Dina Al-Sabah Part 2

We probably didn’t do Dina Al-Sabah justice when we devoted but a few sentences to her 3 years ago. Dina was born in 1974 in Lebanon and is fluent in four different languages. This is a byproduct of having lived in Italy, Egypt, and Morocco. She played varsity basketball and volleyball in high school, and was also captain of the track and field team. She started dabbling in weightlifting in college, and realized she had a competitive future.

Dina is unique in many ways – including the fact that she is the first Arab IFBB Figure Pro ever. She did well in both figure and fitness, but because there is so little money to be made in those sports, she turned to fitness modeling. Her exotic looks make her very popular, and she manages to balance femininity and muscularity well. Dina video

Lyzabeth Lopez

Lyzabeth Lopez is definitely one of the more popular and recognizable fitness babes out there. She has a finger in every pie. She is a certified personal trainer, aerobics instructor, teaches gymnastics, professional cheerleader, dancer, and fitness model. She is and excellent resource on nutrition and contest prep. She is a brand unto herself! Her youtube videos are pretty popular, and if I can remember I’ll embed one below.

Lyzabeth is 5’5″ tall and 123 lbs. I think she currently lives in Canada. She is Venezuelan and Israeli, so quite an exotic mixture. Lyzabeth is more sexy fully clothed than most girls are naked! Her measurements are 32D-24-37.
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Wendy Fortino

Wendy Fortino is one of those fitness babes destined for greatness. She was a former track and field star headed for the Olympics until she suffered an injury. Actually, she was formerly a lot of things, including a gymnast and a dancer. When she began lifting weights in the gym to recover from her injury, it wasn’t long before the competitive fitness bug bit her.

Wendy stands 5’1″ tall and weighs about 115 lbs. As expected from a former dancer and runner, she has great leg development but her quality upper body speaks volumes about her training, her genetics, and her abilities. She has a bachelor’s degree in physical education and a master’s in kinesiology.

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Michelle Watson

Michelle Watson is a 20-something year old who majored in kinesiology at San Jose State University. By transforming her diet from pizza and beer to chicken and broccoli, Michelle was able to lose some of the weight she had gained in college. She also found a trainer to guide her through the exercise and the nutritional aspects of fitness and figure competitions.

Success stories abound with women who change their lives through regular workouts and disciplined nutritional programs.

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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.

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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.
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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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