid for it, and she seems to stay might busy. She has a very versatile look. Her height, beautiful face and hair, and fit body allow her to pose for any number of genres. When she is in ripped and in contest shape, she looks as you might expect – hard and ready to win some trophies.

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Angela Ells-Smith

Angela Ells-Smith was born and raised in Wisconsin. Like many of the ladies featured here, she was very active growing up, and professes to have always loved cheerleading, basketball, and track and field. When Angela went to college, she started playing raquetball to stay fit, and it wasn’t long before she found herself in the gym lifting weights. Soon thereafter (the early 1990’s), she moved to Minneapolis and began competing. I think she is currently living in Oklahoma with her husband and doing personal training as well as teaching group fitness classes. Very long, lean legs. Muscular without a lot of bulk.

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Laura London

Laura London is a tribute to fit moms everywhere. She is a 43 year old mother of three. She says she gained a good bit of weight with her children, and was unhappy with her body. She started the Fit For Life program and had great success until she injured her back. At that point, she stopped exercising and gained quite a bit of weight back. Finally, she had had enough, and she made drastic changes in her lifestyle, her diet, and her fitness routine. At this point, she is a terribly successful fitness competitor.

2010 NPC Diamond Classic (1st place Masters Figure)
2010 NPC CJ Classic (1st place Masters Figure)
2009 NPC Gold Cup Classic (3rd Place)
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FBB Fitness Model – Lynn

Lynn is an athlete with years of experience in fitness modeling. She has a glamorous poise that seems to fit her physique perfectly. As you’ll read in the interview below, she has suffered a number of injuries playing competitive sports. With flawless skin, glacier white teeth, and eyes that seem to tell a million stories, we think her talent will continue to push her up the ranks of fitness models out there.


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Hi Lynn. Tell us about yourself, give us a little background.

Well, I’m 25 years old. I’m about 5’6″ tall and weigh about 110 lbs on a good day. I’m pretty curvy, I go 34D-24-35. I grew up in New York, but I moved around a lot.

Any siblings?

I have 2 brothers, and we’re all pretty close.

Were you athletic growing up? How did you get into fitness modeling?

Oh yeah. I’ve always been super-active and athletic. You name it – gymnastics, cheerleading, softball, volleyball, golf, ultimate frisbee, even surfing.

You mentioned injuries, and I see a few souvenir scars. What’s the scoop?

I was a competitive gymnast. Gymnastics is pretty hard on your body, it and cheerleading have a pretty high rate of injuries. I broke my elbow and ended up having surgery. At 5’6″, almost 5’7″, I was close to being too tall for the sport, so I never went back. I’m not one to sit around though – I loved to dance so I ended up on some dance teams and doing cheerleading. I went to college on a cheerleading scholarship, but my streak of good luck continued and I blew out my knee.

Wow, you are a surgeon’s dream. Somebody retired off you. Do the injuries still bother you?

Some days. I try not to let stuff slow me down. I’m really into P90X these days. I workout 6 days per week for 60-90 minutes per session. I bet I can do more pullups than you! lol

Uh, hey it’s not nice to pick on the interviewer. Who do you look up to?

I look up to any model or actress who was a nobody and became a somebody because of their talent instead of because of who they know. One of my favorites isn’t a fitness model, it’s Ellen Degeneres. She loves to help people and make them laugh. Laughter is the most important thing on my to-do list every day!

I saw you rocking out with your Ipod. What type of music do you listen to?

My top 3 favorites when I’m working out are:
Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
Taylor Swift and Boys Like Girls – Two Is Better Than One
Train – Hey Soul sister

Lisa Bickels Part 3

Let’s revisit Lisa Bickels. She keeps coming up because she is a blue-eyed blonde bodybuilder who remains quite popular.
Lisa Bickels 2
Lisa Bickels 1
The last info I saw on Lisa suggested she was studying for a BS in nursing, was working as a licensed sports nutritionist and certified personal trainer, and bartending at a club in Las Vegas Nevada. Try mixing all that in with training, and you have one seriously busy life.

Lisa’s first competition was in 2002, but before that she participated in a wide variety of activites. Softball, volleyball, basketball, and even a sprinter in track and field.
Lisa Bickels Pictures

Casey Brocato

Casey Brocato is a smoldering hot brunette figure competitor from Bossier City, Louisiana. I haven’t found very much biographical info on Casey, but her 2010 and 2009 contest record is below. Casey has a very pretty face, perfect hair, and a mature, well-muscled physique with great proportions and depth. She loves posing, whether it’s on the stage for judges and fans or for the camera.
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