Nowadays, female fitness and bodybuilding is pretty well organized, from the casual amateur who just wants a better toned and developed body, to the really serious professional who sees competition as their goal.

It’s come a long way from the days when a female bodybuilder was just a shiny, glamorous object of drool, in a skimpy bikini.

In fact it’s over 30 years since the first competitions began and it wasn’t until the early 80’s that they became a regular feature. Like all emerging sports, in a number of competitors emerged as the frontrunners from those early days.

As you might imagine a selection process began, where potential candidates for progressing professionally were picked up by sponsors.

Pretty soon national and international bodies, just for women bodybuilders, became established, shortly followed by major national and international competitions too.

As the opportunities to compete increased, more and more women took female fitness and bodybuilding seriously, so the competitions became more intense too.

It was the inception of the American Federation of Women Bodybuilders, in the 1980’s, that paved the way for serious recognition that the sport was here to stay, for female bodybuilders.

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