Melissa Merritt

This sleek and muscled 25 year old from Austin, Texas is Melissa Merritt.
Melissa won the Figure Overall title in Las Vegas at the Fitness America World Championships on November 21, 2008.
Melissa just ran a Fitness Bootcamp with fellow fitness stars Abby Marie and Brenda Mikalajunas.
Abby Marie is also being trained by Melissa.

Catherine Holland (Catherine Boshuizen)

Catherine Holland (Catherine Boshuizen) is a IFBB Pro Figure Competitor, a fitness model and personal trainer
She was born on March 21, 1980 in Portland, Oregon, but she now resides in Orlando, Florida.
Catherine stands 5’7”, weighs in at 130 lbs (contest weight) and 140-145 (off season).
She has a BS and MS degrees in Exercise and Sport Science from Oregon State University and she is a business owner and instructor of Celebration Boot Camps.

Contest history:
2004 NPC Northwest Natural Figure Championships: Overall
2005 Oregon Ironman Figure: 1st place over 5’6”
2005 Emerald Cup Figure: 7th place 5’6-5’8”
2006 Emerald Cup Figure: 13th place 5’6-5-8”
2006 NPC Jr. National Figure Championship: 9th Place Class D
2007 NPC Jr. National Figure Championship: 12th Place Class F
2007 NPC Figure Team Universe: 16th place Class F
2007 NPC Figure USA’s: 16th place Class E
2008 Emerald Cup Figure: 2nd place Class F
2008 NPC JR USA Figure Championship: 1st place class E
2008 NPC JR NATIONALS Figure Championships: 1st place, Class E
2009 IFBB Europa Super Show of Champions Pro Figure: 16th

Fitness model and competitor Yenny Polanco

Fitness model and fitness competitor Yenny Polanco is an IFBB Athlete, born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Like a lot of female athletes, Yenny doesn't just wear one hat.
She's an AFPA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, Licensed Board Certified Cosmetologist, owned a hair salon from 2001 to 2006, Former Public Access T.V. producer (she produced a make-over show "Re-Inventing Yourself" where she did complete make-overs on volunteers) and she's a two time Light Flight weight Golden Gloves Boxing Champion!
Believe it or not, when Jenny got to the US from the Dominican Republic at the age of twelve, she couldn't even speak English.
And look at what she has accomplished!

Contest History:
2007 INBF Northeast Classic Bodybuilding, Fitness And Figure Contest - 1st place
2007 INBF Northeast Classic Bodybuilding, Fitness And Figure Contest - 1st place
2007 NPC New England Bodybuilding, Fitness, Figure Championship - 1st place
2007 NPC Team Universe Bodybuilding, Fitness And Figure Championships - 3rd place
2008 IFPA Yorton Cup Pro International - 2nd place
2008 MuscleMania Fitness America Weekend - 1st place
2009 NPC USA Bodybuilding & Figure Championships - 16th place
2009 NPC Team Universe - 1st place
2009 IFBB Ft. Lauderdale Pro Fitness & Figure - 3rd place

Katka Kyptova

One of the things that I like about doing this blog is that I get to feature all types of women here.
And thank you to the people out there that have commented on the diversity of the women I've presented.

Today's entry is Katka Kyptova.
Katka is a fitness competitor, bench press competitor, personal trainer, coach and Pilates instructor.
She was born on September 19th, 1983 in Mladá Boleslav, in the Czech Republic.
She stands 5'5, and weighs from 138.9lbs contest weight to 169.7lbs off season.

Tanji Johnson Updates

I said in my last entry on the beautiful IFBB fitness pro Tanji Johnson that even though her American Gladiator name was Stealth, I bet you wouldn't have a hard time seeing her.

Well I was right, at the 2009 IFBB Arnold Classic, Tanji came in 16th place.

And the website LA Muscle TV has a two part feature up on this young lady that you can see here:
http://www.lamuscle.tv/player/hollywoodextra/70

Watching her practice her routine in the second part of that feature, I couldn't help but think what a MMA fighter she would make.
Of course right now her plate is full enough as a personal trainer and fitness coach.
But how awesome would Tanji Johnson versus Gina Carano be?

Jackie Warner

Jackie Warner was born on August 17, 1968 in Fairborn, Ohio.
She is a fitness trainer, probably best known for her work on Work Out, a Bravo TV reality show.
Jackie owns Sky Sport and Spa, a gym and spa in Beverly Hills that she opened in 2002, and an outrageous set of abs.

Besides being a professional personal trainer, Jackie has done work as a model, actress, and script coordinator for Warner Brothers.
Before becoming a fitness star, she founded and co-owned a company in the cellular phone industry that went on to become the third top-grossing cellular phone company in Southern California.

As an actress, she appeared in the Irish comedy TV series "Killinaskully".

You can visit Jackie's website here:
http://www.jackiewarner.com/

Jung Dayeon

The woman who kick-started the "momjjang" (hot body) fad in Korea, Jung Da-yeon.
This young lady transformed herself through exercise, and is known as an expert on physical training and exercise now.
She has released a popular fitness book, a DVD called "Momjjang Diet" and even been in a K-drama (in Korea) called "Aquarius".
Jung played a fitness instructor.
She has her own website, http://jungdayeon.com/ that is in Korean and Japanese.

And here are some clips from her TV show FIGUREROBICS from YouTube:

Female Fitness Competitor Lyen Wong

Yeah I know I have done entries on Lyen Wong twice before, but who's counting besides me?
This lovely fitness competitor and personal trainer is worth more than one look.
And besides, it gives me a chance to do a better rundown of her contest history:

2005
1st place Miss Fitness, regional West German championships NAC, Rheinbach/Germany
2nd place Miss Fitness, German championships NAC, Schwerin/Germany
1st place Miss Fitness, Festival del Fitness, Rimini/Italy
1st place Miss Fitness, Fitness World Contest, Graz/Austria
1st place Miss Fitness, Intl. German championships NAC, Rheinbach/Germany
1st place Miss Fitness, Intl. German championships NAC, Salzgitter/Germany
1st place Miss Universe Shape N.A.B.B.A. Intl. Inc. Aachen/Germany

2006
1st place Miss Fitness, NAC German championships, Korntal/Germany
3rd place N.A.B.B.A. Intl. Inc. world championships, Benidorm/Spain, Fitness Shape category

2007
3rd place Miss Sexy Bikini at Mr. Olympia, Las Vegas/USA
2nd place Miss Fitness, Intl. German championships NAC, Ludwigsfelde/Germany
2nd place Miss Universe Fitness, NAC International, Hamburg/Germany

She took a break in 2008, only showing up at the FIBO 2008 trade show.
But her website promises that she will be back in competition in 2009.
You can check out her website here:
http://www.lyenwong.de/

Mona Liza Reyes, Another Look

I did an entry on Filipino figure athlete Mona Liza Reyes awhile back.
But what I didn't know was that this lovely lady is involved in Knock Out Dog Fighting, an anti-dogfighting campaign dedicated to stopping cruelty and abuse.
As a person that does animal rescues I really appreciate what these people are doing.
We've rescued a few Pits ourselves.
In addition to that, she is a volunteer coach with "Girls on the Run". The Girls on the Run program is a 12- week training course which targets 8 – 11 year old girls.
So i thought I would do another entry on this lady who not only beautiful on the outside, but on the inside as well.

You can learn more about Knock Out Dog Fighting here
And you can visit Monica's website and get some free fitness tips from the lady herself here.

Yvonne Bates, Another Look

I thought today we'd take another look at the lovely and fit Yvonne Bates.
As I mentioned in a previous post, Yvonne is a Cambodian Female Fitness Competitor and Fitness Model.
And she is also a personal trainer at Scott Fitness 24 Hour Exercise Clubs.
You can find out more about Scott Fitness here.

IFBB Fitness Pro Nicole Rollolazo

I have already done one write up on IFBB Fitness Pro Nicole Rollolazo over at my Female Fitness blog, but she needs to be included here as well.
Nicole is a female fitness competitor, model and personal trainer.
And the lovely Nicole is half Filipino.
Besides her long list of fitness competitions (her most recent begin 8th place at the 2008 IFBB 15th Annual Sports/Fitness Weekend and Europa IFBB Super Show and 7th place at the
2008 IFBB Houston Pro Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure Contest), Nicole was also in a movie back in 2003 with Timea Majorova, Elaine Goodlad and several other fitness athletes called "The Interplanetary Surplus Male and Amazon Women of Outer Space".
Nicole contributed to the book "The Body Sculpting Bible for Women : The Way to Physical Perfection".
So I guess she's actually an actress, author, female fitness competitor, model and personal trainer.

May Maung

Beautiful May Maung was born in Burma.
She is a fitness model, personal trainer, sports nutritionist.
And besides all that, she is a MMA Ring Girl.
May also does fitness competitions, but I couldn't find the usual list....sorry.
This muscular, lean, and feminine lady stands 5' 4" and weighs 115 lbs.
And judging from her photos, that's all muscle.

Huong Arcinas

Huong Arcinas was born in Thailand, but moved to the US when she was 3 days old.
Her native language is Vietnamese.
This lovely lady is a IFBB Pro Figure competitor, model and personal fitness instructor.
She recently got her personal training certification in CrossFit training.
Huong has first place wins at the 2004 San Francisco Grand Prix Figure, the 2005 Contra Costa Fitness and Bodybuilding, the 2007 Jr. USA and the 2007 Figure Nationals (where she qualified for IFBB Pro Status).
She has also placed in many other fitness competitions since 2003.
You can visit her website at http://www.fithuong.com/

Fitness Legend : Susie Curry

Susie Curry is a professional fitness competitor of Irish-Indian-Italian-Vietnamese decent.
She was born on November 22, 1972, in Santa Barbara, California.
She is the most successful fitness competitor in the world to date, having won four Miss Fitness International titles, and four consecutive Miss Fitness Olympia titles
Like a lot of other fitness competitors it seems, Susie started out in gymnastics, but was way-layed by injuries. Having already begun weight training to help in her gymnastic competitions, she stayed with it.
Susie began fitness competitions in 1995, and turned pro in 1996.
She is now retired from fitness competition.
But before retiring, she racked up first place finishes at the 1996 NPC North Carolina Women's Fitness Championships, the 1996 NPC Junior USA Women Fitness, the 1996 NPC National Women's Fitness, the 1996 IFBB World Amateur Fitness, the 1997 IFBB World Pro Fitness Championship, the 1998 IFBB Fitness International, the 1999 IFBB Fitness International, the 2000 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Fitness, the 2000 IFBB Fitness Olympia, the 2001 IFBB Fitness Olympia, the 2002 IFBB Fitness International, the 2002 IFBB Fitness Olympia, the 2003 IFBB Fitness International, the 2003 IFBB GNC Show of Strength , the 2003 IFBB Fitness Olympia.
GEEZ!
And those are just the FIRST PLACE finishes!
Susie lives in Bremen, Georgia now, where she co-owns a gyms and is a personal fitness trainer.

Natalie Minh

The beautiful Natalie Minh is a Vietnamese-American fitness competitor.
She was born in Houston, Texas USA in 1980.
Natalie currently lives in Brussels, Belgium.
She has competed in the 2008 FAME World Championships, the 2008 FAME European Fitness Model champion, the 2008 FAME European Championships and the 2008 Muscle Mania/Fitness Universe Italian Championships, where is won first place in Ms. Bikini.
You can visit her website here:
http://www.natalieminh.com/