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We had the pleasure of e-interviewing top international male fitness model and WBFF pro Obi Obadike, who recently traveled to Australia to appear as a special guest at the 2009 ANB Asia Pacific. Obi was kind enough to share some excellent tips on diet/training, making it in the fitness modeling industry as well as the [...]

Below are sample photos as well as the judging guidelines from all of the Australian bodybuilding federations in reference to the sportsmodel division. In Australia the sportsmodel [also called fitness model, best body and bikini] division normally consists of three rounds; bikini, theme wear and evening dress. This division can often be one where the [...]

The 2008 ANB Asia Pacific International was held on the Gold Coast, QLD on May 30th and promoted by Steve Jones. Ali Gascoine won the overall figure, Luke Belcher won the men’s overall, Leanne Palmer won the women’s bodybuilding/physique overall and Claudine Newton won the sportsmodel overall.
With over 100 competitors, the prize included a cover [...]

In another case of politicians and bodybuilding blending, Townsville Mayor Ben Calcott won his division at the 2009 ANB Coral Coast Classic Natural Bodybuilding Championships. The 60 year old has been training at 5:30am in the morning, and said the other competitors found it a novelty to have a Mayor compete alongside them in the [...]

The 2009 ANB South Coast Physique Championships were held on Sunday May 17 at the Shellharbour Workers Club in NSW and promoted by Joe Kapitanof and Lee Telesz of Totalee Personal Training. Sung Seng Lay won the Mens Overall, Cathy Owens won the Womens Physique Overall and Ebonie Bridges won the Figure Overall. Thanks [...]

We have the full results and over 400 photos from the 2009 ANB Victoria Natural Bodybuilding and Figure Championships held Saturday May 9th 2009 at Union Hall, La Trobe University Bundoora Victoria, Melbourne. Promoted by Maria McCarter, Michelle Witomski continued her winning streak by capturing the overall figure title, with Darren Wade winning the overall [...]

We have went through the entire website and attempted to consolidate links to all the fitness and figure content, and have 50 below. Although we have done as best as we can, really fitness and figure content is scattered throughout the entire site, so it’s somewhat impossible to divide. For example; we have thousands of [...]

In addition to our static 2009 Australian Contest Schedule page we just finished adding all the events [over 100!] into a new interactive calendar on our new forum.
The great thing about this - is not only is it easy for us to update so we will keep adding details to events already listed but anyone [...]

Over the last week we have just added 700 more great photos into our Photo Gallery in six different albums covering the 2007 CCI, 2007 IFBB Elite, 2008 WNSO Worlds, 2008 IFBB Atlantic City and 2008 Olympia. We are incredibly pleased to have the support of Leigh Carmichael from Body Image Photography who is an [...]

Tara Suomalainen is an Australian figure athlete who has placed as high as 3rd at both the 2008 ANB and INBA Queensland Titles. What’s so unusual about this? Well, just a few years prior the mother of three young children weighed a whopping 110kgs [242lbs] and lost an amazing 54kgs [119lbs] to transform herself into [...]

Click through to read a comprehensive wrapup of Australian bodybuilding and figure for 2008. The year started off great with the return of Australia’s best bodybuilder Lee Priest not only to the IFBB, but also to live in Australia. Lee re-signed with American publication Muscular Development and secured a great contract with Australian Supplement Company Body Ripped [...]