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  • Helle Brings It Back to the FIBO Power Pro

    The women’s bodybuilding portion of the FIBO Power Pro Championships, which took place in Essen, Germany, on April 15, was a...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanMay 3, 2011
  • Bodybuilding’s First Lady Is a Hall-of-Fame Hit

    Doris Barrilleaux, the First Lady of Bodybuilding, was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in a ceremony that took...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanMarch 9, 2011
  • Amber Waves—DeFrancesco, Specking and Andrews Take Top Nationals Titles

    Pittsburgh flexer Amber DeFrancesco sailed into the pros after overwhelming the heavyweight class and ascending to the overall Women’s title at...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanOctober 15, 2010
  • Nationals Tradition and Fitness Changes

    The ’10 NPC National Championships gets under way this afternoon in Atlanta. More than 500 athletes are expected to hit the...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanOctober 13, 2010
  • Week’s End

    I’m looking forward to attending the Tournament of Champions Pro Bikini show tomorrow in Culver City, California. By the time the...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanSeptember 9, 2010
  • Olympia Predictions, Updates and Confessions

    A week or so ago I went down to Mike Neveux’s studio to record my Olympia predictions, and the video on...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanSeptember 2, 2010
  • Change in the Wind?

    A week or so ago I gave in to a bad impulse and replied to a group e-mail discussion among some...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanAugust 20, 2010
  • Betty’s New Body

    As the Europa Super Show, including five IFBB pro competitions, gets going today in Dallas, folks who haven’t seen promoter Betty...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanAugust 12, 2010
  • Saturday Wrap-up: Tampa, Tracey and Mo—Plus Europa Flash

    Update: The results Europa Battle of Champions, in Connecticut, started coming in just as I was finishing up this entry: Women’s...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanJuly 23, 2010
  • T.U. Women—Quinn Is In

    It must be a little galling to newly crowned Team Universe Women’s Bodybuilding champ Gina Quinn that everybody’s talking about Haley...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanJuly 11, 2010
  • New York Pro Women—Three-peat Time for Cathy

    Cathy LeFrancois took center stage at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center on May 8, making it three consecutive New York Pro...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanMay 10, 2010
  • Friday Roundup—Pittsburgh to New York

    The IFBB pro circuit for early spring hits two of my favorite cities, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a.k.a, the ’Burgh, a.k.a. my hometown,...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanMay 7, 2010
  • Weekend Cycle: A Birth, a Death and a Bodybuilder in a War Zone

    Three pieces of news crossed the Pump & Circumstance desk this week represented kind of a cycle of life thing, although...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanApril 10, 2010
  • Columbus Combat—Arnold Sports Festival Wrap-Up

    A few postmortems on the Arnold Sports Festival pro-physique competitions, which took place on March 5 and 6, in Columbus, Ohio,...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanMarch 9, 2010
  • Ms., Fitness and Figure Internationals Results

    The top six in all three sports qualify for the 2010 Olympia. ’10 Ms. International 1) Iris Kyle 2) Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia...

    Blog PostRuth SilvermanMarch 6, 2010