The era ranging from the early to late 1980s was very exciting for women body building. It was noticeable by extraordinary growth in both popularity and progress than in any other previous decade. This decade is referred tenderly as the decade during which female body building gained form and receipt, as a truly professional sport that it is today. The following are just but several of the significant events of these decade, that were ultimate to the female body building industry.

Rachel McLish survives today as a heroic body builder of the magnificent 80′s. She rose to become not only a pioneer female body builder but also the single most successful body building contestant in the early 80s. She however lost her Ms. Olympia title to Kike Elomaa in the summer of 1981. She was not discouraged in her stable rise though, for she recovers it in 1982.

Professional female body building also stepped a mark higher following the successful open of the Women’s Pro World Championship in 1981. Lynn Conkwright won the initial contest. The contest was successfully held each year from 1981 to 1989, dominating the headlines as the second most prestigious body building contest at the time. The unconquerable McLish conquered this title and added it to her collection in the very year she regained her Ms. Olympia title.

In 1982, George Snyder resentfully lost her rights to Ms. Olympia title. It was during this year that the titles contestants stopped being hand-picked as previously done. From then on, contestants had to meet the criteria for the title through the spirited placings resulting from lesser female professional body building contests.

Female body building gained in popularity, fans increased, media coverage became amazing and the competitors increased. The women body building sport grew phenomenally such that, competition became violent. So to do the training. The level of the body builder’s training increased comparatively from that of many competitors in earlier contests where very little training was required. Increased prowess in weight training in turn saw the sport gradually evolving towards perfection of muscular physiques. Physiques form, definition and mass became a significant measure of competitive female body building emerged as a trend in 1983.

This is when McLish begun disappearing from the competitive field. Her absence in consecutive big shows, gave way to Carla Dunlap who eventually took over the Pro World title and that of Ms. Olympia. Objective reflection not misguided by media’s fancy of McLish reveals that Dunlap actually possessed far much of a muscular physique than did her predecessors, McLish or Elomaa. Due to reasons unknown until today, Dunlap never repeated her debut success of the year 1983. She however remained very competitive for the entire 80′s decade.

It’s usually had adequate to maintain a difficult body building regime for an average person. But when a person is a public figure, a sportsperson or a celebrity, it becomes a nightmarish. Integrating body building exercises in the life of a celebrity requires the eventual self sacrifice. One has to be very strong-minded and firm about maintaining a body building routine in spite of being in the public glare of publicity.

Celebrity status comes with painstaking schedules and time demands that sometimes make it completely impossible to maintain a dependable body building program. Politicians will care less about workouts when they are on a crusade trail, pop stars will not even think about exercising during world tours, trend stars will completely dump any body building ambitions while chasing that bog time contract and so on and so on. Being a celebrity reduces the personal time during which one can connect in body building exercises.

Besides time, celebrities have scores of other challenges to overcome if they have to build up body building gains. One such obstruction is diet. Most of these celebrities find it almost not possible to control what they eat. The meals are arranged by other people and served in gatherings that rarely allow individualized concentration. The celebrity has no time to cook healthy meals or to have healthy foods at all times. At the very least, they eat in restaurants that serve an approximation of what their body building diet ought to be.

Secondly, it is very hard for such celebrities to join local gyms where hails them with awe. Most celebrities therefore choose for individual gyms, furnished to personal satisfaction and with state-of-the-art equipments. Even though they can employ the top personal trainers they want, for money is never the issue with these folks, the problem of motivation still remains high. Keeping a consistent workout schedule is usually very hard.

However, many a celebrities especially those in the show business, find it required to very meticulous in their workouts. It is usually not a selection to keep fit or define the physique. Their careers command it of them. It actually should be easier to workout as a celebrity given that one can afford the optimum trainers, equipments and supplements that money can buy. But the training regime must be very personalized and expected designed to fit into the busy daily schedules.

Important here, is the allocation of time to exercises. Workouts should be short and relatively few in a week. 30 minutes sessions for three days in a week ought to be enough. This will make it easy to maintain consistence despite the busy schedules. Any celebrity can easily slot in a single hours and a half in a week for workouts. The workouts themselves must be comparatively less concentrated to allow the celebrities able to continue with their responsibilities after the workout. Most celebrities prefer working out the first thing in the morning before they walk out of their residences to a demanding world that leaves very little time for their personal indulgence.

With the appreciation of busy building’s benefits to build and maintain healthy, flexible and strong physiques, bodybuilding ought to be the priority of celebrities. They need the muscle strength and endurance that body building exercises develops. The need, probably more than anybody else, the health benefits derived from exercising so as they can deliver better service to those that hold them responsible. It is possible to maintain a successful body building routine with the strict-discipline and self-determination that it takes to be a celebrity in the first place.