Pauline Nordin's been getting a lot of TV and advertising work over the last few years. It's not hard to understand why: she's super-buff and gorgeous and that sells. One terrific example: check out the header of this page at American Body Building. Nordin is the perfectly-coiffed model doing biceps curls. She's all over the site, so take a look around. The American Body Building people won't mind.
Pauline Nordin
Pauline Nordin was also the trainer on one season of the Scandinavian version of The Biggest Loser. I watched outtakes from the show and she's scary as all get out - a munchkin muscle commando, verbally abusing fat Swedes. She comes off like Lotte Lenya with biceps.
Nordin won: one of her trainees lost 90 pounds in ten weeks. Seriously, you could rip a leg off most people and they wouldn't lose 90 pounds - God only knows what she put that poor bastard through. Obese Nordics can rest easy though, because Pauline has relocated to California.
Readers of
Pauline Fitness Blog know that Nordin's also a really aggressive blogger. She writes frequently and she's brutally demanding of both herself and the people around her, which I like. The world is drowning in misplaced tolerance and relativism, after all, and it's refreshing to see a cute little muscle girl write things like this:
I have a strong need to treat my body as well as I can since I put it through all this extreme training, day in and day out. when I see obese, coughing, high blood pressure male shuttle drivers I get angry: I feel they have a duty to take care of themselves since they are driving around people on the road…What if their hearts just quit all the sudden? And it doesn’t ease my mind when I see them stuff themselves with a pizza in between their work hours….
Los Angeles fatties better watch out, because Pauline is on the march. Also make sure to check out Nordin's subscriber fitness site, Pauline Fitness.
Like a Valkyrie of Valhalla. She must be very picky over her men. I guess California would suit her. Although I do wish she could go back into bodybuilding like Jodi Miller did.
Personally, I don't think I could live with someone who's that much of a health nut. Best to admire her as if she were a distant star.
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2007-01-02 15:31:45
The downside to competitive bodybuilding is that it's not healthy or practical as a long-term way to live. A large percentage require hormone supplementation to be competitive, and an extremely high anabolic rate has several long-term consequences, all of which equal a reduced lifespan.
Of course, there are probably long-term negative consequences from any kind of yo-yo competition dieting, whether for bodybuilding, figure or "fitness". For the most part competitions are not about healthy living or fitness, but instead about narcissism and ego gratification. Which is fine so long as people understand that, but if they go in thinking that working out six or seven days a week or consuming 3000 calories a day is a strategy for long-term health, they're going to find out the hard way that it's not.
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2007-01-02 14:17:03
I suppose I'd never thought before about a bodybuilding lifestyle being potentially unhealthy (other than the risk from too much gear), but, now you come to mention it, Lingster... :cry:
However, on a lighter note; I've just visited Pauline's site and MY GOD! She's (as we would say in the UK) WELL HARD!:shock: Beautiful and much tougher than the vast majority of guys - a true riot-grrrl. :lol:
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2007-01-02 19:30:44
Her comment shows me two things: First, she's an arrogant b@#$%! Second, she has no brains. Yes, I understand the link between obesity and health problems, but does she know that Jim Fixx also died of a heart attack? Her heart may fail just as suddenly and unexpectedly, so maybe she shouldn't be driving people around! Then again, neither should anyone else! Regrettably, her attitude is shared by many in her sport, male and female: "I did a lot of hard work, but just because it was physical, not mental, I should be held up as an example God/Goddess, and you little peons should be thankful to lick my boots" Yuck Fou... And for the record, despite my BMI being a bit high, I am not an obese, coughing, high blood pressure male shuttle driver :-)
the_collector_2
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2007-01-03 21:57:02
That comment really doesn't match with who Pauline really is. I've done some research on her and the reason she has become a bit more demanding of others is because of her own problems she has overcome.
She used to have to battle with anorexia, and when she tried to overcome that then she had to battle with being overweight. Pauline is a woman who for a good portion of her life was battling with her own body in trying to be healthy. She had often starved herself in order to stay slender and for the longest time it was extremely difficult for her to overcome that.
So it actually was a mental obstacle she had overcome including physical, because for the longest time she believed that she needed to starve herself in order to stay slender.
She was only able to do this by setting high expectations for herself, the natural side effect is that she has high expectations of others as well. I'm sure she's aware that a heart problem can eliminate virtually anyone regardless of their weight, but being slender and health reduces the chance of heart disease.
On another note:
Pauline is not single folks so don't even try it. :)
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2007-01-03 22:25:39
I agree with St.Bewolo, her comment does seem a bit ignorant and judgemental. Its easy to sound off and judge others in a blog, but real world situations are very different. Not everyone is fat because they sit around and eat pizza all day, nor does their weight indicate lack of trying to lose it.
While theres nothing wrong with having high expectations for yourself, it does not always lend well towards others. Try telling a smoker that they should quit because theyre poisoning others via secondhand smoke, and youll get punched in the face.
Besides, who is she to complain when she willingly moved to the US? Its a pretty common perception that portions here are larger, junk food is king, and Americans are overweight. Thats like moving to New York and complaining that its "too crowded."
What some see as confidence, others see as arrogance.
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2007-01-04 10:48:23
...and beaten anorexia, then I think she deserves our applause, not criticism. :D It's probably that that gives her the tough, self-confident, straightforward attitude that she demonstrates in her blog. I personally don't view that as arrogance.
Although I stick by what I said earlier about not realising the potential health risks of competitive bodybuilding in terms of dropping to very low bodyfat %, it still must be healthier than being an overweight ball of blubber.
I'm also personally fed-up with the "its not my fault I'm fat" mentality which has arrived in the UK in recent years. Yes, as a biologist, I'm well aware that there are some people who cannot help being overweight, but they are very much in the minority, and if the noticeably increasing numbers of fat people visible in any British city centre of a weekend, and the queues outside PizzaHut are anything to go by, there are an awful lot of people around who can and should lose weight. By the way, before anybody thinks I'm taking a "holier-than-thou" approach here; think again. I myself have put weight on over Chrsitmas, and am now starting to try and get rid of it: being disabled makes it harder, but it also makes it even more important that I do so.
