Lenda Murray

Lenda Murray (born February 22, 1962 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American bodybuilder. She is the world’s most successful woman bodybuilder to date: an eight-time winner of the Ms. Olympia title, the highest achievement in professional female bodybuilding. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (542x800, 136 KB) Summary Published here with permission by the photographer, Bill Dobbins, www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (542x800, 136 KB) Summary Published here with permission by the photographer, Bill Dobbins, www. ... February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Detroit skyline at night as seen from Canada Nickname: The Motor City, Motown Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: http://www. ... Bodybuilder Anders Graneheim (Sweden) Bodybuilding is the sport of developing muscle fibers through the combination of weight training, increased caloric intake, and rest. ... Ms. ... Lenda Murray, 8 times Ms. ...

At Henry Ford High School in the Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights, Murray was both a record-holding sprinter and varsity cheerleader. She went on to attend Western Michigan University where she continued to cheerlead and became the school’s homecoming queen in 1982. Sterling Heights is a city located in Macomb County, Michigan. ... Cheerleaders warming up for competition Cheerleading is an activity that uses organized routines made up of elements from dance and/or gymnastics to cheer on sports teams at games and matches, and/or as a competitive sport. ... Western Michigan University Western Michigan University (abbr. ... Homecoming is a tradition observed at many American and Canadian high schools and colleges, usually in late September or October. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After a brief tenure cheerleading for the Michigan Panthers in the now-defunct United States Football League, Murray took to the bodybuilding stage in 1985. She rose quickly through the ranks, soon winning contests at the state and regional levels. In 1989, she earned her professional status at the International Federation of BodyBuilders North American Championships. Murray soon became a regular presence in bodybuilding magazines and a favorite subject of photographer Bill Dobbins[1] who focused extensively on her in his books The Women and Modern Amazons. Michigan Panthers were a professional American football team that played in the United States Football League in the mid 1980s. ... The United States Football League was a professional American football league that played three seasons between 1983 and 1985, in the process presenting the rival National Football League with its greatest competitor since the 1960s version of the American Football League. ... This article is about the year. ... -1... The International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) is a bodybuilding organization founded in 1946 by Ben and Joe Weider. ... In Greek mythology, the , Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a contemporary land of women at the outer edges of the world. ...

On November 24, 1990, Murray succeeded six-time champion Cory Everson to become Ms. Olympia, a title Murray would hold for most of the following decade. She appeared in such mass-market publications as Sports Illustrated, Ebony and Vanity Fair magazine as well as in Annie Leibovitz’s photo essay Women. This article is about the year. ... Cory Everson (born January 4, 1959) is an American female bodybuilder and actress. ... July 1999 cover showing soccer star Brandi Chastain Sports Illustrated is a popular weekly American sports magazine owned by media giant Time Warner. ... Ebony, a magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has been published since the autumn of 1945. ... Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles on high-brow culture, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and current affairs. ... Anna-Lou (Annie) Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949 in Westport, Connecticut) is a Jewish-American photographer. ...

Murray’s physique became the standard against which professional female bodybuilders are now judged – literally an hourglass figure, with broad shoulders tapering into a V-shaped torso mirrored by a proportionally-developed lower body.

After a four year retirement following back-to-back defeats in the late 1990s, Murray returned to the Ms. Olympia stage. She won two more Ms. Olympia titles in 2002 and 2003, and finished second in the heavyweight class to Iris Kyle in 2004. As of this writing, she is once again retired from competition. Lenda is married to Urel McGill and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Iris Kyle is a professional female bodybuilder from the United States. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Atlanta is the capital of and largest city in the U.S. state of Georgia. ...

Despite Murray’s personal success, professional women’s bodybuilding has seen a decline in sponsor-support and mass-media attention since the 1990s. The rampant use of performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids among male and female bodybuilders alike has given ammunition to their critics. Extreme dieting is another part of the bodybuilder regimen which has come under attack, especially considering the health risks run by female bodybuilders who aspire to body fat levels below 3% - far less than the typical minimum of 18% for other female athletes. Anabolic steroids are a class of natural and synthetic steroid hormones that promote cell growth and division, resulting in growth of muscle tissue and sometimes bone size and strength. ...

However, writers such as Leslie Heywood (Bodymakers), Maria R. Lowe (Women of Steel), Laurie Fierstein, Joanna Frueh and Judith Stein (Picturing the Modern Amazon) all make the case that female bodybuilding is by-definition an act of transgression against traditional gender boundaries. As such, its failure to catch-on as a mainstream sport should be viewed in its proper context. Indeed, the increasing acceptance of women’s muscularity and athleticism in popular media and throughout society is seen by many as evidence that female bodybuilders like Lenda Murray have had a large and lasting - yet often unrecognized - effect on our culture. In a variety of different contexts, gender refers to the masculinity or femininity of words, persons, characteristics, or non-human organisms. ...

Trivia

Lenda Murray is famous for her trademark V-taper. Which comes from the disparity caused by her broadly muscled shoulders and her miniscule waist. As well as her overly muscled thigh development.

Contest history

• 1985 NPC Michigan State - 4th
• 1985 NPC Eastern Michigan - 1st
• 1986 NPC Michigan - 3rd
• 1986 NPC Ironwoman Michigan - 3rd
• 1987 NPC Michigan - 3rd
• 1987 NPC North Coast - 2nd
• 1988 NPC Michigan - 1st
• 1989 NPC Junior Nationals - 1st (HW and Overall)
• 1989 IFBB North American Championships - 1st (HW and Overall)
• 1990 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 1st
• 1991 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 1st
• 1992 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 1st
• 1993 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 1st
• 1994 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 1st
• 1995 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 1st
• 1996 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 2nd
• 1997 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 2nd
• 2002 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 1st (HW and Overall)
• 2003 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 1st (HW and Overall)
• 2004 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 2nd (HW)

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External links

• Official Website LendaMurray.net
  
• Photographic Report at Search-Female-Physique.com