Yes, and it was disturbing.
I've lost all respect and interest for aesthetic competitions (bodybuilding, figure, whatever). IMO there's no correlation between those events and actual fitness, health or strength. All sizzle and no steak...
The "man-face"
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Yes, and it was disturbing.
I've lost all respect and interest for aesthetic competitions (bodybuilding, figure, whatever). IMO there's no correlation between those events and actual fitness, health or strength. All sizzle and no steak...
Liann
Cathlete
I've seen even worse pictures of Jen H. before. It's really frightening actually. I don't know how anyone can do that to themselves and think they look good. And have TONS of people looking up to them. As Beavs said, there is nothing about her at all that makes me think "healthy".
Beavs
Cathlete
And that steak sizzled down to a piece of shoe leather!
SirenSongWoman
Cathlete
I can't believe I'm bringing up FigureAthlete.com again over here but an author over there, Wet Wolf, wrote an article about women and steroids that addressed That Look. He said something about how the constant off/on competition dieting and the substances the women competitors use make many of the women look "like their faces have been beaten with a bag of nickels."
I'd just been at The Arnold when I read the article and his descriptions of chronic competitors was dead on. Sad, because improving your physique should LOOK and BE healthy but the women have to put themselves through so much hardship (over and over again) to place. A lot of the figure athletes and fitness competitors look like they've led terribly hard lives. The female body builders flat-out look (and speak) like drag queens.
I'd just been at The Arnold when I read the article and his descriptions of chronic competitors was dead on. Sad, because improving your physique should LOOK and BE healthy but the women have to put themselves through so much hardship (over and over again) to place. A lot of the figure athletes and fitness competitors look like they've led terribly hard lives. The female body builders flat-out look (and speak) like drag queens.
SirenSongWoman
Cathlete
Those pictures were taken right after Hendershot left The Arnold stage. Jan Tana is a HEAVY sponsor of most figure/fitness/body building competitions so their nasty dark-as-a-burnt-turkey look (with a reddish cast, no less) ain't going anywhere. I wrote a big fat rant over at FigureAthlete about the tanning and what a joke it is and got nowhere. I saw the entire Arnold women's pro show (figure/fitness/body building) and I know the airbrush tanning was used but the nastiest looking fake color seemed to be on the fitness women. Jen looked exactly like her competition, all DARRRRK and red. I've seen her, sans JT basting sauce, and she looks much better, though she still does have those parentheses around her mouth from all the dieting.
As for steroids, there are actual competitions for "natural" body building and figure. Thus, you can assume steroid use is commonplace in the majority of the competitions. Read a little about steroid use over at FA and you'll see it's viewed very differently in physique than it is in baseball. Got in a fight over there about that, too
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morningstar
Cathlete
Wow- those women are mean to each other on that other forum!
SirenSongWoman
Cathlete
The men at T-Nation are even worse, though. No sympathy whatsoever.
Pearlstrand
Cathlete
Did you ever notice...
...that both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver have "man-face?"
...that both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver have "man-face?"