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How to Train for a Female Bodybuilding Competition

Shape
August 21, 2012
How to Train for a Female Bodybuilding Competition

The bikini, the high heels, the posing, and of course the stage: All this can make a woman's figure competition look like just another beauty pageant. Not so, says Ashley Toms, 27, a national figure competitor and former beauty pageant queen. "Doing pageants was fun," says the petite blond, "but figure competitions challenge me emotionally, spiritually, physical, and intellectually in a way that pageants never did."

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