I agree with the opinions expressed in the video, but not just for women. Bodybuilding in general has gotten insane. It used to be about sculpting and building a "perfect" body. A Grecian god or goddess come to life.
Then Ahnold came along and it became about just getting huge, like him. That bled over into female competition in the '90s, probably because the judges had come from male bodybuilding. They only knew huge and freakish and had no concepts of sculpted and graceful by that time.
Someone responded earlier with "isn't that the reason to lift, to get bigger?" No, not all the time. This sport started out being about grace. Where's the grace in just walking up to the heaviest weight you can find and lifting it over and over? There's no technical ability in that, or artistic vision. It boils and devolves the sport down to "<grunt> Mongo lift!"
My preference has always been for strong and athletic in look. This even includes natural mesomorphs like Tina Lockwood, with emphasis on natural. Its when they have to resort to chemicals that their femininity fades away and they just become guys in bikinis.
I wish I had a way to post a picture I have that, to me, sums up what female bodybuilding is about. Its Marjo Selin standing in front of a brick wall, you see her from the knees up. She is wearing a brown leather jacket that is open in the front. She has one hand on a hip holding one side of the jacket further than the other. Her body, from her neck to her waist is a perfect bas relief of muscles with just a hint of sinew in her exposed forearms and around her lower hips and upper thighs.
To me, that is probably the single most sexy, erotic, attractive and incredible picture I have ever seen of a female body builder. And its what, IMHO, professional bosybuilding should still be about.
