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2023 Sun City Showdown Livestream

  2023 NPC Sun City Showdown   The official livestream of the 2023 NPC Sun City Showdown amateur bodybuilding contest by Wings of Strength June 10th, 2023! WATCH LIVE The NPC Sun City Showdown is a NATIONAL QUALIFIER bodybuilding show   ALL NPC OPEN OVERALL WINNERS will receive FREE REGISTRATION to a IFBB PRO QUALIFIER…
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2023 Lenda Murray ATL PRO & ATLANTA CLASSIC

2023 Lenda Murray ATL PRO & ATLANTA CLASSIC Pre-Order HERE The Official Pay-per-view of the RedCon1 2023 Lenda Murray ATLANTA SUPERSHOW (IFBB ATLANTA PRO & NPC ATLANTA CLASSIC), LIVE from Atlanta Georgia on July 15-16, 2023. Four live shows - Day 1 Prejudging and Finals, Day 2 Prejudging and Finals. Presented by RedCon1 A 2023…
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2023 Masters Olympia & AOEE PPV Package

2023 Masters Olympia & AOEE Premium Package The Complete Pay-per-view of the return of the Masters Olympia AND the 2nd annual Olympia Amateur Eastern Europe (an IFBB Pro League Qualifier). INCLUDING complete coverage of both days of the return of the Masters Olympia! Including 10 divisions for the first time ever! Live August 26-27, 2023…
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ProTan Official Tanning Sponsor

Pro Tan® is proud to be the Official and Exclusive Competition Tanning Provider! May 6 - Valley of the Sun Championships July 15-16 - Atlanta Supershow September 30 - Rising Phoenix & Arizona Pro-Am   Pro Tan® is the only tanning company permitted on site or at the host hotel. Tanning will be conveniently located…
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Le’Bou Beauty Official Hair and Makeup

Le'Bou Beauty is the Official Hair and Makeup!   May 6 - Valley of the Sun Championships June 10 - Sun City Showdown July 15-16 - Atlanta Supershow July 22 - Phoenix Iron Games September 30 - Rising Phoenix & Arizona Women's Pro-Am With over 17 years experience, this glam squad has your every need…
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Upcoming Events

July 15 2023

2023 Lenda Murray Atlanta Pro-Am Supershow (IFBB & NPC) – National Qualifier!

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July 15-16, 2023

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July 22 2023

2023 NPC Phoenix Iron Games – National Qualifier!

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July 22, 2023

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June 10 2023

2023 NPC Sun City Showdown – National Qualifier!

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June 10, 2023

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August 26-August 27 2023

2023 Olympia Amateur Eastern Europe

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August 26-27, 2023

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August 26-August 27 2023

2023 Masters Olympia

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August 26-27, 2023

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December 5, 2020

Rising Phoenix 2020

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November 13-15, 2020

Romania Pro 2020

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Andrea Shaw

As a girl, Andrea Shaw was seriously into gymnastics and competitive cheer.  She says that being athletic benefitted her both physically and mentally.  She loved it! Her mother is a…

As a girl, Andrea Shaw was seriously into gymnastics and competitive cheer.  She says that being athletic benefitted her both physically and mentally.  She loved it! Her mother is a nurse and formerly a personal trainer, and she encouraged Andrea’s athletic ambitions.  In fact, it was her mother who first got her to start working out at Powerhouse Gym.  Her mom’s training partner was a female bodybuilder and she began giving Andrea guidance on muscle building exercises when she was 17 years old.   “I had no desire to be a bodybuilder back then,” recalls Andrea, “I wanted to be a fashion model, but at 5’5” I wasn’t tall enough.  As Andrea continued her training in the gym she recalled coming across a fitness magazine and stated, “I came across Oxygen Magazine and saw it was full of athletic fitness and sports models.  So then that became my ambition.”   But Andrea is one of those women whose body started to respond quickly to resistance training and once she started intense weight training, soon people were asking her if she competed in muscle contests and if not, why not.  She didn’t see herself as having enough size and development to compete with the female bodybuilders she saw in the magazines but she liked the look of the figure competitors.  So in 2008 she entered her first figure contest and placed third.  “My problems was,” she recalled, “I had more muscle mass than the division called for.”  She entered another and higher level figure event and placed 4th.  But she still didn’t feel she was on the right path.   Andrea took a pause of about 8 years from competing, during which time she attended college, earning a BA in exercise and sports science and she continued to refine her resistance training. Then she decided to resume competing, and Andrea decided to switch to physique, entering a show in May of 2016, placing 4th.  “I felt much more comfortable in physique,” she says, “and in 2018 I entered five shows, earning my pro card at the NPC Nationals.”   But Andrea soon found she was not only too developed for figure, but for physique as well.  She competed in pro physique at the Toronto Pro in 2019.  At that contest she had an awakening.  She spoke to one of the judges, to Lenda Murray and Alina Popa and they all told her she looked more like a bodybuilder than a physique competitor and she ought to consider changing divisions.   So she entered the 2019 Chicago Pro as a bodybuilder, placing second by 1 point to the incredible Aleesha Young.  She knew she had obviously made the right decision.   Andrea says being a bodybuilder has been a tremendous relief.  She no longer had to hold back and restrain her muscular development.  She could diet for maximum hardness and definition without fear of going “too far” for the judges.  Finally, she felt she was where she belonged. “My legs, in particular, were just too big,” she says, “I tried over time to make them smaller, but nothing worked.  Getting into bodybuilding allowed me to create a better balance by further developing my upper body rather than reducing my legs.”   “I was particularly happy to be in bodybuilding because of Jake Wood and Wings of Strength.  Until the involvement of WOS bodybuilding there seemed to be no future in pro female bodybuilding.  No place to compete and nowhere to go, but thankfully Jake has changed all of that.”     COMPETITION HISTORY   March 2008 -  Karen Zaremba Classic - placed 3rd in Open Figure July 2008 - Michigan Natural Championships - placed 4th in Open Figure May 2016 - John Simmons Championships - placed 4th in Open Women’s Physique March 2018 - Ohio Natural Championship - placed 2nd in Open Women’s Physique May 2018 - John Simmons Championship - placed 1st & Overall in Open Women’s Physique August 2018 -  Lenda Murray Detroit Classic - placed 1st & Overall in Open Women’s Physique August 2018 -  North Americans - placed 3rd in Open Women’s Physique November 2018 - Nationals- placed 2nd in Women’s Physique June 2019 - Toronto Pro - placed 11th in Women’s Physique July 2019 - Chicago Pro- placed 2nd in Women’s Bodybuilding September 2019 - Rising Phoenix World Championship - placed 7th in Women’s Bodybuilding July 2020 - Omaha Pro  - placed 1st in Women's Bodybuilding December 2020 - Rising Phoenix World Championship - placed 1st December 2020 - Mr Olympia - placed 1st in Women's Bodybuilding winning Ms Olympia title December 2021 - Rising Phoenix World Championship - placed 1st December 2021 - Mr Olympia - placed 1st in Women's Bodybuilding winning Ms Olympia title   CONTACT INFO: Inastagram: Mzprettymuscle              

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