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what is the lady name

Matilda Smith.

[SammiChung]

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/training-day/201201/college-footballs-strongest-cheerleader

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http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/training-day/201201/college-footballs-strongest-cheerleader

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[GWHH]

Two Great New Articles About Her Both Come out the last week in Jan 2012

Cheerleader not defined by physique

By LISA GLASER on January 26, 2012

Anna Watson had a 50-pound weight swing in the last year. She’s eaten 900-calorie mass gainer shakes, mixed with milk and peanut butter. She’s bench pressed 155 pounds. She’s sculpted four inches of muscles on her arms in ten months — naturally.

She’s been on the cusp of a $75,000 fitness-modeling contract.

She’s obsessed over working out, leaving her miserable and tired.

She left behind that possible modeling career after a suggestion for her to use a legal steroid.

Anna Watson had the opportunity to become a fitness model if she took legal steroids. She declined to do so since she regarded her body as ‘a temple.’ Courtesy Anna Watson

She drank only a sip of alcohol before her 21st birthday, and that came at communion.

She’s an active member of Athens Church and plans to go on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic during spring break.

She’s moved out of the Bible Belt to Hawaii only to come home again.

She’s competed as either a gymnast or cheerleader since she was 5 years old. She made the latest addition to Georgia’s spirit squad, having gone through a late try-out last semester.

She’s cheered for three home football games, froze a few times on the field, but felt the encouragement of her teammates. She’s made the cheerleading competition squad this January before she ruptured her Achilles tendon last week.

Watson, a junior exercise and sports science major from Fayetteville, feels she’s lost and gained more than the muscles on her 5-foot-10 frame in the past few years.

“I know that my identity is not in working out,” Watson said. “It’s not who I am. It’s not what I want people to see me as. Yes, on the outside, I’m a very fit individual, but when you get to know me, my life is not all about exercise and working out. I think it’s really important to stay grounded and know who you are and knowing that shaping your bicep is not going to shape your personality. It’s not going to shape your goals in life.”

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Watson repeated the phrase twice.

“Within 12 weeks, she had probably put on five inches in her arms,” she paused. “In her arms.”

Watson described a series of pictures a modeling agent gave her. They showed a woman who worked out with the aid of Anavar, a legal anabolic steroid. The agent suggested Watson — who had been trying to gain almost 50 pounds in muscle to be signed as a model — do the same.

“It was definitely something I was tempted with more than one time,” she said. “[The agent] made it sound as good as he could.”

It was an offer made more than a year ago, before Watson had even made it to Georgia.

It was before Watson realized her fitness regiment was getting obsessive and damaging. It was before Watson found peace in the strength training room at Ramsay, where she now works out.

She was at West Georgia College when she began bulking up to meet the requirements for her potential modeling career.

She had been in contact with representatives from a Paris office of Elite Model Management, an international modeling agency, for more than eight months when she saw the pictures.

A high-end workout wear ad campaign, $75,000 and the beginnings of a career as a fitness model were all in the works.

She could be like the woman in the photo, who “put on the size she needed… got her job … made her money and … cycled off the steroids and was back to normal.”

The drug could help blood pump furiously through her muscles when she lifted.

It could help her grow stronger, faster.

But Watson was a hard gainer.

During the first four months after the modeling agency approached her, she only gained 10 pounds.

This was despite the fact that Watson was eating “bear portions” throughout the day — plates of eggs and chicken and bowls of rice and vegetables. She was eating more than 3,000 calories a day.

She was never hungry but always eating.

She was in the gym at least an hour and half, six days a week.

She was reaching most of their benchmarks set in the bi-weekly progress reports she had to send them.

When she was at her strongest, she was bench pressing 155 pounds, squatting 255, doing bicep curls with 35-pound weights and dead lifting 230.

But it wasn’t enough.

These pictures, this woman with her arms growing at an unnatural rate, were the new benchmark.

Watson had invested almost a year of her life, more than $500 toward supplements, and an immeasurable amount of stress and heartache.

“Obviously, they just wanted to make money and they even told me that several times, ‘We just want to get you started so we can make money off of you,’ and I’m like, ‘I understand that, but I am a person.’”

She felt tempted, but couldn’t do it.

Her mother was worried.

She consulted Hugh Kirby, a former national powerlifting champion at her church back in Fayetteville, who advised her against it.

Who knows what the effects could be in 10 years or when I try to have children, she thought.

Watson wouldn’t do it.

“I don’t serve a modeling agent. I serve the Lord,” Watson said. “I’m not going to compromise my morals and my beliefs just to take pictures. I believe that my body is a temple and a beautiful creation, so I don’t want to put anything into it that can harm it.”

About a month after she saw the pictures, the agency dropped Watson as a potential model.

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Watson began weightlifting during her time at Hawaii Pacific University after a visit home for Christmas break.

During her first semester of college, she lost about 35 pounds. She was stressed, and her family noticed.

“It was a coping mechanism. I would go to the gym and do cardio all the time. I did get addicted to it,” Watson said. “So, I realized that I burned all the fat off my body. I burned all the muscle and so I couldn’t do my cheer skills anymore. I wasn’t strong anymore and I didn’t realize what I was doing to myself.”

Her family and friends suggested weightlifting.

She would have to eat more, gain muscle and feel stronger.

It worked and Watson soaked up the knowledge of magazine articles and personal trainer friends.

She felt more and more confident.

But after she came back to Georgia and she began contact with the modeling agency, her workouts became obsessive.

“I am competitive and when someone puts a goal in front of me, I’m going to go until I reach that goal,” Watson said. “And sometimes, it’s not a good thing, because I became almost obsessed with working out and you have to be careful, because psychologically, it can really play a game on you. If I wasn’t in the gym six days a week for an hour and half, I felt like I wasn’t making any progress.”

When the modeling contract disappeared, Watson reevaluated her time in the gym.

She still feels passionate about her health and fitness, but believes in moderation. She works out at least three times a week with the spirit squad and around five times individually.

Watson said her time at the Ramsey Center is enjoyable, rather than a burden.

Watson credits her Christian faith in helping her find balance.

“When working out became a greater passion to me than serving the Lord and serving people around me and loving other people, then I realized that was a big no-no,” Watson said. “I was frustrated. I was cranky. I didn’t want to go to the gym, but I felt like I had to. I was stuck in this regiment and it was almost oppressive and it was like I was trapped. So being able to realize that working out is not my purpose in life really was able to set me free.”

Watson finds community at both her hometown church and at Athens Church.

After college, she’s interested in becoming a personal trainer and helping others find joy in fitness.

She doesn’t wear headphones in the gym — she wants to socialize, help others and feel like a part of the community of the weight room.

“I want to show people that working out can be freeing,” Watson said. “It can be enjoyable. It doesn’t have to be something that you have to do all the time. It doesn’t have to be oppressive and I think a lot of people just need to be freed from that image or that idea, ‘If I can lift five pounds more, if I can lose five pounds more, then I’m going to be better,’ because it’s a never-ending cycle.”

She also wants other women to find success in the weight room.

Watson was intimidated the first time she stepped into a weight room, a place usually dominated by men.

“It was hard for a girl, because psychologically, you’re like, ‘I don’t want to gain any weight, whether it’s muscle or not,’” Watson said. “And a lot of girls and even a lot of people [in] society look down on girls with a lot of muscle and personally, I can be biased. I think soft muscle is beautiful.”

Her fellow cheerleaders notice Watson’s abilities in practice and in the weight room.

Jessica Bakalar, a junior finance and economics major from Johns Creek, called Watson the “sweetest, nicest person,” but said she can’t lift with Watson.

“I’ll never forget the one day she was lifting at the same station as me,” said Bakalar, who was in Watson’s sideline stunt group. “I would just be dying and she would be throwing the weight up like it was no big deal, so I told her the next day, ‘You have to go to a different station because I can’t keep up with you.’”

Watson said she’s gained confidence since she’s gained muscle.

While she has more than 30 pairs of jeans and only two fit — she praises Guess jeans as the best for athletic figures — she loves her workout outfits and feels proud of her body.

Feedback has been mostly positive, except for the occasional passerby’s reaction to her muscular physique.

“I noticed some of the stares and I would hear people whisper or make comments, but again, my image is not who I am.”

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Watson is an athlete outside of the weight room.

She competed as a gymnast for 10 years, before becoming a cheerleader her sophomore year of high school.

“It’s an elite position to be a cheerleader at UGA,” Watson said. “They have hundreds of girls try out, and to be selected out of all of those people to be on the team, it’s kind of a big deal. So those girls were very humble and gracious and patient to help me just learn the basic stuff.”

But Bakalar said Watson’s role on the team is important, despite her just joining.

Bakalar called her a “huge motivator” and a “huge asset.”

She also said Watson was intimidating at first — she’s tall, athletic and ambitious.

“Everyone was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this girl is going to take all our spots. She’s so amazing. We’re not going to be able to stack up to her,’” Bakalar said. “And so definitely at first, it was intimidating, but once I got introduced to her and got to know her, obviously that changed.”

Watson was selected to compete with the team in a national competition in April, but ruptured her Achilles tendon on Sunday night, making her status for the moment unclear .

But she believes her journey as an athlete, a student and as a woman of faith is ongoing.

“I’ve gained the weight,” Watson said. “I’ve lost the weight, I’ve been stuck in it. I’ve been tempted by it, but I’ve also been able to overcome it. So I guess my story kind of goes in a lot of different directions, but I’m so happy where I am now and I’m at peace… I know that what I’ve been through will hopefully be able to help other people, and it’s definitely made me stronger.”

http://redandblack.com/2012/01/26/cheerleader-not-defined-by-physique/

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http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/training-day/201201/college-footballs-strongest-cheerleader

It’s one thing for professional athletes to have to make an ethical decision about using steroids, but college cheerleaders?

Anna Watson has to be America’s strongest female cheerleader; the University of Georgia student loves spending time in the weight room, and it certainly shows. But she has more important things in her life: Watson passed up a big money fitness modeling contract because she refused to use a legal steroid.

“It’s an elite position to be a cheerleader at UGA,” Watson told Red and Black, her school’s award-winning student newspaper. “They have hundreds of girls try out, and to be selected out of all of those people to be on the team, it’s kind of a big deal. So those girls were very humble and gracious and patient to help me just learn the basic stuff.”

Watson has been cheering since age 5. She can bench press 155 pounds, squat 255 pounds and dead lift 230 pounds. According to the school newspaper, she added an impressive four inches of muscles on her arms in just 10 months.

A deeply religious junior exercise and sports science major, Watson was on the brink of a $75,000 fitness-modeling contract that could have set her up for a lifetime career in modeling — but she turned it down.

Why?

A modeling agent wanted her to use Anavar, a legal anabolic steroid to help her gain up to 50 pounds of muscle. Worried about the effects on her body when she decides to have kids, Watson passed.

“I don’t serve a modeling agent. I serve the Lord,” Watson said. “I’m not going to compromise my morals and my beliefs just to take pictures. I believe that my body is a temple and a beautiful creation, so I don’t want to put anything into it that can harm it.”

Despite being somewhat of a cult hero for her large muscles, Watson says that’s not really who she is.

“I know that my identity is not in working out,” Watson said. “It’s not who I am. It’s not what I want people to see me as. Yes, on the outside, I’m a very fit individual, but when you get to know me, my life is not all about exercise and working out.”

After cheering at three home Georgia football games, Watson is on the disabled list right now after rupturing her Achilles tendon.

Facts On Georgia’s Ridiculously Strong Cheerleader, Anna Watson:

• Has over 30 pairs of jeans, only two fit.
• Competed as a gymnast for 10 years.
• Became a cheerleader her sophomore year of high school.
• Doesn’t wear headphones in the gym; she likes to socialize in the

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I deleted your second post GWHH because it was the exact same thing SammiChung posted.

[Joe Blow]

The more you read about her the more you can’t help but love her. She does things the right way – great for her

[Solarian, aka LordDaroth]

“I serve the Lord”

That’s where I stopped reading. Lost boner.

[BlackKusanagi]

The woman is allowed to believe what she wishes to believe. They are people. Not just walking sex symbols. We should respect their beliefs even if they don’t match our own.

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