nikhi19
03-12-2012, 11:10 PM
Soooooo......
It looks like there's yet ANOTHER category in the wonderful physique competition world and it's called "Women's Physique". Here's a description I found online:
The main reason why the women's physique category was created was to allow less muscular women who wanted to compete in bodybuilding but didn't want to have to gain the excessive muscle size, density, and striated muscularity to be competitive in this division. In reality how many women could ever build the kind of muscle as the incredible current Ms Olympia Iris Kyle? With the trend in Figure competitions switching towards a curvier less muscular look, there is a gap created for women athletes who possess nice shape, balance and moderate conditioning. That is why women's Classic physique was added.
I'm sorry, but what exactly does that mean? If someone wants to be curvier than figure, they do Bikini. So now figure is just another bikini division but with mandatory side/back/front poses? Figure was supposed to be the gap between fitness and bodybuilding for women who wanted to be muscular but not too striated like a bodybuilder. But now they have to make a whole other category for women who want to be more muscular than figure, but not as huge as bodybuilders? Is it safe to say that physique is figure but with muscular poses? If that's the case, then i can get behind that because I've always thought it would be cool to do the poses but I didn't want to do bodybuilding.
I dunno. I think they're trying to cater to everyone. First bikini was added, now physique. The fitness category is pretty much gone (I haven't seen a fitness competitor in any recent NPC show). I know it all equals money to the promoters but I have mixed feelings about adding new divisions that are so close to the originals that it seems silly to divide it up at all.
Rant over.
It looks like there's yet ANOTHER category in the wonderful physique competition world and it's called "Women's Physique". Here's a description I found online:
The main reason why the women's physique category was created was to allow less muscular women who wanted to compete in bodybuilding but didn't want to have to gain the excessive muscle size, density, and striated muscularity to be competitive in this division. In reality how many women could ever build the kind of muscle as the incredible current Ms Olympia Iris Kyle? With the trend in Figure competitions switching towards a curvier less muscular look, there is a gap created for women athletes who possess nice shape, balance and moderate conditioning. That is why women's Classic physique was added.
I'm sorry, but what exactly does that mean? If someone wants to be curvier than figure, they do Bikini. So now figure is just another bikini division but with mandatory side/back/front poses? Figure was supposed to be the gap between fitness and bodybuilding for women who wanted to be muscular but not too striated like a bodybuilder. But now they have to make a whole other category for women who want to be more muscular than figure, but not as huge as bodybuilders? Is it safe to say that physique is figure but with muscular poses? If that's the case, then i can get behind that because I've always thought it would be cool to do the poses but I didn't want to do bodybuilding.
I dunno. I think they're trying to cater to everyone. First bikini was added, now physique. The fitness category is pretty much gone (I haven't seen a fitness competitor in any recent NPC show). I know it all equals money to the promoters but I have mixed feelings about adding new divisions that are so close to the originals that it seems silly to divide it up at all.
Rant over.