From the August, 1985 issue of High Times comes Kyle Roderick’s remarkably forward-thinking profile of competitive women bodybuilders. Who are women bodybuilders and why are they popping up in the ...

While many more women than before are participating in bodybuilding, the risks of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in particular, and of death overall, in this population, remain unknown. A recent study ...

Female bodybuilders are at increased risk of a fatal heart attack, warns new research. Sudden cardiac death is responsible for an "unusually high" proportion of deaths among musclewomen worldwide, ...

Punishment The biggest mistake many women make is treating exercise like a punishment for their body size. This mindset sets ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – April Imholte stands in front of a mirror to take a photo of herself. Her body tenses, her muscles harden, and as she flexes, she singlehandedly shatters the notion that women’s ...

Sudden cardiac death is responsible for an unusually high proportion of deaths in female bodybuilders worldwide, according to research published in the European Heart Journal. Subscribe to our ...

Let’s get away from the pathological and talk about something that is today entirely normal, totally healthy, and still shunned by many women. Bodybuilding. Women think it will give them big ...

To celebrate Women's History Month, News 12's photojournalist Karina Sorto-Kai is highlighting a 55-year-old Armonk woman who found her passion later in life and is now inspiring others with her ...

She won the first Women’s World Pro Bodybuilding Championship. But she saw herself as an artist and posed for Robert Mapplethorpe and other photographers. By Penelope Green Lisa Lyon, a bodybuilding ...

In idyllic settings around India’s coastal southwestern state of Kerala, photographer Keerthana Kunnath has been capturing images of muscular women flexing their heroic forms. Amid foaming waves, palm ...