Posted on 04/26/2009 8:02:46 AM PDT by pissant
FLINT, Michigan -- This mother and daughter tandem go shopping together, get their nails done together, pump iron together and compete in bodybuilding competitions together.
Yes, that's right, mom Sandy Barber, 48, and daughter Kristin, 26, work out two hours a day together at the gym to prepare to show off their muscles.
"We're crazy," Kristin said, laughing.
Wearing sequined, homemade bikinis, the two displayed their rippled backs, toned arms and legs and perfect abs at a bodybuilding competition on Saturday at the University of Michigan-Flint.
Sandy pumped 10-pound weights while Kristin performed crunches as they waited their turns to go under the hot lights and pose for the judges.
The Holly women competed in the "figure" class of the competition, which is less about building muscle mass and more about being toned and in incredible shape.
They split their time at the gym between cardio and muscle-toning workouts.
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Let’s hope that those are ‘spray on tans’ they are sporting.
I don’t think that pumping 10 lb. weights will make anyone very muscular. Their poses make their muscle tone look far greater than it actually is.
I really have to give credit to a 48 year-old woman for being in that sort of physical shape.
I imagine it’s a fake tan. Most bodybuilders use it, as it’s healthier and precludes the variation in tanning ability.
I used to help train at a weight room. It was humorous the number of women, and a few men, who would want to take up weight training but complained at the start that they did not want to look like professional bodybuilders.
Ahh, they compete in “figure” class.
What is our quality of life without good health? Bravo to both Mother and Daugher.
OK, since you put it like that, I understand better. It’s a bit like a grey horse appearing to shine less than a bay or chestnut even though their coats are just as healthy: you don’t have as much contrast between white shine and white skin as you do between white shine and dark skin.
They look very toned and healthy.
Yummy...
Thanks for posting this. It’s inspirational. I can’t afford to lose 30lbs., but if I could have arms and legs like that working out with 10lb. weights for 5 years, it’s something to which I should commit.
It was humorous the number of women, and a few men, who would want to take up weight training but complained at the start that they did not want to look like professional bodybuilders.
With a rigorous 10-hr / week program, 99% of the female population is never going to get any more ripped than these girls. Men need to take up lifting and running as a part-time job to become anything close to someone like Vin Diesel, and they need either superior genes or serious drugs to be capable of it. I would imagine that women need all of the above.
Me either. I'm not in to women that have more testosterone than me.
<paint themselves dark brown
I see it as orange. Brown or orange, it’s ugly.
What’s wrong with white creamy skin color? I get compliments on my white creamy skin even in the hart of summer. I do not sit in the sun. I am soft and smooth and look much younger than I am. I have WHITE SKIN and am PROUD OF IT!
Theirs is painted brownish for the contests. I’m sure they are pasty white usually.
I can tell ya' one thing, I might go out smilin'
but they would remember the day they took me out... LOL
I remember what an old guy told me once, he said:
Dude, just remember, the older we get, the better we were
I've never forgot that one <8^)
Hey, be careful
you’re around a bunch of guys here.
Talk like that might be dangerous for us...LOL
The only thing you could add was that you are a red head...whoa just the thought
The ‘mother’ is roiding hard. Daughter, hard to tell probably not. Drug test them both and put em out to pasture.
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