Meet the most muscular woman in the world,
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Heavyweight female bodybuilder Nataliya Kuznetsova has amassed nearly half a million followers on Instagram. Many sources claim the Russian athlete is the biggest female bodybuilder in the world, and with her standing at 5'7″ and over 220 pounds in the offseason, it's easy to see why!
Nataliya Kuznetsova is considered to be the most muscular woman in the world. She is a Russian professional female bodybuilder and power-lifter. Nataliya is the world deadlift, benchpress and arm lifting record holder. The seasoned bodybuilder has stunning muscles, and as a result, she is nicknamed Amazonka.
Nataliya Kuznetsova
Multiple sources call her the heaviest known professional female bodybuilder, and we wouldn't be surprised if that's true.
Iris Kyle
The most successful professional bodybuilder ever, Iris Kyle has 10 overall Ms. Olympia titles with heavy weight wins along with 7 Ms. International wins. She is also nick-named female version of Ronnie Coleman due to her winning streak in Ms.
Rebecca 'Becca' Swanson (born November 20, 1973) is an American powerlifter, strongwoman and former professional wrestler. She broke multiple powerlifting world records, including the heaviest squat, bench press, deadlift and the total.
Vladislava Galagan is 21 years old, 175 cm tall and weights 80 kg. Her chest is 107 cm, haunch 64 cm, biceps 38 cm in circumference. Vladislava is a bodybuilder.
Becca Swanson
She is the only woman who has ever squatted 854 pounds, benched 600 pounds and deadlifted 694 pounds. As a result, Becca Swanson is known to be the strongest girl in the world.
1. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Between his Olympia winning physique in the 70's and his movie star muscles he carried in the 80's, Schwarzenegger was responsible for inspiring many people to start training for more than two generations now.
The 86-year-old started working out and focusing on a healthy diet 30 years ago, at age 56. Over the course of 15 years, Ernestine trained rigorously until she built up enough strength and confidence to compete as a bodybuilder. At 71-years-old, she entered her first competition and has never looked back.
Thin is no longer considered the most attractive body shape for women, a study has found. According to research from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, beauty ideals are changing, with increasing emphasis now being placed on bodies that are fit, toned, muscular and healthy.
Annie Hawkins-Turner has the largest natural breasts in the world. Her bra size is 102 ZZZ.
Muscular forearms are also among the most important muscles women like the most in men. Strong arms come with an all-around package of good back and shoulder muscles that women love. In fact, many females like men flaunt their forearm veins and stuff.
Mesomorphs. Naturally muscular, mesomorphs typically have moderate-size frames, with wider shoulders and a narrow waist, strong arms and legs, and modest amounts of body fat.
To put it lightly, Ronnie Coleman is regarded as the strongest and biggest bodybuilder of all time.
Growth factors are more important for strength and muscle mass in women than in men. Since women have just as much IGF-1 as men and women produce ~3 times as much growth hormone as men, this explains in part why having less testosterone does not limit how much muscle they can build.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is not only the best bodybuilder of all time, but he's also considered to be one of, if not the most, important figures in the history of bodybuilding.
Accomplishments: Aptly nicknamed “The Strongest Woman in the World,” Becca Swanson started competing in strongwomen competitions in 2002. She's currently the only woman to squat more than 800 pounds. In 2006, Swanson weighed in at 197 pounds and squatted 804.7 pounds, which was four times her body weight at the time.
Currently, the bench press world record for women has been set by Rae-Ann when she bench pressed 605 lbs (274.4kgs). She broke a record that previously no one could break for the last 13 years.
Becca Swanson
She's currently the only woman to squat more than 800 pounds. Swanson's best lifts are 854.3 pound squat, 600.8 pound bench, and 683.4 pound deadlift.
According to the study, women can expect to increase their muscle mass by 1.5 kg during the 20 weeks of training, averaging out to 0.3 kg per month.
Gym rat Jim Arrington (USA) has spent decades sculpting his body. The retired sales professional and great-grandfather first entered the record books as the world's oldest bodybuilder in 2015, at the tender age of 83. Now aged 90, Jim is still going strong and still winning bodybuilding competitions.
In the general preparation phase, body fat levels of bodybuilding athletes ranged between 15.3 and 25.2% (female) and from 9.6 to 16.3% (male). Close to competition, however, body fat levels were substantially lower, ranging from 8.1 to 18.3% for female and 5.8-10.7% for male athletes.