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    Quote Originally Posted by GirlyMuscle View Post
    There's a perfect example. Sassy, I think you already have the look. I know I'm not an educated judge but I don't see why you'd have to do any major downsizing. You have a great look now without trying to burn off muscle in my opinion.
    I need to dig up one of the pix from my first show - I think I can recover that basic shape. I've picked up most of my mass in my upper body and that's what needs to come down. The other challenge is (and always has been) my rear end, the age-related shift of flab collection to the lower back and just getting shit tight.

    For me, there's no down-side to downsizing. Competition just gives me a kick in the pants to actually complete a dramatic change, instead of just being an aging, squishy ex-bodybuilder. The only thing I know I'm going to miss is being able to stand in the "eliteness" of those athletes as we envision the term "competitive bodybuilder" (and NOT the schmoe or negative connotation of it). Its cool to be hard-core. Once you've been hard-core, its hard to be anything less.
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    Once you've been hard-core, its hard to be anything less.
    So true. Not that all competitors aren't in their own right but I know exactly what you mean.
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    I think in WP there should be mainly the softer look. And many lightweights I see are not too huge, but too hard for me - plus off course the more ripped you are - the bigger you look on stage. Illusion.

    Anyway when they want Coreys look - or any other FBB of the past - they were also NOT all Y structure. They were crazy X shape sometimes... so this kind of look should be rewarded too... Actually my vision is THIS - this is for me the ultimate women shape which I really like....And how I SEE IDEAL WP shape and conditioning....

    Because I think nowadays this kind of physique is not rewarded anywhere... for FBB this is too small and MAINLY soft, anyway for Figure it has big lower body - big legs... so what else it is, than the WP look....
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    I'd agree - you gotta have the cappy delts for sure. But the point BEFORE muscle thickness & fullness starts moving from a long, lean look to a thick look.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bronwyn View Post
    (snip) Actually my vision is THIS - this is for me the ultimate women shape which I really like....And how I SEE IDEAL WP shape and conditioning.... (snip)
    Seems they've removed nearly all of her YouTube appearances.

    [ame="http://vimeo.com/96630"]Anja Schreiner on Vimeo[/ame]

    Last edited by Curt James; 11-10-2011 at 07:16 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Curt James View Post
    Seems they've removed nearly all of her YouTube appearances.
    Thanks for that - she was brillant poser as well as many women of that times!
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    Betcha if Anja was a bodybuilder today she'd be downsizing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GirlyMuscle View Post
    Betcha if Anja was a bodybuilder today she'd be downsizing.
    I am AFFRAID that - yes...

    the reason I am affraid is, that I am interested in this class myself - anyway I do NOT want to downsize that much as I see other grils do ... But ... so... where should a girl like ME to go when not to WP than???.... Tell me (I am talking to all of you) the class as I really dont know.

    I am too small in upper body for a FBB and too soft (softness is something I can not get over as I can not afford to be harder due to sluggish thyroid -and I do not want to do "some" things to change it)

    I am too soft also for Figure in NABBA - which was for years somewhere between and I competed there therefore.... But last two years they made it superhard and superlean....Plus this year judges moved me to FBB instead Figure too.

    I am too huge overally in a bone structure for Figure in IFBB.......I always was.

    Momentally I decided to take a break, keep what I love and do not compete anywhere....BTW: I added few comparisons from this year from FBB classes I did this year to see what physique I am talking about (as people always says to me I look way bigger on single shots than in real...)
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    I think your conditioning looks fine for WP. I LOVE your legs but I'll bet they're too big for WP.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bronwyn View Post
    (snip) where should a girl like ME to go when not to WP than???.... Tell me (I am talking to all of you) (snip)

    I am too small in upper body for a FBB and too soft (softness is something I can not get over as I can not afford to be harder due to sluggish thyroid -and I do not want to do "some" things to change it)

    I am too soft also for Figure in NABBA - which was for years somewhere between and I competed there therefore.... But last two years they made it superhard and superlean....Plus this year judges moved me to FBB instead Figure too.
    Your structure is great. Just compare the shape of your muscle to your competition in those photos. I certainly hope the judges placed you ahead of the other athletes.



    Choose FBB or WP because with your frame and lines I'd be interested to see where they place you.

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    Thanks for opinions....

    Quote Originally Posted by GirlyMuscle View Post
    I think your conditioning looks fine for WP. I LOVE your legs but I'll bet they're too big for WP.
    Yes, legs are the only part I am willing to downsize a bit...anyway will be hard as I am really gifted there - so I train them now very easily and I hope also cardio will downsize them a bit.... shape will stay off course...

    Quote Originally Posted by Curt James View Post
    Your structure is great. Just compare the shape of your muscle to your competition in those photos. I certainly hope the judges placed you ahead of the other athletes.

    Choose FBB or WP because with your frame and lines I'd be interested to see where they place you.
    Thanks - I placed 5th on Worldchampionship (of 11 - what was not bad, but all those really big girls were ahead of me) on Universe (green suit - I placed ahead of the master competitor and the one in the pink, but the girl in red won over me - judges told me it was because of the hardness...)

    I wanna give a try to WP one day when I will be ready... I think sassy said it very well: .....BEFORE muscle thickness & fullness starts moving from a long, lean look to a thick look. - and all types judges placed ahead of me in FBB were really thick and hard... I was lean, but not thick
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    Quote Originally Posted by JAYCUTERisSEXY View Post
    i'm go(snip)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bronwyn View Post
    I am AFFRAID that - yes...

    the reason I am affraid is, that I am interested in this class myself - anyway I do NOT want to downsize that much as I see other grils do ... But ... so... where should a girl like ME to go when not to WP than???.... Tell me (I am talking to all of you) the class as I really dont know.

    I am too small in upper body for a FBB and too soft (softness is something I can not get over as I can not afford to be harder due to sluggish thyroid -and I do not want to do "some" things to change it)

    I am too soft also for Figure in NABBA - which was for years somewhere between and I competed there therefore.... But last two years they made it superhard and superlean....Plus this year judges moved me to FBB instead Figure too.

    I am too huge overally in a bone structure for Figure in IFBB.......I always was.

    Momentally I decided to take a break, keep what I love and do not compete anywhere....BTW: I added few comparisons from this year from FBB classes I did this year to see what physique I am talking about (as people always says to me I look way bigger on single shots than in real...)
    They are a wicked set of legs, the only other set of legs I have seen with the lower swoop like that were dorians.

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