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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: willie mosconi on September 21, 2007, 06:13:39 PM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/sports/othersports/21builder.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=af7400b11830b3d3&ex=1190520000&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1190423097-VBZLRcUCaLRBXdHLVwVKAg
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Yeah, about as clean as a $10 hooker's cooter.... ::)
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for those that can't read the article (NY Times is free, but I think you might have to be a member to see the article)
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/09/21/sports/portrait650.jpg)
September 21, 2007
At 51, Establishing a New Body of Work
By MICHAEL WEINREB
ATLANTIC CITY — Eva Birath strolled along the boardwalk, past shops and stands selling pungent varieties of junk food that she would never allow herself to eat. Birath is a 5-foot-11 Swedish woman with blond hair, blue eyes and chiseled muscles. Birath, wearing a spandex tank top and sweat pants, has become accustomed to standing out in a crowd.
“What do you bench press?” a man sitting nearby asked. It was nothing, Birath said, that she had not heard before. In Sweden, she often hears much worse. The man asked again; Birath continued to ignore him.
Blunt questions and curious looks are the price Birath pays for making such a striking career change. Four and a half years ago, at 47, she was a harried marketing executive who had been through two divorces. She made 45,000 krona (about $6,700) a month, often flew to Stockholm on business trips, chatted constantly on her cellphone and lived with her two children in a large house in Goteborg. It was, she says, a very normal high-pressure corporate existence.
And then, in December 2002, she was laid off.
Birath sold her house and moved into an apartment. She sold her car. She had no idea what to do next. She began going to a nearby gym, where one of the regulars told her she had a good physique for bodybuilding. She found out about a tournament to be held the following December and she signed up, despite knowing virtually nothing about the sport — how to diet, how to train, how to pose.
“It was very unusual for someone to begin bodybuilding at my age, but I thought my age was one bit of the challenge,” said Birath, who is now 51. “I think all people have preconceptions, like that bodybuilders are all stupid. I think I probably thought bodybuilders were a bit stupid, too.”
At that first tournament, Birath faced one other competitor in the heavyweight division and finished first. It was, she says now, a bit of a fluke, but it was enough to persuade her to commit to her training as an amateur bodybuilder.
She finished fourth last year at the Swedish national championships, and despite the fact that she is 10 or more years older than most of her competitors, she is one of the favorites to win this year’s event, Oct. 13-14 in Vasteras. As she accompanied her friend and training partner Irene Andersen to a professional tournament here in mid-September (the trips were paid for by a sponsor), she was already cutting down on her carbohydrates to prepare for the Swedish nationals.
“I’m looking forward to seeing how Eva will look next year,” said Andersen, 41. “Another year, and she will be even better.”
It is not unheard of for women older than 50 to succeed as bodybuilders, whether as amateurs like Birath, or on rare occasions as professionals. But it is still very uncommon, according to Magnus Branzen, who works for BODY, a Swedish fitness magazine. And most who do succeed have been training for decades.
“Indeed, there aren’t many female competitors her age in Sweden, even historically,” Branzen wrote in an e-mail message. “Especially since she started competing late in life.”
Birath said she took to the sport’s grueling regimen almost immediately; she attributes some of her success to genetics. She began adhering to a strict diet — porridge for breakfast; chicken or fish, rice and vegetables for lunch and dinner; and no butter, milk, or animal fats — in early 2003.
She allows herself to “cheat” on certain Saturday afternoons with a cheese sandwich or an occasional piece of licorice.
In the process, Birath changed her lifestyle, letting go of many of her possessions and embracing a love of painting she had cultivated since attending art school as a young woman.
She says she makes enough money selling her paintings to get by from day to day, and that her daughter, Victoria, 27, and son, Andreas, 20, have been supportive. Her son is eager to train with her, but Birath says he often strains himself trying to lift the same weights as his mother.
Birath has also discovered that not everyone is accepting of her new self. There are still certain perceptions about bodybuilders, Birath says, that are not always easy to combat, especially in Sweden, where “people get uncomfortable with it.”
One of her former co-workers, upon seeing photographs of her, told Birath that two questions ran through his mind: “Is she on steroids?” and “Is she a lesbian?”
“The hardest part is people’s attitudes,” she says. “You know how you have those circle of people who are your friends? Suddenly, I wasn’t invited to those parties anymore. I think they thought I was strange, but I don’t care.”
Birath insists she has never used steroids or performance-enhancing drugs; she says she has been tested at all her events, and that steroid use is much more prevalent on the professional level.
Birath says she has no plans to turn professional, in part because of the expense of training, and in part because of her late start.
At some level, she says she is not concerned about how she may be judged at competitions; she is doing this for her well-being.
“My life now is so much better,” she said. “I’ve stopped searching for a job because I realize I don’t want it. I do what I love now: I paint and I train.”
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Better vascularity than cutler!
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looks alright - I guess when women get that old it's not about looking good but maintaining their dignity and staying alive
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"She says she makes enough money selling her paintings to get by from day to day, and that her daughter, Victoria, 27, and son, Andreas, 20, have been supportive. Her son is eager to train with her, but Birath says he often strains himself trying to lift the same weights as his mother."
Brutally embarrassing
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Better vascularity than cutler!
It's not even close.
She wins by a mile.
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GH is amazing stuff
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"She says she makes enough money selling her paintings to get by from day to day, and that her daughter, Victoria, 27, and son, Andreas, 20, have been supportive. Her son is eager to train with her, but Birath says he often strains himself trying to lift the same weights as his mother."
Brutally embarrassing
So she has two daughters...... :-\
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Thats guy's juiced to the gills :-\
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"She says she makes enough money selling her paintings to get by from day to day, and that her daughter, Victoria, 27, and son, Andreas, 20, have been supportive. Her son is eager to train with her, but Birath says he often strains himself trying to lift the same weights as his mother."
Brutally embarrassing
hhahahah, 'hey mom, can you open this jar for me?'
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ill bet shes hornier than a sonofabitch
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Brutal home depot parking lot landscaper hands :-X
And after the drop off, not upon pick up
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Monster GH enlarged belly button:
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/09/21/sports/portrait650.jpg)
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Thats guy's juiced to the gills :-\
;D
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this is a 100%natural
....if the body belonged to a man
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this is a 100%natural
....if the body belonged to a man
dude needs a serious haircut
fuggin hippie
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Must jerk off right handed- his symmetry is so off even in the delt
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Birath insists she has never used steroids or performance-enhancing drugs; she says she has been tested at all her events, and that steroid use is much more prevalent on the professional level.
Yeah well, there are no drug tests at the Swedish BB Nationals so it's bullshit.
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There should be a new female drug testing policy: if your cock is bigger than 3" then you automatically fail
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Birath says she has no plans to turn professional, in part because of the expense of training, and in part because of her late start.
wtf? Expense of training ??? Somebody fix that for her and replace "training" with "drugs."
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There should be a new female drug testing policy: if your cock is bigger than 3" then you automatically fail
Are you saying she has to buy severly mis-matched posing suits every show? ??? I wouldn't be suprised if there weas an over abunance of med-large tops and small-medium bottoms in most out fitters overstock..
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i think i met her at the north americ aand she said she wa snatural hearing that i snappe dmy head around to see who sia dit i almost blurted out yea right
only way she is "natural" is if she has a nutsack
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i think i met her at the north americ aand she said she wa snatural hearing that i snappe dmy head around to see who sia dit i almost blurted out yea right
only way she is "natural" is if she has a nutsack
What a piece of shit, that lady is.... >:(
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Why is it so hard to believe that she is natural? Obviously, she has incredible work ethics.
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Why is it so hard to believe that she is natural? Obviously, she has incredible work ethics.
This is not a faith issue. She is not natural.
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i think i met her at the north americ aand she said she wa snatural hearing that i snappe dmy head around to see who sia dit i almost blurted out yea right
only way she is "natural" is if she has a nutsack
even if she were a dude, I'd question whether she/he is natural
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even if she were a dude, I'd question whether she/he is natural
Maybe she is a fan of the Gyrotonic Expansion System, in which the body is stretched and manipulated to achieve perfect muscle definition.
Just look at Madonna's muscular physique.
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Natural or not, who want a girl with arms like that?
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my grand ma's arms bigger
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looks alright - I guess when women get that old it's not about looking good but maintaining their dignity and staying alive
oh god you just won the Viking price for the dumbest post of this month
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Shes clean as an old mans asshole.
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Shes clean as an old mans asshole.
Nice, thanks for sharing ;)
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Shes clean as an old mans asshole.
speaking from experience? :)
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speaking from experience? :)
Wooo relating to the guy's asshole LOL
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Wooo relating to the guy's asshole LOL
my asshole is my best friend
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speaking from experience? :)
actually yes.
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actually yes.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/sports/othersports/21builder.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=af7400b11830b3d3&ex=1190520000&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1190423097-VBZLRcUCaLRBXdHLVwVKAg
That dude's got gyno!! :-X
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lol you got me there lol
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all drugs
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Natural or not, who want a girl with arms like that?
Are you saying there's a good chance that 'chick' routinely pisses against a wall, standing up Mars? Hahahaha manlier than the Mr Olympia posedown
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Looks good, but certainly not natural. Little bit of clen/anavar/gh probably.
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/09/20/sports/eva.1.jpg)
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/09/20/sports/eva.3.jpg)
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Would you hit it?
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Manlier than the final half hour of The Royal Rumble :-X
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Smegal?
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NO WOMAN IS CLEAN !!!!!!!!