[cpbell0033944]

Yes, I've changed my avatar again…
No disrespects to Debra, (on who I still have an enormous crush) she inadvertently got me out of quitting the other week, but I think Cindy's got my #1 slot by a hair's breadth. 😉

[AlexG]

A last pic and she's off to the contest competitions – good luck, Cindy!  ;D  8)

Source: Source: http://cindyphillips.blogspot.com/ (Monday, August 13, 2007)

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[cpbell0033944]

A last pic and she's off to the contest competitions – good luck, Cindy!  ;D  8)

Source: Source: http://cindyphillips.blogspot.com/ (Monday, August 13, 2007)

to be competitive at the Pro level.  For now, though, let's get fully behind her and wish her all the best in the competition. 🙂

[cpbell0033944]

From Cindy's Journal in the early morning of Sunday, 19th August, comes the news:

[cpbell0033944]

Better quality photos of the Amazon Princess in her moment of triumph:

She looks like she's been carved from a piece of Italian marble!
Looks like it's time for the armchair critics on her blog to shut the f*** up. ;D

[Bo Inaka]

I found a couple of Gene X Hwang's photos of Cindy from Nationals. Here's a link:  http://www.ftppv.com/ftvideo/showthread.php?t=2397&page=4. 

OK, actually here are more from twixpix:  http://www.twixpix.com/contests/CA07/pics/twx_CA07-Intro_03.html
,http://www.twixpix.com/contests/CA07/pics/twx_CA07-Intro_05.html

She looks terrific, but as has been said before, earning a pro card can bring extra pressures with it.  Somehow the start of a deeper voice for Cindy is a bit troubling.  I have followed her since she was in college, and as much as I enjoy the look sometimes, I have my concerns about the reality.

Bo.

[cpbell0033944]

I found a couple of Gene X Hwang's photos of Cindy from Nationals. Here's a link:  http://www.ftppv.com/ftvideo/showthread.php?t=2397&page=4. 

OK, actually here are more from twixpix:  http://www.twixpix.com/contests/CA07/pics/twx_CA07-Intro_03.html
,http://www.twixpix.com/contests/CA07/pics/twx_CA07-Intro_05.html

She looks terrific, but as has been said before, earning a pro card can bring extra pressures with it.  Somehow the start of a deeper voice for Cindy is a bit troubling.  I have followed her since she was in college, and as much as I enjoy the look sometimes, I have my concerns about the reality.

Bo.

I share your concerns, but I think the now infamous "I may retire soon" postin her blog showed that such things are in her mind – she really doesn't want to end-up as the next Nicole Bass.

[stmercy2020]

Somehow the start of a deeper voice for Cindy is a bit troubling.

I think it's also possible that you're reading a bit too much into this.  Women's voices change, in much the same manner as men's voices do, as they get older.  In fact, women's voices aren't completely settled until their late twenties or early thirties, and men's voices can continue to deepen until as late as mid-thirties in many cases.  If Cindy were to have to start shaving her chest, I'd worry.  A slight deepening of the voice- which could be the result of age, illness, or simple overuse- doesn't really send me into frenzies of worry.

[Bo Inaka]

I share your concerns, but I think the now infamous "I may retire soon" postin her blog showed that such things are in her mind – she really doesn't want to end-up as the next Nicole Bass.

  Well, OK, that posting may mean that she's concerned about what effect her "supplements" are having on her, but it also may be that as another bodybuilder commented at the time, that she was having a bad day during her precontest weight loss and was a little crazy right then.  (insert FBB name here) said she had also had that kind of day during contest prep.    Now, having earned a pro card is a pretty good encouragement, especially when it is reportedly unprecedented for two pro cards to be awarded at one canadian nationals.  It would be contrary to any competitive spirit I've come across to want to bow out just as you go pro.  Sure there are people who want to go out at the top, but she isn't there yet.  There is income to be made from being a pro after all.  But maybe sponsorship is more flexible than I imagine.  Is there a way to retain the potential income from sponsorships and yet not continue as a professional fbb?

Stmercy,  OK fair enough, this isn't a controlled experiment.  It doesn't seem likely though that a young woman in a matter of a few years (2003) goes from cheerleader fit to professional bodybuilder just by eating her wheaties and exercising seriously.  OK, perhaps she is that one-in-a million girl who just happens to be really exceedingly good at getting muscular without drugs.    How likely is it that in addition to being that rare girl she is also getting a deeper voice and having apparent acne trouble, both of which as we all know are also signs of steroid use(along with mood swings btw).  I would like to believe that this beautiful girl stayed away from steroids, but I don't know that I would bet on it.  I hope that she will have good judgement and find a way to use her fame and abilities that does not have long term health consequences.
[puts down bullhorn, steps off soapbox]
Bo.

[stmercy2020]

Stmercy,  OK fair enough, this isn't a controlled experiment.  It doesn't seem likely though that a young woman in a matter of a few years (2003) goes from cheerleader fit to professional bodybuilder just by eating her wheaties and exercising seriously.  OK, perhaps she is that one-in-a million girl who just happens to be really exceedingly good at getting muscular without drugs.    How likely is it that in addition to being that rare girl she is also getting a deeper voice and having apparent acne trouble, both of which as we all know are also signs of steroid use(along with mood swings btw).  I would like to believe that this beautiful girl stayed away from steroids, but I don't know that I would bet on it.  I hope that she will have good judgement and find a way to use her fame and abilities that does not have long term health consequences.

It's probably pointless to speculate on what has caused the deepening voice, as I said.  As far as acne, if you look at Cindy going all the way back to when she was a fitness model, she's always had trouble with acne.  If anything, her skin seems clearer now than it did just a couple years ago, but, again, this may mean nothing.  Mood swings can easily be attributed to steroid use, true, but they can also be attributed to stress, sleep deprivation, diet, and a host of other "natural" causes.  My point is that there is no conclusive evidence one way or the other, and I prefer to believe the best of her (and most people) until such evidence exists.

On a separate but related topic, I think both amateur and professional levels of the sports could only benefit in the public eye if there were mandatory testing for performance enhancing drugs.  The problem, of course, is money.  Sort of a vicious cycle- the sport might be more popular if drug testing were mandatory, which might make it feasible to spend the money on drug testing, but because the sport isn't generally popular or accepted, the money isn't there, so drug testing isn't fiscally possible, so the sport isn't likely to gain popularity, et. al.  I'd love to see a realistic approach to that conundrum.

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