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What's your opinion of the Figure division?

Oct 14, 2021 - permalink

I love the look of Figure competitors, but I find the contests to be a bit of a let down. To me, the Figure division should be what Classic Physique is for the men. It should harken back to the golden age of women's bodybuilding in terms of physique, style, and presentation. It's a bit boring to watch these beautiful girls do quarter turns the whole time. Say what you will about the big girls, but at least they get to put on a show.

Oct 16, 2021 - permalink

I'm saving up to go to WOS or one of the bigger shows. My local/regional shows have very few physique competitors (maybe 1 or 2) and it's not all that exciting.

Oct 16, 2021 - permalink

I agree the problem at figure ist the presentation. It really al lil bit too much quarter turns. Did 2 tries at figure and did not like the way how to pose. Lots of quarter turns and less called poses for show the muscle groups at once. Even the sensles flabhing with arms i something many don't like. Some more classic muscle presentation would be great and more free posing routine would make it much better.

Oct 16, 2021 - permalink

It has a good purpose. It gets girls in the gym and is a farm system for physique.

Oct 16, 2021 - permalink

I agree with OP. The physiques are amazing, but the quarter turns are very boring. Other federations have posing for their figure competitors. Ifbb/NPC should bring it back.

Oct 16, 2021 - permalink

Figure helps introduce women to heavier steroid loads and shows them that they can juice and grow whilst still maintaining femininity.

Oct 16, 2021 - permalink

In terms of looks, it's my favorite division. But the presentation of it is...lackluster to be nice about it. It would be nice to incorporate posing or SOMETHING because it's the most boring division which sucks because the ladies deserve to showcase their physiques in a better way.

Oct 16, 2021 - permalink
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Oct 17, 2021 - permalink

This:

Oct 17, 2021 - permalink

The problem with them doing a one minute routine is the sheer volume of women who enter this division. The Pittsburgh Masters this last July had 200 women entered. Allowing them a one minute routine would turn a long competition into an insufferably long competition. Maybe if they limited the posing routine to the first callout it would work, but even then at a big show you could have 8 height classes, and then different age groups for the masters.

Here are no 200 competitors at figure lol maybe all men and woman classes together 15 to 30 figure most times

Oct 17, 2021 - permalink
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Oct 17, 2021 - edited Oct 17, 2021 - permalink

In Europe most shows are not that big

Oct 17, 2021 - permalink

One thing I would say about the Figure individual routines: I would love to see the competitors do some quad shaking, whether in the individual presentations or in the comparisons, like they did in the old school FBB contests. I would say the same for wellness.

Oct 17, 2021 - permalink

less roids can be pleasing as well 🙂

Oct 17, 2021 - permalink

My opinion is that things like figure and bikini ruined female bodybuilding.

Oct 17, 2021 - permalink

Figure and wellness competitors to me have the best bodies. I love their shoulders and quads

fp909
Oct 17, 2021 - permalink

figure is like the gateway drug for a lot of women to bb, so i appreciate it there, though i guess it's been trending bigger for so long that they are borderline WPD.

i cannot imagine sitting through 200 sets of quarter turns. pet peeve, but it bothers me that it's called a routine lol since everyone is doing the same set of things. i get that mandatories are part of the game, but at least in WPD and BB (and fitness) there is a lot of variety to how you can display your physique in THOSE routines.

i do with there was like a WPD lite or BB classic for the women, those who didn't want to get as big as some of the WPD competitors but still wanted to pose like them--would be very nice to see the kind of late 80s,early 90s looks trending. looking at the stuff from the O, a lot of the figure women are as large or larger than some of those women.

Oct 18, 2021 - permalink

The figure girls have the best bodies by far. Toned and muscular at the same time. Still wish they would have the one piece swimsuits. They were sexier than the two piece. Fitness and figure are the best because of how high cut the swimsuits are. That’s what’s wrong with bikini. Their suits are not as sexy as figure. More figure, less bikini.

Oct 18, 2021 - permalink

I think Figure would be as big a deal as bikini and men's open (and maybe Classic Physique?) if it had better presentation. Most of the buff girls that are relatively popular in the mainstream more or less have a figure shape.

Oct 18, 2021 - permalink

This:

This is why figure is so good. Hot girls would never ever consider juicing UP without first getting introduced to it with figure.

Oct 18, 2021 - permalink

This is why figure is so good. Hot girls would never ever consider juicing UP without first getting introduced to it with figure.

Not gonna lie, Andrea might be my favorite Ms Olympia after Cory Everson.

fp909
Oct 18, 2021 - permalink

Figure def introduces really beautiful Women to gear and then we get like a Dani Reardon or Melissa Brodsky. Tons of smokeshow figure competitors

Oct 18, 2021 - permalink
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Oct 18, 2021 - permalink

Brodsky has done a couple of pro shows at figure and has been demolished.

Maybe she needs a new coach. A lot of Shelby girls didn't do so well this year.

Oct 18, 2021 - permalink
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