Forget Julianna or DLB...

[Rocky3]

This is the real undisputed WPD champ of all times...

[Rocky3]

No supps, no prep guru, no state of the art gym equipment

[Rocky3]

1930s...Just before WWII began. Can you imagine that woman today with all taht we have available in terms of knowledge, nutrition, supplementation, and gym equipment? WOW!

[Sunnyday]

That's Louise Leers. She was a German trapeze artist, as were her parents. Her dad was her trainer. A little thing, too, just 4'10". Back in the day she did some world record breaking feats, some of them without a net. In an interview I once read she said she trained 2-3 hours per day since the age of six and that her arms got particularly beat up from the demanding training.

[Rocky3]

^^^You are correct

[Rocky3]

What saddens me is that with the coming of WWII she could no longer train or have an environment where she could no longer exercise. Her body got out of shape and deteriotated due to malnutrition and no active lifestyle...Wars really suck!

[Sunnyday]

What saddens me is that with the coming of WWII she could no longer train or have an environment where she could no longer exercise. Her body got out of shape and deteriotated due to malnutrition and no active lifestyle...Wars really suck!

I know that all too well. My parents grew up in post WWII Germany. My dad was way up north but my mom grew up not far from Cologne. As a little girl she could see the bombings and the fires burning in the city. There was an unexploded shell that landed in the middle of the road around the corner from her house. They walked past it every day to school. They had no history books, btw, because Hitler had ordered them to all be burned. My grandfather was a POW and for nearly a year they didn't know where he was. They had no money and a bunch of kids to feed. My grandmother took my mom begging door to door for food. My mom vividly remembers one night they stood at the threshhold of one house and she could see a bowl of steaming potatoes on the table and she was so hungry she started salivating uncontrollably. That family turned them away saying they had only enough to feed themselves. Yeah, my mom and her family know all that starvation and malnourishment firsthand.

[Rocky3]

^^^Wow thank you for sharing that story. Sometimes we take a lot of what we have for granted.

[Sunnyday]

Well aware he's your hubby, COG.

[warthog]

Funny. Some would interpret that as a "back off Sunny" hahahaha. Rocky's racking up the posts quickly. Good on ya mate.

[The Flash]

Thanks for sharing, any other (full-length) photos

[Rocky3]

I am realizing that the older I get the more I get intrigued by "old" stuff. I just recently realized that I am a big fan of the movie The Sound of Music...something I would have never looked at even just 5 years ago LOL...

[Rocky3]

Thanks for sharing, any other (full-length) photos

[Rocky3]

cool MOVIE, WE WATCH IT THIS WEEKEND YEA

i ABSOLUTELY LOVE that movie...At first I thought it was going to be a chick flick but I quickly changed my stance. This movie really touched my heart

[warthog]

Is there a possibility that she could have been like that Caster Semenya character?

Caster-Semenya-celebrates-002.jpg

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...er-bender.html