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.
Sondra Hopkins is a personal trainer, NPC figure competitor and she owns the Fit Life Studio in Boerne, Texas. Contest history: West Texas Classic 2008 Masters - 1st Place Ronnie Coleman Classic 2008 - Masters 4th Place Ronnie Coleman Classic 2008 - D Class 8th Place NPC Rock Fitness Extravaganza 2008 - Masters - 1st Place NPC Rock Fitness Extravaganza 2008 - Figure B - 2nd Place NPC Texas State Championships - 4th Figure D
I did a write up on IFBB Figure Pro Juliana Malacarne last year on my other fitness women blog, but I wanted to do an update on her here. Juliana is of Italian heritage, but was born in Brazil. And like many of the other female fitness beauties that I do write up on here, she is multi-talented. She's not only a fitness pro, but a female personal trainer, nutritionist and female fitness model.
Female Fitness Competitions: 2006 IFBB Europa Super Show - NP 2007 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Figure Championships - NP 2007 IFBB California Pro Figure Championships - 13th place 2007 IFBB Colorado Pro/Am Classic Bodybuilding And Figure Contest - NP 2008 IFBB Arnold Classic Bodybuilding, Fitness And Figure Contest - 12th place 2008 IFBB New York Pro Figure - 13th place 2008 IFBB Atlantic City Pro - 4th place 2009 IFBB Arnold Classic - 13th place 2009 IFBB New York Pro Figure - 10th place
You can find out more about Juliana at her MySpace page here: http://www.myspace.com/julianamalacarne
And here is a clip of Juliana working out at a gym posted by dcerbi on YouTube
Of course you associate the name Trish Stratus with the WWE. She was the WWF/WWE Women's Wrestling Champion 7 times. But before she was a professional wrestler or television personality, Trish was a sought after fitness model. When Trish was growing up in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, she wanted to become a doctor. It looked like Trish was getting her wish when she became a pre-med student at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Things looked good for her medical career until a faculty strike by YUFA in 1997 that lasted seven weeks, effectively shutting the college down. Since Trish couldn't go to school, she got a job in World Gym, and was approached by Scott Able (who has trained over 300 bodybuilding and figure champions) to do a modeling job for a supplement line. This lead to her catching the eye of Bob Kennedy, and being contracted to work for the Musclemag International fitness magazine from 1997 to 1999. Trish became one of the world's most sought after fitness models, and wound up appearing on the cover of over 20 international fitness publications. One of Trish's most remembered projects from her fitness period was the infamous The Dream Team calendar with fellow fitness model Stacey Lynn.
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.
This lovely young lady is Kavvy Sonhos. Kavvy is a Professional Fitness Model and NPC National Figure Competitor. She is also a a certified fitness trainer, licensed massage therapist and nutritionist. AND she held a World Record in Deadlift Powerlifting. Kavvy is of Brazilian and Latino descent. She has competed in: 2008 Sunshine Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 1st place. 2008 NPC National Bodybuilding & Figure Championships, 6th place.
The beautiful Jennifer Nicole Lee is a Fitness Expert, Lifestyle Consultant, Fitness Model, devoted wife and mother. She is drop dead gorgeous. And she is also an inspiration. To improve her physical and mental health and become more active with her children, Jennifer began a fitness program and nutrition program and lost 70 pounds. Her goal was to lose weight and enter a bikini contest. Jennifer surpassed her goal and one year later was crowned Miss Bikini America 2005! She's appeared on Oprah, Inside Edition and E! featured her as one of the "Top 20 hottest women of the web".
