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Title: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on April 21, 2010, 04:02:48 pm
The powerful and beautyful Alison Brundage!!!

Alison was one of the unforgettable, lovely 'Maidens' of the early '80....very peaked in those huge arms!


Luc





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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on April 25, 2010, 06:43:39 pm
Very Nice pics!  I've never seen her before. :)

K++


yeah, she was one of best women of early '80 with other goddesses like Kay Baxter, Pillow, etc.

Personally, she is one of my favourite bacause of her mom-next-door supersexy look AND her arms that seems they could tear steel (see pic 13  :o :o)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Ro Ba on June 23, 2010, 03:08:08 am
I remember seeing a photo of her in an issue of Flex in a brief article on the 1983 Gold's Classic. She won the middleweight division and nearly beat the heavyweight winner, Pillow, in the overall posedown.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: jimmyd1 on June 24, 2010, 03:56:37 pm
wow, what treat to see these in color ... anyone remember seeing these for the first time in the black/white glossys ?

thanks to the poster and karma !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 20, 2012, 10:30:12 pm
Now retired and living in Central America.  Still an active surfer with weights in the backyard.  Age now 67 yr old
Alison Brundage
BTW...thanx for the nice comments
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 14, 2013, 05:33:51 pm
Reply from Alison Brundage:
1. Thoughts a/o memories from my bodybuilding years.  I trained in a backyard gym made out of found objects.  I was a night nurse in a small hospital on the North Shore of Hawaii.  When I had won several contests there, I got a lot of support from the cops.   Policemen would tell me where busted stop-sign posts were.  Lots of the gym contruction was made out of these posts...

2. When I went to the Gold's Classic in Venice Beach I really had my eyes opened when I saw so many bodyboilders there in their off-season condition and most likely taking steroids.  I felt like I didn't belong...nor did I feel like I had a career  going forward.  That was pretty much my swan song...those last years. 

3. I t was exciting being on the cutting edge of the popularity of muscularity for women.  To be quite honest I was naturally muscular and an avid surfer.  What I achieved was more due to diet than anything.  I had a heck of a great trainner...Steve Dussia.

4.  I was not a person of interest when it came to the muscle mags.  It was only WSP that supported me in their mag and printed articles.  They were great encouragers and I am thankful to them to this day.

5. Diet:   To get in contest shape I used the old tried and true 3&1.  Three cans of tuna a day.....period .  Tuna for 3 days then one day of carbs.   That not only dehydrates you but is a real fat burner.  I would not recommend it.  Nutrition for bodybuilders has come a long way since then.   My last National I never weighed in.  I competed in the middleweight division.  BUT I had lost so much weight, i actually qualified for the lightweights.

6. Last I want to say thank you for all your interest and as well your kind comments
Title: photo submission question
Post by: alison brundage on January 14, 2013, 05:39:50 pm
I'm sort of getting a handle on how to submit a photo here..    I just clicked on ImageBam up there where Luca78 had posted those first shots...and used that.    I am about to submit some pics I have  but I don't want to waste my time goofing it up.  So far all I am able to do is copy a link via a subscription I have now with ImageBam.
Jot me a personal message if you can give me a photo-duplication for idiots lesson.  How do you get the actual image to appear here?...or is that something the moderator does.     Thanx

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on January 14, 2013, 06:35:04 pm
At the 1983 AFWB America

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OdoHerr


Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2013, 03:41:32 am
Some answers Moveeguy
1. Initially my husband and I were gym members.   Very quickly I moved to my own backyard gym in the backyard of our friend and trainer.  I never again returned to a formal gym.  All the equipment was made by my husband and my trainer...pullies, strange contraptions to effect tension where I needed it.  I did have a complete Olympic set and power frame with a full set of dumb bells.   My trainer Steve Dussia was old school and well respected in Hawaii as a trainer.  He was known to have won BB contests doing nothing but Chas Atlas dynamic tension.   It was quite an adventure actually.

2. The diet pre-dated what we know now in BB nutrition.  I was consuming 1 gm protein for every kg bodyweight.   I have no doubt I lost a considerable amount of muscle...   My kidneys survived it.  My energy level was actually pretty high.  I was working nights, surfing big Hawaiian surf every day... and training as well...running uphill for cardio.   My husband sez I was a tad edgey...LOL.

3. My trainer  competed with me in doubles at the National Amateur level. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2013, 04:30:57 pm
(http://thumbnails103.imagebam.com/23331/d9d71e233300112.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/d9d71e233300112)

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Here's a couple more Hawaii pics I found.  Me surfing...and one of my last contests
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2013, 04:44:32 pm
OOPS.....sorry , that was my husband surfing up there.  Here's me

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2013, 04:58:38 pm
I never kept up with who might have come up after Lori and I.  No doubt Lori would know.  We were for sure the first who made names.  Keep in mind we were way early (as you know).  My first BB contest in Hawaii we all came out in high heels ...LOL  Lori was one heck of a lifter. She was a competative lifter before her entry into bodybulding. 
.....................
Flash forward many decades.  Here's a pic of myself here in the mountains of Central America where my husband and I are doing missionary work with Ngobe Bugle indians.

(http://thumbnails107.imagebam.com/23331/3400c7233305041.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/3400c7233305041)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2013, 05:02:20 pm
All those trophies were from one contest....a Maui Classic.  In Hawaii they gave a trophy for each body part as well as over-all.  It was waaaay cool !

Lowest body fat measured was 6%.....
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2013, 05:12:07 pm
Remember Larry Scott ?   Was he the very first Mr America...I forget.  Anyway he was guest poser at this contest here where I won all these trophies.  Somewhere I have a pic of myself and Larry Scott doing a side chest together.  Boy did that make my day or what.  If memory serves me well, I believe Julie McNew was there posing as well.    We had great times walking the beach and I guess boggling the minds of those bathers that had never seen a woman bodybuilder before.

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2013, 06:53:31 pm
More surf pics .  Some are when we were living in Hawaii ..others taken in Indonesia.   The WaveSki pictures are recent taken where we're living now in Central America

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 22, 2013, 04:00:35 pm
1. We don't do Facebook....   We're law-adiding American citizens gone well under the radar and enjoying retirement peace in a foreign country....   Wanna keep the peace ya know.  There's enormous value in that freedom.

2. Re Pillow:  Please do say hello for me.  She was an important part of my life back then.  Great gal.

3.  I'll try to hook up with Lori Okami...another one that I've respected as an athlete.

4. Would like to find out where Steve Dussia went to.  He's from Pennsylvania originally.  Well respected as an Olympic lifter and trainer.  My hunch is he's still active.  Can't locate  him...   Like us, gone off the radar.

5.  Need to start a "then and now" forum here.   Approaching 70 now, I would assume there's others in my age-group that were active in bodybuilding now trying to maintain their youthful vigor.   All of us need encouragement...then and now !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 22, 2013, 11:44:32 pm
It just took time for the center stage that was taken up by Rachael McLish to exhaust and for the public to warm up to profound muscularity.  Corrie Everson and Carla Dunlap helped enormously.  I entered late...I was already well into my 30's.   My time was over fairly quick. It was time for me to return to normal athletics like surfing and lifing for health and quit the extremes that bodybuilding forced on my female body.  Pillow's name?   Nah....Pillow was Pillow...and she did just fine as Pillow...LOL
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 23, 2013, 12:04:02 am


I have to thank you Alison because you are the woman who made me fall in love with bodybuilding and my max icon of the sport. i was just a teen and I saw you on some bb magazine and simply tought "wow! this is the kind of woman I want to be!" Never tought before a woman could be so huge and cut and at the same time so feminine and beautiful...after i saw a lot of others fbb champions, but i only say: when I'm in need of motivation or energy in the gym, I only have to look at one of your pictures. I think that this is the best thank I can say to you...

 :rock:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2013, 01:48:16 am
To Luca78
How very sweet of you !   Listen Luca, when  I was a teen ( possibly at the age you spoke of when you first saw my pic...a teen)  muscular women were shunned.  Remember now, I was born in 1945. 
The ideal then was to be very thin and have a nicely groomed pageboy...and be prom queen.  I can remember back then trying on a prom dress and crying.  Somehow it just didn't seem to belong on my body.  When I was just a young girl I'd help my dad in his used furniture store....move furniture...LOL !    OK so now flashing forward warp speed I'm now sort of getting a bit dumpy in my thirties, and a friend on mine said..."Alison you should join a gym".   ( I'm picturing some black hole that smelled like men's BO with jock straps hung on a hook over in the corner.   She said : "No, it's not like that....go...see".     So my husband and I joined a gym.  We were instructed by some older lifters who knew that we were not teenagers and they taught us how not to hurt ourselves lifting ...sticking to the basics of form  with reasonable weight.  Long story short is I ended up meeting the guy that ultimately was our best friend and my trainer.  He was a champion olympic lifter and well respected.   So anyway, my husband and our friend end up fashioning this home made gym in  his back yard...all out of found objects.  There were pulleys going everywhere.   In 6 months I entered my first contest in Hawaii.  It was the very first one ever in Hawaii...we came out in high heels...LOL   I won every single one I ever entered there and did the Golds and 2 Nationals.  The end of the story is I was able to finally feel good about myself as a muscular woman.  Finally I was "OK" with me ...as I was.  To have girls like yourself come up and shake my hand or ask for an autograph was pretty hard for me to wrap my head around actually.  To have friends like Pillow and Kay Baxter who were muscular like me....was a sisterhood I will cherish for the rest of my life.   It was a blessing.   Thanks again for your kind words.  ( makes me wanna do some bench presses ! )
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2013, 07:24:50 pm
TO moveeguy

We were living in Hawaii...bodybuilding for women hit sorta late there methinks.   I was way out of the loop in-so -far as becoming chums with other bodybuilders.   Pillow and I wrote letters...encouraged each other ( at least she encouraged me).   I was always a solitary trainer...just me and my backyard home made rig of pulleys, a power rack and dumb bells.  I never cared much for training in a gym once I left it.  My trainer Steve Dussia was very inventive.  He would teach me how to use rocks on the beach...LOL...dynamic tension ( just you and a wall or table you could press or pull against), sprints, etc.    There was never a dull moment with Steve.  He made it an adventure and exciting...never routine. 

In answer to your question...no.  I always trained alone.  If I got stuck say with a bench press and couldn't rack it...I'd dump the weight...LOL   My husband trained with me quite often.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2013, 07:48:19 pm
Upper left.  Pic of Alison Brundage and Steve Dussia , couple competition Nationals...?year forget
http://www.imagebam.com/image/3f84b9233670867

Pic mon the right is my very first contest in Hawaii after 6 month's training
http://www.imagebam.com/image/cd9ef8233670882

Pic taken at the time of that first contest
http://www.imagebam.com/image/c2eaf1233670896

Nationals, Vegas.  I was running at night sweating off weight.  Never weighed in.  After the contest I found out I qualified for the lightweight division.  I case of having lost one's mind in training
http://www.imagebam.com/image/9d6149233670911

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2013, 07:58:20 pm
First two shots here are what I looked like before I ever started trainning

http://www.imagebam.com/image/a5d55b233672905
http://www.imagebam.com/image/a5598f233672902

Six month's later...my first contest  was Miss Aloha State which I won
http://www.imagebam.com/image/bd9d2c233672911
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2013, 08:20:35 pm
Some photos I found
Here's my favorite !
http://www.imagebam.com/image/1efca8233674566

..and these too
http://www.imagebam.com/image/e78ac8233674581

http://www.imagebam.com/image/b954a1233674679

After my first Hawaii contest win
http://www.imagebam.com/image/e4435c233674705

Oiling up my friend Lori Okami...possibly the Golds Classic
http://www.imagebam.com/image/44937c233674693

Misc fun shots
http://www.imagebam.com/image/da263c233674611
http://www.imagebam.com/image/bfb037233674686
http://www.imagebam.com/image/e11420233674618

My husband and I
http://www.imagebam.com/image/b9d7aa233674650

These are all of myself and my trainer and friend Steve Dussia

http://www.imagebam.com/image/80de93233674587
http://www.imagebam.com/image/e92670233674598
http://www.imagebam.com/image/ee15b0233674665
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2013, 08:32:22 pm
Moveeguy
Your question: "What did Pillow encourage you 'to do".   Strange question.  Pillow never encouraged me "to do " anything.  To say WE were discouraged as muscular bodybuilders in that era would be a truth...we were to an extent.   Contests were being won by gals who had less muscle in those early years.  Nobody wanted to sponsor muscularity.  Our support came from encouraging each other to move on along and not give up. To find our own nitch.  We were frustrated....what can I say?

Lisa Elliot had a fine physique.  I did not know her personally. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2013, 08:41:33 pm
This was my last contest and the picture I had taken with Larry Scott who was the guest poser.  Larry Scott was the only bodybuilder I know of to hold all three titles: Mr America, Mr Universe and Mr Olympia at the same time.  What an opportunity that was !!!   All the trophies were from that one contests...all the body best body parts got a trophy.  Hawaii was very good to me.

http://www.imagebam.com/image/518b4a233678739
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2013, 08:45:41 pm
1993 I had brain surgery.  Bill and I decided to maximize the look and document it.   All turned out well...benign.  Some loss of balance that caused my to switch from standup surfing to Wave Ski riding.

http://www.imagebam.com/image/2374af233679569
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2013, 08:52:54 pm
Movee guy....For sure Pillow was always on a soapbox against the "s" stuff in female bodybuilding.  We never shared training tips.  It was always banter on life in general.  It was definately a different spot for a female bodybuilder to be up there in Alaska making her way with her own self styled shows....   She was very enterprising...and as well talented.   I always got a bang out of her various new themes, and schemes.  Me?...I burned out quick.  Pillows letters kept me lifting, surfing and in generall feelling AOK with my life that never made center stage in bodybuild-dom.  We were like spectators bantering comments back and forth on what was hitting center stage. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 24, 2013, 12:10:03 pm


Thank you Alison, even now I can hardly believe I'm talking with my bodybuilding hero!  ;D . You are such an inspiration for me!
The tale of your life in bodybuilding is at least as much interesting as your pictures (that are superb. For me you are one of the most beautiful women ever, and thanks to you i never followed the anorexic-way-of-looking of all fashion models followed  by almost all girls of my age in our teen years).
I was particularly touched by your story about the sisterhood you built with Pillow and Kay Baxter and Lori Okami and the early fbb....I think an entire generation of girl owe so much to you all, you were the pionieers of a totally new way of female being and looking and a new face of woman emancipation. Thanks to you, a girl like me could enter the bodybuilding in mid 90s without being considered an alien....even if in a traditional country like Italy I was considered a bit 'strange' even in the 90s. Anyway, I can only imagine how difficult it was for a female bodybuilder like you at the beginning...




Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 24, 2013, 04:13:08 pm
To Lurca 78:
Well my my Lurca.   You I believe have put me on a pedestal upon which I certainly do not belong.  But thanks !   Are you still lifting? 

To Moveeguy:
I think the most Pillow and I shared on diet/training  was how much Metamucil we each needed to take and how we mixed it....LOL !! ... ( Pillow worked magic with a blender which she carted along to her contests.   As I recall her brews were augmented with some booze...which no doubt we all enjoyed after disappointing contest results)
 :singing:
We never talked religion and frankly that was not part of my life back then.  No doubt what she was saying ( methinks ) was that she is a God-given muscular woman and whatever He supplies is what it is....by training...not by chemicals.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 24, 2013, 04:25:48 pm
WPW and the Women's Physique World cheerleaders

One thing I have neglected to say is the part that Bill Jentz and Steve Wennerstrom played in promoting muscularity in women's bodybuilding and especially in those early years.   When other mags were  promoting the less muscled model-form of lady bodybuilders, the WPW team were out there looking for the most muscle they could find.   They were enormously supportive and a very major part of making sure true bodybuilding and profound muscularity was shown to the public.  Still today WPW gives the fans what they are looking for not only in pictures but as well in stories of their lives.  Through these men (WPW), fans truly got to know who these muscled women were.  I still write to Bill Jentz now and again, and he's as supportive today as he was back then.

I definately suggest that those on this blog with questions about the lives of bodybuilders, do look up WPW and purchase some of their pictures, videos and old magazines of the muscular ladies of the early era.  Some of these women may never have competed in a bodybuilding contest...but were profoundly muscular.

WPW.......check it out

I
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Karharot on January 24, 2013, 04:36:38 pm
WPW and the Women's Physique World cheerleaders
One thing I have neglected to say is the part that Bill Jentz

Do you have any news about him ?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 24, 2013, 06:33:29 pm
http://www.wpwmagazineonline.com/store.html

Well he's still doing what he's done all these many years...here's the link to the main site.  Many years have rolled on by, and we all have gotten old(er)  and always lament that...
That was one of our last conversations most recently (smile). 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 25, 2013, 03:45:13 pm


To Alison: I'm sorry if I was too enthusiastic, I never imagine I could hear your experience directly from you, I usually put no one on a pedestal, if i did it forgive me. I appreciate so much WPW, I think their sets are beautiful, stunning and very elegant ( and you can't say that of a lot of other fbb sites)...I picked up few months ago the full sets and video download option for a very reasonable price and wow! Tons of pics and video of the best fbb in history, and inspiration and motivation for me for the next 30 years  :dance:!
I did lift heavy and everyday until 2-3 years ago (now I'm 35 yo) and get appropriate diet...I also did some local contests and I did some powerlifting, then my trainer asked me if I wanted to try to become a national high rank bodybuilder but my priorities went to my family and my studies. Actually i lift to keep myself strong and shapely and to sustain my black belt....I'm trying also crossfit since october...but nothing more.



I tought over it Alison, but in front of a picture like that I replace you on my pedestal  :-\! Sorry ::)

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 26, 2013, 12:38:59 am
Moveeguy:  More pics?  Well yes....I will have to go into the closet and unearth a few cartons and no doubt I can find some history in there.  For the most part however these are some of the best of them.  Stay tuned.  This is fun actually...

Lurca:
Good for you.  I do believe you have made a good choice to put the family first while at the same time enjoying a fitness routine that is healthy and will serve you well as you age.  It is not natural for a woman to have a 6% body fat , nor for the body to go the extremes of weight gain and loss over and over.  It's stressful to the body....and has to take a toll as you age.
I was looking at some pictures of female cross fit athletes just yesterday after looking at a progression of shots of one of the famous Ms Olympias of the mid 90's.  From start of this Ms Olympia's career to finish, I was somewhat astounded at the amount of muscle and the distortion of even facial features of that Ms Olympia champion.  She had gone massive.  I then went back to see pictures of women in their 40's who were cross fit trainers and they had a glow and a total body balance that  was the picture of health....and they were your age.  Stick with a good balance is everything you do...and include your family in it as well.   

That picture there that you posted is what I looked like for maybe 3 days (LOL).   I was starving and depleted.  BTW I remember when I bought that bathing suit.  It was expensive ( for me anyway) .  I went surfing on a big day and after falling on a huge wave, I   got caught on the ocean floor at the reef by the butt of the suit. ( God forbid I should have to tear that suit.)  I grabbed the reef and held on down there under two sets of waves til I could get my suit loose and not damage it...nearly killed myself ( I'm laughing).

Well Lorca...you have inspired me.  After our last talk I went out to my backyard gym and dressed it up with some potted plants.  I made myself a dumbell set out of plastic washing machine detergant bottles filled with rocks and actually got sore after a pittiful workout.   Under this layer of post-menopausal weight is still some pretty significant muscle and I am determined to get it showing.  I have ideas on some pulley set-ups I want to rig from a few trees out there.  I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your inspiration.  I do believe the table has turned.  I'm the one who is in the need of inspiration these days.   Thank you for that
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 26, 2013, 12:43:58 am
It's Luca !    Sorry Luca.  I hit the send button and then realized that I also need a new set of glasses.  Here I'm calling you Lorca...   Sorry Luca
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 26, 2013, 07:22:47 pm

No problem Alison, additionally Luca is not my name (it's a male name here in Italy) but only the first two syllable of my name and surname, LUcrezia CAsamento, followed by my birth year.
Well, I am inspirating YOU?!? OMG....it's a serious responsability for me :) but even if that is possible (AND I can't understand how) believe me, I will only return to you a little part of the tons of inspiration you gave and give me....so....thank you for these words. I'm sure you kept your iron will along with your muscles under that layer and I'm very happy to have the opportunity to talk with a nice woman with sense of humour and very pleasant. The fact that that woman is also my one and only bodybuilding myth is perfect!  :dance:
Well, your nice story about your bathing suit can be understood only within women I say , sorry for the men who are here, but I remember some episodes of my life involving risks of tearing dresses and suits and stockings and heels turned into risks for my life to avoid them (I'm laughing too), so I understand you: especially for that kind of early '80 suits, I really LOVE that kind of suits! It's fitting you perfectly, I love the way the lower part dresses the butt and rejoin on the stomach. If they were still in commerce I would love to buy one for myself....forgive my curiosity but I can't recover the pic of the rear: how was the suits' rear? Did you close it simply with a pair of strings? (sorry always women stuff...).
Well Alison my family is my first think in the morning and my last think in the night so it was natural....I hadn't been nowhere near to 6% body fat in my entire life so I could only imagine what that means...but I stopped doing hard bodybuilding for example even because it was difficult to me to breastfeed my daughter, as you know. Crossfit is kind a much more natural movement than bodybuilding of course and you cannot put on extreme masses but a real good strenght, coordination and muscular power; and you're right on women my crossfit instructor is mother of three and she is a real warrior....even I am doing not so bad, especially clean and jerk and I ever loved pullups. Nonetheless, i find your pics, and generally '80s fbb pics very nice and beautiful, I love that kind of shape (I was ever been astounded by the size and shape of your arms...).
Yeah my goal is to be shaped and balanced, toned and muscular as age goes on...you could see some pics of me in legs section at this link :
http://saradas.org/index.php?topic=193582.0

I will be very happy if you can tell me your opinion on my shape...many thanks to you Alison it's nice talking with you.





Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 26, 2013, 11:24:10 pm
Luca
I'm still waiting for your site to open....verrry slow right now.   The suit had strings that came around and tied in the front.  Brilliant and easy design.  In my profile I did list you as my buddy.  I'm new here and don't know what that may mean but possibly we might be able to communicate more directly somehow.   I'm impressed by your lifting.  There is a crossfit training place in our little town and I think I'll check it out.  On bodybuilding and the female hormones....during my brief career I did not have a menstrual cycle for 1 1/2 year.  That's not normal obviously.  It can't be good for you.  I'll write as soon as your leg site opens and I check it out.

Moveeguy
I have pics of that Gold's .   Most of those that Luca78 posted up there were taken by the Jentz/Wennerstrom team during that Gold's contest period.  Their series that they have on Pillow is as well from that time for the most part....as far as I know.   Could be wrong.   Check out WPW.  Meanwhile I'll get into the storecloset and see what I can find when I can get the time....promise
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 12:01:41 am
Luca....I did see your leg shots from that link.  You need to post more shots.  I'm interested in your leg routine.   Looks like some nice shape you have goin there!   Good work.
On my biceps.  I was a surfer.  I did a lot of repetative pulling paddling the surfboard.  That naturally developed the shoulders and upper back.  The arms appeared to be big but the muscle body was narrow.  Seen from the side, and flexed there was an appearance of more size.  Your arms (if that is you in the picture in the little square under your name)...look much the same from what I see
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 27, 2013, 12:05:24 am
Well Alison I'm also interested in communicating more directly...I don't know what means to be buddy of someone on this site, i'll try to send you a personal message check your inbox in your profile...yeah i've figured out about the design of ties on the back of your suit and i say it should had been very elegant and simple...very nice and sweet I guess. I picked up some hormones too for some months but I disliked immediately...I would talk about that to you but not here...check the inbox please...kiss.
No, the pic in the square is a 3d work of fantasy done by a friend of mine...it's not me.





Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 27, 2013, 12:39:03 am

I guess you are right about the series of Pillow you are talking about: wpw report shooting of Pillow's 3 sets been taken in 1981...perhaps they are some months later your set?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 01:35:10 am
Found some pics...more recent
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/img1011i.jpg/
(whew...had trouble with this, hope it works)

Here's the story on this picture.  My husband and I are retired and live up in the mountains of Central America and are missionaries to this group of indiginous people.  They are called Ngobe Bugle.   This was a summer retreat for the children who were out of school.  Great kids

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/26/img1874ak.jpg/

This one is of me in our backyard

...Ok lets see if I really loaded those.  Once I get the hang of this I'll unearth my photo stash and see if I can get them in here
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 02:07:13 am
http://www.imagebam.com/image/f40dfe234167401
http://www.imagebam.com/image/b8ac8a234167475
....so this is what you do in retirement.  Me basking scantily clothed in our backyard pool.....and enjoying sun down by our river

http://www.imagebam.com/image/76ea21234167445
Here's some light lifting I do here.  Those are coffee plants behind us.

http://www.imagebam.com/image/ed6018234167359
Some of my pals that live way up in the mountains.  Real loving kids !!!...  Simple life .
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 03:46:21 am
And a physician of some sort ?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 04:08:14 am
Well, my husband and I are certainly enjoying our life here as missionaries.  It's great physical exercise as well. We are not full time at it..but steady.  We still get off and go surfing.

  Here's a pic of me bending my 68 yr old frame down to a newly laid cement floor of a church we were helping to build.  What funny is the indian ladies sitting there getting a huge bang out of watching me....who knew very little about cement work and it was obvious!  LOL

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 04:10:30 am
BTW...that red scarf aroudn my head?   It was the material from my posing suit at the Vegas Nationals in 1980 ...forget the year
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 27, 2013, 11:13:22 am

OMG you still are ina REAL good shape Alison...I love the top you have on in the pic of the bridge....the blue one with transparencies, it's wonderful, tell me where you buy your clothes please  :dance:...and the kids....they should be so sweet! Maximum respect for what are you doing there your husband and you, Alison!






Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on January 27, 2013, 11:25:13 am
Yes, you look like you are still in great shape(which is not to say that you are old - although of course we are all older than we were!)
Regarding Lynn Pirie, I think she is, or was, an osteopath.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 09:43:01 pm
http://www.imagebam.com/image/066a80234306359
OK here's one. I did my abs with inversion boots  ....hanging upside down.  Cut my hair that way too.
TAYLOR:  Thanks, but 68 is now considered old.  BUT I do thankyou for the encouragement, I need every ounce of it...& YOU need Karma points.  No one should be -1...I bumped you up to zip .   
LUCA:  ( I'm laughing again) You ask where I get my stunning clothes?....used clothing stores.
OK...I've got my encouragement dose.  I'm going out to my gym and do some bicep curls with my detergent bottles filled with rocks.......later U2
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 10:14:08 pm
(http://thumbnails104.imagebam.com/23431/41b82e234309984.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/41b82e234309984)

Posing practice pics
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 10:15:46 pm
I think those were before my first contest which I entered after 6 month's of training
Title: Re Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2013, 10:21:08 pm
(http://thumbnails101.imagebam.com/23432/b70d6d234311510.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/b70d6d234311510)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 27, 2013, 10:50:17 pm

well those are real beautiful pics....i had a smell it was from used clothes, I found me too some of my best fitting clothes in little pawnshops...but that top is spectacular!!!!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on January 27, 2013, 11:15:53 pm
Great pics - and yes I have no Karma :( boo-hoo!!!
Title: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2013, 12:04:20 am
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I'm re-posting this photo ...it did a vanishing act
Here's the the story of this particular contest.  It was the National Amateurs in Vegas.  I was competing in singles and as well doubles with my trainer.  Both of us were starving and depleted but still ran the streets of Vegas in sweats and were doing chin ups on pipes in the stairwell of Ceasar's Palace.  It was a classic case of "losing it" and overtraining.  Well I missed the weigh in.  Competed as a middleweight and after the contest came to find out I was in fact a lightweight and had gone down to 106 lbs.  A little water and a tiny carb treat might  would have served me well !...LOL
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2013, 12:21:29 am
Here's one I found of the Golds...  Lorri Okami there  ( sorry this image seems to have grown in size.....)

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2013, 12:25:11 am

....(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/540/jTjuhR.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/f0jTjuhRj)
2015
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on January 28, 2013, 12:27:51 am
1982 or '83?

Thanks for the Karma, by the way!!!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on January 28, 2013, 10:05:12 am
To Alison:

May I thank you for all these pics, as well as all your comments about your thoughts and your life. I do appreciate.

Regards

OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2013, 05:45:57 pm
Re: thanks from you guys.......
Hey my thanks to all of you !   It's my hope that together we might encourage others towards healthy livin n liftin and long life.   I am happy to share my life experiences and as well where they have led me to this point in my life.   At 68 yr old I feel sorta like I did when I first discovered iron and what positive effects lifting can do for a body.   I'm inspired to lift more regurlarly, eat a more healthy diet and supplement those elements that deplete as we age to encourage a body to work more efficiently...nutriceuticals  (multivits, CQ10, DHEA, antioxidants, free radical scavengers) .  I can say I am daily feeling and looking better.
Sooooo I say: thank YOU for this newfound inspiration I have to journey once again into a lifting lifestyle.  Karma point backatcha OdoHerr...I see your presence all over this site in a positive way.
Moveeguy:  I have to master  photo duplication,  and as well get negatives I have into a form I can duplicate.  It will take time.  I have a huge carton of a photo journey of my brief BB career that got packed decades ago when I folded my tent and moved on.  It's here and I will definately be happy to share those pics with you all here.  Be patient. 
Taylor:  You're welcome for a meager karma point.....I appreciate your kindness.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2013, 06:07:02 pm


One the tricks of posing is to make  one "think" you appear better than you do in actuality.  One saying I remember from the old Iron Man mags is their expression that a particular bodybuilder shows himself at his "greatest advantage"  ( they were always very kind in what they said about featured lifters) .  I was blessed with a naturally muscular body, an athletic daily lifestyle in surfing and one hell-of- a good trainer.  Together with a solid lifting routine ( and hour or so a day on my backyard pulley rigs and power frame) ...I was turned into a real bodybuilder.  My muscles were narrow and long on a frame that's blocky ( the opposite of a Lenda Murray frame).   It was important to my success that the arm or leg was turned to "appear" to it's greatest advantage.   It was the trick of presentation that could make or break you...then.   It's as well an important part of the "sport" of bodybuilding itself.
I would encourge young lifters to eat well, train hard and learn from a professional.  You will benefit in the long run a lot more in that than to launch into creating bulk  by taking some muscle-building drug.  I never took steroids.  Please....don't go there

(http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/1574/bbodybuilding130.jpg)
Title: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2013, 06:16:35 pm
(http://thumbnails102.imagebam.com/23554/417935235531646.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/417935235531646) (http://thumbnails101.imagebam.com/23554/9e8ce0235531637.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/9e8ce0235531637)

Some older than time photos of the original backyard gym where I did all my training.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2013, 06:28:56 pm
Another look at this pic I just posted...this was the Nationals in Vegas...?82.  I had been lifting a year or so.  I look at this picture and what I see here is starvation and dehydration...all so that I would appear ripped.   I always looked so much better 1-2 days after a contest...   I definately did not have a handle on getting the most out of a peak

(http://imageshack.us/a/img248/374/bbodybuilding093.jpg)

Muscles sure look a lot better when the muscle cells have a little water in them !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2013, 07:42:01 pm
On the benefits of a low carbohydrate , high protein diet with regard to cancer progression a/o development:  ( for all you Adkins fans out there)

I just received a new newsletter that I get on general health and medical research, that often debunks what's touted as "truth" by the pharmaceutical industry to medical doctors.
This abstract I'm enclosing here states that research is showing that low carb high protein diet ( as tested in rats) reduced cancer cell growth in in further research, restricted cancer formation...humm intereting !! 

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Cancer Res. 2011 Jul 1;71(13):4484-93. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-3973. Epub 2011 Jun 14.
A low carbohydrate, high protein diet slows tumor growth and prevents cancer initiation.
Ho VW, Leung K, Hsu A, Luk B, Lai J, Shen SY, Minchinton AI, Waterhouse D, Bally MB, Lin W, Nelson BH, Sly LM, Krystal G.
SourceThe Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children's Hospital & University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Abstract
Since cancer cells depend on glucose more than normal cells, we compared the effects of low carbohydrate (CHO) diets to a Western diet on the growth rate of tumors in mice. To avoid caloric restriction-induced effects, we designed the low CHO diets isocaloric with the Western diet by increasing protein rather than fat levels because of the reported tumor-promoting effects of high fat and the immune-stimulating effects of high protein. We found that both murine and human carcinomas grew slower in mice on diets containing low amylose CHO and high protein compared with a Western diet characterized by relatively high CHO and low protein. There was no weight difference between the tumor-bearing mice on the low CHO or Western diets. Additionally, the low CHO-fed mice exhibited lower blood glucose, insulin, and lactate levels. Additive antitumor effects with the low CHO diets were observed with the mTOR inhibitor CCI-779 and especially with the COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex, a potent anti-inflammatory drug. Strikingly, in a genetically engineered mouse model of HER-2/neu-induced mammary cancer, tumor penetrance in mice on a Western diet was nearly 50% by the age of 1 year whereas no tumors were detected in mice on the low CHO diet. This difference was associated with weight gains in mice on the Western diet not observed in mice on the low CHO diet. Moreover, whereas only 1 mouse on the Western diet achieved a normal life span, due to cancer-associated deaths, more than 50% of the mice on the low CHO diet reached or exceeded the normal life span. Taken together, our findings offer a compelling preclinical illustration of the ability of a low CHO diet in not only restricting weight gain but also cancer development and progression.

©2011 AACR.

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 28, 2013, 11:18:16 pm
I would encourge young lifters to eat well, train hard and learn from a professional.  You will benefit in the long run a lot more in that than to launch into creating bulk  by taking some muscle-building drug.  I never took steroids.  Please....don't go there

Amen. As a ex-young lifter involved in roids for a very small amount of time, I had to say to young lifters out there: listen to Alison. Even if I know fbb is going exactly in the opposite direction...

Title: Gold's classic
Post by: alison brundage on January 29, 2013, 10:29:42 pm
This was from a photo shoot taken a day after the Gold's classic.   
( I had some contest photos inserted here...but when looked at them after I plugged them in, the posing suite was a different color than I used at the Golds....so I deleted those shots.   Some other contest I guess).

(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/5130/bbodybuilding118.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/341/bbodybuilding118.jpg/)

photo by WPW Magazine
Title: Gold's Clasic
Post by: alison brundage on January 29, 2013, 10:45:48 pm
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/bbodybuilding117.jpg/ (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/bbodybuilding117.jpg/)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/bbodybuilding124.jpg/ (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/bbodybuilding124.jpg/)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/bbodybuilding115.jpg/ (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/bbodybuilding115.jpg/)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/bbodybuilding123.jpg/ (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/bbodybuilding123.jpg/)

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/685/bbodybuilding122.jpg/ (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/685/bbodybuilding122.jpg/)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/59/bbodybuilding116.jpg/ (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/59/bbodybuilding116.jpg/)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/841/bbodybuilding130.jpg/ (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/841/bbodybuilding130.jpg/)  ( this one was taken the day of the contest)

These 1st 7 were taken a day after the Gold's classic by WPW Magazine.  The full set is still available through them
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 29, 2013, 11:01:11 pm
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/841/bbodybuilding130.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/19/bbodybuilding150.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/542/bbodybuilding149.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/541/bbodybuilding148.jpg/

More Gold's classic
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on January 29, 2013, 11:34:35 pm

tremndous pics there Alison...you seem big twice your opponents in the last pics!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 30, 2013, 12:57:19 am
Movveeguy
No I don't think they covered ( or were able to cover) the contest in pics.  They did however do my photo shoot at that time. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: racerx009 on January 30, 2013, 02:09:53 am
This thread has been so inspiring Alison, thank you so much. I became aware of female bodybuilding in 1982 as a teen and it utterly shattered my prior concept of what a woman "should" look like. I've never looked back. You, along with Kay Baxter, Pillow, and Laura Combes were among the pioneering cohort of female bodybuilders to inspire the likes of Clare Furr (long my sentimental favorite) and Cory Everson particularly to push FBB to heights of popularity it achieved during its golden age of the mid to late 1980's. As a consequence of that very popularity women's fitness in general was promoted and encouraged to an extent that it never had before. Again, thank you.
Title: Inspiration : Positive and negative effects
Post by: alison brundage on January 30, 2013, 04:48:34 pm
Racer:
I am honored to inspire someone...thank you

That said I have certain negative feelings about being party to what ultimately happened in the field of female BB and that is: taking steroids as a fast track.  It's bad. bad for the health,the personality( aggression) and it's cheating.  Natural bodybuilders have little chance to succeed in contests vs the gals using drugs.

I began to lift weights when I was 35 yr old on the advice of a friend.  I was lamenting feeling old and getting fat.  She advised me to join a gym.  Now the LAST thing I wanted was more muscles...   I was made fun of as a teenager for being a muscular girl and had a ton of bad feelings about myself still.  Ok so my husband and I join a gym,  With a basic routine using moderate weight and a diet that eliminated high caloric foods, I was quickly feeling better about myself.  I was introduced to a guy making lifting belts who was also a trainer.  He convinced me to try bodybuilding as Hawaii was considering it's first BB contest for women.  In 6 months I won that first contest with his help. I'd have to say I was suddenly feeling a lot better about myself as a muscular woman (LOL).  It was 1979 .  In 81 I did the Golds Classic and saw Venice Beach for the first time.  It was the first time I saw ladies who were taking steroids.  I had gone to Gold's gym and there were these monster women with bad skin lifting enormous weight. I knew for certain I did not want that to be me...ever.  Between 79 and 83 I pretty much exhausted my desire for fame centerstage and left the contest scene.  Certainly I left with feeling a whole lot better about myself as a muscular woman ! I packed up my photos in a carton and stopped buying magazines.  I still lifted and surfed.

Now, so many years later I'm kissing 70 (68 yr old) and feeling once again old an out of shape like I did way back then when I was 35,only worse.  I found Saradas looking for some of my old pictures an was so encouraged by fans I never knew I had ( makes me want to cry).   I'm encouraged to once again do what I know how to do to get back in shape.  I am enjoying conversations with gals who are now the age I was when I started.  Gals who were inspired by my pictures way back then and sadly took steroids to do well in contests.  Now THAT makes me want to cry!  I so do not want to inspire anyone to go there.  It's so not worth it.  Some day you will  be my age and will come to realize how important & fragile health is and how much harder it is to maintain it. Some of my dear friends are now dead; that's what happens at my age, they die!  I realize now all the more, how important health is !

If I inspire anyone .... it's my hope it's toward a happy and healthy lifestyle that serves you well as years go by.  If it's lifting to improve how you feel about yourself, and feel physically...go for it !

Thank you all for how you have encouraged me.  I truly appreciate every one of you.

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 30, 2013, 05:06:20 pm
Moveeguy:   
Re: WPW Mag coverage of the Gold's Classic
Well when I look through my box of collected photos and mags, I'll definately look for it.  You might try to contact Bill Jentz with WPW.  He'll tell you.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 30, 2013, 05:27:47 pm
Racer
On gaining confidence (I'm almost ashamed to share this, as it's so prideful)

I'm posting here a picture of my return home after my very last contest which was on the island of Maui.  I left Oahu for Maui with the clothes on my back and my posing suit and makup in a bag and three extra suitcases and a screwdriver.   I came back having won the contest and as well trophy for each best body part ( I won them all) 
Picture here is returning with suitcases of trophies and my husband and I screwing them together.  It was that contest where Larry Scott was guest poser He was simultaneously Mr America, Mr Universe, and Mr Olympia and to this day one of the all time greats of bodybuilding !  I went out in a blaze of glory and definately was feeling a heck of lot better about myself than I did when I was 18 !  I was 38 yr old.  How I thank bodybuilding, the wonderful sponsors who supported women's bodybuilding in Hawaii...they were most generous ! ...and Bill Jentz/Steve Wennerstrom at WPW who were my cheerleaders then.  I'm so grateful

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 30, 2013, 07:47:23 pm
No...but she was so kind to send me the full set of her photos.  I never saw her perform in them.   She made all of them too !  She carved out her own groove with style.
UPDATE:
I went back to the WSP site and what you are looking for is there!
Click on the link on the WSP Magazine page: WASP/WPP/WSP Magazines.   Those are the old black and white mags they producted before the glossy color mag.  They are available for download at under $5.00
On quick survey here's issues you want:
WSP Sept Oct 1981...Anita Gandol on cover.  Pillow is mentioned in the mag
WSP Apr 1982 ...Alison Brundage on the cover.  My life story
WSP Sept Oct 83...Pillow on the cover and my hunch is her life story.  I believe I saw that the coverage of the Gold's classic was in that issue. 

Check it out....you will be glad you did

Alisn
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 31, 2013, 12:04:45 am
At least you know where  your source is.  WPW has a wealth of vintage material.  As much as you and your lady friend admire Pillow you owe it to yourself to scrape up $5.00 and buy that old magazine.    I also encourage others out there who are interested in learning about naturally muscular women and seeing their pictures to go to WPW and see the enormity of what they have to offer there.  Of course they have recent champs in all their glory...
Title: Re: Asking for tips on photo insertion
Post by: OdoHerr on January 31, 2013, 11:26:34 pm

I am asking anybody out there that can give me some tips on how to transfer a photo to this page and have a photo seen and not just a link.  I've tried to click and drag from Imageshack
but what happens is it shuts down Saradas...then it takes me an eternity to get back to square one. I have to get this wired before I venture into attenpts to get what I have which is all hard copy into digital format and here for you to enjoy. 

Alison



Hi Alison

There is a thread called How to post movies and photos: http://saradas.org/index.php?topic=5160.0

One of the posts is: Guide por posting photos:  http://saradas.org/index.php?topic=5160.msg399833#msg399833

Explanation is with Imagevenue, but I guess it is the same with Imageshack.

Best regards

OdoHerr


Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 01, 2013, 01:32:25 am
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During my competition years 79-83 I worked as a nurse on the 11-7 night shift in a little Hawaiian hospital on the North Shore of Hawaii.  (pic here of me showing my nursey leg with a nurse friend).   When I worked ER I'd get into these conversations on lifting with the policemen who would come with patients sometimes.  It was these policemen who helped me build my gym.  They would tell me where the bent over stop sign pipes were!   They even had me come work out with them at the police station...LOL  !   Great guys...and just one part of my adventure.
Title: What Alison does now....
Post by: alison brundage on February 01, 2013, 01:54:19 am
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Bill and I have always enjoyed travel from when we first married some 42 years ago.   There was time where we actually lived in the mountains of southern Colombia close to a really neat indian group.  We hiked and as well got to the coast where we began to surf.  Ultimately we ended up living in Hawaii so we could surf in the day and work at night.  We did that for our entire adult life !  We retired in 2007...sold everything and packed up and left to the mountains of Central America where we purchased a home.  We will spend the rest of our life here, God willing.   We LOVE to travel still.   Once a year we take a trip somewhere.   This picture was in Guatemala.  Next trip will be back to the coast  of Ecuador on a surf vacation for a month.   Great surf there !  That's where I learned back in 1974.....   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 01, 2013, 02:38:56 am
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This is our home in Central America where we are retired
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Front and back of the house...Bill there in the back yard.   Just a beautifiul place to spend your Social Security check !!!
Title: What Alison does for fun now
Post by: alison brundage on February 01, 2013, 03:10:10 am
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(this was a test of my newly learned photo-dup skills.)    These were taken a couple months ago not far from where we live.(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/405/qw34.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/b9qw34j)
Once and awhile I pay the price.  Paddle in the face
Title: Alison Brundage 1981, WPW photo shoot, Gold's Classic
Post by: alison brundage on February 01, 2013, 03:51:30 am
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Title: Inversion boot ab work
Post by: alison brundage on February 01, 2013, 04:32:58 am
Great for eliminating hip flexors and you get a quad buzz as an extra

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...and if you have a mirror close, it's a great way to cut your hair.  I did it that way for years !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on February 01, 2013, 01:28:27 pm


These are BEAUTIFUL pictures Alison!  :rock:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 01, 2013, 05:10:21 pm
One of the many virtues of a good woman according to the Lord : "She girdeth her loins with strength and strengtheneth her arms"   Psalm 31:17

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on February 02, 2013, 01:04:07 am
You still look grat, Alison!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on February 02, 2013, 01:11:26 am
Sorry for the typo - you look great!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 07:26:55 pm
Thanks Taylor..nuther Karma point for your encouragement...see now you have 2 ! ;-)
The only recent ones on this page I'm either hiding behind a bush or covered up in a surfsuit and helmet...LOL
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This one's more recent.  This is the home of a family my husband and I help.  12 people living in 15X20 feet  ( which includes bathroom & kitchen) on a dirt floor , no windows.   Makes ya REAL thankful for simple things we take for granted.  Wonderful folks they are...and like our own family. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 07:32:19 pm
Why take steroids when you have photo shop?
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on February 02, 2013, 08:08:49 pm
Thanks for the Karma, Alison! And I have to say that I really admire you and your husband for all that you are doing. Very impressive. You are obviously a woman of great quality, both inside and out...

Title: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 08:25:04 pm
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Middle weight line up for the Gold's Classic.  I'm farthest right
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 08:34:58 pm
Bodybuilder with cat

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 08:57:42 pm
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Bill and I bought a house up by some indians in the mountains of southern Colombia in the mid 70's.   No electricity, no running water, two bedroom house and 2 1/2 acres of land for $1600.00 We stayed there for 1 1/2 years.  These ladies taught me how they can carry 50 lb of potatoes on their back, with their baby, and spin wool at the same time. Tough gals ! ( I'm the indian in the middle)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on February 02, 2013, 09:01:20 pm
Great pics!
Title: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 09:40:25 pm
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Title: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 09:51:48 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 09:56:56 pm
Moveeguy:
Hey thanks for being my memory on the line-up shot.  If that was Vegas...that was the contest I never weighed in and competed as a middleweight....but...dumb me, I was 106 lb and was really a lightweight.   Karma up for ya.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 10:57:30 pm
DVD  of Pillow :  Is that from the WSP guys ?....I'd like to have that.  Zero me in on the source and I'll hunt as wel...thanks Mooveeguy.  And you definately should buy the WSP mag that  tells her story...spend the $5.00 ...come on!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 11:03:45 pm
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Here it is.  Right you are Moveeguy.  Great memory you have.  Need you here to help me find my car keys when I put them in some stupid place...LOL
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 11:21:21 pm
   This was my only time I competed in surfing.  From  a Surfing magazine. (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/94/bbbegins022.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/2mbbbegins022j) 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 11:29:31 pm


  Life in Hawaii   (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/540/qfRCTF.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/f0qfRCTFp)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 11:34:56 pm
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High cost of living there in Hawaii....you do what you can ...LOL
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 02, 2013, 11:49:19 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 03, 2013, 12:12:24 am
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First contest (Hawaii) ...1st Place  6 months of training.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 03, 2013, 05:51:24 pm
Thanks.  Extreme training in those last pre-contest days, loss of water and then competing in the wrong weight class didn't help.  K for your support
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 03, 2013, 06:08:02 pm
        My mom at around 80 yr old(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/706/yn7h.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/jmyn7hj)
     
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 03, 2013, 06:13:06 pm

        Sorrry.....I can't get anything on this page.
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..Oh OK...here it tis

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 03, 2013, 06:18:00 pm
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My home gym where I trained
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 03, 2013, 06:56:07 pm
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Picture taken at Sunset beach during a surfing contest I had entered
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 03, 2013, 08:18:44 pm
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Moveeguy
This was a ranking that came out of WSP back...somewhere between 81-83.  It was a suscribers poll

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Title: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 03, 2013, 08:25:37 pm
(sp) subscribers..
This was a poll apparently in 1981 .  Hey lookie I beat Bev Frances !  No way, Bev Frances was in another stratosphere.......
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 04, 2013, 12:51:50 am
Mooveeguy
1. The original outdoor gym was in the backyard of my trainer.  He set up my entire program and adjusted it accordingly.  He was there with me a lot.  My husband trained with me. (both of us worked evenings/nights...we were together all the time)   This was not an elegant gym, but I had everything I needed to train well. I was as well pretty good at training with found objects.

2. Before I had that gym , I used my husband on my shoulders for squats.  He weighed about 155lb at the time.  Facing the refrigerator.

3, Protein powder, milk whey, bee pollen, tofu, nutritional yeast, and multivits....I was reading "Life Extension" by Durk Pierson and Sandy Shaw ( correct me if I'm wrong on the names).  I remember reading that & supplementing with specific amino acids,.... glutamine...  It's been a long tme and I forget.  I was reading what was current in nutrition and keeping close tract of all my amino acids and was super anal about recording everything.....what I ate, what I did and results.  That journal helped.

4. I was on a fast track of natural bodybuilding.  I knew my candle had not much more to burn...I was in my late 30's.  With surfing in the day as well as working out then working all night as a nurse my reserve was marginal at best considering my age.  I was VERY fortunate to have done as well as I did.  I owe it to having an expert trainer.
Title: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 05, 2013, 02:15:06 am
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I think the flowers in the hair was part of the insecurity I still felt about feeling muscular.   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 07, 2013, 12:39:21 am
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Thank you Moveeguy.
This is about the last of what I have before I have to go into the carton in storage....will be getting that out soon
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 07, 2013, 04:46:42 pm
Yes.  I knew him as well as his family.  They lived close to where I lived.  Loving people, very supportive and good friends.   They would give you the shirt off their back kinda folk.
That Gold's was a trifecta  for Hawaii...Ernie, Lori Okami and myself.   You had asked who came up after Lori and I....I remember now Paula Sazuki... I didn't know her.  She was of the next generation of BBFs.   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on February 07, 2013, 09:07:46 pm

Yeah....paula suzuki was stunningly huge....
Title: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 07, 2013, 10:51:08 pm

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     1983 AFWB America
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Lucrezia Borgia on February 09, 2013, 01:17:07 am
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     1983 AFWB America

wonderful Alison. No other words.

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 09, 2013, 06:18:46 pm
I placed 7th....
Yup that was a corsage...and here again, it was about feeling very insecure as a muscular woman and one of the more muscular contenders.  I thought it would feminize me and as well soften me in the eyes of the judges.  Many of us who were the more muscular contenders then felt the judges were somewhat hesitant to open the gates of extreme muscularity  into the young sport of women's bodybuilding.  I'm sure that was true to some extent back then.  The large commercial bodybuilding esterprises were the main promoters, and no doubt they had commercial interests that this sport they were promoting would in fact sell mags and products.  If the buying public were turned off by what they saw, certainly they would not be interested to invest their $$ there.

Meanwhile there was the WSP team who were THE strong promoters of strongly muscled women in that early era.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 09, 2013, 09:52:50 pm
Absolutely not ....she didn't need any posies that's for sure !   
And you are right.   Remember this is only my opinion  and my own perception of how it felt to be obviously muscular.  I can remember my photo shoot after the Golds with the WSP team and them telling me to clench my fist on my bicep poses.  Posing the bicep until then (for me) was with an open hand.  Heck now you see profoundly muscular women having no hesitation to do a most muscular pose!!!...LOL   Nuther thing too...there was a finess with Carla  and her posing that made the presentation of female muscle a pleasing thing to see.  Laura Combes, Carla Dunlap, Cori Everson....certainly slung the doors wide open .   No corsages required ....nope !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 10, 2013, 12:40:44 am
Nope no problem.  But both National amateur events I placed 7th.  The 83 was in Denver won by Lorrie Bowen.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 10, 2013, 09:17:44 pm
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I went to that Denver event in 83 alone.  Got no personal shots taken for me.  But looking at this pic again, I think it was from that 83 event taken by the Jentz WSP team
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 14, 2013, 10:56:30 pm
No...but I spose somewhere up the tree there's a link.   Mooveeguy I have no problem with your enthusiasm here....  You are free to private message me so as not to as you say offput others who really for the most part enjoy the pics probably more than the conversation.   Feel absolutely free to private message me...no problem.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 14, 2013, 11:40:07 pm
Yes I did guest pose but it was way too hard on me to stay in what I considered prime posing condition to do much of that.  I did some local Hawaii things.  I'll for sure dig out the pics.  I tripped on the garden hose a couple days ago and did some damage to my knee.  80cc of blood in the joint and some tears.  Had an MRI today...waiting on whether or not it will mean surgery...and I'm hoping not !   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 15, 2013, 10:43:23 pm
               Replacing some dead pics....Hawaii 80's (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/910/HDf96b.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/paHDf96bj)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 15, 2013, 11:37:38 pm
Volcano
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on February 15, 2013, 11:38:27 pm
Impressive pic

I guess it is the (hopefully) solid and cold lava of either West Maui or East Maui (or Haleakala) Volcanoes

OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 15, 2013, 11:49:10 pm
Bill my better half tells me it's on the Big Island of Hawaii.  It was on that saddle road that goes from one side of the island to the other .
The Big Island is loaded with lava...it's everywhere.  Some flowing..... !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on February 16, 2013, 12:56:32 am
My fault. I saw "Maui" under your pic, so I thought to these two volcanoes.

Of course if it is the Big island, lava is everywhere, solid, and liquid...

(I'm interested in volcanoes and geology, too)

OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on February 16, 2013, 03:45:18 pm
Sorry to hear about your recent injury to your knee - hope the MRI gives good news...
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 17, 2013, 12:14:26 am
The knee:   No more bleeding into the joint.  Swelling way down.  Torn anterior crutiate ligament, torn medial meniscus, crush to the underside of the knee cap as well the tibia. Bruises everywhere.  I flew once I clipped that hose and slid like a baseball player sliding into home base onto a cement sidewalk.  Could have been a gzillion time worse.
Possibly some arthroscopy in my future...but so far the knee is working pretty well.  Tad sore, but seems real stable.  We'll see.
Thanks for your kind words Taylor.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 17, 2013, 12:24:31 am
Me and a 5+ ft Fer de Lance from the backyard.   Nasty deadly snake(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/540/imtgLY.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/f0imtgLYj)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on February 17, 2013, 02:41:10 am

Thanks for this nice pic of the Baru, Alison.
And what a wonderful countryside you got around you.

Take care of your knee...

And pay attention to the Baru, as it is potentially active, a dangerous explosive type, not flooding, like in Hawai...

...I was just kidding:  eruption cannot happen suddenly: only after some premonitory period of seismic activity and subtle ground deformation that may last for days or months...

OdoHerr

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 17, 2013, 02:58:49 am
And pay attention to the Baru, as it is potentially active, a dangerous explosive type, not flooding, like in Hawai...
......and I do hope they are watching for all those things you mentioned.   Possibly I should have an emergency bag all packed sorta like a woman ready to go into labor...LOL
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on February 17, 2013, 02:37:23 pm
Beautiful country, though - notwithstanding the volcanoes.

Glad to hear your knee is improving, Alison.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 17, 2013, 11:17:56 pm
Got the final MRI report.  Local doc here wants to do an arthroscopy and either remove or repair the meniscus ( knee cartledge) ...it's torn through and through.   Meanwhile my knee isn't locking up, and the joint feels secure. I'm now 100% mobile.  It's a tad sore.  I called my ortho doc in the U.S. and he sez  to "just wait and see.  Some things don't need repair."  I'll mail him the MRI on DVD.  Any of you have any knee cartledge experience?   The more opinions I get the better.  My inclination is to let it settle down...put it into reasonable action then go in for a full ortho knee exam....just my take.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on February 17, 2013, 11:42:11 pm
By chance I never experienced any pain or problem in my knees, so I won't be able to give you any advice.
Hope it will get better and better by itself!

OdoHerr

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on February 18, 2013, 03:22:17 pm
I've heard cases of surgery making the situation worse, especially if it seems to be recovering on its own. Sounds like good advice from the American doc...

Haven't had surgery (yet) but I've had a lot of problems with my knees - arthritis.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 18, 2013, 06:32:53 pm
Taylor...and  OdoHerr
Well I cancelled the arthroscopic surgery this morning.  I have to laugh,  it's hard to converse in a language that's not your first on the telephone, and I have to get across to this Spanish speaking doc that my knee has full range of motion and I have no pain with activities of daily living.  Ok so I did my best on that...told him I'd like and evaluation in a couple of weeks.  He sez...."Well, keep that knee in the straight leg brace, iced and elevated for another week, then start activity slowly after one week"   (guess it looks worse to him on MRI than it is to me live !)
Had to laugh ( but didn't) .......I chucked the brace in the closet 3 days ago and have been doing house and yardwork for the last two.....LOL!!!
Soooo...surgery cancelled , done !   Case closed.  I'm over it.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 19, 2013, 07:50:25 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 20, 2013, 08:38:32 pm
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Semi soft mode in my Hawaii backyard waaaaay back when
Alison

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 20, 2013, 08:47:10 pm
I found this in an old album. 
'80 Miss Hawaii Physique......1st place
'81 Miss Aloha State...........1st place
'81 America-Nationals..........7th mdwt
'83 Physiques BB Classic......1st place
'83 Hawaiian BB Classic........1st place
'83 Gold's Classic................1st Mdwt.
"83 America-Nationals, ........7th Mdwt
'85 Ms. Hawaiian BB Classic...1st place
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Karharot on February 20, 2013, 09:43:10 pm
Alison, can you tell us some of your best lifts and measurements in these years ?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 20, 2013, 09:52:34 pm
Well....I remember I benched 180 on my 40th birthday.   I'd have to look into my journals for measurements....   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 21, 2013, 09:54:42 pm
Change your password on your email
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 21, 2013, 10:11:05 pm

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Not the best quality photo...oh well
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 21, 2013, 10:33:35 pm
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"You think that's water in the fountain?"  ( sorry Image Shack seems to do the Godzilla thing sometimes...this is one of those times.......size increase in every regard !!)
........Alison ;-)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 21, 2013, 10:40:11 pm
It was a photo shoot with the WSP guys ... in Californina.   I do encourage you check out those old WSP Mags still online full of great stories and auto bios of the first FBB stars...their lives etc.  You can see pics online everywhere...but these men were excellent at recounting the lives of these women.  Some real jewels in their stash.
Check out WSP magazine. 
        ( this ad was supported by  a FBB who herself was greatly encouraged by WSP ....I will be forever thankful to the Jentz Wnnerstrom , Nafpliotis team.)

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on February 22, 2013, 01:27:01 pm
To Alison

You sent me a personal message on Feb. 21st,
But I cannot answer to you as you have blocked the reception of personal messages.

OdoHerr

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 22, 2013, 08:41:25 pm
oops...I'll fix that OdoHerr...sorry
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 22, 2013, 09:00:35 pm
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I was talking to Bill Jentz of WSP just this week and he mentioned taking this photo and that they got so carried away with their photography that they were unaware I was about to pass out.   I didn't remember.  I do know I was starving...literally.  I went back to look at the pics...and yes, this right here is the picture of starvation.  Jentz is still very apologetic in that they weren't out ot kill me....LOL.   I look back and I feel fortunate to have survived my career for the body extremes I was putting myself through.   I was no spring chicken.

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on February 22, 2013, 10:52:47 pm
oops...I'll fix that OdoHerr...sorry
Alison

Still blocked, unfortunately.
If you trust and give me your personal email address, I'll answer directly.
If yes, sent it to me via a personal message here.

OdoHerr

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 23, 2013, 09:59:16 pm
Thanks for your support....both of you.  I think you can use moderation and find that there's healthy improvement in a body with attention to nutrition and a regular lifting program....done well.  Now, you may never be seen on the cover of Muscle and Fitness....few do.    A lifetime habit of healthy exercise serves you so much better than a candle quickly burned at both ends.   This is just my own personal opinion....but I would not recommend competition bodybuilding  to anyone. 

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 23, 2013, 11:22:14 pm
No problem.    Competition bodybuiding for the woman involves extremes.  The body fat level required to demonstrate a cut physique is below that which is physiologically healthy for a woman.  Another problem is eating disorders and as well the body image adjustment issues of going from off season- to contest ready shape.   You hear this tiime and time again that relationship difficulties also come into play with extremes of training and dieting.  You get just plain irritable.   It's starvation.  Gym injuries are as well a possible.   The woman has to weigh the costs ...is it really worth it ? 

For me....I reversed years and years of being made fun of (teased) as a muscular pre-teen and teen girl.   It hurt real deep and stuck with me....until I did what I did...and this in my 30's.   The benefits for me were huge psychologically....plus I learned the benefit of lifting as healthy way of life.   I did not set out to do this;it just sort of happened as a result of hard training with excellent coaching and entering the field of competition early before the competition became fierce.   Today I'd be an "also-ran".

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 24, 2013, 12:37:29 am
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 24, 2013, 12:51:32 am
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 24, 2013, 09:44:17 pm
The back....years and years of surfing some big waves.  You see the monsters on the horizon...and you know they're HUGE...you paddle fast.  Sorta like a "sprint" for  back/shoulder  muscles.   As well, when it's a real big wave and you are scratching to catch it...you paddle REAL hard.  You miss it, you may be in for a trip over the falls.

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 25, 2013, 05:54:47 pm
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A couple of shots with some Hawaii fans after a contest...mid 80'3
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 25, 2013, 05:59:40 pm
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I know you've seen others like this one...    Hawaii was extremely good to the contestants and especially the winners of BB contests.  They gave huge trophies and a trophy for each best body part....and flowers...how sweet.   Hawaii was VERY good to me....fond memories !

Alison   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on February 25, 2013, 06:24:23 pm
I've just had a look through this post and I wanted to say thank you Alison for being so generous and sharing so much with us all. It's wonderful that a woman who has been through all these years of bodybuilding, especially the early years of the sport, is willing to give so much back to the fans.

 :thanks:

Greg
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 25, 2013, 06:55:42 pm
Believe me Greg the pleasure is mostly mine...and if you enjoy it too...great.  Imagine being a kiss from 70 yr old ...running across pictures of yourself you long forgot and find out there's folks still interested.  That's a HUGE shot in the arm for anyone ya know?   I never knew I had fans outside of my immediate hometown.  I now have wonderful friends from other parts of the world that I truly enjoy talking with who tell me they were fans way back then.   How sweet that is!  I appreciate your kind words...
Alison
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Bill ( my husband) and I enjoying putting together my last set of trophies I ever won...a Maui contest.   BB was something we enjoyed together....an adventure we shared.  I think all to often I am reading that couples break up and lives shatter because of a bodybuilder's journey that is their own apart from their spouse. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 25, 2013, 07:02:35 pm
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Surfing was and still is our primary fun sport together.   We're still pretty regular in the water
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 25, 2013, 07:04:28 pm
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This is a photo taken as I was preparing for a contest with my trainer Steve Dussia.  He was very good at helping me maximize what I had not only in training with weights but as well visually in posing.

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 28, 2013, 12:08:59 am
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A contest....but which one I have no idea.  I'm sure Mooveeguy'll know.  ;-)
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 28, 2013, 12:14:45 am
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Good pose (+-)...bad pose, with watch

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 28, 2013, 12:22:47 am
How sweet....and ya know I was just kidding.  This was some Hawaii contest in the early 80's.  Thanks on the mag offer...I'm sure I have it....somewhere.
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 28, 2013, 12:37:04 am
Well of course we first met at the Golds.  She was my serious competition and we did not have a chance to talk then then.  I believe ...yes possibly it was the 81 Nationals in Vegas that I had a chance to talk with her.      Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on February 28, 2013, 09:30:56 am
Believe me Greg the pleasure is mostly mine...and if you enjoy it too...great.  Imagine being a kiss from 70 yr old ...running across pictures of yourself you long forgot and find out there's folks still interested.  That's a HUGE shot in the arm for anyone ya know?   I never knew I had fans outside of my immediate hometown.  I now have wonderful friends from other parts of the world that I truly enjoy talking with who tell me they were fans way back then.   How sweet that is!  I appreciate your kind words...
Alison
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Bill ( my husband) and I enjoying putting together my last set of trophies I ever won...a Maui contest.   BB was something we enjoyed together....an adventure we shared.  I think all to often I am reading that couples break up and lives shatter because of a bodybuilder's journey that is their own apart from their spouse.

Thank you Alison. I can't honestly say that I was a fan of yours in those early days. I didn't know about you until fairly recently but I was a fan of muscular women in those early days even if I was only in my early teens at the time. I have your Women's Physique World set of photos and you look absolutely beautiful. I know a lot of people don't like it but I do still really like that early 80's styling, the clothes, the hair, the bikinis and one piece outfits etc.

As I said, or something similar, it's so nice that someone like yourself who has been through all of this, especially in the early days of the sport, is so willing and even very happy to share her experiences and photos with fans of hers and fans of female bodybuilding in general.

I do like the female bodybuilders of today but there is something about yourself and women like you from the early days of bodybuilding that I like very much too. Anyway, I could go on for a long time and I'm known for my epic emails and messages but I'll leave it there. Thank you again Alison and I hope you keep posting here because you obviously have some old friends and fans here and some new fans too(like myself).
(Oh, and no I'm not trying to push anything here but my email address is on my profile if you'd like to contact me).

Greg
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: phy911 on February 28, 2013, 02:29:04 pm
I was not quite sure if you meant this was a bad pose because of the watch but I went ahead and removed the watch in the photo.
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on February 28, 2013, 08:11:24 pm
I was not quite sure if you meant this was a bad pose because of the watch but I went ahead and removed the watch in the photo.
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You could get arrested for that! Is it a gold one?  :clap:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 03, 2013, 08:03:18 pm
So before you competed, you thought you should avoid competitors to avoid feeling intimidated? I gather you wereimpressedby her training discipline?yytyt

Not at all.   Mind you the only time I would have opportunity to even talk with a competitor was at a contest.  (I was 100% isolated from other bodybuilders training in my backyard.)   At a contest, each contestant has a lot on their mind...it's not exactly a time when your tendency is to get chatty ya know?
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 03, 2013, 08:04:53 pm
I was not quite sure if you meant this was a bad pose because of the watch but I went ahead and removed the watch in the photo.
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You could get arrested for that! Is it a gold one?  :clap:
Streetfighter...you're killin me !  But thanks I appreciate all the help I can get !!!!!  ( I'm still laughing)...now I need to tan up the wrist.
Alison
K+ for the help BTW
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 03, 2013, 08:17:18 pm
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Here's a shot with Steve Dussia my trainer and our best friend back in those days....

Greg,
Well thank you for your kind words.   I'll keep posting here and share thoughts of my experience ...with pleasure.  I've been out of the loop here at Saradas.  Bill my husband had a bad belly ache last Thurs that ended up in emergency gallbladder surgery.  I never knew a gallbladder could hold that many rocks, and 3 the size of my thumbnail !   All's well...he's home and I'm ever so grateful we got it in time.  Apparently it was close to rupture.
Alison
...I'll look up that addy Greg and email  you
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on March 04, 2013, 01:30:03 am
All your pictures are great, but I especially like the one of you at the ocean...

Hope your husband is recovering well from his surgery.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on March 04, 2013, 01:36:56 am
Looking good Alison! Glad to see the sport had a lifelong impact on you being nice and healthy.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on March 04, 2013, 09:57:58 am
Thank you for the message this morning Alison. That was so nice of you and such a nice surprise. It made my day. I've sent you a reply. Sorry again about the size.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 04, 2013, 11:09:59 pm
With regard to what you were saying about training, I figured you meant that when one might have the chance to see a fellow competitor in the gym that they would avoid even saying hello to onewhomthey were going to be up against Ina few months.
Tyt
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on March 05, 2013, 01:41:56 am
Very scenic. Will pray for your husband, Alison.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 05, 2013, 05:48:44 pm
Thanks ! ZIG ....we can always use all we can get.  He's doing pretty good.   Mooveeguy...up in the mountains we get this cloudy drift after rains..and yes in the early morning.  It's ever changing and captivating...love it !
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on March 05, 2013, 06:27:00 pm
That last photo is one of my favourites from all of your photos of your bodybuilding days. Just so beautiful and I love that happy smile on your face. I think the smile says it all.

Thank you yet again for sharing everything with all of us Alison.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 05, 2013, 06:42:09 pm
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Thanks !...sometimes you get lucky.
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 05, 2013, 10:17:28 pm
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Same suit...same shoot....different poses.

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 06, 2013, 09:03:44 pm
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Posing practice was interesting.  Steve my trainer had his own little self rigged studio (much like the self-rigged backyard gym).  He had his own little darkroom.  He'd set the shot with me....put the camera on timer then jump in !   This was before one of the nationals we competed together as a couple.

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...oops....I didn't quite get in there  on this one...ha ha

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The competition...
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on March 06, 2013, 09:26:17 pm
Sam Oldham who is on youtube has some nice Pillow, Kay, and older footage. He may be a person to contact if Alison is interested in finding Pillow info and video. I follow him there. If you can't find him , then let me know. Most of the vids there related to Kay and Pillow are his. He worked with one of the companies or was friends with them back in that era. He had his own thing too.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on March 07, 2013, 06:12:29 am
Alison is there any video footage of you competing or training or basically anything of you from your bodybuilding days?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 07, 2013, 10:55:39 pm
http://www.wpwmagazineonline.com/store.html
Click video
Video # 9 & #10

Bill Jentz and Steve Wennerstrom of Womens' Strength and Fitness" shot some old super 8 stuff that they later converted to DVD format.  That was back in the day when you turned the camera with a hand crank....LOL !

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                                 ALISON
I think I was stunned here by a passing comet or meteor.......
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 09, 2013, 07:11:54 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on March 09, 2013, 09:34:54 pm
Thank you for the link to the WPW videos. I'll have a look and probably buy them.

"That was back in the day when you turned the camera with a hand crank....LOL !" I don't care. I'm just glad they had a camera and took footage of you.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: phy911 on March 09, 2013, 09:40:03 pm
color corrected
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Not an astrological event. Just looking at your enormous fan club starring from the balcony...

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 09, 2013, 11:53:00 pm
(laughing to the point of pain).....OK the street  fighter....you got my K+ vote.   
I love you guys!
Alison
....now actually this one I think would do well in a deoderant commercial.  Doncha  think?
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on March 10, 2013, 01:55:48 am
Beautiful pictures...
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 10, 2013, 05:34:44 pm
How nany days a week did you train those abs? I guess it must have been a punishing workout or did you just regard the discomfort of sore muscles a small price to pay for bodybuilding?
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Mooveeguy
Every workout day started with crunches   for  circulatory warm-up.   Hanging  crunches with inversion boots were  my usual for abs and obliques.  Occaisionally I did crunches with a weight on my chest...but rarely.      It was extremely difficult for me  to  get those abs showing...more a matter of diet (starvation).  They'd come on the scene at the last gasp before competition.

Example...lookee here...not an ab in sight...LOL.  And here again I'm pondering some celestial event no doubt....or...when I'll be able to eat my next can of tuna and water ( 1 of 3 per day , brutal !)
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on March 10, 2013, 06:50:38 pm
Beautiful abs - and a good sense of humor!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 10, 2013, 10:14:26 pm
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Thanks Taylor....+K.    Hey you're movin on up there in Karmaland !
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 10, 2013, 10:29:09 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on March 10, 2013, 11:54:14 pm
You're welcome, Alison - and thank you!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 13, 2013, 02:19:46 pm
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It was my shoulders that came easy....all I had to do was surf which was always my first love.  We lived right there in surf mecca, and  surfed every day ( both my husband and I worked nights).   It was the surfer's dream lived out.  We were blessed.

Getting contest ready was always  hard...nothing but 3 cans a tuna a day for weeks on end with a break every 3rd day when I'd eat salads.  I was totally spent by the time contest rolled around.

Gotta go...electricity just went off....later guys
ALISON   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 17, 2013, 12:34:10 am
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Leg curls...here ya go

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These were all shot by WSP  after a National contest....I placed 7th MW
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 17, 2013, 11:10:27 pm
Were  leg curls that taxing or did you always rest your head when doing them?

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ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on March 27, 2013, 06:15:36 am
RIP Joe Weider.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on March 27, 2013, 08:04:33 am
Wonderful Abs Alison, many FBB's today would hate you for those! All that hard work paid off, amazing.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Justaguy19 on March 27, 2013, 05:04:17 pm
Any nudes of this gorgeous woman?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 27, 2013, 07:58:21 pm
Any nudes of this gorgeous woman?
I have a few..... I was about 3 months old though.....LOL    Nope...what you see is pretty much all there is.   
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 27, 2013, 08:07:09 pm
Did you have amy particular favorite Weider principles?
Read the mag at  the check out counter ...then put it back on the shelf.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 27, 2013, 11:19:09 pm
Any nudes of this gorgeous woman?
I have a few..... I was about 3 months old though.....LOL    Nope...what you see is pretty much all there is.   
ALISON
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This is about as  in the buff I got while buffed....
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on March 28, 2013, 01:07:14 am
You have a marvelous sense of humor!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 29, 2013, 12:23:38 am
You have a marvelous sense of humor!
Not  when I'm pissed off with my husband !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on March 30, 2013, 07:42:24 pm
LOL
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on March 31, 2013, 11:41:40 am
Talking about sense of humour. We haven't known each other long but if you can put up with my bad jokes then you either have a wonderful sense of humour or you're just the nicest, most patient person, and I'd say it's a bit of both.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on March 31, 2013, 01:15:17 pm
afigreg: I take it you're addressing Allison, not me (more LOL); Allison: regarding your pictures, all I can say is (with apologies to Keats) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (Not that you're a thing of course, but you are beautiful...
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on March 31, 2013, 09:35:18 pm
Sorry Taylor I should have said in my comment. Yes I was addressing Alison and not you but wait a while and you might get to know, and probably hate, my bad jokes too.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 31, 2013, 10:26:44 pm
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Interesting what a couple weeks of starvation,  mid day uphill running in full sweats and laying out between the cars in the parking lot of our apt building for a tan  can do.......(I was losing my sense of humor along with the fat BTW.  Notice in the 2nd pic I kicked the damn cat outa the shot !)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 01, 2013, 03:57:59 pm
How much H2O did you consume when training? I hear some limit their fluid intake when in precontest mode?
An only protein diet is extremely dehydratiing..plus I wasn't consuming near enough water.   I'd go off the only protein diet once every three days and in that one day alone would put on 10 lb of water !!!  (as I recall 1 gm of carbs holds 3 gm of water).   My renal studies were a bit over the top...creatinine/BUN.   Not horrible...but not good. My ankles were getting swollen...probably from my body digesting itself with protein breakdown...dunno.   I was pushing my body to the limit.  None of this is a good thing.   My first national contest i think i had really lost my mind a bit.  I was running in full sweats in the Vegas heat to get more cut ...than cut.   That's the contest that I never went to the weigh in...competed as a Middleweight...but weighed 106 lb, lightweight.  Dumb huh?
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 01, 2013, 11:07:58 pm
Pardon me for asking but what is creating / BUN?
Creatinine and B.U.N. are measures of kidney function.   Blood test
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: phy911 on April 02, 2013, 03:17:16 am
BUN stands for blood urea nitrogen

Alison would you like me to remove the cat from your photo?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 02, 2013, 02:16:17 pm
When you were training for competition, particularly on the days when you were on one of the days when you were consuming nothing but tuna, did the workouts feel particularly brutal or were you basically looking forward to having some carbohydrates when the day came.
Find any other past photos from the old days?
Re: Was it brutal?
Listen...one of the biggest factors in making gains as a natural is how the body responds and it's reserve ability.  It's not like you can hulk a gzillion pounds to failure over and over and make gains.   I was old as a beginner...mid 30's.  I was as well a dedicated surfer in some pretty big surf.  Then, add being a nurse who worked at night...less sleep generally.  My body was already compromised.  I had to be very careful to target weak bodyparts and in a way that got the most bang for the buck.  Workouts were an hour.... and my program was very specific and constantly being re-worked as changes  happened ...or  not.   The workout you describe....brutal?....you have to be on the juice to do that methinks...just me.
My workouts were NEVER brutal.  Sore yes.  3/4 of the muscle you see in pics....I had to begin with. 

Street  Fighter......ha ha ha ...your're killin me !   Nah...leave the cat . 
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 03, 2013, 12:14:52 am
No I meant on the days when you were eating tuna was training brutal as you denied yourself necessary hydration or would you take a swallow of water after every set or exercise? I have heard that drinking water plays an important part in the process of cleaning ones insides which is essential in bodybuilding from what little I know.
Yah...I spose.   The whole BB thing was an adventure.  I was pushing myself to the limit and not in a healthy way...and that was without performance drugs...LOL !   As I reflect on it I can say the brutal part was accepting being "normal" once again: eating normal and having a tad of bodyfat above contest level.  Trying not to be bulimic.  Realizing I was never going to be on the cover of Muscle and Fitness ...or had any hope of being a "star".   Geez....that was the brutal part.  I DO NOT recommend competition BB to gals for those and many more reasons.  Was I unhappy during this period of my life ?....no.  At the time it was kinda fun actually...an adventure.   But now looking back  it was not an easy thing to walk away from and come out the other side...."normal".  I  paid a price...definately.
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 03, 2013, 01:01:19 am
I sort of had this idea that bodybuilding was a mentally and physically taxing endeavor. That even when bench pressing was agony, or curling or squatting that you'd push yourself to squeeze out a few more reps before you  slumped against the wall with your body drenched in sweat and having to drag yourself to the shower and vowing to continue the ritual the next day and the day after that.
Sounds like a bad B grade movie I saw once......(laughing)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 03, 2013, 03:02:18 pm
I hope that last message didnt sound obscene. Wasn't trying to go there. I just figured that building a physique took major blood, sweat, and tears.
Persistance, concerted effort to apply coaching from seasoned and respected athletic advisors, spot on nutrition, rest, diet and cardio with a planned outcome, journals......and natural ability.   All together 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 03, 2013, 07:13:40 pm
The more weight I lost, the easier they got....LOL.     No actually when I was in the uberstarvation mode I got pretty amped....  I mean I was running up some pretty steep hills, mid day in full sweats and that, after a full night shift working as a nurse.  Now that's amped. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 03, 2013, 11:56:25 pm
With your experience as a bodybuilder, did you ever consider using it to supplement your job by working as a personal trainer or was that basically something that was open to successful male bodybuilders? At what point in your bodybuilding career did you feel comfortable with being a muscular woman?
Nope.  I was what you might consider an anti -social bodybuilder.   I didn't particularly enjoy others around when I was lifting , nor was I much into being a coach type....I was a beginner myself...being coached.    When I won every single bb contest I entered in Hawaii and as well won every  trophy for each best body part in each of the contests.  Life was feeling pretty good then...local hero.  The glow period was brief.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 04, 2013, 03:31:51 pm
On sauna
Nope...no saunas around my little bitty home town there.  I laid between the cars in the parking lot on hot black asphalt after I ran uphill in full sweats...like I said.  I NEVER killed myself lifting BTW.  And I said this as well before...most of what I showed in these pics I had already to begin with.  I  never added much muscle mass really...oh a tad in the chest maybe...bits here and there.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on April 06, 2013, 06:34:29 pm
Sounds like a bad B grade movie I saw once......(laughing)


Alison, do you mean "Pumping Iron 2, The Women" ?  ;)  Shame, that it did not have a bigger budget! I went to London, to see the movie. Hardly anyone there, and it was held in the small run down theatre, threadbare seats, etc.
In the scene where the women are having their last minute workouts before the contest, and Gladys Portugese is repping out to the max, groaning and crying out with the strain, sweat etc, someone in the audience shouted out "Madness!"
I always remember that, very odd atmosphere in the cinema, strangest experience ever. I wondered why he was there!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 07, 2013, 10:36:29 pm
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            GONE SURFIN'

Surf's up and we're off.  See you guys in a week or so...........ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on April 08, 2013, 08:28:31 am
Firstly, have a wonderful time Alison and secondly, is that you in the last picture?

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 09, 2013, 01:16:10 am
Will do... and NOPE .  That's an old Hawaii pic from waaay back when.   Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on April 09, 2013, 02:58:59 am
I didn't think it was you surfing but I thought I'd check anyway. Forget about all of this and have a wonderful time away, you old hippy(sorry, that should have been, you YOUNG hippy). Bring back a few pictures for us.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Justaguy19 on April 09, 2013, 03:43:40 pm
No nudes? An incredible physique like hers should be admired
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 09, 2013, 06:15:18 pm
Thanks Justaguy 19.....I think I was showing what I had to it's greatest advantage...more that that...nah.  Some parts are best lefft undercovrer !!!...LOL
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on April 09, 2013, 07:30:29 pm
Alison, which parts would those be?(that are best left undercover) (he he)

Maybe after you've been back in the gym(or home gym) for a while you can show us some more of your beautiful mature muscular physique(but maybe not nudes, unless you'd like to of course).

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 29, 2013, 10:03:21 pm
Can the sport survive if PEDS become more controlled...and scarce?

There was a recent discussion on the Gina thread with regard to performance enhancement drugs and it's "normalcy to the sport of bodybuilding" in this era.  One person said..."it's a given"...and essentially a necessity and should be accepted.   Another  stated that the control by law enforcement of PEDs has increased and the public is beginning to take a dim view of  drug assisted athletes.  So where does this leave the sport of bodybuilding if PED use becomes limited?   Can it return to it's grass roots?   Will it just fade away?  ...or will the  hard core always find their way to the center stage via chemicals...somehow?   
ALISON   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: racerx009 on April 29, 2013, 11:17:55 pm
Well Alison you know my position on this but it will be interesting to read some of the perspectives of others out there. I just don't see how one puts the genie back into the bottle after it's been out this long.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 29, 2013, 11:48:14 pm
No me either Racer.   It will be interesting to hear from others. 
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: warlock12 on April 30, 2013, 12:30:30 am
Another  stated that the control by law enforcement of PEDs has increased and the public is beginning to take a dim view of  drug assisted athletes. 

I think that if this is true, it's mostly for the big, successful sports where the big stars are suposed to be role models and advertise lots of products. It would make good business sense that they would like to convince the public that they are clean. But given that bodybuilding is now considered a fringe sport, I can't see them making a costly, organized effort to control PED use there. I don't really follow the current state of bodybuilding, so if anyone can make a more educated guess, I'd like to see it.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on April 30, 2013, 01:24:50 am
Warlocks point is true. I think the average person just assumes steroids are part of bodybuilding. I would guess that is one reason sponsorship has dried up and the 20% rule came along. That does not affect the girls who do sessions or sell things on the web by being massive. They don't have an issue with sponsors. Their sponsors are their clients and most of those people want them huge. They just have to be careful to not get caught using PEDS. In the mainsteam sports...they are looking and they are testing. Even blood now. There is zero testing in sessions or for having a website.

The fed angle is mainly towards dealers like any other sweeps on arrests. The Feds want the bookie. They don't want to arrest the guy making the bets. The Feds want the guy who's making lots of money selling pot or coke. They are not after the person who is using or buying a quarter ounce or dime bag of weed. That is misdemanor that cops step into. The other is a felony....dealing and you are looking at jail. The same is true with roids. The danger is in that some bodybuilders or people very close to them are dealing the roids b/c it is an expensive habit. Sherry Smith was arrested with a moderate amount of roids....not dealing level, but more than a light user.She was lucky her firefighting unit had a very strong union or she was out of work. Colette Nelson's hubby had a houseful of PEDs and just pleaded to jail and is now out. She was not arrested or even home when they swarmed. She moved in with him after he was a dealer. Draw your own conclusions at to why.

I think the sport will keep being steroids and it will basically go even more to the cult side. I'm not as close to it now as I was a few years back, but I would imagine even the physique girls are using some decent amount of PEDs. The IFBB just wants to make the few fans left think they are cleaning it up a little is my perception. The Feds could care less about bodybuilding. The sports they are after and the war on roids is only tied to bodybuilding b/c many bodybuilders have been busted as top dealers....a big one in the Texas case with Clemens and Pettitte. They were using a top 5 Mr Olympia to buy drugs. That is how he got famous.....in that arrest. He was a huge dealer....millions of dollars of PEDS in his home.

They are after football, baseball, and mainstream sport use. MMA is getting big. What if someone hurts someone bad on roids? They are checking sports like that....where the competitive advantage gained results in stolen money by players who over achieve or perhaps in football....an injury. We've also seen the teen suicideswith football players and their parents go to congress and blame roids. The kid changes on roids they say. I would agree, though I never saw anyone go to shoot hemelves due to roids. Who knows in young bodies and the results you see are so fast that it causes more than a physical addiction. You look in the mirror and say holy crap. I remember not taking roids and saying that when I lifted and saw other guys my size that were 6-4 235 and mostly muscle go to 265 fast. That can not happen without roids. I took awhile to get to 240  from 235.  I was more speed and instinct than size tho....my size was not big for football. If I had known that roids also made you faster.....who knows...I may have jumped in myself. I was not aware of that. I learned soon after and thought the speed was really just the roids working to make you more agressive. Roids nowadays are much better than they used to be and harder to detect, but you still need hormones. You need testosterone and too much of that changes men and women permanently.....plus it stops any natural production of T. Dangerous if your body stops making it at age 30...for men. That is why many baseball players were nailed not by roids, but by taking the banned fertility drug that men take when testosterone was needed for them to have any sexual desire left.


Biggest influencer of the whole US roid movement? Jose canseco by a mile. His book was a game changer. Turned out almost every person he named was caught. Even Raffy Palmeiro who wagged his finger at congress and said how dare anyone accuse him of cheating. He was caught and his career ended about 5 games later after he tried to play with earplugs at home. He lost all his ensdorsements. He was the first ever face of Viagra sales ironically. He needed it.

Yes, it will stay in bodybuilding and fbbing and to a lesser extent sessions would die without it. Sad, but true. I've studied and been around PEDs my whole life as an adult. I don't mean at fbb shows or with fbbs though I've seen plenty of those girls. Some look ok still and sound ok....others.....kind of disturbing. They don't even seem like women. Even the ones who looked good to me often told me or admitted their use to others. Colette told the whole world after she told us that knew her a little. She went on the Gumbel show and boy did he make FBBs look like freaks. Even Colette said they are "addicts" to their bodies. She talked about the need to look in the mirror and see more.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 30, 2013, 04:45:36 pm
LBC
Some very excellent points and well said.  Whether it be BB, baseball or monster/horror flicks...the people crave more.  The crowds cheer for more.  The contestants respond to the crowd's cheer.....and the bar is raised.  For as long as there's one PED pill or injection to be found...it will be used with regard to BB.    Just is.  Does that marginalize those who choose to train natural?  No....there are natural BB contests just  for that purpose.  Do they ring the bell as loudly as the mainline contests?....no.  To  that I say...oh well.   Maybe better actually.....LOL.  Gets to motive.  Why are you training and competing?
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 30, 2013, 08:57:33 pm
Such a great point...   You were an encourager when she needed it too.  K+  from me on that.                                   ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on May 21, 2013, 06:28:13 pm
Extremely lean pics of Alison. Small waist with a wide back. Much different than what we see in fbbing now....which is PED enhanced of course.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 22, 2013, 01:08:58 am
Sad but true.  That said it would be cool if there could be some naturals that came out of the woodwork and made a statement.  It can be done...there's naturally big girls out there that can put on mass with heavy training , nutrition and determination. 
I was pondering where our heads were at back in my day.  We had no real mega female role models...we ( at least I did) looked at the men.  I admired Frank Zane for example.  I personally hungered for every new mag that came out with a new muscular woman.  New forms...new challenges.  Legs were getting bigger and more cut.  It was all new.  Now, if I were coming out of the shoot today and starting to lift with the thought of becoming a real FBB, I'd be looking at a pic of Iris Kyle.  As a rank beginner, she would be in some other galaxy to me.  I can see how a girl might think that PEDs were essential to "getting there".  Different head...ya know?   It's really the excitement of your own personal adventure that brings the joy ...and not so much reaching other worldly perfection that's actually beyond what a body can do all on it's own with effort.  ( but that's just me....)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img685/7797/bbodybuilding122.jpg)   
(http://imageshack.us/a/img832/7205/zane10hvjev.jpg)



 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 18, 2013, 05:15:08 pm
This side chest pose of you on the right is quite remarkable Alison! Not a compulsary in the true contest sense, but compulsive viewing. I hope you won't be offended that my eyes have almost come out of their sockets, I had not seen this post. Phew! I'll have to have a cup of tea, now...
 
(http://imageshack.us/a/img820/3041/bbodybuilding103.jpg)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 19, 2013, 12:59:07 am
TIMMON:
"Dispurse...there's nothing to see here!"
That's a side chest view of what were once my breasts before I went from a normal #120 to #106 lbs!  (There wasn't much to see at #120 either...relax)
Thanks for the pics....I don't think I've seern those before....well, maybe I have.  I'll have to check with Mooveeguy
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 19, 2013, 01:39:00 am
The pic right above there where part of my breast is exposed...."side chest"....no it's really a side breast shot.  Yup I knew you'd remember if that pic was posted here.  I don't remembner ever seeing it...  I think that was the contest I went nutz and dropped a ton of water and weight running in sweats  in Vegas.  Amazing I survived !!   Stupid.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on June 19, 2013, 02:17:35 am
Sweats in the desert. Wow. That is real old school Alison. Right out of the Bear Bryant playbook which was fine then, but would have him fired nowadays. He used to train his players in 110 heat and slap the water guy away in year one. The docs were told to pipe down as well. Good pic of you .
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 19, 2013, 07:13:10 am
TIMMON:
"Dispurse...there's nothing to see here!"
That's a side chest view of what were once my breasts before I went from a normal #120 to #106 lbs!  (There wasn't much to see at #120 either...relax)
Thanks for the pics....I don't think I've seern those before....well, maybe I have.  I'll have to check with Mooveeguy
ALISON

Alison, I assure you, there is LOTS to see here! I'm looking, and I'm not using a magnifying glass! That's what makes FBB's so special, they all think they have small boobs, but us men know better! Love the"side chest" or side cleavage shot. I must be right, having had another look this morning, I need more tea and a lie down.

As a thought, that's what makes the golden age of FBB even more special. You knew what you were looking at was real, no argument, no upsets like we have today!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on June 19, 2013, 07:21:35 pm
Alison as a female bodybuilder in competition shape(as you are in those photos) wouldn't that be a side pec shot? Either way when it's a woman as beautiful, muscular and friendly as you are Alison I'm quite happy to see a side breast pose instead of a side chest pose(I'm happy to see any photos you wish to share).

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 20, 2013, 12:29:45 am
Well thanks guys.  That bathing suit I had made by my neighbor.  We exchanged skills.  I helped her learn about nutrition, metabolism and calorie/exercise in order for her to more intelligently lose weight.  She made me the red suit.   What's funny was all the UNHEALTHY things I did before I put on the suit.... and posed what I had left of my body.  No telling how I might have done that year had I not lost my mind .  ( I was also jogging in sweats at night in front of all these hotels with the hot lights)   When it was all done and I found out after the contest ( I was busy being stupid...like doing chins in the stairwell on the pipes during the weigh in) ...anyway when I found out I weighed 106 lb I about collapsed....I was a LIGHTWEIGHT ! and competed as a middleweight~    This was my first national contest and my first contest ever where there was a weigh-in.  Missed the fine print somewhere on the intruction sheet.   Anyway...it was all fun....a true adventure.  Bill and I got to stay in Ceasar's Palace.....room looked like a bordello...mirror on the ceiling above the bed, cheesy red velvet-like wall paper.   I was way too nutz at the time to appreciate THAT ( mirror above the bed...probably didn't notice until I had a decent meal after the contest....and then of course I blew up with bloat like the Hindenburg).   
..........OH !    And then there was the Iodine adventure:
Just before the contest I got all greased up and slathered with Iodine.   Baby oil mixed with iodine.   Man the fumes!!!!   Sort of gives you this browish/yellow color....like you've got an early case of hepatitis.   Makes you stink like hell......sort of like medicinal rotten eggs.   I spose I absorbed enough iodine to survive a nuclear holocost.   That was something the male BBs did....the iodine grease up. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 20, 2013, 07:43:58 am
Well thanks guys.  That bathing suit I had made by my neighbor.  We exchanged skills.  I helped her learn about nutrition, metabolism and calorie/exercise in order for her to more intelligently lose weight.  She made me the red suit.   What funny was all the UNHEALTHY things I then did before I put on the suit.... and posed what I had left of my body.  No telling how I might have done that year had I not lost my mind .  ( I was also jogging in sweats at night in front of all these hotels with the hot lights)   When it was all done and I found out after the contest ( I was busy being stupid...like doing chins in the stairwell on the pipes during the weigh in) ...anyway when I found out I weighed 106 lb I about collapsed....I was a LIGHTWEIGHT ! and competed as a middleweight~    This was my first national contest and my first contest ever where there was a weigh-in.  Missed the fine print somewhere on the intruction sheet.   Anyway...it was all fun....a true adventure.  Bill and I got to stay in Ceasar's Palace.....room looked like a bordello...mirror on the ceiling above the bed, cheesy red velvet-like wall paper.   I was way too nutz at the time to appreciate THAT ( mirror above the bed...probably didn't notice until I had a decent meal after the contest....and then of course I blew up with bloat like the Hindenburg).   
..........OH !    And then there was the Iodine adventure:
Just before the contest I got all greased up and slathered with Iodine.   Baby oil mixed with iodine.   Man the fumes!!!!   Sort of gives you this browish/yellow color....like you've got an early case of hepatitis.   Makes you stink like hell......sort of like medicinal rotten eggs.   I spose I absorbed enough iodine to survive a nuclear holocost.   That was something the male BBs did....the iodine grease up.

Amazing insight Alison! You have so many stories, and you really bring the scenes you paint to life. You could write a great book about your adventures.
It was all worth it, just to create that picture, I assure you! What a shame about the wonderful bedroom, isn't that just typical of life? Wish you could go back there and really enjoy the mirror. For a guy, an FBB reflected in a ceiling mirror, what a wonderful idea! Enough, I will say no more.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 20, 2013, 07:23:46 pm
Timmon.....Until I most recently came here to Saradas I had no clue of the extent of the lusting to tell you the truth.  Ohhhh I knew there were muscle lusters and I always got a bang out of them when I went to the mainland US from Hawaii.  Yah... I spose my husband could have enjoyed the mirror thing.....   Maybe it was just me....I was older and possibly not as resiliant as the younger girls but contests knocked the crap outta me....and that's not a pretty site seen from an overhead mirror !....LOL !!!!!
___________________
On the book.....yah my husband is the writer.  He'd been writing little stories he remembers of his life down ever since we retired for 6 years now.  It's all about getting older and the process of becoming a retired person.  Great stories.  He's good at it.  Like Mooveeguy, he has this super memory.  He finally had it self published.  He picked up the first copies in fact just yesterday.
Calls it :
PANTS UP TO THE ARMPITS...Tales of surfboards and mountains and growing old gracelessly
Ya know how when men get old the pants keep getting higher and higher til they reach arm pit level ?   That's where the title comes from.  Bill has this great sense of humor....that's one of the great things I love about him.  Anyway...here's the book cover/back of the book:
(http://imageshack.us/a/img10/4818/9cei.jpg)
ALISON
P.S.  After I bitched and moaned he consented to include me on the back cover and as well included one little microscopic surf pic of me in the middle/bottom on the front cover.   He's a good boy......
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 21, 2013, 07:28:02 pm
That's fantastic, Alison. I can't find it on Amazon yet, is it purchaseable? Well done to William, it takes a lot to write a book.
Maybe you could write one about you together

"Fumes... tales from the pump room"  or something like that. Well, probably a lot better than that, I'll have a think.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 22, 2013, 12:57:52 am
No Timmon he had it  self published.  That means he paid for all the printing.  Cost an arm and a leg.  He had 400 or so pages single space on standard paper.  They had to do it in large format and it still came out 300 or so pages.  Ended up costing him $25 a book just to print and he had to print 50!   Needless to say it was an expensive project.  Oh well...when we can't remember a damn thing we can read the book over and over.   That's of course unless we encourage Mooveguy to live in that hut behind the house and be our resident "memory guy".   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 22, 2013, 10:03:43 am
If it means anything, I made some errors in grammar regarding a biography I wrote on Arnold for a book that was published about five years ago called Titans. Well if I did move into that small hut, I hope there would be a tv with an assortment of channels or at the very least, an opportunity to look through those photos and magazines you have saved from your days in the iron game, Alison.
Looks like a deal is being formed here! Mooveeguy, you forgot to mention that you will certainly need a "Pillow" to rest your head on as well! That would make for a happy way to spend the rest of your life...
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 22, 2013, 09:11:55 pm
If it means anything, I made some errors in grammar regarding a biography I wrote on Arnold for a book that was published about five years ago called Titans. Well if I did move into that small hut, I hope there would be a tv with an assortment of channels or at the very least, an opportunity to look through those photos and magazines you have saved from your days in the iron game, Alison.
Yes and you can organize them in that I am sure I can't remember when many were taken.  You can be a sort of resident librarian.  BTW I wrote to Pillow.  Takes a loooong time for mail to get to the states from here but aI did send it registered.  maybe in a month she'll get it.  Lets see....
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 22, 2013, 09:13:32 pm
If it means anything, I made some errors in grammar regarding a biography I wrote on Arnold for a book that was published about five years ago called Titans. Well if I did move into that small hut, I hope there would be a tv with an assortment of channels or at the very least, an opportunity to look through those photos and magazines you have saved from your days in the iron game, Alison.
Looks like a deal is being formed here! Mooveeguy, you forgot to mention that you will certainly need a "Pillow" to rest your head on as well! That would make for a happy way to spend the rest of your life...
Exactly......a win/win situation
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 22, 2013, 10:46:01 pm
From the past blast.  Pre-bodybuilding, before I had ever lifted a weight 1977.   This is how I looked naturally without doing anything...but surf.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img197/5184/6d3.JPG)
This one was taken about the same time.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img4/3958/exlb.jpg)

ALISON
32 yr old in these pictures
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 23, 2013, 09:55:50 am
From the past blast.  Pre-bodybuilding, before I had ever lifted a weight 1977.   This is how I looked naturally without doing anything...but surf.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img197/5184/6d3.JPG)
This one was taken about the same time.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img4/3958/exlb.jpg)

ALISON
32 yr old in these pictures
Naturally muscular. I am always amazed how many people believe that woman don't have muscles unless they take steroids and weight train. You are living proof Alison, that women can be muscular having never lifted a weight. It's totally normal.
I first noticed female muscle when  I left school and worked for a department store, and some of the girls ( 16 upwards! ) had well developed muscles. I've always been interested  since then, and it was natural for me to become a follower of bodybuilding from Rachel McLish on. Always find the sport facinating and have the utmost respect for women who decide to weight train, due to the dedication required, and strong will to survive the hurtful comments as well as the compliaments.
Thanks for these pics, they do remind me of the first time my jaw dropped in amazment at the unusual and very welcome sight of a female bicep!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 23, 2013, 06:45:52 pm
Timmon....
I sort of became oblivious to it.  Now looking at the pic, I know why I was taunted as a teenager.  It was rare and odd and not the norm.  The taunting was very hurtful back then.  Something about taunts you receive as a kid...they seem to grow and stick for ever.  Thank GOD for bodybuilding.  It gave me this little brief interlude to exonerate myself...ya know?   Meanwhile my highschool class is having it's 50th reunion.  They sent a questionare and asked for pictures.   I was encouraged by one of the fans I met here at Saradas to send them the best of the best bodybuilding shots.  I did.  ya know?.....it felt BETTER puitting that envelope in the mail slot than the best workout I've ever had.  (grin)
Mooveeguy.....
Yes sir, I hear ya.  I hate to promise....but KNOW I havn't forgotten you.  Bill had the machine out yesterday  saving some old pictures of the 70's.  So we're working through the massive pile.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 23, 2013, 07:32:11 pm
Yes, kids just say what they think, often for maximum hurt! For me it was 4 eyes (glasses wearer) and match stick ( no muscles! Maybe that's another reason why I think muscle on women is great!).
Funny thing is, when I joined the gym seeking to build some muscle in my 20's and rejoined again in my 40's, the trainers both gasped at how much I naturally went for when curling. I've always had powerful arms, but virtually no muscle, much to my dismay. Genetics, an overrated subject in my view!

What a great idea sending those pics! I bet you wish you were a fly on the wall when the envelope was opened!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 23, 2013, 08:08:42 pm
What a great idea sending those pics! I bet you wish you were a fly on the wall when the envelope was opened!
.....oh yah Timmon!.   They'll probably go... WTF ?....what is THIS?  ( keep in mind they'll all be sending in pics of their children and grandkids)   The reunion is in late September.  If all goes well I should be photoworthy bodybuilderwise and might just send an email update.....LOL  (me bad...)...should be orgasmic hitting the "send" button (me REALLY bad)
See? I STILL have a lot of resentment stored up.  Yes kids can be very cruel with their teasing. 
BTW.  My husband is working out with me.  We're on the same diet.  He's an ectomorph....Mr skinney guy who used to have a protruding gut. He said to me yesterday..."Hell I knew I had skinney legs til I lost weight...now look!!"  ( I'm laughing....)
His legs sort of resemble a Flamingo.  (He HATES any bodybuilding advice from me).  I just lift along with him.  My fat goes, muscles appear.....he gets skinney but stronger, and skinnier.....pisses him off a tad.   No matter...he  feels better...and he appreciates me looking better. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 23, 2013, 10:57:44 pm
Mooveeguy.  6-8 weeks for mail to reach the states.  Took 8 weeks to get a letter to Orlando this year.  Unreal.  Let's see if she responds.  Maybe she wants to stay private ya know? 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 24, 2013, 11:12:39 am
So if Pillow responds by letter immediately, another 6-8 weeks for the reply? You can kiss goodbye to 4 months then! That's how long we used to wait (add another 6 weeks for publication dates) to hear the results of the 1980's Ms O!.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 24, 2013, 06:47:18 pm
Right Timmon !.....LOL  Anyway, the letter IS in the mail.  I do hope I get in touch.  I sent it registered so as to put some speed on it.  If she decides to stay undercover, of course that's what'll be. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 15, 2013, 12:23:37 am
(http://imageshack.us/a/img545/6236/hjci.jpg)

Been gone 12 days on a surf trip...back again.  Had a great time.   Good to be home however.  Missed Saradas !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on July 15, 2013, 09:05:03 am
You missed Saradas Alison? Maybe you need to work on your aim? he he (ok I know that was a bad joke but you're one of the few who seem to like my bad jokes).

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: hwillish on July 21, 2013, 05:31:12 pm
Allison...

The new "benchmarkl" for you.  Go to RxMuscle.com and look at the 2013 Masters results.

Over 65 Class...see Mary Lovato


Go for it!!!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 22, 2013, 02:01:54 am
hwillish...will do. Thanks for the heads up.   As it's going right now it'll take me til November or so to get to bed rock .  I'm still getting off body fat and am right now 20 lb from getting close.   Still training . 

Nikopo,
Tubes on the North coast around Bocas del Toro...The South coast has some good spots.  The best is where we go at Santa Catalina.  It's a one peak take-off and can get crowded.  Tide change on that coast is 18 ft...so that can effect how many hours you get of good surf.  Basically...it's not Hawaii, but it keeps us happy.  Fairly consistant during the season.  Remote.

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 22, 2013, 02:55:54 am
Allison...

The new "benchmarkl" for you.  Go to saradas.org and look at the 2013 Masters results.

Over 65 Class...see Mary Lovato


Go for it!!!

Can't find it....still looking. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on July 22, 2013, 07:54:54 am
Allison...

The new "benchmarkl" for you.  Go to saradas.org and look at the 2013 Masters results.

Over 65 Class...see Mary Lovato


Go for it!!!


Can't find it....still looking.

hwillish means Mary Trovato, Alison, and you can't post links on the forum to certain muscle sites, the software changes the web address to saradas.org to stop the audit trail back to this site as the referrer.
To save you hunting more, the link is protected here http://lix.in/-cef373

Click on the link above and then on the resulting splash page, click "continue" button
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: hwillish on July 22, 2013, 02:59:17 pm
Thanx, Timmon... for your correction (yes, it was Mary Trovato) and your explanation for why the website I mentioned was changed.

Mary competed in Pittsburgh in the 2013 Masters, Teens and College competition this past weekend which is an annual NPC sanctioned event.  For the first time ever there was a +65 class and even though Mary was the only  competitor, this opens up a whole new opportunity for ladies in the future....props to Gary Udit who is the promoter.

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: hwillish on July 22, 2013, 07:01:03 pm
Just went on you tube (wonder if this gets thru the filter)?  See Mary Ann Lovato.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on July 22, 2013, 07:32:25 pm
It's just a pity that there are no contests for you in Panama. Maybe we'll have to take up a collection and pay the expenses for you to go to America and compete in an over 50's bodybuilding contest. An over 50's first to get you back into the contest mode and then we can unleash you on an open bodybuilding divison. After having seen the photos from the recent Masters Nationals, with the drive, determination and commitment that I know you have Alison I have no doubt that you would be extremely competitive if you competed again. I won't say that I know you'd win but you'd at least be competitive.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 27, 2013, 12:30:37 am
Thanks guys.  My buddy Greg sent me the links and pics to my email .   Interesting the start up of an older than time category.   On that, I saw the interview with an 80 yr old guy who finally won after 60 years of training and competition.  One thing he said was..."I  knew I could eventually win if I was the last man standing!".   Hey he got a pro card at 80!   Hat's off to him.
Appreciate all of you...you know that.   I am encouraged to slowly slowly continue to beat myself into some sort of shape.  Meanwhile surf's up and we're off for another week.
Bye
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 27, 2013, 12:51:08 am
(http://imageshack.us/a/img20/7978/shhc.jpg)

OK...Here's the first test shot taken during a work-out a few weeks ago.   This is where I'm at now.  Still slowly slowly blastin fat.....more to go ( as you can see...LOL)  A thank you to my buddy Greg who cheers me on and sent me this nice collage.
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 27, 2013, 07:46:33 pm
SNAKES !
OK so I know this is a tad (ok more than a tad) off topic but I just had to share with you what we dragged off the back canyon in our backyard cleaning weeds.
Fer de Lance:  I didn't Wikipedia it, but this snake is one of the world's gnarliest.  Our neighbor's gardner got bit on his hand last week by a small one and was foaming at the mouth and passed out before they could load him into the car.  10 days in ICU.

Fer de Lance.....this was it
(http://imageshack.us/a/img577/5275/84kr.jpg)
OK so you get the size of this one ( note my snappy outfit for snake hunting
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"as if" I nailed it with my own hands...(ha).  Our yard helper went home, got his .22 and shot it.
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Get this !   That's a 2X4 in it's mouth with one fang lifted up.   HUGE
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So we are now VERY watchful around here and careful not to step nor put our hands into where we can't see. !!!!....ahhhhhh retirement in the mountins of Central Americal !!
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Taking off surfing once again.  Be back in a week
ALISON
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(thanks again Mr Greg sir for this sweet gift collage to me !)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on July 27, 2013, 07:48:39 pm
Nice stuff, Alison.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on July 28, 2013, 11:23:40 am
You could get lost in those wonderful collages. And that shot in the black one-piece is you just a few weeks ago? Wow...
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on July 28, 2013, 07:31:16 pm
You're welcome Alison but it really isn't that much to make those collages and I enjoy making them for you. Thank you to you for everything you do for me.

Have a nice time and I hope the surf is up for you.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 03, 2013, 09:34:52 pm
I'm back !  (http://imageshack.us/a/img854/5998/ormc.jpg)
BIG SWELL it was !!(http://imageshack.us/a/img824/6154/qrnr.jpg)
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No extra charge for the shiner......paddle in the face.   Keeps you humble !
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ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on August 03, 2013, 10:50:57 pm
Good stuff Alison except forthe shiner. That will be gone soon enough. You look like a really good surfer in the  pics. Nice stuff.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 03, 2013, 11:12:49 pm
Thanks Zig.   I had a guy want to punch me last time we went.  Now the surfers seem mellowed out as word has it the old bag on the boat is 68...have some respect !    So now it seems they are all rooting for me and quite friendly...thank God    They call me....get this...Super-Granny!...."Go Super-Granny" they yell.   
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This was my favorite pics form the last trip.  That little boat can pick up some speed and almost hydro plane.  Great fun!
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ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on August 03, 2013, 11:54:59 pm
"Super Granny" is a nicename that should be worn with honor. :rock:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on August 04, 2013, 01:49:56 am
Supergran was a British TV series and a series of books but I think I'd rather have our Supergran Alison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Gran

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 04, 2013, 07:20:51 pm
What were some of your strongest lifts  that you recall, Alison?
Benched 180 on my 40th Birthday.  I wasn't a heavy weight lifter.  I did one powerlifting contest, but bombed out when I didn't wait for the signal to start the lift...just took it off the rack and did the lift.....That was the end of my power lifting career.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 06, 2013, 03:38:52 pm
A strong double gin and tonic !~
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on August 08, 2013, 06:45:49 am
A strong double gin and tonic !~
He he, Alison, Ice and lemon?! Not good for re hydration, but you deserved the treat! Did it go straight to your head?
I thought all FBB's rushed to the ice cream tub, another urban myth maybe?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 09, 2013, 11:03:58 pm
Geee.....I thought Gin/tonic was an essential part of the food pyramid...or at least then I did !.   You know, after the long process of elimination of all food as I lovingly remembered it to eating my last protein shake before pure liquid/solid starvation....after that,  you KNOW what will happen as soon as you eat something like a fully loaded pizza or a double cheese n bacon hamburger.,    I'd enjoy those cookies the chinese make....like fortune cookies?...I loved those.   But I'd try to stick close to the lean low carb routine for a time.  As soon as I was back to eating rice with meals etc...the bloat would happen.   I don't think my gut ever handled starchy carbs well.   So now  (since Dec) I've 100% eliminated starch..no bread, no rice, no potatoes.,    Wow...huge difference!   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on August 22, 2013, 03:14:40 pm
Hi Alison, remember this?


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OdoHerr

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 24, 2013, 03:45:51 am
Reminds me of Evita Perrone....."My people !"  (pg 26)   The heels , an added touch.
The gal next to me there ( Linda McCrerey) was responsible for introducing me to going to a gym and lifting weights.  She was a good friend and fellow surfer.  I'll always be very grateful to her for that.   
ALISON
Thanks Odo for these memories...K+
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 27, 2013, 12:03:55 am
Have any videos of your competition days?

They are all now on DVDs with http://www.wpwmagazineonline.com/store.html ( WPW magazineonline #9 and #10).  They're old super 8 movie transfers to DVD and put to some pretty dated music.  A bit cosmic.   #9 is all Alison Brundage and #10 has a mix of FBBs of the 83 era.
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on August 27, 2013, 01:31:14 pm
mooveeguy, and anyone else who is interested, I bought both those DVD's and they are well worth purchasing. Not only for the beautiful Alison Brundage in her bodybuilding prime but also for all the other wonderful women of that era including Cory Kneuer(before she became Cory Everson).
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 13, 2013, 08:27:38 pm
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Back home from a trip to Panama City.  This one from the rooftop of our hotel taken last week
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on September 13, 2013, 08:38:06 pm
Looking very fit Alison. Nice work. I can see the improvement in the picture.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 13, 2013, 08:56:22 pm
Thanks Zig.   Slow and steady seems to be doing the job.  Slowly slowly blasting the fat and at the same time pushing the weight to encourage muscle.  I was in too much of a hurry back in the 80's and although I did get down to bedrock and in fact create a bit of muscle, I do believe I was not creating as much as I could have.  My goal is December 2013 to reach ground zero ( bedrock) and March 2014 to acquire the appearance of a true FBB....then hold it. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 13, 2013, 10:11:49 pm
You bet !   Some of the basics are still basic...but the current research keeps commin off the press and it's really exciting stuff.  I'm truly enjoying this adventure.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 14, 2013, 12:29:02 am
Mooveeguy...oops I  KNEW you'd nail me !   Still in the closet.  I really need to get at those....if nothing else to preserve them all.

pbo4muscle...well thanks!  Yup... natural muscle is entirely possible.  I was born that way...muscular as a little girl.  Made fun of as a matter of fact.  Muscles were not "in" when I was a kid.
It was VERY liberating to be able to have my brief time under the lights and the timing was perfect.  Soon after me the era of drug-assisted muscle pretty much edged the natural right out of the competition.  On...how strong was I?...not very.  I was not a powerlifter type.....surfer actually.  Thanks for the kind words. 
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These were both taken before I ever lifted a weight and before I began bodybuilding.  I was probably close to 30 yr old then
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 14, 2013, 02:11:42 am
Nah....before anything I was a surfer and am today.  That was my sport of choice.  Bodybuilding didn't help me much with my surfing other than get me noticed in the water..and possibly a few more waves in crowded surf.  Hey...I'll take any extra wave I can get. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on September 15, 2013, 01:35:36 am
Judging by the picture from last week you certainly look on track for your November target. It's just a pity that there are really no contests in Panama. Keep up the great work Alison.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 15, 2013, 08:21:11 pm
No...actually I got really buzzed.  Like amped.  Irritable as hell however ( ask my husband)  Seemed like the less I ate the more energy I had.....wierd no?   Probably mother nature's way of getting the starving creature back into the hunting mode for survival (lol )
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 15, 2013, 11:18:55 pm
Not for weak minds and lazy bodys...like mine (LOL)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 18, 2013, 01:16:38 am
Nah.....it only hurts for awhile...then I'd wax up my surfboard and enjoy some waves.   It was ALL fun.   I think the hyper-gym mode today is a whole different thing from my experience.  Of course, you see the results they are getting.  I was very fortunate ( I've said this many times) to have some brief moments of glory for what ( for the most part) I had naturally.  It required some discipline for sure but I never sweat blood.  Today that kind of effort would probably get you nowhere.......
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 18, 2013, 02:48:05 am
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Taken last week.  Night out for Bill and I ..BIG steak !
___________________________________
Mooveeguy:
Toughest thing?   I spose it was the very thought of getting up on stage all greased up in front of a room full of people on "X" date and the eating nothing but 3 cans of tuna a day .....three days on and one day off...for months.   It HAD to be absolute...no cheating.  I did it all alone with my trainer, my husband and me in our home-made backyard gym.  It was kind of a scarey adventure actually.  Like going uphill on a roller coaster to that highest peak.......you KNOW what's comming and there's no way out.  I smoked a LOT of weed back then....took off some of the edge. ( grin)



.....felt sort like this ! This pic was taken last week during a visit of my sister in law here.  She's diabetic and we were on a pretty strict diet.  ( she lost 8 lb in 3 weeks ! )....Anyway we took this pic  as a joke.   She said coming to our house for a visit was sort of "like going to a spa".   More like going to a concentration camp !....ha ha ha .  Susan loves a nice meal and we were on a spartan bodybuilding routine.   

ALISON   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on September 19, 2013, 07:29:45 am
That's your sister in law that sent me that package a while back? It's nice to finally see what she looks like. Please thank her again for doing that for me.

Smoking lots of weed can't be good for a contest diet. I've smoked weed a few times in my life and I know all too well about getting the munchies. The munchies can't be a good thing when you're on any kind of diet.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on September 19, 2013, 06:20:09 pm
Good pics Alison.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 19, 2013, 10:34:02 pm
pbo4muscle.
How did my husband feel about my muscle?.  Well he married me...a muscular gal naturally.  We hit our 30's , felt old and fat and a friend talked un both into joining a gym.  That's when we first started lifing weights ( 80's) .  We both got into shape...he gained some muscle...but has a ectomorph build ( thin ).   I got into contest prep right away.  In 6 months Hawaii  had it's first event and I entered it.  Soooo I was looking more muscluar of course as my diet and routine was different than his.  My body naturally wanted to add muscle....mesomorph.    It was an adventure we both enjoyed.  He helped make gym equipment with my trainer and we bolted all these rigs into his backyard cement slab.  It was a pretty amazing set up....  A lot of it was bent  stop sign posts ( the kind with all the holes in it).   We'd saw off segments and make these crazy machines  all hooked to pulleys.  The policeman would bring the posts to me at the ER of the hospital I was working in.  It was a small town...North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii...and I had a lot of folks cheering for me.  In answer...he was in it with me all the way...and was very proud of me.   Still is. 
(laughing......)   We're both once again powering some backyard weights.  I'm getting muscular slowly slowly...he ( trying to blast gut fat) got a pair of double groin hernias doing leg lifts....needs surgery.  Of course he's bummed....   Next time he'll listen to the little lady when she tells him...."that's a stupid exercise"  ( the old football leg lift spread and down exercise)  He wouldn't listen.   No husband wants to hear..."I told you so" ( nah, I didn't say that..) ...when now he needs both hernias surgically repaired.  He's not too keen on my giving him training advice...(LOL)
.......when we first started lifting back in the 80's I used to do squats at  home with him on my shoulders.  He weighed about 160.   We were livng in a small efficiency.  I'd face the refrigerator and he'd climb on up and balance a bit holding the top of the frig...
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 20, 2013, 10:08:52 pm
Sad to say I only had one occaision to actually have some informal time with Kay and that was after one of the National Amateur contests...Pillow and Kay invited me up totheir room to have an alcohol fortified protein shake with them.  Conversation centered around feeling ...well ....ripped off.  It was "as if" the powers that be couldn't decide whether they really liked muscle on a FBB or not.  That said...we were in the post contest depletion stage and about three sheets to the wind. At that stage of the competition no bodybuilder ever really wants to believe that it was something that they actually lacked that caused the loss.  In a very short time each of us moved on...Kay: up,   Pillow: North to Alaska,   and me....I just kept on surfing there in Hawaii.   Just a brief moment in time.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 21, 2013, 12:23:30 am
....and she was no dummy.  ( talking about Kay Baxter)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 21, 2013, 07:56:09 pm
Seems like your husband was "one of us"... Takes Power to date and have a relationship with a girl with muscles. Even today a bit of a taboo.

Wellll.... I met him in the 70's.  I had just graduated college & was living with my folks in a retirement town in Florida.  I didn't know anybody there and I certainly wasn't going to do the bar scene to meet somebody.  So I went back up to my college (FSU) and a friend told me to look up a guy by the name of Bill Brundage.  He'd show me around and tell me where I could find some good weed.  OK so I called his home...got his mom and had several conversations with her.  It was his mother who thought he should call me...she kept nagging him.   So we had this blind date.  It was love at first site ( or the weed...dunno)   We  got married within in 6 months...which is another story.

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 Anyway its now some 45 yr later and we're still  happy.  No weed smoking now...no drinking...heck, we're missionaries !   Our lives changed together as we grew up together.  Muscles?   It was way before the muscle era for women.  It wasn't a factor really.  We just enjoyed each other's company


This was taken back when I was in competition in the 80's. ( note the nose job that got done )  We had this home made gym as I've mentioned.  Even had our own gym tee shirts....we called the gym the Deltoid House.
One thing that I can say...no matter what we've done in our lives we've always enjoyed doing it together.  Ha!  I may have mentioned that when I first started lifting I did squats with Bill on my shoulders...he weighed 160 then.  Good memories!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on September 23, 2013, 02:48:00 pm
The scattershot success of marriages makes me value stories such as yours all the more. Truly a great relationship you have.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 23, 2013, 04:45:12 pm
It's not complicated.   It's all about truly enjoying each other's company and essentially thinking alike. 
Example:
The year was 2007 ...preceding the great crash and loss of lots of folks investments.  I was learning about finances myself as we could no longer trust our financial advisor. All I was reading pointed to selling your real estate high and looking for a place to reduce your cost of living.  (Bill & I had fully planned to stay in Hawaii another decade BTW...surfing til we dropped dead)
Hawaii real estate was inflated to about 3 times it's true value.  Soooo over a years time ( 2006-2007) we sold a $3000.00 investment in a lot in the Bahamas we bought sight unseen through Surfer Magazine in 1980 ( our proposed surfing retirement spot)....get this, for $20,000.   We took that asset...Bill bought the Harley always wanted and we took the rest and got our property ready for sale.  Meanwhile I researched everything south of the Mexican border for a potential retirement place.

Fast forward once again...2007:   I discovered a beautiful peaceful house with a hell of a view in the mountains of Panama...where a permanent visa is literally handed out to retirees on Soc Sec who apply.  I went down there all by myself while Bill stayed in Hawaii and worked.   I came back with pictures and full report and as well hired up an attorney there. In 2 1/2 months ( Bill was convinced) we had sold our condos in Hawaii (tripled our investment ) and moved to Panama. Bill sold his beloved Harley, something he has not yet recovered from.  We removed all our retirement assets in stupid muni bonds that lost  about $60K...and  invested in the Asia direction...made all the money we lost back and then some.  I could go on and on.  BUT...these are  HUGE life decisions we made together ia a sort of knee jerk sort of way...trusting each other, knowing full well how we think alike, and trusting our research together.   

2013...Happy as clams in Panama.  We still surf and enjoy all the things we loved in Hawaii ( except Billy's Harley).   Don't miss working. We are a VERY thankful couple.

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Our backyard....a view that's ever changing and always breath taking.
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Two heads that think alike...and enjoy each other.  How blessed we are !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Sar-Net on October 20, 2013, 09:31:32 am

I found this little image of a couple of young FBB's you mite remember.

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on October 20, 2013, 03:27:51 pm
I found this little image of a couple of young FBB's you mite remember.

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You found it here above on page 26...

OdoHerr

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 20, 2013, 11:02:59 pm
(laughing).......yup Odo Herr's on top of it as always !  Between him and Moveeguy I know I can keep track of my life should I lose my marbles!

Been feeling sort of on a plateau progress-wise.  Still losing fat weight and I believe at least holding on to the muscle I have, & possibly adding a tad with my workouts.  I have to restrain myself from going into hyper-bodybuilding mode.  I'm convinced that slow and steady will be best for me at this point
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Love to all you guys!
       Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Sar-Net on October 21, 2013, 01:49:59 am
I found this little image of a couple of young FBB's you mite remember.

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You found it here above on page 26...

OdoHerr

Actually I didn't I found that image in some old pics from years ago, I figured I'd get lucky and no one had posted it but I'm afraid there are two many dam pack rats here, dagnabit!

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 01, 2013, 08:28:04 pm
Ahhh...good to hear from you Mooveeguy !   Missed you. 
Oh I still sling the iron around...peak ?   Well I'm setting  March date for getting there.   So far it looks like I'll be a gal 69 in damn good shape but by no means of bodybuilding note in any regard.
Ah well it's all good.  You guys keep me on my toes and always are encouraging.

Each time I open that closet door I feel guilty ...and think about you.  I'm  not hot at the technology.   Might have to get a new scanner...and pick the brains of folks here if  I get jammed.  Odo Herr is such a champ.  I envy his techno-ability...and so many of you !

OK.....later

ALISON

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 02, 2013, 08:42:24 pm
I almost fear saying yes.....so I'll say probably.   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Female Bodybuilding on December 02, 2013, 08:44:51 pm
Miss you much Alison  :-*

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Peter F. Condon on December 04, 2013, 04:52:01 am
Hello Allison...  This is Peter Condon...If I'm right ...I met you and Bill in Peru, somewhere around 1977!!!  Punta Hermosa!!!   I  put your name in the computer and got this site.  Congrats on still being south of the border!

  I've been back to Peru 13 times since I met you, am still surfing and am currently working on wind turbines in Texas, (composite repairs).  Hope to make it to Peru again next year.   

                                                       Drop me a line to say hi if you care to!!!

                                                           Peter F. Condon        pfcflier@gmail.com


                                                                                All the best!

         PS:  Robin Willard lived in Hawaii for a couple of years, but is now living in Peru!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 04, 2013, 08:52:52 pm
Hey Pete !!!
Yup.....Hawaii was our home base for most of our life after our Peru big wave adventures with you there.  We lived in the same town as Robin and  would get together.   Our travel surf was mostly Indonesia from there.    Did a little Barbados.  But needless to say we got our fill of waves living on the North Shore.
This was taken in that era: ( Haleiwa)
 
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We now live in the Rep of Panama up in the mountains about 4 hours from the surf.  But we still get wet !   We intercept the waves by internet weather predictions, then stay  a week or so  on the coast.   We'd love to go to Ecuador once again.   Playas.   I think that may well be our next adventure.

I'll  be in touch with you through your email addy.......anxious to share some surf pics  back and forth

Take care.....Billy sez howdy !

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 16, 2013, 09:32:13 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 16, 2013, 09:41:58 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 16, 2013, 09:44:35 pm
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Part of the fun is the faces of these guys .......deer in the headlights
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 16, 2013, 09:47:01 pm

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Love you guys !
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 16, 2013, 09:52:03 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on December 17, 2013, 07:47:00 pm
You were really ripped Alison. Wow. Awesome job and all of it from good old hard work. Old school.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 20, 2013, 01:18:45 am
How did you come about getting a pilot's license?

Back in the late 70's there was a strong nursing lobby in Washington.  If you were a Registered Nurse but without a BS degree, Uncle Sam paid in full for your BS...tuition, books, graduate dorm, stipend.  No payback.  I went to school full time, worked as an RN in the school infirmary and took flying lessons with the money I made.  It cost then $12.00/hr for dual instruction and $6.00/hr for solo instruction.  I got my license in 38 hrs.  I used to rent a plane for $25/hr...fly to a little island in the Gulf south of Tallahassee with a grass landing strip....study on the beach...fly back.   It was sweet !~

I then met my husband....   He liked smoking pot better than flying airplanes.   I found him more attractive than my Cessna 150 ! ( the pot was pretty good too)    So much for the flying carreer !!!!  (LOL)

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 20, 2013, 01:48:09 am
You were really ripped Alison. Wow. Awesome job and all of it from good old hard work. Old school.
Thanks Zig.   Mostly starvation ! (LOL)
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on December 21, 2013, 03:54:40 am
Merry Christmas Alison.

Grego  ;)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 22, 2013, 01:17:41 am
Merry Christmas Alison.

Grego  ;)
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU GREG !!....& to all of you here at Saradas
Alison
....you guys have made my year special and I know I've said this before, but I do appreciate all of you
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 22, 2013, 07:37:20 pm
It's been fun for me too Alison. It was surprise when I saw that first email and it's been great since then.

Alison for more fun for you and everyone else try this link here on Saradas and maybe leave your suggestions.

http://saradas.org/index.php?topic=218042.msg1020261#msg1020261

Merry Christmas again to you Alison and to everyone else.

Grego

Brilliant idea.  Now why didn't I think of that  ?( grin)
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on December 23, 2013, 06:53:19 pm
It's been fun for me too Alison. It was surprise when I saw that first email and it's been great since then.

Alison for more fun for you and everyone else try this link here on Saradas and maybe leave your suggestions.

http://saradas.org/index.php?topic=218042.msg1020261#msg1020261

Merry Christmas again to you Alison and to everyone else.

Grego
Merry Christmas Grego.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on December 23, 2013, 06:53:44 pm
Merry Christmas Alison!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on December 24, 2013, 12:06:25 pm
Merry Christmas to you too timmon.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on December 24, 2013, 06:39:00 pm
Merry Christmas Alison!

Merry Christmas to you Allison. I was glad to meet you this year. :rock:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 24, 2013, 10:14:28 pm
Merry Christmas Alison!
Thanks Timmon...
Hey snappy avitar there Timmon.  My motion dector just picked up on the ab movement.  Good work !
Zig...
I've enjoyed our discussions.  You got me up to speed on the evolution of FBB...thanks
Greg....
Well, you are unique...no words can express.

See y'all next year !
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 25, 2013, 08:32:15 pm
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Dec 8 in Panama is Mother's Day.  Each year we have a little dinner for our adopted indiginous family.  This year they gave me their family chicken ...and this thoughtful perfume.   
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on December 26, 2013, 06:25:17 am
Aw, thank you Alison.  :P You're pretty unique yourself(and I mean that in the best way possible).

That is so nice what you do for your adopted family and nice that they can do something for you in return. 'tis the season and so on. I was going to make a bad joke about Sex and the City but I'll leave that.

If we don't have contact before then, have  a wonderful new year Alison(and everyone else too) and we'll catch up next year.

Greg  :)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 27, 2013, 12:16:47 am
Aw, thank you Alison.  :P You're pretty unique yourself(and I mean that in the best way possible).

That is so nice what you do for your adopted family and nice that they can do something for you in return. 'tis the season and so on. I was going to make a bad joke about Sex and the City but I'll leave that.

If we don't have contact before then, have  a wonderful new year Alison(and everyone else too) and we'll catch up next year.

Greg  :)

If you're too active in the use of that perfume here you run into problems......it's a VERY small town...LOL.  Happy New Year Greg !!!!!
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on December 27, 2013, 08:10:03 am
Alison it sounds like you're saying that perfume has aphrodisiac properties. What you're saying about the perfume combined with the progress in your physical transformation maybe you SHOULD try wearing it in town and let me know what happens(if you do actually get any sex in the.....or at least any offers). Your husband wouldn't mind, would he?  ;) (maybe your husband can try wearing it in town too)  ;)

Remember it is called "Sex and the CITY" and not "Sex and the TOWN" so you may have to save it until you next go to Panama City.

Happy new year to you too Alison.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 27, 2013, 03:51:12 pm
Alison it sounds like you're saying that perfume has aphrodisiac properties. What you're saying about the perfume combined with the progress in your physical transformation maybe you SHOULD try wearing it in town and let me know what happens(if you do actually get any sex in the.....or at least any offers). Your husband wouldn't mind, would he?  ;) (maybe your husband can try wearing it in town too)  ;)

Remember it is called "Sex and the CITY" and not "Sex and the TOWN" so you may have to save it until you next go to Panama City.

Happy new year to you too Alison.

Grego

In that I take seriously every word you say...taking notes...I'll keep you posted on the matter
It could well be a VERY happy happy New Year !!
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 27, 2013, 07:59:27 pm
Looking at the Picture above... Old lady got guns  8)
Yup...still packin!
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 27, 2013, 09:36:47 pm
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After church with the ladies.......

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on December 28, 2013, 12:31:56 pm
"In that I take seriously every word you say...taking notes...I'll keep you posted on the matter
It could well be a VERY happy happy New Year !!
Alison"

Thank you Alison. Hey, if you get lucky then that's none of our business(  ;) ) but if you'd like to share any details then I wouldn't say no. Also let me know what your husband thinks of all of this(of course that's if you even tell him about any of this in the first place). We have three fireworks displays here on Sydney Harbour on New Year's Eve. Maybe, if you get lucky, you could have your own fireworks display there in Panama.

Of course I'm joking about all of this Alison but it would be nice to know if anything really does happen.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 28, 2013, 02:28:38 pm
Grego...uhhh, OK.
We have fireworks here too !   Anybody can blast the heck outta themselves..and every year someone does.  That said, the displays are quite a show.  We live on a canyon with the rim all around us so we get a 180 view of the fireworks.   Great fun.   I'll see if I can tune into yours there in the Harbor....I'll get two days worth !
...and Yup...ole Billy knows about you guys and my writings......on Sex in the City....well, I'll leave that one alone ( smile)...........ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on December 28, 2013, 11:48:37 pm
Hi Alison

I usually do not participate to the chats with you here, but I wish to express to you how I feel honored by your presence here, and be able to read all your words about your life and experience, it is really great.

May I wish you all the best for the new year, to you, and those who are close to you.

OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 29, 2013, 08:23:36 pm
Hi Alison

I usually do not participate to the chats with you here, but I wish to express to you how I feel honored by your presence here, and be able to read all your words about your life and experience, it is really great.

May I wish you all the best for the new year, to you, and those who are close to you.

OdoHerr

.......my heart raced !!!   As that started out OdoHerr I thought I was going to be scolded.   (phew, relief... I got a flashback of a paternal spanking !)
Thanks...how sweet and kind.   No honor necessary...I'm human and just  like you guys ....well almost like you guys...I'm a woman, LOL.   I love you all.
 
 Happy New Year .  Lets hope this year brings some mature growth in the judging of all FBB contests and the sport in general.  We care !!!

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 29, 2013, 08:38:16 pm
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Christmas with our indiginous  family.....and...they gave me presents !!!!!!! ( that's our new pastor and his wife in the middle back)

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 01, 2014, 01:15:54 am
HAPPY NEW YEAR SARADAS !!!
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Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Saradas.Org on January 01, 2014, 01:27:26 am
Dear Alison,

May You Find Happiness
And Life In Everything
That You Will Be Up To In This New Year.
Wishing You Days Full Of Blossomed Flowers
That Will Be Filling The Air
With Sweet Scents Which Will Be Carrying You
Away In The Chariots Of Joy.

Happy New Year  :heart:

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on January 01, 2014, 04:00:56 pm
Happy New Year, Alison.

You stand as an example of true happiness, something to which we should all strive to attain.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 01, 2014, 07:34:57 pm
Dear Alison,

May You Find Happiness
And Life In Everything
That You Will Be Up To In This New Year.
Wishing You Days Full Of Blossomed Flowers
That Will Be Filling The Air
With Sweet Scents Which Will Be Carrying You
Away In The Chariots Of Joy.

Happy New Year  :heart:
      I'm overwhelmed.....I tell ya, I walked away from bodybuilding in the late 80's.  Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine such friendships to be had in the sport so far down the road when I'm inching on 69 yr old.  My leaving the sport was bittersweet and you folks here have made it all new again.  Words can not express how very thankful I am for that.   Bless you.   Hugs     Alison

(http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8439/sftk.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69/sftk.jpg/)Fast work ! The flowers are growing through my window already

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on January 02, 2014, 09:21:02 am
I don't know about everyone else but I feel kind of the same Alison. Who knew that someone like you would be here and become friends with little old(ok not as old as you but still old enough) me. It's been so much fun this last year or so and I hope we can continue our friendship even if it only ever happens to be words and pictures on the screen and things in the mail. As I've said before, that moment when I saw your email and realised you'd actually replied to me, was a very nice surprise as has been all of our contact. Thank you so much Alison(oh and I do like your prototype. It's a very nice starting point but I think it needs a lot more work)

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on January 03, 2014, 08:57:19 am
Merry Christmas Alison!
Thanks Timmon...
Hey snappy avitar there Timmon.  My motion dector just picked up on the ab movement.  Good work !
Zig...
I've enjoyed our discussions.  You got me up to speed on the evolution of FBB...thanks
Greg....
Well, you are unique...no words can express.

See y'all next year !
Alison

Happy New Year Alison! Yes, love our discussions. Greg has already said many nice things I totally agree with,  as has OdoHerr, (who I consider to be  the most knowledgeable of FBB historians on the forum, with access to vast archive material, for us to appreciate and remember fondly) .
Many of us  remember how as an FBB pioneer, you were one of the few FBB's at the time that encouraged (and continue to do so  today, just look at your amazing biceps at 69, phew!) women to lift, in an age which was even more anti femuscle than today. In fact your FBB physique would be very acceptable today, but what a stir you caused as a pioneer!

So, of course we all love you and find the insight you bring to the forum (about what it's really like to be an FBB), and what you are up to now, quite fascinating.
Your friendship, and taking fans seriously on the forum, is much valued.

Health and happiness to you in 2014!
Timmon.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on January 03, 2014, 09:57:39 am
Well said timmon.

Sounds like we'd be the founding members, and lifetime members, of the "Alison Brundage Mutual Admiration Society". A few years ago I started a "mutual admiration society" for another friend of mine(yes it was just as a bit of a joke but of course we did, and still do, admire our other friend as we do here with Ms A Brundage).

Grego

Oh, and Alison, going on what you said in that email earlier. This is easy for me here online but not as a job or career(sorry to be cryptic to everyone else but Alison I'm sure you know what I mean here).

"I'm human and just  like you guys ....well almost like you guys...I'm a woman, LOL." Really? You're a woman? You kept that a secret Alison. (he he. Ok. bad joke on my part but anyway)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 03, 2014, 02:25:50 pm
Oy my cup runneth over !   This means more to me than winning every one of  my Hawaiian contests, my weight class at the Golds and having the team Jentz Wenerstrom (WSP) going verbally nutz each time I flexed a bicep...LOL.    Thanks......Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 03, 2014, 06:38:44 pm
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I told my dear friend Grego (Afigreg) he should be a life coach,or in the military ...possibly a drill sergeant.  He lovingly stays on my ass....uh, he uses the Aussie word bum.  I told him yesterday  I need to join a gym as my backyard weights just don't get it.  He asked me if a gym was far.  In that I live in the Rep of Panama I guess he figured I might have to hack through the jungle  to get to one.  Nah I said...It's close I'm just lazy.  Sooo Grego sez:  " Get your lazy ( but beautiful...ha ha I'm cracking up) bum to the gym !! "   He then went on with the many reasons why I'd want to do that...and of course the visualized results.  ( the guys good I tell ya...he could earn money as a motivational speaker...LOL)

OK I wake up.  I warm up with a protein load , some backyard gym iron liftin and hit the field across the street that was getting high.  That'll burn some fat !   Great for my right arm/shoulder and lat....the left will be a bit lopsided !

So that's visual evidence Grego that my lazy ( but beautiful) bum is in fact in gear ! ( laughing)

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on January 03, 2014, 08:25:32 pm
Women half your age would be lucky to have such shoulders and arms. Tres impressive.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 03, 2014, 09:05:19 pm
Women half your age would be lucky to have such shoulders and arms. Tres impressive.
Pretty much how I came otta the egg...Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on January 03, 2014, 11:52:49 pm
Alison all I can think to say is THANK YOU and I think that sums it all up anyway.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 11, 2014, 05:10:39 pm
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(oops..OK PhotoBucket deleted the pic that was here...and I think I figured out why...here's another)


......................
Mooveeguy,  All I can say is I'm soooo relieved I didn't scan and load all my photos in my storage closet into ImageShack...man would I be bummed.........  ImageShack IS working when the mods check it ...and my pics are still in there...BUT they changed their format as of early January, for me in the Rep of Panama I can no longer even enter the site.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: beowulff on January 11, 2014, 06:11:18 pm
Can you post a larger image?
That photo is too tiny!

Thanks for posting, anyway.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 11, 2014, 06:49:43 pm
Can you post a larger image?
That photo is too tiny!

Thanks for posting, anyway.
test test test....
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This was Hawaii's first bodybuilding contest.  I'm the curly headed one second from the right.  Note the heels
_______________________________________________________
I'm still having Image hosting problems.  I discovered that ImageShack is no longer working for me with InternetExplorer...I have to use Mozilla Firefox for it to open.  I switched to PhotoBucket andIi am finding that the images disappear...  (The one that was here did.)  This is another. Any helps/ideas are appreciated
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 12, 2014, 11:20:31 pm
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Ground zero.....maybe my first month or two of lifting? You should be able to see some of the other early shots there as well. In fact I think this will link to all I loaded into PhotBucket.
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 13, 2014, 01:03:05 am

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: beowulff on January 13, 2014, 02:39:34 am
http://s914.photobucket.com/user/brundagebaABLeever/media/BODYBUILDING%20ALISON/BBBegins002_zpsfcc7750c.jpg.html (http://s914.photobucket.com/user/brundagebaABLeever/media/BODYBUILDING%20ALISON/BBBegins002_zpsfcc7750c.jpg.html)


Ground zero.....maybe my first month or two of lifting? You should be able to see some of the other early shots there as well. In fact I think this will link to all I loaded into PhotBucket.
Alison

You clearly have awesome genetics.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on January 13, 2014, 08:30:09 am
Thank you so much for sharing everything that you share with us Alison. That is so nice of you but I know you also get something out of sharing these with us too. I know you really enjoy sharing with us and connecting with genuine fans of yours and genuine fans of female bodybuilding.

Grego

Oh, and as far as the pictures go, I don't know about the picture sharing sites but as far as browsers go I use Google Chrome and it seems to work fine with everything.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on January 13, 2014, 05:28:47 pm
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Please do warn me Alison! You have done it again, I need a lie down to calm down! Great pic, thanks!
Where are my blood pressure tablets....?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 14, 2014, 12:58:04 am
Timmon/Grego/Beowulff
Thanks guys.  Yup...I always said I did not add much to what wasn't  already there.  Keep in mind I was a surfer in big Hawaiian surf...lots of paddling...back shoulder work.  That helped.
One thing I did not learn in time before I quit FBB was how to get to contest fully peaked and not depleted and dehydrated.  I lost a lot of size in overtraining at the end phase...
My trainer was top of the line in the lifting art but his claim to fame was Olympic Lifting.....not necessarily bodybuilding per se.  He WAS an excellent photographer and had an eye for body angles...loved Frank Zane.  He gave me excellent posing advice in the traditional poses.  In my era ladies bodybuilding posing was breaking new frontiers with artistic elements not seen in the men's division.  Cory and Carla as well as Debbra Dianna carved a new path.  I did not have that skill.

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/441/bbodybuilding058.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/c9bbodybuilding058j)

Steve Dussia my trainer and  I.  He set up the shot, jumped in and posed with me.  Shot with auto -exposure.  He had a darkroom and developed them all.  Man I was one lucky gal !  What an exciting adventure we had.
Steve was a very interesting dude.  He trainned guys along with Bill Starr.  Bill Starr respected him.  Steve at one time won a bodybuilding contest by using soley dynamic tension...just to prove he could.  He'd squeeze his muscles using the muscle force against solid objects at different angles.  He was a genious ....and was well know in the Hawaiian Islands for his ability.  He always kept my routines fun, exciting and challenging.  There was always something new.   I was in the Alice in Wonderland of bodyubuilding with Steve...I'd never know what he's come up with next !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 15, 2014, 04:30:19 am
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 These are some of the little indiginous children I work with up at the mission here in Panama.   Today we had about 300 of them up there .  Parents are picking coffee now, and their school is out.  This gives them a place to be and  have a little fun.
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 (Image Shack)
I had the physical ed group..    That's me in the black dress looking exhausted.  man they wore me out !
 
Alison
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(Photo Bucket)
 
Hey guys...Image Shack is giving me some trouble...photos are being deleted.   This up here is a test...see what happens.  With Image Shack I can select image size...PhotoBucket does not seem to have the option.   Anyone having ImageShack problems?.......I need help
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on January 16, 2014, 08:43:24 am
That's so nice that you're doing that for your local community. As always, thank you for sharing everything you share with us Alison.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Kryten on January 17, 2014, 03:07:14 am
Hey guys...Image Shack is giving me some trouble...photos are being deleted.   This up here is a test...see what happens.  With Image Shack I can select image size...PhotoBucket does not seem to have the option.   Anyone having ImageShack problems?.......I need help

It's highly unlikely that your photos are being deleted without good reason, that may be a browser problem - refresh it with <Ctrl>F5 and see if that helps. Oh, and imo dump Internet Explorer.

Photo hosting sites fall into two rough groups - the ones that want to give you an 'Album' type experience and the ones that just host a file (your photo).
The Album types, and I'd include PhotoBucket and to a lesser extent ImageShack in that list, are geared mainly for you to look at pics on their website rather than to be linked to from a forum. For that reason they may not offer you the BBCode to link to the image, or a thumbnail, or a choice of thumbnail size which is what you need to post here. Album sites are, usually, good if you want to share photos with the relos - by sending them the webpage address, and if you expect your photos to be there in, say, five years time.
The 'host a file' sites are made for the forum or ebay kind of use and automatically generate thumbnails in a choice of formats and give you the BBCode to post. They are almost literally a dump site for photos, throw them in, post the links and then forget about them. The site will delete them as and when it feels like it (but usually never less than a month after you upload them). The downside to those kind of sites is they are funded by advertising, usually porn, and depending on the site, your photos may be seen surrounded by some truely gross ads. (Select the 'family safe' option if available).
If I want to post an image here I upload to ImageBam with 250x250 thumbnail size, Family Safe selected and ignore the other options. After the images upload, ImageBam makes the BBCode which I copy and paste into my reply. End of story.
I'm not saying you should use ImageBam - they may have unpleasant advertising too, but since I use a customised Adblocker program I don't see anything but the photos - you'd need to check how the site appears for yourself.
Hope that helps.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Sar-Net on January 17, 2014, 04:34:45 am
....snip....
Hey guys...Image Shack is giving me some trouble...photos are being deleted.   This up here is a test...see what happens.  With Image Shack I can select image size...PhotoBucket does not seem to have the option.   Anyone having ImageShack problems?.......I need help

Imageshack, imagevenue, randomly delete images from any sets if I post there anymore(This effects a lot of people, some whom I even have told that half their stupid image posts are not in the thread the same day they post them.  Its seems some times to be just about impossible to get some people to stop using some crappy image host.).   I no longer use these two unless all other options fail, And I try to tell people they are not working right.    I think these image hosts have far too many photos for the size of CRC they are using to detect dupes and copyright dupes, so files are deleted that don't really match but have the same CRC.    And then there is the other problem, that of image hosts not deleting thumbs for deleted images, I have no fricken clue why they do this, as it makes no sense at all.

Anymore I generally use either imagebam.com (http://www.imagebam.com/) for sets of images as thumbs.  Imagebam occasionally has a qwerk, so I'm looking for a replacement if it starts being messed up more often, I think imagebams qwerks are mainly due to heavy site usage, overall it works well most of the time. 

I use imagebox.com (http://imgbox.com/) for full size images inline on a post but if I only have a couple of images to post or for a video sample image, if I'm doing a bunch of images I do them as thumbs rather than full size. The images hosts are still way to slow to post a lot of full size images in a single thread. 

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 17, 2014, 02:39:03 pm
StarNet........Re: Image Hosting

PhotoBucket:  On  their deletings, you have an option of "public" or "Private".  If you elect "Private"  They will occaisionally scramble the ID to the photo.  Your recipients then find what was sent to them is gone every so often.   OK so I elect "Public" with PhotoBucket.  Solved that issue (I think)

ImageShack:  They have refined their options and you can resize photos real nicely.  Their system runs smoothly for me...the braindead.  Their platform for some reason does not go well with Miscrosoft Explorer.   I find the only way I can open my own account is via Mozilla ...and possible Google Chrome.

Problems with Miscrosoft:   I find even use of this site works better in Google Chrome.  Mod central suggsted that to me yesterday...and I was surprised at how well it worked.  That said I have conversed with geeks that say Chrome has some problems....dunno specifically what.

Porn and why I purchase Premium accounts:  I do not want to send a photo to my pastor and have some porn ad pop up (LOL).  I have some friends that I sent Saradas to ..(.waaaay back )  and their antivirus flagged images they clicked on, that freaked them out and they have not returned here.  That's when I was using free ImageVenue , Bam etc...just learning. Too bad.  I purchased PhotoBucket and it's "only OK"....not to be able to resize annoys me.

Image Shack.....I may endure with them.  I now have a phone # and I  want to find out why I am having peculiar problems when in my Micro. Explorer browser. 

I really want to thank you for your inputs.    Any others would be appreciated by the peanut gallery here.

Alison

I have no doubt OdoHerr has all this wired....look at his posts.  the guy's a master !
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/59/jf56.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/1njf56j)
( OdoHerr's FBB computer console, nah kidding, sort of)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Sar-Net on January 18, 2014, 05:02:09 am
StarNet........Re: Image Hosting

PhotoBucket:  On  their deletings, you have an option of "public" or "Private".  If you elect "Private"  They will occaisionally scramble the ID to the photo.  Your recipients then find what was sent to them is gone every so often.   OK so I elect "Public" with PhotoBucket.  Solved that issue (I think)

ImageShack:  They have refined their options and you can resize photos real nicely.  Their system runs smoothly for me...the braindead.  Their platform for some reason does not go well with Miscrosoft Explorer.   I find the only way I can open my own account is via Mozilla ...and possible Google Chrome.

Problems with Miscrosoft:   I find even use of this site works better in Google Chrome.  Mod central suggsted that to me yesterday...and I was surprised at how well it worked.  That said I have conversed with geeks that say Chrome has some problems....dunno specifically what.

Porn and why I purchase Premium accounts:  I do not want to send a photo to my pastor and have some porn ad pop up (LOL).  I have some friends that I sent Saradas to ..(.waaaay back )  and their antivirus flagged images they clicked on, that freaked them out and they have not returned here.  That's when I was using free ImageVenue , Bam etc...just learning. Too bad.  I purchased PhotoBucket and it's "only OK"....not to be able to resize annoys me.

Image Shack.....I may endure with them.  I now have a phone # and I  want to find out why I am having peculiar problems when in my Micro. Explorer browser. 

I really want to thank you for your inputs.    Any others would be appreciated by the peanut gallery here.

Alison

I have no doubt OdoHerr has all this wired....look at his posts.  the guy's a master !
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/59/jf56.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/1njf56j)
( OdoHerr's FBB computer console, nah kidding, sort of)

Photobucket is more of an online photo album rather than an image sharing site.
I expect when you say Microsoft you are talking Internet Explorer, I recommend you use Mozilla Firefox browser.   
You can get Firefox from the shareware sites.
http://firefox.en.softonic.com/download (http://firefox.en.softonic.com/download)
http://download.cnet.com/mozilla-firefox (http://download.cnet.com/mozilla-firefox)
Or direct from Mozilla.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new)

Chrome is based on the same code as Firefox but has been "tweaked" by Google for Google product/sites and as such its not really a universal browser. 
Lots of people like Opera browser, I'm not partial to it but if you don't like Firefox its probably second choice.   
Internet explorer is junk, as its bug filled Microsoft crapola. 
Firefox has addons for just about everything web related too including image posting.  You can even get an addin to use IE in a tab if your on a IE specific site and still have Firefox's safety, security and addins.  Also there is and addon to use your IE shortcuts in Firefox, and addin's to block advertising, etc. etc. etc.
Imagebam.com allows you to select thumbnail size when posting so it is a better option over imageshack.com. 
Imageshack just dumps way too many images to use anymore.
Your pastor should only get porn AD's on most sites, including image hosts, if he looks at adult sites, that said Saradas would be considered an adult site as it has nudie images in its forum threads.  But there are web masters of some sites that should not allow adult advertising as the site is not adult in nature, that do so because the advertising companies pay more if all types of advertising including adult advertising is selected.
One of the big problems with all sites that have advertising, is the advertising servers get hacked a lot and many take forever to get rid of the hacker virus, trojan, etc. and I'm sure that is why their antivirus flagged images they clicked on.  Although I must add there have been some people who have posted virus/trojan links on Saradas. I have reported a couple of these sorts of links to the mods, they have been pruned quickly though, so most people probably never even saw the links.  I'm sure that the mods also blocked the user and users IP, of course that won't stop anyone good but it does get the children to stop playing games.
Yea OH DO HER has his posts down pat, also he seems to have every FBB image ever made, so we are all looking to steal his server(s).  I also like that monitor setup, my old set of 17's are in dire need of replacement.
I saw this 42" wide screen plasma monitor that if I had money would be in front of me right now but alas I'm probably gona be stuck with a crappy LCD when I replace the old CRT's.
Well I should end this before I go past the post length.  Talk to ya latter.   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on January 20, 2014, 02:35:03 pm
When I see photos of what you're doing now, I feel inspired to go do something to better my community.

Right now, that's eating breakfast and showering, both of which will make everyone around me happier.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 20, 2014, 05:13:43 pm
When I see photos of what you're doing now, I feel inspired to go do something to better my community.

Right now, that's eating breakfast and showering, both of which will make everyone around me happier.

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/23/2zkc.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0n2zkcj)                                        (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/571/ukiy.jpg)


It's not work...it's fun really.   You see their joy &  it's fun to encourage.  These kids rarely have much more than a nice rock and a piece of string to play with.  Dad spends the food money on booze so they have no rice to eat...and adversity is regular.   Mom's desperately trying to hold it all together  raising five kids.  The indiginous are less than human in this culture.  Expendable .  These poor kids get it stuck to them every which way they turn.


Makes me VERY thankful for the life I was blessed with.  It's a good thing...definitely
Alison.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2014, 04:43:48 pm
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/33/su5c.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0xsu5cj)

Mid 70's.   Taken in Ecuador where I learned how to surf.

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2014, 04:54:26 pm
1977 Florida surfing  Three years or so before I began lifting
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/843/jmrl.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/nfjmrlj)
                                              Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 21, 2014, 07:31:20 pm
Early 70's.   Learning how to spin wool from my neighbor Maria Jacinta.  She was my adopted mother in the mountains of So Colombia.  She taught me everything I needed to know  to get started as a proper indian woman.  Indiginous group Guambianos.  We lived up there in the mountains of So Colombia for 1 1/2 yr in a house we bought.  No running water, no electricity, 2 1/2 acres of land.  Price $1600.00

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/841/gh8f.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/ndgh8fj)




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(Those are my parents.  Dad, a Jewish businessman had a hard time wrapping his head around all this.  To him a great vacation was to smoke a good cigar in the lobby of a Miami Hotel)...LOL

STRONG women these indians. They are the work-horses of the family.  They spun all the wool for the material they wove in order to make all their clothes..men women and children.   They carried the men's tools, their baby and spun wool at the same time while walking  2 1/2 hours up into the mountains...barefoot ( it was cold) before the crack of dawn.  On the way down the men carried the tools, the women then carried about 75 lb of potatoes PLUS the baby on their back while spinning wool as they walked down the mountain.  The toughness of these women taught me a great deal about what exactly a woman could accomplish in many regards...strength one..... determination another
ALISON.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 24, 2014, 03:54:00 pm
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It's coffee picking season and workers are now out picking beans.    They receive $3.00 to pick 3 gallons of red beans ( not much dough).  Many live in shacks and have no electricity.  Yesterday my husband and I and a couple of the pastors went up into the mountains to give out some solar lamps to a few of the more needy families. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 24, 2014, 04:12:40 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: logiemac on January 24, 2014, 05:16:42 pm
Beautiful pic,you look fantastic. :-)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on January 25, 2014, 06:43:52 am
This last photo is one of my favourites of you Alison because it shows you as you right now. Not you as a bodybuilder or as someone helping your local community or as anything other than just you and I think it's just a nice image of you right now(if all of that makes any sense to you or anyone else).

Ok so I just noticed that it's cut out from another photo but I still think my last comments apply here.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 27, 2014, 09:01:16 pm
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Instructions given to patients before discharge                                           This lady is seeing patterns and colors for the first time in over a decade.


I know you probably get weary of all my rants...but this is one special day I just have to share.  This week around 100 or so poor indiginous blind people will be operated on for cataracts by volunteer missionary surgeons from the USA.  These people walk in blind...and walk out with vision.  They have been on government waiting lists for years and some blind for over a decade.  This is nothing short of a miracle for them. 


This week will be an exciting one for me  ( them too of course) !!
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on January 28, 2014, 06:18:51 pm
That's just amazing Alison. One, I'd assume fairly simple, operation and they get to do something we take for granted. Also they'll get to see you for the first time and that can't be a bad thing.

I'd never call what you write rants. You've seen my extremely epic messages and emails. Now they can be rants. I'm sure everyone here, at least the regulars here on this post, are more than happy to read whatever you wish to share with us and even happier to see the photos. Thank you for sharing so much with us Alison.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2014, 09:06:42 pm
10 years before my bodybuilding began.  I was 24 yr old,  Hair teased up to the max and sprayed hard in place...perfect for the beach.

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/560/pda0.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/fkpda0j)     
Came close to marrying this fellow...a doctor.  Then along came my dear husband Bill...surfboard under one arm and a bag of weed in the other.......life took a turn (laughing)   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 28, 2014, 09:20:14 pm
1973 after 4 years of surfing...now married to my pot smoking, surfing husband...note I ditched to old hairdo
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Took up surfing and turtle lifting(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/197/6d3.JPG) (https://imageshack.com/i/5h6d3J)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on January 29, 2014, 12:16:07 am
Nice bicep showing Alison. I knew you used some unconventional training methods, but turtle lifting?  ;)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 13, 2014, 02:56:10 pm
Early 80's Hawaii Christmas with Bill my husband 

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/197/xtms.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/5hxtmsj)




This was when I was cutting my hair while hanging upside-down on my power rack
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 13, 2014, 03:04:25 pm
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This was my gym that I had in the garage...mid 80's maybe?.   This was gym #2.   Stop sign pipe hand made equipment.   The other gal in the picture is a friend who was visiting us there in Hawaii. She was studying chiropractic. I was getting pointers on stretching.  She now has a daughter in medical school and has been herself a chiropractor  for many decades.  She'll be visiting us again in Panama in a couple of months.   I'll have to retake that pic.....
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 13, 2014, 03:13:28 pm

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Today ...out in the country with a friend who's visiting.  This fellow was one of the first surf film makers there in Hawaii.  He was our neighbor we shared a garage.  On one side was his clothesline...the other my gym.  Here he's once again behind the lens taking home videos here in Panama...following us around everywhere camera in hand.  Guy's a real character, lots of fun and full of old stories of old the old days in Hawaii, and his experiences with some of the greatest surf stars.  Great fun...back in the time machine sorta thing.....
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 22, 2014, 09:41:28 pm
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/809/2ll7.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/mh2ll7j)

Trip to the beach with our friend last week
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on February 23, 2014, 08:22:15 am
You're only tiny in that picture but Alison you're looking extremely fit and beautiful in that picture. Obviously your workout routine is going well(any chance of a closer photo of you in that swimsuit?).

Grego  :-*
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 24, 2014, 11:44:00 pm
You're only tiny in that picture but Alison you're looking extremely fit and beautiful in that picture. Obviously your workout routine is going well(any chance of a closer photo of you in that swimsuit?).

Grego  :-*


Ya know frankly I look best in postage stamp size.   House guest is gone home...now I have no excuses.  Got some fat blastin to do...and oh, lifting..LOL
Any improvement is ...improvement.   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on February 25, 2014, 06:26:11 pm
"Ya know frankly I look best in postage stamp size" Alison that last picture you're in postage stamp size. I think I need to see a full size, preferably very large, very high definition photo of you in that swimsuit so that I can make the comparison and decide if you are right about the postage stamp size. Thank you Alison.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on March 15, 2014, 05:03:03 pm
Belated Happy Birthday for 12th March Alison! Sorry I did not check, 69 years young!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 15, 2014, 07:22:13 pm
Thanks...boy that sounds old but 70 will sound horrible.  So I guess I'd better enjoy the 60's.   
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Taylor on March 16, 2014, 03:05:35 pm
Happy birthday, Alison :)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 16, 2014, 09:10:40 pm
Thanks Taylor....
Having fun surfing.  Out for a few days with injury...sort of a kidney chop  with the board.   Back at it today
Alison

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/40/zt1i.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/14zt1ij)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on March 17, 2014, 05:53:01 pm
Thanks...boy that sounds old but 70 will sound horrible.  So I guess I'd better enjoy the 60's.   
Alison

Only a number Alison. Maybe you will be even more fit at 70.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 17, 2014, 05:55:10 pm
I'm out.   Went out on my boat rig.  Test to see how bad the injury was. Ok so I fell down and  couldn't get back up....oh the pain.  Definite broken ribs.   I'm in dry dock for awhile on the surf thing.   Once I'm home I'll be testing the weights.....bummed.   

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/36/b2hm.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/10b2hmj)

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 17, 2014, 06:02:25 pm
Thanks...boy that sounds old but 70 will sound horrible.  So I guess I'd better enjoy the 60's.   
Alison

Only a number Alison. Maybe you will be even more fit at 70.
Yup...that's the plan.  (smiling)   That's if I can control my kamikaze nature out there in the surf !  I can't restrain the Evil Knivel in me...LOL
A
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: beowulff on March 17, 2014, 07:23:45 pm
I'm out.   Went out on my boat rig.  Test to see how bad the injury was. Ok so I fell down and  couldn't get back up....oh the pain.  Definite broken ribs.   I'm in dry dock for awhile on the surf thing.   Once I'm home I'll be testing the weights.....bummed.   

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/36/b2hm.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/10b2hmj)

Alison

Ouch!
Heal quickly, OK?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 17, 2014, 11:31:42 pm
Thanks Beowulff....I'll be back in no time flat !....or 4-6 weeks what ever comes first

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/34/2xbf.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0y2xbfj)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on March 18, 2014, 07:37:02 am
Bad luck Alison.
Ribs are a pain (no pun intended) take it easy to let it bond back together OK.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on March 18, 2014, 05:04:01 pm
I know that pain. Feel better soon Alison.  Ribs heal, but you never think about how much they are involved in all you do until you get a few bad ribs or rib from an impact. Coughing, laughing, and even breathing. Feel better.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on March 18, 2014, 08:19:40 pm
Ouch! Well, a lifetime of staying fit will help your recovery.

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 21, 2014, 02:51:26 pm
OK.....I'm fixed !

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/89/z6yw.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/2hz6ywj)

I had him add some muscle while he was at it...   Cool.  Good to go.
  Thanks for all your good wishes.  Luv you guys !

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 10, 2014, 09:07:13 pm
Been busy learning how to play this thing.

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/843/vvcg6.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/nfvvcg6j)

Me and my cello...

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: NinjaStar on May 10, 2014, 09:09:55 pm
Been busy learning how to play this thing.

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/843/vvcg6.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/nfvvcg6j)

Me and my cello...

ALISON

You've done everything else, so why not? A real Renaissance woman, eh?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Female Bodybuilding on May 10, 2014, 09:14:59 pm
  :wow: good news Alison! Miss you much. How have you been?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 10, 2014, 09:20:14 pm
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I got started writing to some old highschool pals and one was in the orchestra with me.  He's retired but still has a Big Band dance band and does gigs....plays sax.
We got to talking about music as I had already started playing piano again.   He put a bug in my ear to start once again playing cello like I did in highschool.  As it turns out it's not  easy to find a cello ... in  the Rep of Panama.  Its an expensive investment, and few youngsters have that kind of money.  Anyway, I bought one used in Panama City and brought it back on the bus...got an extra seat for it.  It's slow go...but I am making some music noise .   I do believe practice with persistence will bring results.
Gives you a good shoulder burn.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 10, 2014, 09:25:23 pm
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Besides buying cellos, have had a house guest visiting and have had an enjoyable month visiting with her...seeing the Panama Canal and sights.  This has allowed my broken ribs to heal...a good thing.  Alls well here in Panama.  Soon we'll be off on a surf adventure...and I'll be cranking the iron once again.
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on May 12, 2014, 03:15:09 pm
Love the resumption of cello music...
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 20, 2014, 01:14:40 am
Love the resumption of cello music...


Yup me too !   What an adventure.   I never played well.  I was given a cello and told to sit "over there" in the orchestra in high school.  OK so I watched the girl who played cello next to me and that's how I "learned"...ha, I never learned squat.  Well now I'm serious.  Fingertips sort of swollen numb and sore at the same time.
Takes a bit of coordination as well.  As soon as you tense up...everything goes bad.....SCREETCH.   Very interesting sport.  I'll keep you posted.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on May 20, 2014, 06:26:12 pm
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I got started writing to some old highschool pals and one was in the orchestra with me.  He's retired but still has a Big Band dance band and does gigs....plays sax.
We got to talking about music as I had already started playing piano again.   He put a bug in my ear to start once again playing cello like I did in highschool.  As it turns out it's not  easy to find a cello ... in  the Rep of Panama.  Its an expensive investment, and few youngsters have that kind of money.  Anyway, I bought one used in Panama City and brought it back on the bus...got an extra seat for it.  It's slow go...but I am making some music noise .   I do believe practice with persistence will bring results.
Gives you a good shoulder burn.
Glad you are on the mend Alison, and didn't know you were into music as well!
Here's some muscle music, you can't fail to feel like you have had a happy workout! Well, works for me anyway.
Impromptu performance on a public piano at St Pancras Station, London.
http://www.mediafire.com/watch/od2qqanxxiymunw/henri%27s_boogie.mp4
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 20, 2014, 08:30:31 pm
Hey was that you Timmon?     WOW I sure wish I could play like that.  On keyboard I'm able to cruise along with "I left my heart in San Fran" with a few simple chords.
I've recently been playing some Beatles music.....gets me out of the piano bar mode.

Cello's another story.  My finger tips are so sore...I'm hoping for some callous soon.   Still painful to listen to

2 Cellos inspire me !  You have to hear these guys


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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on May 21, 2014, 07:34:34 am
I wish Alison! I got my grade 3 piano at School, and did an impromptu session in Woolworths in my youth on their new electric organ display (! and i think more people stopped to listen than did in the St Pancras video), but that was not me on the station sadly!
Great links, not heard the cello played like that!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 08, 2014, 08:48:19 pm
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Back home now.  Safer behind my keyboard, cello and bench pressing in my back yard !....LOL 
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 14, 2014, 08:08:30 pm
Having a bit of a nightmare with my PC.
Drive corrupted, reformatted, then the back up software started to restore my files, and at the same time it saw that the ones it hadn't restored were missing on my hard drive, so decided I didn't want them anymore and deleted them off the back up! The restore then failed as it couldn't find the files the desktop client had deleted ahead of it. Result = gigs of missing female muscle going back to the beginning of the femuscle era. OdoHerr would be as mortified as I am right now, I'm sure.
The back up company are investigating, but the positive is that I found an "Alison Archive", by chance,  on another old back up system, and these few WPW pics do not appear to have been posted, and link in as a missing few from the original post on page 1 of this thread.
So in every cloud, there is a silver lining.... even if the internet cloud is failing me badly at the moment! Moral of the story, don't trust the cloud, keep local back ups up to date as well.
Just hoping the Back up company recovers the data, can't see why not as the files are visible on line, just inaccessible.

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: beowulff on June 14, 2014, 11:52:16 pm
Alison -
How old were you when those photos were taken?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on June 15, 2014, 10:31:41 am
Having a bit of a nightmare with my PC.
Drive corrupted, reformatted, then the back up software started to restore my files, and at the same time it saw that the ones it hadn't restored were missing on my hard drive, so decided I didn't want them anymore and deleted them off the back up! The restore then failed as it couldn't find the files the desktop client had deleted ahead of it. Result = gigs of missing female muscle going back to the beginning of the femuscle era. OdoHerr would be as mortified as I am right now, I'm sure.



As you say, timmon, I would really be mortified, for sure, if this happened to me.
A far as I am concerned, I have never trusted any cloud system, and never stored any data outside, but on several external drives of my own.

OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 15, 2014, 10:40:07 am
Having a bit of a nightmare with my PC.
Drive corrupted, reformatted, then the back up software started to restore my files, and at the same time it saw that the ones it hadn't restored were missing on my hard drive, so decided I didn't want them anymore and deleted them off the back up! The restore then failed as it couldn't find the files the desktop client had deleted ahead of it. Result = gigs of missing female muscle going back to the beginning of the femuscle era. OdoHerr would be as mortified as I am right now, I'm sure.



As you say, timmon, I would really be mortified, for sure, if this happened to me.
A far as I am concerned, I have never trusted any cloud system, and never stored any data outside, but on several external drives of my own.

OdoHerr
Very wise OdoHerr. I find the cloud useful, as I can get to files anywhere, and up to now it has been fine. But I agree you need a balance between local back up and cloud. Local is also vunerable to thieft, fire etc.
At the moment, the deleted files are downloading back to my HDD, which will take some time! I will also invest in a new local drive to use for back up only. But, hopefully, all data will be restored OK, so I'm hoping that my faith in the cloud will also be restored. Feeling calmer, or kama, now!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 16, 2014, 08:57:28 pm
Having a bit of a nightmare with my PC.
Drive corrupted, reformatted, then the back up software started to restore my files, and at the same time it saw that the ones it hadn't restored were missing on my hard drive, so decided I didn't want them anymore and deleted them off the back up! The restore then failed as it couldn't find the files the desktop client had deleted ahead of it. Result = gigs of missing female muscle going back to the beginning of the femuscle era. OdoHerr would be as mortified as I am right now, I'm sure.
The back up company are investigating, but the positive is that I found an "Alison Archive", by chance,  on another old back up system, and these few WPW pics do not appear to have been posted, and link in as a missing few from the original post on page 1 of this thread.
So in every cloud, there is a silver lining.... even if the internet cloud is failing me badly at the moment! Moral of the story, don't trust the cloud, keep local back ups up to date as well.
Just hoping the Back up company recovers the data, can't see why not as the files are visible on line, just inaccessible.

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Timmon
What a nightmare.   How much ya wanna bet they show up.  I am honored that you are stoked to have these.....after all, it's just me.  That turquoise dress there was one that Steve Wennerstrom let me borrow out of his girlfriend's closet.  That was before the stretch one WSP used fore each shoot. 
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 16, 2014, 09:02:02 pm
Alison -
How old were you when those photos were taken?


I was 38 !  I had been lifting about 3 1/2 years by then...total.
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: beowulff on June 16, 2014, 09:28:31 pm
Alison -
How old were you when those photos were taken?


I was 38 !  I had been lifting about 3 1/2 years by then...total.
Alison

Awesome genetics.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 17, 2014, 02:59:03 pm
Having a bit of a nightmare with my PC.
Drive corrupted, reformatted, then the back up software started to restore my files, and at the same time it saw that the ones it hadn't restored were missing on my hard drive, so decided I didn't want them anymore and deleted them off the back up! The restore then failed as it couldn't find the files the desktop client had deleted ahead of it. Result = gigs of missing female muscle going back to the beginning of the femuscle era. OdoHerr would be as mortified as I am right now, I'm sure.
The back up company are investigating, but the positive is that I found an "Alison Archive", by chance,  on another old back up system, and these few WPW pics do not appear to have been posted, and link in as a missing few from the original post on page 1 of this thread.
So in every cloud, there is a silver lining.... even if the internet cloud is failing me badly at the moment! Moral of the story, don't trust the cloud, keep local back ups up to date as well.
Just hoping the Back up company recovers the data, can't see why not as the files are visible on line, just inaccessible.

Timmon
What a nightmare.   How much ya wanna bet they show up.  I am honored that you are stoked to have these.....after all, it's just me.  That turquoise dress there was one that Steve Wennerstrom let me borrow out of his girlfriend's closet.  That was before the stretch one WSP used fore each shoot. 
Alison
Thanks Alison.  No "just me"s please! You have to remember that you were a pioneer in the sport. Whilst you think you were just experimenting, guys like me who didn't realise women could look so fit and athletic, were absolutely blown away by the steady female evolution that was happening in the 80's. Every photo we saw, was more dramatic than the last, far more exciting than these days, where everything is stagnating, and the sport has degenerated into a battle of the  "best" false boobs and who has the best surgeon, rather than physique perfection. (not totally true, but you get my drift, implants seem to be a must have in many areas of the sport, and athletes fear they will do less well without them).
Anyway,  you were right in there at the start, and I never thought the technology woild even enable us to share casual chat all these years later! So to find these pics of you  is a bonus!

The good news for me, is that the back up company have resolved the issues, so I should get back the lost files OK. But, it will take days to restore. A public thanks to OdoHerr, who has been very supportive with his offer to help if I need it.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 20, 2014, 12:09:49 am
Having a bit of a nightmare with my PC.
Drive corrupted, reformatted, then the back up software started to restore my files, and at the same time it saw that the ones it hadn't restored were missing on my hard drive, so decided I didn't want them anymore and deleted them off the back up! The restore then failed as it couldn't find the files the desktop client had deleted ahead of it. Result = gigs of missing female muscle going back to the beginning of the femuscle era. OdoHerr would be as mortified as I am right now, I'm sure.
The back up company are investigating, but the positive is that I found an "Alison Archive", by chance,  on another old back up system, and these few WPW pics do not appear to have been posted, and link in as a missing few from the original post on page 1 of this thread.
So in every cloud, there is a silver lining.... even if the internet cloud is failing me badly at the moment! Moral of the story, don't trust the cloud, keep local back ups up to date as well.
Just hoping the Back up company recovers the data, can't see why not as the files are visible on line, just inaccessible.

Timmon
What a nightmare.   How much ya wanna bet they show up.  I am honored that you are stoked to have these.....after all, it's just me.  That turquoise dress there was one that Steve Wennerstrom let me borrow out of his girlfriend's closet.  That was before the stretch one WSP used fore each shoot. 
Alison
Thanks Alison.  No "just me"s please! You have to remember that you were a pioneer in the sport. Whilst you think you were just experimenting, guys like me who didn't realise women could look so fit and athletic, were absolutely blown away by the steady female evolution that was happening in the 80's. Every photo we saw, was more dramatic than the last, far more exciting than these days, where everything is stagnating, and the sport has degenerated into a battle of the  "best" false boobs and who has the best surgeon, rather than physique perfection. (not totally true, but you get my drift, implants seem to be a must have in many areas of the sport, and athletes fear they will do less well without them).
Anyway,  you were right in there at the start, and I never thought the technology woild even enable us to share casual chat all these years later! So to find these pics of you  is a bonus!

The good news for me, is that the back up company have resolved the issues, so I should get back the lost files OK. But, it will take days to restore. A public thanks to OdoHerr, who has been very supportive with his offer to help if I need it.
Oh my...I'm a tad flustered.  You see there are a lot of gals like me who are genetically  "gifted".  In those days, we did not have a clue how gifted we were...we just were.  Naturals...bearing muscles all of their own.    I had not a clue really how natural I was.    For all the year I was self conscious for being the beefy girl I was...now ( in my prime )  I was vindicated..and at the last gasp.  At 38  I was very late to be anything great.  But thank God for the WSP guys....and their encouragement.    I'm telling you.  The few years I did competition...were the years that  assisted me in feeling AOK with me as a muscular woman.  Done deal.  Now I'm 100% Ok with who I am as a muscular woman.  Thank God for womens's bodybuilding and you guys.   Thank God...I swear.
I can sleep at night and be OK.....
ALISON
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 20, 2014, 07:22:58 pm
Talking to FBB's over the years, Alison, I understand how society makes women with muscle feel out of place (when I say understand, I mean, the fact, rather than what you muscle girls actually go through. I used to wear specs to school, and the 4 eyes taunts etc, are the nearest I'll get to understanding, but I could take the specs off for a while!).

I imagine that this forum is different to "closed shop" bodybuilding forums where the members are mainly bodybuilders "in it together", as this forum contains bodybuilders and fans, and no one shouting you down as a "Schmoe" if you dare mention you think femuscle is attractive, as sometimes happens on the bodybuilding forums. So, great to hear we do offer support and escape from the jealous folk out there in the big world!

A Facebook friend who is an FBB here in the UK has had a rough time this week in the Tesco's check out queue, some guy shouting over ( but not addressing her directly) "Is that a woman, her arms are bigger than a bloke's" or something to that effect. As she is preparing for a competition, that has knocked her down a bit. So I have sent a message of support to her, and it actually helps that she knows I'm not a muscle guy, this is a member of the "public" who thinks she is great.

All FBB fans should be supportive. We know the FBB does it for themselves, but I point out that they do it for us as well! A bit like football, not everyone can or wants to play, but that should not stop fans being interested.

Thanks for the pic Alison.

If you were just starting out today, do you think you would be tempted to aim for Physique contests (flexing!) Figure (no flexing just tensing), Fitness, Bikini.... or work up the FBB level?

What do you think about arriving on the scene today, and instead of being sensationally muscular and in the league of the top gals, finding your naturally muscular physique struggling against Figure gals? Would you use todays expertise and go for a national level physique?

Forgot to mention, 50% of my data is restored so far, thanks to the Cloud. Kira Neuman is being restored, as I write! ( being an A, you were  restored a couple of days ago, Alison!).
I've taken OdoHerr's advice, and bought a new back up hard drive for local use, the store guy says the one I've chosen is likely to last twice as long!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 21, 2014, 12:48:25 am
How many weeks of training and diet would it take for you to get in this condition, Alison. It's a great pic.
About 3 months of eating nothing but 3 cans of tuna a day......3 days on and one day I ate salad ( the off day)...    So 3 and 1...repeat over and over for 3 months. It's starvation basically getting the essential amino acids by protein powder and the tuna.  Uphill running in sweats.  Surfing daily.  Daily lifting for a couple of hours. The leaner I got the more determined I got and my husband can attest to my becoming very irritable.   I worked 8 hour might shifts.  Limited sleep.  Crazy...esp as old as  I was.
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 21, 2014, 01:00:54 am
Talking to FBB's over the years, Alison, I understand how society makes women with muscle feel out of place (when I say understand, I mean, the fact, rather than what you muscle girls actually go through. I used to wear specs to school, and the 4 eyes taunts etc, are the nearest I'll get to understanding, but I could take the specs off for a while!).

I imagine that this forum is different to "closed shop" bodybuilding forums where the members are mainly bodybuilders "in it together", as this forum contains bodybuilders and fans, and no one shouting you down as a "Schmoe" if you dare mention you think femuscle is attractive, as sometimes happens on the bodybuilding forums. So, great to hear we do offer support and escape from the jealous folk out there in the big world!

A Facebook friend who is an FBB here in the UK has had a rough time this week in the Tesco's check out queue, some guy shouting over ( but not addressing her directly) "Is that a woman, her arms are bigger than a bloke's" or something to that effect. As she is preparing for a competition, that has knocked her down a bit. So I have sent a message of support to her, and it actually helps that she knows I'm not a muscle guy, this is a member of the "public" who thinks she is great.

All FBB fans should be supportive. We know the FBB does it for themselves, but I point out that they do it for us as well! A bit like football, not everyone can or wants to play, but that should not stop fans being interested.

Thanks for the pic Alison.

If you were just starting out today, do you think you would be tempted to aim for Physique contests (flexing!) Figure (no flexing just tensing), Fitness, Bikini.... or work up the FBB level?

What do you think about arriving on the scene today, and instead of being sensationally muscular and in the league of the top gals, finding your naturally muscular physique struggling against Figure gals? Would you use todays expertise and go for a national level physique?

Forgot to mention, 50% of my data is restored so far, thanks to the Cloud. Kira Neuman is being restored, as I write! ( being an A, you were  restored a couple of days ago, Alison!).
I've taken OdoHerr's advice, and bought a new back up hard drive for local use, the store guy says the one I've chosen is likely to last twice as long!


OK I'm about a week away from a contest and nasty as a snake.   Starving.  It's mid-day and I have already worked 8 hours at night as a nurse.  Now I'm running uphill in my sweats and some guys pull u p in a car  and thrust themselves halfway out of it and yell:  "Hey how does it feel to be a freak?"   Wow...I swear.  YET there was this other faction.  In Hawaii the locals love a local winner...the Hawaiians were my cheerleaders.  The local cops especially.  They would bring old banged up stop sign posts to the hospital ER where I worked at night so I could make gym equipment out of it.  Or they would invite me to the police gym to work out with them.   There were more of those types than the ones int he car calling me a freak


On what contest would I do today?  Boy that's tough.   I'd not stand a chance in the FBB division as a natural.  I guess physique.    I can't imagine doing figure... that butt pose alone always gets me.....along with the bejeweled bra tops........(laughing)


Glad your ladies are coming out of the cloud that took them away.  Yes OdoHerr is "the man".......follow his advice.  We are fortunate to have him among us here.  .


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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 21, 2014, 08:55:53 pm
You mentioned being irritable with the dieting but was there ever a time in training for a contest that when you felt great physical discomfort?
The leaner I got the more (seemingly more) energy I had.  Almost robot-like...driven.   I did get to sort of seeing stars out in the surf after being too lean for a time.   No real physical discomfort.   Eh...the usual sore muscle or two...but you get used to that
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 21, 2014, 09:04:08 pm
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/685/bbodybuilding134.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/j1bbodybuilding134j)A  story..... I bought this bathing suit for over $50 which for me then was a small fortune.   One big day out in the Hawaiian surf I fell off my surfboard in a fairly critical spot and got flushed all the way to the bottom and got the ass end of my suit caught on the reef.  Now rather than just rip this expensive suit to shreds I held myself down there holding on to the coral reel while I carefully unhooked my suit while another wave or two came crashing in.   Saved the suit...almost drowned.  This was the spot and on a wave kinda like this......(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/607/dscn0182h.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/gvdscn0182hj)
                                                                   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on June 22, 2014, 07:52:46 am
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/685/bbodybuilding134.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/j1bbodybuilding134j)A  story..... I bought this bathing suit for over $50 which for me then was a small fortune.   One big day out in the Hawaiian surf I fell off my surfboard in a fairly critical spot and got flushed all the way to the bottom and got the ass end of my suit caught on the reef.  Now rather than just rip this expensive suit to shreds I held myself down there holding on to the coral reel while I carefully unhooked my suit while another wave or two came crashing in.   Saved the suit...almost drowned.  This was the spot and on a wave kinda like this......(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/607/dscn0182h.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/gvdscn0182hj)
                                                                 
It is tha maddest of instincts we humans have! Your life or waste $50 on a new suit. I suppose it's an instinctive thing to protect, your suit was your baby, to be protected from harm at all costs. At the time, there is no opportunity to consider the implications, but afterwards, there is time to ponder over the madness of the decision. Yet, in the end, you saved the suit and your life, so the result was in fact the correct one! Funny old world.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 30, 2014, 12:59:46 am
Well I sort of thought with the twin trials of training and diet that women in particular would feel like they had gone through a few rounds with a heavyweight boxer.
Yup !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 30, 2014, 01:05:25 am
Timmon

Well I think I was more a water person than anything.....still am.   I'm cheap what can I say...$50 was a ton of money for me then.  I used to make my own bathing suits  to save money.
I was fortunate to have the muscle to hold me down there frankly.   Never gave much thought to the drowning factor...I mean all I  had to do was to let go....let er rip , ya know?
Did all your girls come back to you  out of the cloud?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on July 04, 2014, 07:58:04 am
Hi Alison, yes all" my girls" ( I wish!) came back! That includes you, by the way!
 Took over a week, but all is restored. Now have more local back up.... replaced the faulty external HDD with a brand new internal 2TB HDD, a 2 TBB external HDD as well just for file backups, and in case I have a local fire or theft, the cloud will be there as my fall back again. That's how valuable femuscle over the ages is to us fans! With the whole of Saradas community here as well, records of you ladies will never be lost....

I think the age of making things to save money is coming back. Unfortunately, times have a changed, and the world is an even more manically busy place. People don't have time to do the nice things in life, and cheap imports from sweat shops in the East have made us devalue the value of clothes and the like. So I bet those bathing suits you made are more valuable than the $50 suit, however much you loved it and risked your life to save it! But more people are starting to make things again, driven by the economic climate largely, and I think that will help folk value what they have once more.

One of the reasons I gave up my corporate life to become self employes is the satisfaction of making things yourself, and being able to take a picture of what you did each day. Miss the salary though, and can't get the work life balance right, being self employed.

Your heathly life seems ideal to me, but I don't always envy your adventures, you go through a lot of pain on the way!
You would have liked the surf we had here in the UK last winter, surfers from all over the world came to Cornwall to enjoy the constant big waves we had as storm after storm rattled in. Bit chilly though!

From Cello to Bag pipes....
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 07, 2014, 06:08:38 pm
Great Timmon...glad the gals are back and you have them now protected.  OdoHerr would be proud !
Well we're back on the coast surfing once again.  Got some good ones and will post the pics when we get back.  We're blessed to have a friend here who gets out in a boat and takes surf pics with his Cannon super lens and sells the pics for a song.  Great memories !....the body parts do stop moving eventually (...or so I hear).   Precious moments to remember.
On self employment....well with that you know when it's time to close shop and enjoy life...right?
On surf there in cold cold England....nope...I'm too old for all the wet suit required  so as not to freeze to death.
Good to hear form you !
A
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 16, 2014, 10:50:11 pm
Pics from my latest surf trip.  Only one cracked rib this time.  This first pic is what happens on a steep drop.  Strapped on... I have to transfer weight to the back of the board or it does a nose dive.    They don't see wave ski riding here....so this one always strikes them as wild and crazy.

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on July 16, 2014, 11:11:03 pm
Good work Alison. I am hopeful you keep surfing on for many more years. Nice pics. You  are pretty darn skilled it appears to me. I've only surfed a couple of times and it was a trial and error experience. Mostly errors. Nice to hear things are well and only one cracked rib. Not bad. :rock:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 17, 2014, 03:08:58 pm
Good work Alison. I am hopeful you keep surfing on for many more years. Nice pics. You  are pretty darn skilled it appears to me. I've only surfed a couple of times and it was a trial and error experience. Mostly errors. Nice to hear things are well and only one cracked rib. Not bad. :rock:


Hey thanks Zig...always good to hear from you !~  On the rib and exercise.   Yup , the last day I went out with that cracked rib and gave it a go.  All was well until I really gave it some muscle and engaged the lat on that side.....then the pain.   Makes you realize how much you need these muscles at 100% to function.  Eh I could have endured, but my sense was it was not 100% cracked through and why risk a longer recovery with possibly making it worse.   Got home and the yard was thick and overgrown.  Man the jungle really takes over here in the mountainous jungle of Panama in a month!  I was able to use the machete and haul tons of crap without pain ...well, without  too much pain...all minor.   Life is treating me well and I am thankful !
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Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on July 17, 2014, 06:52:38 pm
Good decisions Alison. Listen to your body. Some of us (like me) might have been dumb enough to go back and then an injury becomes a bigger injury. I am thankful you are ok and doing well. The ribs are always tough. I just bruised one after a collision with another big man and it still stings a week later. Nothing major, but I am thankful we had some rain and time off. He sent me flying. An odd play as a great hitter topped it and it went about 10 feet. Our catcher had to get it to me at 1st and around him and hung me out to dry....so to speak....threw it right where he was running in the baseline...at an angle you rarely see at 1st. I had just enough time to focus on keeping my foot home and to brace for impact. The runner saw it coming at the very end, but he went flying too. Fun stuff then to go flying and land  hard and keep the ball at my age. I looked the next day and had all this color and soreness...on my side. I am grateful I had some time to heal.

I've been trying some new training and dietary methods. I am going to shot you an e-mail about it soon. It is really working for me. I feel 3-5 years younger than last year about 3 months in and with a few cheats.

I am glad you are well. Looking fit....kind of like a jungle queen in your pic. :cool2:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 02, 2014, 01:44:24 am
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I'm off for a couple more weeks of surfing.    I'll keep you posted
Alison


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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 13, 2014, 09:32:25 pm
Back from the surf. Fortunately I was not decapitated !
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on September 13, 2014, 11:18:04 pm
Back from the surf. Fortunately I was not decapitated !
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Impressive skills Alison. Balance and fitness required.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 13, 2014, 11:38:51 pm

"Takes balance"
Zig,I went from stand up surfing to strapped on wave ski paddle surfing 20 years ago when I got a balance disorder after having brain surgery for a tumor close to the acoustic ( hearing) nerve.   When I move quickly ...especially jumping to my feet if I should have water splashed in my face and i can't see...I have no balance at all.  So long story short, I have poor balance and that's exactly why I do this ski thing now.  It's sort of a "handicapped version" of surfing !   I have a handicap sticker on the side of my rig ! (laughing)

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The after brain surgery fun picture.  Golden opportunity to look cool
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on September 15, 2014, 03:27:42 pm
Back from the surf. Fortunately I was not decapitated !
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Call it a "handicapped version of surfing" if you will, but that's pretty cool at any age.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on September 16, 2014, 08:33:15 pm
Back from the surf. Fortunately I was not decapitated !
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Call it a "handicapped version of surfing" if you will, but that's pretty cool at any age.

Did not know that Alison. It still looks pretty darn tough. Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 20, 2014, 08:10:57 pm
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Surf was huge !   I cheated death once again.    Helps maintain respect with the young folks out there.  Surf rarely gets this big and all the youngsters ( under 40 yr old) are under gunned with boards that are too small to catch the wave.   I have few moments to shine....and this is one of them.  I feel blessed.    Alison

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Sar-Net on September 21, 2014, 12:39:25 am
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Surf was huge !   I cheated death once again.    Helps maintain respect with the young folks out there.  Surf rarely gets this big and all the youngsters ( under 40 yr old) are under gunned with boards that are too small to catch the wave.   I have few moments to shine....and this is one of them.  I feel blessed.    Alison

Alison

Alison it looks like your the nut case, UM I mean "thrill seeker" who goes out surfing when a hurricane is coming?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 21, 2014, 12:50:00 am


Surf was huge !   I cheated death once again.    Helps maintain respect with the young folks out there.  Surf rarely gets this big and all the youngsters
( under 40 yr old) are under gunned with boards that are too small to catch the wave.   I have few moments to shine....and this is one of them.  I feel blessed.    Alison

Alison
_________________________________
Alison it looks like your the nut case, UM I mean "thrill seeker" who goes out surfing when a hurricane is coming?
Yes...that would be me.....(laughing).  The fact that I'm strapped onto this little surf riding kayak adds to the thrill factor.Under the water are clumps of lava rock (thus the helmet) that are sometimes unfortunate to encounter....more excitement.   I can't get enough....  6 months and I'm 70 yr old.  I never know when the last wave might be my last so I get and much bang I can for my buck !
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          Back home now pumping iron.....  (Pudgy Stockton there with the one-handed lift)......................................Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 01, 2014, 11:40:53 pm
Are you sure that photo is Pudgy Stockton? It certainly looks old enough to be you Alison.   ;) (and yes I know that is really Pudgy Stockton)
Nah...my breasts aren't that big.   My trainer had the chest !

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/94/bbodybuilding072.jpg)........ (https://imageshack.com/i/2mbbodybuilding072j) and that would be a joint there! ( performance enhancing drug of sorts)
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 06, 2014, 08:24:50 pm
Back in the day:(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/a39VZk.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/p7a39VZkj)
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on October 06, 2014, 10:58:30 pm
Back in the day:(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/a39VZk.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/p7a39VZkj)
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/HDf96b.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/paHDf96bj)....ALISON

Nice balance. I can ski, but I can not ride a surfboard in a wave half that big. Great pic Alison. An occasional joint won't harm
 anyone. :rock:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on November 21, 2014, 04:40:56 pm
Just got back home from our last surf trip
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on November 29, 2014, 12:54:06 pm
Your surf pictures are almost as inspirational now as your bodybuilding pics were feelgood for a teenage musclebabe fan.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 01, 2014, 10:04:16 pm
Your surf pictures are almost as inspirational now as your bodybuilding pics were feelgood for a teenage musclebabe fan.

Key...don't stop movin  ....kissin 70 now...and this is what it looks like
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Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: beowulff on December 01, 2014, 10:09:02 pm
Alison, you are awesome, but you need to post photos that are larger than a postage stamp...
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 01, 2014, 10:12:54 pm
Alison, you are awesome, but you need to post photos that are larger than a postage stamp...

awe shucks.......ok...Old Lady with Machete.......
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 17, 2014, 06:32:38 pm
Some recent leg work.  Panama wave riding

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on December 17, 2014, 07:09:46 pm
Nice Alison!

 :singing: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and Bill.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 17, 2014, 10:35:31 pm
Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Happy New Year to all my friends here @ Saradas

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: LuvBigChix on December 27, 2014, 12:18:14 pm
Joyeux Noel!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 01, 2015, 03:05:02 pm
Happy New Year everybody !!!
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ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on January 01, 2015, 04:23:56 pm
Thank you Alison
Thank you for being here

All the best to you and your relatives!

OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 03, 2015, 11:04:13 pm
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Such an encouragement all of you have been !   Thank you


ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on January 10, 2015, 03:00:53 am
Happy belated New Year! Any chance you found those photos yet? Hear anything from your pal in Alaska?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: jdm022 on January 11, 2015, 04:32:31 pm

WOW!!!


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Just amazing Alison....fantastic pic :)

KARMA+++
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 18, 2015, 05:10:03 pm
Just back from another great surf trip.
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Surf now gets smaller for several months.   This is when I begin my daily lifting routine more seriously and try to crank off some lard.   Birthday commin up in March.   The big 70...yeiks.   Gotta keep movin'.  Ya never know when the next wave or bench press might be the last !

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on January 18, 2015, 07:58:27 pm
God willing and you could be a centurion Alison. 30+ years for that. Many more women make it than men and people are living longer and longer....though your comment about anything you do could be your last is so true. Nice pics and looking good.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 19, 2015, 01:23:50 pm
God willing and you could be a centurion Alison. 30+ years for that. Many more women make it than men and people are living longer and longer....though your comment about anything you do could be your last is so true. Nice pics and looking good.
My grandmother was born just at the end of the Civil war.  She saw the invention of the light bulb, the automobile, airplane, jets, rockets and lived to see a man walk on the moon.   She was tough.  Even though she had the opportunity to use a washing machine, she washed all her clothes by hand til she was in her 90's.  She ironed them with an iron she heated on her stove.  ( who irons sheets these days?)     She died at 106 years old.  I was old enough to remember her stories.   
Grandma in 1893.   Life was different then:
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ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 22, 2015, 08:30:03 pm
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           My very first contest.   6 month's training                                                 My last contest. 1983.  Four years of lifting and competition
                                                                                           
                                                                                  ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2015, 02:13:07 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 24, 2015, 01:33:16 pm
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Larry Scott in the middle.   That was a photo of my lifetime !

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on January 24, 2015, 02:49:27 pm
And what kind of lifetime !
And what an outstanding physique !

Thank you for all the pics you are posting here, Alison,
I remember this time when, with the exception of the WPW pics (on paper), there were so few pics of you.

OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: lyle918 on January 24, 2015, 05:00:27 pm
THOSE WERE THE DAYS!  How many of those 'pioneers' lived out a normal life and enjoyed their experiences in the 'dark ages' of women's bodybuilding!  Am glad Saradas has a section where they revisit some of those pioneers...they do a good job but should go back further and reintroduce them.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on January 26, 2015, 05:35:53 am
Thank you for the picture(s) Alison.

Larry Scott was a very lucky man, and so was the other man, to have had a picture taken with you.  :)

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 26, 2015, 03:28:04 pm
Thanks guys.   What with the gzillions of bodybuilders of all categories out there these days that make it, I am honored to be even noticed.  Your comments mean a lot to me.   ( I will die a happy woman....smile)

There was no interest ( outside of the WPW guys) in me in my era.   I had very few professional photos taken outside of the ones the WPW guys took on only two occasions when I came to the USA mainland from Hawaii to to national contests and the Gold's Classic.   Most of my pictures were taken by my friend and my trainer Steve Dussia.  He was a amateur photographer with his own darkroom.   He trained with me  ( competed with me once in a National Doubles contest).   He was my encourager and teacher.  He made me my own personal gym out of pipes found on the street.   We  had such fun !    What an adventure the whole thing was for me !!!     Once I hit the mainland for some Nationals I was totally out of my element.  I never trained in a gym like Golds.   To see Golds in Venice and all the out of season women walking around there ....well, rather than encourage me, it sort of burst my bubble.   I became aware that a new era was dawning and steroids were the key to success.   That was the curtain call for me.   I went back to surfing and being "normal".....loosely speaking  ( laughing) (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/838/bbodybuilding053.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/nabbodybuilding053j)(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/198/bbodybuilding052.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/5ibbodybuilding052j)(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/22/bbodybuilding062.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0mbbodybuilding062j) ( selfie Steve took on a timer with a tripod)

These are a set of posing practice shots Steve (my trainer ) would take.   Helped me to see body-form and how to adjust for the best visual presentation.   He was very good at this and a great teacher.  I would NEVER have gotten as far as I did so quickly without this man.

Anyway.....soo good to have you guys be so kind to me.  I truly appreciate you all.   It's my pleasure to share my experiences and as well my life now as a natural muscular woman who had a brief time under the lights.    ( I'd love to hear from some of the other gals from my era.   I'd love to know how their lives went and what they are up to now.......)   BTW I'm on  bodybuilding diet right now to attempt to lean down.   I'll be 70 in a few weeks and I sure don't want to be out of shape for that !  (laughing).  So it's 3 cans of tuna a day for three days...off one...then back on the cycle.   Old school weight loss.

ALISON
Oh...one last thing.
 WPW.   Steve Wennerstrom and Bill Jentz were as well such an encouragement to me.  They were bubbling with enthusiasm.  They were a couple of young fellows (muscle lusters with a camera ) like a kid in a candy shop around muscluar women.  They had a vision and that was to supply the fans with a product they desired.   Fans wanted more than Muscle and Fitness and Flex were producing.  Whan an empire they created over time.....they out Odo Herr'd OdoHerr !! I stilll stay in touch with Bill Jentz.   He's happily retired still cranking out photo product of female frames.   

I remember driving with them in a car and talking about where bodybuilding was going.  One of them said:   "If you look like this now...imagine what womens' bodybuilding will be in 10 years !"    That was back in 1981 or so.  Ok I said...you wait...Bev Frances will one day wear a posing suit and be on the stage and blow you all away.   We all laughed....then pondered it.   AND......eventually it happened !!!!!
Now look.   Iris Kyle .....absolutely astounding.   Time flies.   ( wonder what FBB will be in another 10 years...hummm )
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: asianfitnessfan on February 02, 2015, 05:13:58 am
I really enjoy reading your perspectives, Alison. Hope you keep posting here and enjoying life.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 04, 2015, 11:10:42 pm
Another Story
I lived and trained in Hawaii on the island of Oahu.  In the course of doing many contests there I had the opportunity to meet Tommy Kono.   Tommy Kono had a health food store in Honolulu and continued to be behind the scenes in the weightlifting arena there.
Tommy Kono
Kono was a gold medalist at both the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics, and a silver medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Kono won the World Weightlifting Championships 6 consecutive times from 1953 to 1959, and set a total of 21 world records. Kono is also a 3 time Pan American Games champion in 1955, 1959, and 1963.

In 1976, Kono was head coach of the United States' Olympic weightlifting team in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Kono was also a successful Bodybuilder, winning the Iron Man Mr. World title in 1954.

In the 1970s Kono moved to Hawaii, where he has lived ever since. On his home visits he holds workshops in weightlifting.

In 1993 Kono was elected to the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.[2] Kono is also an inductee to the Association of Oldetime Barbell and Strongmen (A.O.B.S.) Hall of Fame

What a set of credentials he had !!!!

Here's several snap shots taken after a contest there.  In the pics are Tommy Kono (lower right) and  Larry Scott along with some Hawaii contest promoters and contestants.

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/560/bbodybuilding157.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/fkbbodybuilding157j) That's Tommy Kono with the round glasses there.  Larry Scott upper left.            Bill Nelson lower left middle.  Imagine how exciting this was for me !   I devoured ironman Magazines.  These were all time heros I got to rub elbows with.   Great memories.
Alison
Julie McNew was guest poser along with Larry Scott for that contest when the shots were taken.  I think that's her in the background in that lower right photo.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on February 05, 2015, 02:56:48 am
Alison, given that the Aloha State was home for you for many years, did you ever happen to hear of Harold Sakata in the local news? I forgot what his name was when he was a grappler but he was a formidable and fierce wrestler best known for playing the valet with a lethal bowler in Goldfinger.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 05, 2015, 02:22:44 pm
nope didn't know the fella......He lived on the island of Hawaii I lived on the island of Oahu.
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Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on February 05, 2015, 05:33:42 pm
What would you say your bodyfat level was in that last pic and that one of you and Larry Scott?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: NinjaStar on February 05, 2015, 06:44:08 pm
Please don't take this the wrong way Alison, but when I read your posts, it's like listening to my grandma tell stories. It makes me all warm and fuzzy.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 05, 2015, 07:07:44 pm
Only body testing I ever had  done was at this Nationals contest.  I tested 6%.   I weighed 106...my normal contest weight was around 120.  I was waaaaay over peaked and dehydrated.   

Here's the pic on the stage that day: ( a kiss from keeling over and dropping dead)
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I missed the weigh-in.   Competed as a middleweight but in fact was a lightweight.
this was the line-up...I'm far right.
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Here's the next day after hydration during a WPW photo shoot:  Bill Jentz told me later that he sincerely thought I was gonna keel over during that photoshoot.
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Diet consisted of nothing but 3 cans of tuna a day for 3 days then off one.  3:1...did that for 3 months.   Damn near killed myself !
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That last one was as well several days after the contest.   BIG difference several gallons of water !
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 05, 2015, 07:37:36 pm
the story about that contest:

This National contest in Vegas was a huge big deal for me.   I went with  my husband and my trainer Steve Dussia who was as well competing with me in a doubles competition.
Before the contest we were running at night in sweats down the streets in Vegas.  I remember sweating like a boar hog as we ran in front of all these hot Vegas  lights.   We also ran up and down the stairs somewhere in a back hall in Caesar's Palace where we were staying.   We'd stop and do a few chin  ups on some water pipes in that stairwell.   It was insane. 
Before the contest I remember lathering up with iodine mixed with baby oil.  ( that was before spray tan).  The fumes damn near made you pass out.   What a crazy time that was !
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No worries NinjaStar.   I'm happy to be your storytellin grandma !   (laughing)

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: logiemac on February 05, 2015, 08:22:21 pm
the story about that contest:

This National contest in Vegas was a huge big deal for me.   I went with  my husband and my trainer Steve Dussia who was as well competing with me in a doubles competition.
Before the contest we were running at night in sweats down the streets in Vegas.  I remember sweating like a boar hog as we ran in front of all these hot Vegas  lights.   We also ran up and down the stairs somewhere in a back hall in Caesar's Palace where we were staying.   We'd stop and do a few chin  ups on some water pipes in that stairwell.   It was insane. 
Before the contest I remember lathering up with iodine mixed with baby oil.  ( that was before spray tan).  The fumes damn near made you pass out.   What a crazy time that was !
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No worries NinjaStar.   I'm happy to be your storytellin grandma !   (laughing)

ALISON
And a lovely sense off humour too.  :-)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 05, 2015, 10:17:47 pm
Nuther...same crazy episode.
Took me a week to figure out what happened.   Nutz.
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Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on February 05, 2015, 10:32:37 pm
Alison, I might have said this before, but with that flower in your hair you looked like you created an amazing physique. I gather by the time it came for you to be photographed you probably felt a great amount of punishment.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 05, 2015, 11:49:46 pm
Alison, I might have said this before, but with that flower in your hair you looked like you created an amazing physique. I gather by the time it came for you to be photographed you probably felt a great amount of punishment.
Flower in the hair
Femininity thing.   All of us that had muscle then felt like we were lower in the pecking order.  Like flowers would make a difference in the judges opinion....(laughing)   
Well, that was my thinking then.    Times sure have changed !
I even had one on my wrist:
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             Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on February 06, 2015, 12:31:03 am
Was precontest training especially difficult on the diet? I recall reading that Pillow, when training for competition would find her energy wasn't that great for her workouts when dieting so hard.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 06, 2015, 12:45:31 am
Super duper energy....bitchy as hell.....always constipated.  Pillow and I would share Metamucil recipes.
You asked !......... (laughing)
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on February 06, 2015, 03:46:51 am
What training would you say was the most challenging? Yes I did ask about the dieting part. I sort of figured that  doing crunches and other ab work was something that would leave you feeling like you had the stuffing beaten out of you.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 06, 2015, 01:16:16 pm
What training would you say was the most challenging? Yes I did ask about the dieting part. I sort of figured that  doing crunches and other ab work was something that would leave you feeling like you had the stuffing beaten out of you.
The daily "routine" of it was the most challenging to me.  It could get boring.   I was more into surfing....more exciting.   My trainer had a way of always creating a challenge for me and mixing it up to keep me "into it".   Some folks like the same-ness of the gym routines.  Me?...not so much.   I never ever pushed lifts to the extreme to where any one exercise was super duper hard.

Yah...getting out of the water and  to the gym  (staying with it  ) was the hardest for me(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/ToWPTi.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/pcToWPTip)
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 09, 2015, 11:36:51 pm
Girl with scarf-n-car
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on February 10, 2015, 02:21:40 am
Nice one Alison. :cool2:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on February 13, 2015, 08:22:53 am
Nice one Alison! WPW took and still take some great pics. Of course, they were probably the first to cover FBB off stage?  I used to save up to order some prints when I could afford to, no internet of course. I note you never wore the stock WPW dresses! Amazing how many times they got those stretchey dresses out. I guess most athletes turned up for shoots in track suit and trainers plus posing suit, and the last thing on their mind was to slip into a dress!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 14, 2015, 01:50:56 pm
Timmon,
The WPW dress
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 The WPW shoot and the dress I didn't bring.  I guess I was before "the WPW dress". This dress came out of Steve Wennerstrom's girlfriend's closet.  They decided they needed a shot with a dress  and I had none.   His girlfriend was out of town and clueless to the fact they were raiding her closet.   I guess that's when the stretch dress concept got it's birth....they got their own one-size-fits- all dress.
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on February 14, 2015, 05:12:30 pm
Wow, Alison, you made that dress look great!
So another claim to fame for you... the founder of the WPW dress! I guess Steve would have been in trouble from his GF, if he kept on borrowing her dresses, especially if the borrower looked better in them, so the WPW dress (es) had to be introduced to save his relationship!
Would love to know who bought them and why! I guess FBB's are not so worried as average women, about being seen in the same dress. The WPW ones lasted for many years, and took quite a pounding, stretched far beyond the limits they were designed for.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 14, 2015, 06:13:34 pm
Wow, Alison, you made that dress look great!
So another claim to fame for you... the founder of the WPW dress! I guess Steve would have been in trouble from his GF, if he kept on borrowing her dresses, especially if the borrower looked better in them, so the WPW dress (es) had to be introduced to save his relationship!
Would love to know who bought them and why! I guess FBB's are not so worried as average women, about being seen in the same dress. The WPW ones lasted for many years, and took quite a pounding, stretched far beyond the limits they were designed for.

Oh no.   His GF was a beauty and as well a bodybuilder.  My hunch is she filled out that dress quite nicely.   BUT....I'll have to say it's sort of the librarian look....(laughing)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on February 14, 2015, 06:49:55 pm
My mistake. Ignorant of me, of course Steve would have an FBB GF, what am I thinking of?! No offence intended to his GF, FBB or not.
Let's just say you both made the dress look great, in the absence of a photo of his GF in it.
Maybe she was a librarian.. in the Weider library of training books!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: warlock12 on February 14, 2015, 11:05:04 pm
His GF was Lisa Lorio, or am I mistaken? If yes, she was indeed very beautiful.
As are you Alison, you really rock that dress!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 15, 2015, 12:25:37 am
My mistake. Ignorant of me, of course Steve would have an FBB GF, what am I thinking of?! No offence intended to his GF, FBB or not.
Let's just say you both made the dress look great, in the absence of a photo of his GF in it.
Maybe she was a librarian.. in the Weider library of training books!
ha ha ha ha ha
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 15, 2015, 12:26:36 am
His GF was Lisa Lorio, or am I mistaken? If yes, she was indeed very beautiful.
As are you Alison, you really rock that dress!
Yup that was the gal. She had some fame for a time as well.   Some new ones on the Lisa Lorio thread worth a look see.   Natural beauty.  Mega-talent.  Sweet Cajun accent ( if you check out the YouTube videos on-line ).   Lots of Magazine covers !  ....and lookin mighty good in her early 50's !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 28, 2015, 02:24:43 pm
Just back from another surf trip.
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This one was from last month.....my 70th birthday.  Great waves...broken hand (knuckle)...surfed anyway.
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 20, 2015, 01:28:52 pm
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                                                               ALISON

Hi guys...
Been reading the life history of Berrarr MacFadden, father of modern physical culture...or bodybuilding as we call it today.  The book is entitled "Mr America" and written by Mark Adams.   What's interesting reading it is how much of my training methods taught to me were from the MacFadden era.   Totally old school.    Were you to rain today totally natural, much of what Macfadden taught still works. How to get lean and muscular primarily.  Building monster muscles...not so much.  Good book.....glad i found it.

Lean ......back in the day:   ( nothing but starvation ( 3 cans of tuna a day) , uphill running in sweats cycled with carbs every third day)
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on May 20, 2015, 11:28:32 pm
Interesting. Some modern bodybuilders still use some of the old school training methods. Not many, but there are some top names.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 20, 2015, 11:49:42 pm
Interesting. Some modern bodybuilders still use some of the old school training methods. Not many, but there are some top names.
MacFadden was big on starvation , lots of walking ( insane kind....like from New York to Chicago), raw food diet, before his time on vitamins. 
You would enjoy this book.....very unusual fellow.  My kind of guy....(laughing)
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: phy911 on May 21, 2015, 04:22:59 am
Interesting. Some modern bodybuilders still use some of the old school training methods. Not many, but there are some top names.

I remember going to a contest promoted by the late great Serge Nubret. Between the prejudging and evening show he had a Q&A session. I remember this guy asking him about his diet and Serge replied "just eat one big steak, one meal a day, just one big steak" I remember the guy turning around looking at me unsure if he was missing some sort of joke.  It was a fun show.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 21, 2015, 12:11:02 pm
Interesting. Some modern bodybuilders still use some of the old school training methods. Not many, but there are some top names.

I remember going to a contest promoted by the late great Serge Nubret. Between the prejudging and evening show he had a Q&A session. I remember this guy asking him about his diet and Serge replied "just eat one big steak, one meal a day, just one big steak" I remember the guy turning around looking at me unsure if he was missing some sort of joke.  It was a fun show.

I believe that.   It's the carbs that make us round.....
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Especially as we get older.  My sister in law visited us for 3 weeks.   She ate what we ate and lost 8 pounds.   I'm sure a lot had to do with the fact that we eat no bread, no potatoes, no rice and no sweets.   Before she left we took that picture with her after she said to us she feels like she has stayed at a training camp for overweight people.   ( ha ha ha )  We eat like that all the time !....well not like THAT.

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on May 21, 2015, 10:30:55 pm
Was that pic of you and the other ladies taken from The Female Physique Athlete, Alison?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 21, 2015, 10:36:16 pm
Was that pic of you and the other ladies taken from The Female Physique Athlete, Alison?

No it was a program from a Honolulu bodybuilding contest I had entered.
A
Actually now that I think about it the pic was taken by the Jentz WPW team.  We all submitted our own pics for the program.....I probably had no thought at the time of copyright .......now that I ponder it.  Apologies to Bil Jentz...I'm sure he'd forgive me.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on May 21, 2015, 10:57:33 pm
Found any of those past magazines or pictures that you have mentioned are somewhere in storage?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 22, 2015, 02:35:58 pm
Found any of those past magazines or pictures that you have mentioned are somewhere in storage?

Stacks and stacks of photos and mags sit in a closet.   They got put there almost 8 years ago when we moved here.   Still not motivated enough to tackle the challenge.   We go surfing two weeks out of the month, leaving our home to go to the coast.  When we get back home we have yard and house care catch up...then we are off again.   At 70+ years old.....keeping the body parts in motion has first priority over sitting in front of stacks of photos and scanning them.  Never know when the body parts will stop moving ya know?

Anyway, God willing some day I will no doubt get to it...if we both live long enough.......     Another thing we want to do is to take a trip to Alaska.   Sure would be super to
connect with Pillow once again after all these years.  She was my best bodybuilding buddy back in the day 35 years ago.  How time flies !
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the yard work


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the surfing ( latest trip this  last month)


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My very fav of Pillow from way back when

Always good to hear from you Mooveeguy !

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Special1 on July 14, 2015, 08:04:50 am
Alison, thanks for this thread, it is probably the best thread on the forum. I love your recollections and opinions, as well as the old and new photos. You and your husband were very lucky to forge a partnership early in life.

Can you tell me how the two of you met and how your relationship progressed? How did you decide to get married and what do you think is the secret to a successful marriage?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 14, 2015, 08:31:18 pm
Alison, thanks for this thread, it is probably the best thread on the forum. I love your recollections and opinions, as well as the old and new photos. You and your husband were very lucky to forge a partnership early in life.

Can you tell me how the two of you met and how your relationship progressed? How did you decide to get married and what do you think is the secret to a successful marriage?

Ha ha ha .....OK true Confessions.
First , thanks for the kind words.  I firmly believe that their should be more gals sharing their lives and adventures in bodybuilding.
1. I had graduated college and was staying with my retired parents in Florida.  Bored out of my gourd I went up to my college (Florida State University) to party with some of my old friends.  One of my crazier fiends gave me my husband's name and phone #.  He knew my husband lived close by where I was staying and that he could show me what there was to do around there..and as well find me some good pot. ( those were the days !)  It was a blind date.  We enjoyed each other's company and as well the weed.  In 6 months we were married.

2  We had similar interests....all except my flying airplanes.   Bill wasn't too wild about that.   At the time I was learning aerobatics and enjoying flying to isolated places with grass strips.  Very shortly my love for my husband...and the weed took over my flying.  That was the end of that (laughing)

3. We both had simple jobs.  I worked as a Public Health Nurse and he worked for the road department.  He had a good friend who came back from an extended trip to Colombia and shared his tales and pictures.  We saved our money and took off.  We eventually did some surfing on the coast of Ecuador ( that's where I started) ...and ended up back in Colombia buying a hut up in the mountains. ( $1600 for 2.5 acres of  land and a simple brick house, no running water nor electricity).  We stayed there for a bit over a year and went back to save $ and do it again...the next time down to Peru.  That's where we began riding big waves and enjoying that together.  We made the decision to move to Hawaii.  Lived most of our adult life in Hawaii.  We surfed every day together and worked night jobs.

4. Bodybuilding came along as a fluke.  We were both in our 30's and feeling a bit "older" and out of shape.  A friend conned us into joining a gym.  now my thoughts on that were the picture of some dark smelly hole where men grunted and being surrounded by smelly towels and jockstraps on hooks on the wall. (laughing)  "Oh no she said...it's not like that.  Gyms have carpeting, are airconditioned and it's cool to be a girl in the gym"   OK so we did the 3 day a week thing.  Got some lifting helps from some of the old fart gym guys who didn't want us to hurt ourselves.  That led to meeting one of the best Olympic and general lifting trainers on Oahu....Steve Dussia.  He helped me along

5. We ended up constructing a Rube Goldberg gym in Steve's backyard out of stop sign pipes and other gym equipment Steve had.  We had a power rack and some crazy good pulleys all rigged together into machines he made for me out of levers and pulleys.  From then on that's where we all trained.  He conned me into my first contest and from then on I won every contest I entered in Hawaii ( more than I can remember).  I did the Gold's classic and nationals twice.  We all had a great time for as long as it lasted.

6. All this time Bill and I surfed and lifted together daily, still keeping night jobs.,   We did this until 2007 when we sold everything there and retired to the Rep of Panama.  A great place to retire BTW !   We still lift, and we go to the coast 1-2 weeks a month depending upon the swells.  Panama has some great surf. 

7.  Enjoying the things we do together and each other's company I believe was the core of our success.  We love travel and have done quite a bit of that too.  Some things change...like we no longer drink alcohol ( rarely maybe a drink) and we don't smoke weed now.  We became Christians over 15 years ago and enjoy that together as well...reading the bible together outloud daily...him a chapter, me a chapter.  Takes us about 8 months to get through...then we start again. 

8.  We have always kept life simple.  We elected not to have children-.  Never had more debt than a mortgage, saved our money and invested it.  Retired when Bill was 58 and I was 62.  We've lived in the Rep of Panama now for 8 years. 
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                                                                          The early married hippy era......70's

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My flying airplanes era ...short lived                  The man I fell in love with...who hated airplanes and loved his weed.  It was an easy choice to give up airplanes!

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Living in So Colombia 70's                                                               Bill & buddy making a balsa surfboard, Ecuador 70's
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Ecuador surfing together  70's
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Bodybuilding era. Had our own tee shirts for our backyard gym...the Deltoid house. Mid 80's
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Hawaii surfing 80's to 2007
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Growing old in Panama....surfing
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Having fun together in the mountains of Panama...retired                                                                             Yard care......Panama.
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Bill's book. A collection of all the crazy stories about growing up and getting old.     Bill ( and Homer Simpson) observes that the pants get higher with each   
                                                                                                                                   passing decade

Soooooo...there you have it.  Have fun together no matter what you do.  Keep life simple.  A sense of humor helps...Bill has a real good one. 
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on July 14, 2015, 08:34:21 pm
Cool share Alison! :rock:  I hope all is well.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 14, 2015, 09:22:36 pm
All's well Zig thanks.  Same ole stuff.  Hows life up there without the snow ?  Weather's kind of strange down here.  Not as we would anticipate this time of year.  Less rain and surf has been good but not outstanding.  Got some good one's 4th of July.  Always good to be back home in the mountains here.  Too damn hot on the coast. We're spoiled.
July 4th  surf
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Did I tell you I broke off my knuckle surfing?   Surfed my 70th birthday with a 3 day old fracture of my 5th knuckle.  Here's some of the pics of my 70th birthday wave fun
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Broken knuckle left hand                                                                             My 70th birthday cake with Barbie there on a waveski, broken knuckle aced up...
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on July 14, 2015, 10:12:46 pm

Thank you, Alison, for sharing here all these details of your personal life and experience. I did appreciate.
Best regards
OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 14, 2015, 11:01:41 pm
 ;)   Thanx.  O.H.  As you can see, I have loads of time on my hands ! (laughing)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Special1 on July 15, 2015, 09:48:09 am
Alison, I think where you distinguish yourself is you put your thoughts down and have the life experiences. Some people who have the stories to tell never bother to share them, because they think no one would be interested.

There is no perfect life. One choice takes you down a road to the exclusion of other avenues. It breeds discontentment to think life could have ever been any way other than it was. Nonetheless, it is always best to have a plan, with goals along the way.

What I find is fascinating is the difference between image and reality when you visit different places. Perhaps it is true most of the "third world" is corrupt but there are those places which are a better deal to live in than the hyper-capitalist developed countries. For example, the standard of living in Canada is lower compared to the USA, looking at the bigger cities - and like for like comparisons. Yet, people have an impression Canada is paradise.

And I think what matters, perhaps more than anything, is the attitude of people in a place. It really rubs off on you if the people are positive thinkers, care about other human beings, and are open to new approaches and thinking bigger.

Just yesterday, I was watching a report on how Berlin real estate is now so very expensive. I thought, "Why don't they ever tell us about the places which used to be expensive and are now dirt cheap?" Or the places which are cheap and about to appreciate?

Do you think places like Panama and other places in the region will be run over by retirees from the USA and Canada?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 15, 2015, 01:52:11 pm
Your thoughts and questions Special1 :
1." And I think what matters, perhaps more than anything, is the attitude of people in a place. It really rubs off on you if the people are positive thinkers, care about other human beings, and are open to new approaches and thinking bigger."
2  "Do you think places like Panama and other places in the region will be run over by retirees from the USA and Canada? "

Our  choice to retire to Panama was first made after reading a travel article about "the people of Panama".   They were described as open. kind and welcoming.  The article went on to describe the author's personal experiences with simple ranchers on the Azuero Penninsula.  I said to my husband...."Bill, we need to go and live with these people"    Now strangely enough Panama was voted #1 as the country where the people had the most peace of mind .   I came down here by myself back in 2007 to scout out the country and I came back home to  give Bill my report.  Beyond  a doubt in every regard I found the people to be exactly as described.  I told him..."Bill I think they have an extra kindness gene".   After 8 years  of living here I can say this has not changed. 

There ARE quite a few foreign settlers here in Boquete , Panama where we live.  This city is at 2400 ft and is the "go to" spot for local folk to enjoy a cool mountain breeze weekend get- away.   It was originally settled after completion of the Canal.  Many of the engineers and movers and shakers in the building of the canal took their money and came to this town to start a new life.  They were from many different countries: USA, Germany, Spain, Switzerland.  This town was settled by foreigners,.  It was voted #1 as the best place to retire by AARP and International Living.  That makes it VERY comfortable for Bill and I.  There's lots of folks who speak both English and Spanish and a ton of things to do.   I can say beyond a doubt that Bill and I have the best quality of life we have ever had in our entire life ...here.   Yes, there is a foreign migration from places like Costa Rica and quite a few residents of Venezuela are moving in ....and lots of disenfranchised US and Canadian settlers as well.  There's a flow in and out....it's not for everyone living here.  That said Panama is one of the few countrys (if not the only country) that offers a permanent residency visa to foreigners and gives them all the percs that their own citizens receive.  For elder retirees in Panama we get 50% off hotel rooms, 25% off restaurant food, 25% off travel ( including airfare out of the country).....and more.  This reduces our cost of living enormously big time !   We were VERY fortunate to have made the choice to take our retirement money and move from Hawaii to the Rep of Panama in 2007 !   Blessed.

Thanks for your kind words and sharing your thoughts Special 1 !
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Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on July 16, 2015, 07:16:23 pm
Great stuff Alison. :bravo: Things are great up here. I'm in the best shape I have been in the past decade.....going hardcore on the anti inflam diet snd working out more. Weather has been great for the most part. Not overly hot much....a few days here and there, but nothing that bothers me. I love the longer daylight too. Thanks for the great shares.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 17, 2015, 02:51:13 pm
Great to hear all's well  Zig.....and GREAT after all these years to have a check in from my old friend and trainer Steve Dussia thanks to this site .   ( benefits of the computer era)........alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 18, 2015, 02:10:36 pm
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      Houston we have contact !   I'm thankful for the SAR.ADAS site for helping me to re-connect with my old friend and trainer, BB partner 
              and photographer Steve Dussia !  Many decades have passed and we have a lot to catch up on.........I'm a happy camper !
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                                        Just for the record, here's a picture....two old friends : Steve Dussia my trainer and I, now 30 years later.   
If it were not for SAR.ADAS I doubt we would ever have had this reunion.  We spent hours on the phone last night rehashing old stories and Steve excitedly sharing his personal memories of  his many years with some of the greats of the iron game....   So many funny stories ~~ I swear he should write a book.  If he ever did, it would be a one of a kind.   You'll find how a died-in-the wool natural became a champion while rubbing shoulders with some lifting monsters well juiced, many of whom he himself trained.  Tales of lifting cars in the wee hours of the night after working a side job as bouncers with the likes of Bill Starr his lifetime mentor and friend....the stories kept com-min.  It refreshed the joy I shared with Steve in lifting.  He made it so much fun.  It was one hell-of-an adventure ...and our motto...."It just doesn't matter!" (" lets just give it a go...and see what happens")   We did.  Great times !   

I just want to thank the admin of SAR.ADAS who assisted me in actually connecting with Steve.
                                                                                                                    ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: artful.dodger on July 20, 2015, 09:21:50 am
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      Houston we have contact !   I'm thankful for the SAR.ADAS site for helping me to re-connect with my old friend and trainer, BB partner 
              and photographer Steve Dussia !  Many decades have passed and we have a lot to catch up on.........I'm a happy camper !
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                                        Just for the record, here's a picture....two old friends : Steve Dussia my trainer and I, now 30 years later.   
If it were not for SAR.ADAS I doubt we would ever have had this reunion.  We spent hours on the phone last night rehashing old stories and Steve excitedly sharing his personal memories of  his many years with some of the greats of the iron game....   So many funny stories ~~ I swear he should write a book.  If he ever did, it would be a one of a kind.   You'll find how a died-in-the wool natural became a champion while rubbing shoulders with some lifting monsters well juiced, many of whom he himself trained.  Tales of lifting cars in the wee hours of the night after working a side job as bouncers with the likes of Bill Starr his lifetime mentor and friend....the stories kept com-min.  It refreshed the joy I shared with Steve in lifting.  He made it so much fun.  It was one hell-of-an adventure ...and our motto...."It just doesn't matter!" (" lets just give it a go...and see what happens")   We did.  Great times !   

I just want to thank the admin of SAR.ADAS who assisted me in actually connecting with Steve.
                                                                                                                    ALISON


Alison, pleased to hear that you met again Steve Dussia your trainer after long years  :dance:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 20, 2015, 03:30:20 pm
Muscular Woman
What's interesting is he ( like me) sort of fell out of the loop with regard to FBB at the competitive level for nearly 20...close to 30 years. I know it's difficult to understand how that could happen.  We both kept our joy of lifting and exercise, each of us going our own ways as time passed.  Geographically we were seperated by thousands of miles.  For many many years neither of us had a computer.  He still only has one offline.  That be the case, one can literally fall off the ends of the earth and not be found.  It was only his work compiling his notes and memories of Bill Starr after Starr's recent untimely death that in borrowing a friend's online computer he just bumped into SAR.DAS...and me.  His friend helped him write a personal message to me...and with the help of SAR.ADAS admin  to sort it all out ....we finally made contact.

The joy of a renewal of all these great times we had lifting together was beyond words.    Steve's full of stories of so many of the early movers and shakers in the iron game ...and they are all captivating to say the least.  His recounting his experiences with Bill Starr and helping Bill put together Only The Strongest Shall Survive are both fascinating as well as hilarious.(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/673/DlzlRB.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/ipDlzlRBj)  Steve was Bill's photographer and illustrator.  With the old school still camera, Steve and Bill created the photo illustrations of lifts.  When the scheduled lifter didn't show up...Steve Dussia was Bill Starr's model...AND photographer.  Steve would set up the shot, do the lift with Bill Starr pressing the button...here's one:
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That's the same way the photograph I enclosed of us posing together was done.  Old school.  He set up the shot with me standing there...then jumped in and hit the pose with me...all of it on a timer.  He developed the proofs and photos in his bathroom.  I have no doubt that's how he processed the photos for Bill Starr.

So in closing I'll cut to the chase here.  All I was, all I developed, every ounce of my success I owe to the talent of this man.  There are very few with enormous gifts held in any particular athletic endeavor.  Steve Dussia has an abundance of gifts in the sport and art of lifting/bodybuilding, coaching...as well photography. ( ..and he I might add, owes a great deal of his to Bill Starr)   That our universes collided way back in the 80s was nothing short of miraculous as far as I'm concerned.  To have the success I had (and he along with me) in our crude Rube Goldberg stop sign pipe home-made gym in complete isolation from the rest of the lifting world was one exciting adventure.  Some of the very best years of my life !
                                                                           
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 (Practice photos Steve took)                       
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(home practice...)                                          (Cory&Jeff won the doubles)   ( about when I quit in 83)   (6 months training, 1st contest,1st place...1980?)
                                                                           ...not us !                         
                                                                                                                        ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 23, 2015, 04:36:04 pm
I'm about ready to pull the trigger on getting a 8' soft board for $80.  1-3 foot waves is fine with me.
Not going to do any North Shore surfing like you did!
Go for it..you can't lose.  The softies come in some nice shapes these days.  have fun!  Let me know how it goes.
Alison
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: fbsun on July 29, 2015, 08:04:02 pm
thank you Alison for sharing your experience with us. I really like your insights since I have been following fbb since the late 70, early 80s.  you seem to be having an enjoyable life and your husband sounds extremely supportive of you.

You are definitely a classy lady in my book and I wish you all the best. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 29, 2015, 10:48:06 pm
thank you Alison for sharing your experience with us. I really like your insights since I have been following fbb since the late 70, early 80s.  you seem to be having an enjoyable life and your husband sounds extremely supportive of you.

You are definitely a classy lady in my book and I wish you all the best.
Thanks !    Yes bodybuilding can be fun...the life associated with it rewarded because of it.   I think having kept it natural...and the entire thing in perspective with regard to how bodybuilding relates to me personally was a HUGE benefit.   I have had a great life...happy healthy and with  a husband I have enjoyed all of it with and continue to do so...is an enormous reward.  I have been able to enjoy the sport and leave  the "obsessing with it" part of it.  That in itself was a miracle.   For that I am grateful beyond words.
thanks for your kind words
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on July 29, 2015, 10:56:28 pm
What was the most you lifted in a certain exercise? Or have you stated what the heaviest weights you pressed were?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 29, 2015, 11:01:53 pm
The amount of the lifts...the weight ..was never the big deal really.  It wasn't like power lifting.   I remember lifting 180# on the bench on my 40th birthday...and to me ....that was a huge big deal.  look at Paula Suzuki's bench #... now THAT"S A HUGE BIG DEAL !.....over 300 on a bench !....wow.  Thank God I came to the stage in Hawaii before she did !
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on August 27, 2015, 02:54:37 pm
A lot of people ask "how much do you lift"? but it's not about how much you lift unless, as you say Alison, you're powerlifting or olympic weightlifting. Isn't this all about how you feel, how fit you are and, if you are competing, how you look. It's not about the amount of weights you pump but the end result of that iron pumping. Well that's how I see it anyway.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 27, 2015, 10:02:08 pm
...and speaking of lifting.  When do you lift off for the land-O-Disney Greg?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 29, 2015, 05:02:17 pm
In Panama where I live there's this fantastic river.  I've been enjoying panning for gold there.   This was taken last week 8/2015. 
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Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on August 29, 2015, 09:24:56 pm
Lovely scenery Alison.  That is a gorgeous setup you have down there. You look great too. :clap:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 29, 2015, 09:56:22 pm
Thanks Zig
It is just fantastic here.  (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/537/aa6VZ5.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/exaa6VZ5j)
I did find some gold in the river...too fine to do much with...but it's there.  This was my first attempt.
I haven't done any lifting since I broke my knuckle.  No excuses ...I just got lazy.  Lookin soft.  Heading for the surf tomorrow.  Now that will be good exercise !
Good to hear from you
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: afigreg on September 09, 2015, 12:08:23 am
Alison sorry I haven't been on here for a while. My last comment on August 28th was the day after I got home from "the land-O-Disney". We left Monday August 17th and arrived home Thursday August 27th. I don't know if you use facebook but I've posted photos there. Otherwise I can see about somehow getting them to you if you'd like.

Grego
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 09, 2015, 12:12:45 am
Great.    Send them direct.....
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 17, 2015, 05:50:39 pm
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Alison
...old dog, new tricks
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: steved6464 on September 19, 2015, 09:00:07 pm
Alison,
    I finally got back to a computer, (my brother's), and just wanted to thank you for the books, and all the nice comments.  To anyone reading this, I can provide the formula to anyone, but the 1 in 10,000,000 potential of Alison was crucial to the end result.  Actually, based on the population of the US, it may be 1 in 100,000,000
    I tried the phone no. but had no luck. Maybe you were surfing.  I also have your return address on the envelope from Bill's book.  Getting older is not a problem.  Not getting older, on the other hand... ??? ???
    Give me a call when you get a chance, I read all the books and am ready to be tested.  I have some as yet unpublished training articles I want you to review. 
    This is a test of my ability to post.  I read your fan letters, and I must say that you deserve the accolades.    Steve
   
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 19, 2015, 09:30:14 pm
You make me happy...now as then.   Bodybuilding should be an exciting adventure...a happy and healthy one.   We did that ( emphasis on happy)...and I am ever so thankful for all of it....esp you.  How fortunate we were to have fallen into one another.   One talented trainer and a gal (...a tad old but ) with muscles and a desire to train them.   No matter what, we had fun.  The results?....well it really didn't matter.  We won !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 22, 2015, 02:54:45 pm
Steve,
Just got back from another surf adventure.  I'll give you a call
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Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: achilleus on September 24, 2015, 10:23:12 am
I have recently seen Lenda Murray in a promotion video for WOS championship and thought: its amazing she is still around and such a good ambassador for the sport. Then I have seen another interview with Bev Francis, which was fabolous and she seems to be doing well with her gym. And I always love to read inside stories from you on here.

On the other hand there are so many new and really young athletes on the rise, across all mentionable divisions probably more then ever. It is somehow the first time we are looking at different generations of female bodybuilders/athletes.

Question to you, Alison: are you in contact with the current bb movement, are you interested in whats going on at the Olympia? Do the young athletes ever ask for advice? In which way do you interact with each other ?

Thanks and best greetings
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 24, 2015, 01:37:50 pm
Achillius,
   Thanks for your kind comments !   When I began bodybuilding back in the early 80's I began in Hawaii way out of the loop.  I was in the very first women's contest that was held there ( we had to wear high heels when we came out !).   No internet....no FBB mags. Ironman and my trainer were my plumb-lines.  There was no "standard" for women then really.   Time passed...I won every contest I entered in Hawaii and came in 7th twice in the nationals and won my weight class at the Golds Classic...retired.    My only contact with other women  bodybuilders was Pillow...by mail !   I trained alone all that time in a backyard gym that my trainer and my husband made by hand.    I retired and remained out of the loop. ( keep in mind ...all the time I was winning those Hawaii contests Paula Suzuki was training just on the other side of the island and being trained to be one of the very best the sport of FBB has ever seen.....I never met her in person !)   As time passed nothing changed...I never really got very much interested in the finer nuances of contests .  To tell you the truth I never really scrutinized my score cards after a contest.  I remained in my own little world....and pretty much still today.   

I was a naturally muscular gal ( a bit older than the rest...mid 30's) trained by a very talented guy who was one of Bill Starr's buddies.  I received excellent training advice from the start ( considering what was known at the time). That said...we made our mistakes having accomplished what we did in a vacuum.   I missed the weigh-in for my first national contest and competed in the middleweight class when I was a lightweight.  ( I was busy doing chin-ups on the plumbing pipes in the fire escape stair-well of Caesar's palace with my trainer)  I doubt any of that would happen today.......( laughing)

At 70 1/2 years old I am very thankful for what I learned from my trainer regarding the lifting arts because it's part of my life now and I believe I can easily say I owe much of my physical ability today to what I learned and now practice.  That is my life as a FBB.   Totally absorbed in it...yet as always, out of the loop.   

                                                                                                                  Alison
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/540/SDIDy7.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/f0SDIDy7p)   
 (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/28/bbpublicity041.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0sbbpublicity041j)I'm the far right.  I competed as a middleweight, but was a lightweight.  Huge error ! Carla won as I recall
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: achilleus on September 24, 2015, 02:28:46 pm
Good old times, it seems like a surreal movie at some point. I think you all had lots of pride and curiousity in your eyes on stage, the young athletes take everything for granted, not much gratitude anymore. Guess I have to buy pumping iron 2 to recall the spirit of the 80s in female bodybuilding.

When you browse through Saradas, and you see miliions of pictures floating around, what are your feelings? What do you think of todays womens bodybuilding as compared to your active days?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 24, 2015, 08:22:42 pm
Good old times, it seems like a surreal movie at some point. I think you all had lots of pride and curiousity in your eyes on stage, the young athletes take everything for granted, not much gratitude anymore. Guess I have to buy pumping iron 2 to recall the spirit of the 80s in female bodybuilding.

When you browse through Saradas, and you see miliions of pictures floating around, what are your feelings? What do you think of todays womens bodybuilding as compared to your active days?

Well I found Sar a das quite by accident.  I was surprised to find a thread dedicated to me and some of the photos that Bill Jentz took so long ago for Womens Strength & Physique.  I hadn't looked seriously at a FBB mag or on-line for that matter in over 25 years.  Ok so it was sort of like waking from a nightmare.  I had to ask one of the fellows here what "sessions" meant ( laughing...but serious).  Ok so it was pretty obvious that steroids had become the breakfast of champions and as well the fellows we called muscle-lusters were now in full force and so encouraging women to make muscle and money while doing it.  It was what seemed to me to be some symbiotic perversion of sorts...like a fungus on a dead log out in the woods somewhere.  I decided to be honest, share my story here and possibly put in my 2 cents for life without steroids.  ( ok my threads seemed popular but the stand against steroids not so much...they seem to think I'm crazy on that issue....yes, and old...laughing)    Well I've made some nice friends here and they have been very kind to me.  Very encouraging.  It gives me the same joy for lifting i had when I first began.   Soooo it's all good.   Keep in mind I left the building before computers were common.   It's not been but in the last 7 years I've been on-line.  So it was a pretty amazing thing to me to see how far the girls have come...good and bad. 

Here...apart from the 80's lovers...it seems the bigger the better.  Form and the art of expression of a gifted form not so much.  I'm talking about the few gifted gals who were born with an amazing frame and muscle bodies that drape it like an exquisite Christmas tree ornament.   The advent of artificial breasts on the female physique so common now I feel has damaged what should appear to be a perfect body.  Ladies in lean form at peak generally do not have large breasts.  So to my eye it looks like graffiti on the Taj Majal .   It looks like it does not belong and makes ugly a work of art.   But that's just me.

So that's my take on things in the FBB world.   It is what it is.   

Alison
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: achilleus on September 24, 2015, 09:43:06 pm
Ok the graffiti on taj mahal made me laugh !

I remember one article with Lenda Murray, where she spoke out about her move from cheerleader to bodybuilder. I remember her saying hat she never had something for bodybuilding, but a coach in the gym saw the potential in her. She accepted the fact that she has the genetics of a champion and was grateful enough to turn this into victory.

There is lots of talking that the right spirit makes a champion, but I more trust in Lenda Murrays word: some women just "have it". If the genetcis are not there, neither believe in yourself nor steroids will make a champion out of you.

How was it back then when you mingled with ordinary people? I mean, female bodybuilding just did not exist before, so I imagine poeple were some sort of confused. I mean .. these days everybody knows female bodybuilding and has some stupid comment at hand any time. I imagine people were speechless at the sight of womens muscles back then. Well ... I was  ;D
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 24, 2015, 10:10:36 pm
I lived on the North Shore of Hawaii in a small town that was the surfers mecca.  It was a town of athletes.  Being one...you sort of blended in.  I was a nurse who worked at night in a teeny little country hospital.  The cops were my fans.  They'd visit the ER at night and tell me where the latest stop sign post was bent over so we could collect it  the next day for my gym construction.  They invited me to train in their station.  Hawaiians are big on having a local champ...so I was sort of a small town hero.  That said I'd be running up a steep hill training my ass off literally and I'd get some idiot lean half way out of the car and yell: "How does it feel to be a freak?".....so not everybody was a FBB fan.   Out surfing I'd get respect that normally a female surfer didn't in a pretty chauvinistic sport at that time.  Getting a wave or two extra in a very competitive surf environment was a definite plus.  Surfing was always my first joy.

It was an exciting adventure.  To me anything was possible.  There was this "dream".   It was all good.  Great memories !

Alison
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 25, 2015, 02:44:13 pm
.....and of course because I appeared unusually muscular for the time in history most thought I used steroids.  I'd get questions from parents of teens who played football on the local highshcool teams asking me which steroid was the best for their boy.   It gave me a platform to teach them that a healthy lifestyle and proper training were the techniques I used.  They all seemed dumbfounded that it was possible.  I don't think a lot of them believed me.
Alison
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on September 25, 2015, 04:01:23 pm
You looked like a statue here.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 25, 2015, 04:02:58 pm
Frozen in time !
thanks Moveeguy !  My trainer and best friend ...and photographer was good at all of it.  ( thanks Steve...you made me look like a statue )
A
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: steved6464 on September 25, 2015, 07:01:04 pm
Alison: She never had a choice

Everyone has life thrust upon them, arriving in the world with a mixed bag of advantages and disadvantages, not always in the proportions they would choose. 
Alison, at a very young age, became conscious; some may say self conscious, that she was in a category of her very own.  She was endowed with a propensity for muscularity, not a feature that most girls of that era would have chosen.  It’s possible that Alison may not have chosen it either, but then, she never had a choice.
Keep in mind that this was in the early 50’s; women’s bodybuilding was decades in the future, and even men’s bodybuilding was in its early stages. 
Fast-forward to the late 70’s, and at an age when many bodybuilders, women in particular, would be hanging it up, Alison and I crossed paths for the first time, when she and Bill came to get a lifting belt. Call it kismet.
She found herself in the process of being convinced, by a total stranger no less, that within a period of months, she would be standing onstage in a bikini, subjecting herself to the scrutiny of a bodybuilding audience, while competing for the title of Miss Hawaii physique. To say that there was a touch of apprehension on her part, when this subject was broached, would be an understatement.  I think her first reaction was to say, “I just came to buy a belt” or was it, “Bill, go start the car”.  Once we got past that little hurdle, it was “game on”.
All of her preparation was a process of converting individual muscle group contraction using weights, to multiple muscle group contraction with no weight resistance, all the while transitioning from one perfectly artistic position to another, and looking comfortable while doing it.  Sounds easy, doesn’t it?  As Bill was fond of saying, “It was all smoke and mirrors”.  Amazing how some clichés are perfectly appropriate.
It became the focus of all our training that Alison’s stage presentation would be our primary objective.  “It Just Doesn’t Matter” was the slogan that drove her training, but we put that on the back burner on contest night.
The rest, as they say, is history, as it became apparent from the initial lineup that the contest was, in fact, no contest.  Alison happened. Instead of a competition, it was more like her coronation.  Sort of like a debutante ball, minus the gowns.  Maybe a little oilier too, but then I’ve never been to a debutante ball…yet.
The months of preparation were intensive, but a distant memory at that moment.  Her devotion to the details made my job easier, as I had just tried to relieve her of the need to experiment.  The final product was a presentation that would have justified her being a guest poser in her first time on stage, this according to Bill Nelson, Hawaii NPC Chairman at the time.
I am proud to have been part of this quantum leap forward in Alison’s life, where her potential began to bloom into her legacy. I wish her fans on this forum could have seen her at her peak.  Alison’s abbreviated career is a matter of record, but suffice to say, she deserved her spot on stage as one of the best of the best. 
My feeling is, at her current age, with 3 months of preparation, that she would be highly competitive in an “over 50” women’s competition.  OK, we’ll give her 4 months. They have them for men, I say, why not?   Alison may have to be cajoled, or dragged, kicking and screaming into doing it, but in the end, would she really have a choice?

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: achilleus on September 25, 2015, 09:49:19 pm
I am very much in favor for Alision on stage in the over 50s category  ;) Plus pictures and interviews and all that ... 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 25, 2015, 10:02:40 pm
I am very much in favor for Alision on stage in the over 50s category  ;) Plus pictures and interviews and all that ...

No...the over 70's category.  That's my only ounce of hope now that I'm 70 1/2 !  (laughing)
There was a man in the over 70 men's category...like the mega ultra grand masters or something.  He was the only one in his class....he won ( still laughing).  This guy has been in competition since Adam and Eve first flexed.  He said: "I knew if I kept at it someday I would win and go pro"  Ok...finally he became a professional.  He outlived all his competitors.   

Yes !
Alison
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Hey, I can still mow a lawn without a gardener !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 27, 2015, 04:04:35 pm
Thanks Steve !...we had fun that's for sure.  I got a ton more than the lifting belt I was looking for.
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A
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 27, 2015, 05:18:19 pm
I went back though the old posts and attempted to fix, change or eliminate some of my copy mistakes....(many I posted in my early attempts were mega Godzilla sized or they dropped).
Some day I'll have to get my lazy ass into the storage room and scan more pics I have.  Moveeguy has been at me forever to do it.  I'm just lazy...sorry
Alison
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 27, 2015, 06:01:12 pm
                                                             
                                                                             
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                                                                                     ECLIPSE tonight ! Don't forget to watch it..............
                                                                                                                 Alison                                       
                             

                                                                              (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/537/pIiUPF.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/expIiUPFp)
    ( In this picture I was imagining a big combo pizza with a milkshake.  Only thing on the menu was 3 cans of tuna a day..and you can see why ! ...laughing)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 27, 2015, 07:20:24 pm

DON'T FORGET TO WATCH THE ECLIPSE TONIGHT !!!!
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alison: She never had a choice

Everyone has life thrust upon them, arriving in the world with a mixed bag of advantages and disadvantages, not always in the proportions they would choose. 
Alison, at a very young age, became conscious; some may say self conscious, that she was in a category of her very own.  She was endowed with a propensity for muscularity, not a feature that most girls of that era would have chosen.  It’s possible that Alison may not have chosen it either, but then, she never had a choice.
Keep in mind that this was in the early 50’s; women’s bodybuilding was decades in the future, and even men’s bodybuilding was in its early stages. 
Fast-forward to the late 70’s, and at an age when many bodybuilders, women in particular, would be hanging it up, Alison and I crossed paths for the first time, when she and Bill came to get a lifting belt. Call it kismet.
She found herself in the process of being convinced, by a total stranger no less, that within a period of months, she would be standing onstage in a bikini, subjecting herself to the scrutiny of a bodybuilding audience, while competing for the title of Miss Hawaii physique. To say that there was a touch of apprehension on her part, when this subject was broached, would be an understatement.  I think her first reaction was to say, “I just came to buy a belt” or was it, “Bill, go start the car”.  Once we got past that little hurdle, it was “game on”.
All of her preparation was a process of converting individual muscle group contraction using weights, to multiple muscle group contraction with no weight resistance, all the while transitioning from one perfectly artistic position to another, and looking comfortable while doing it.  Sounds easy, doesn’t it?  As Bill was fond of saying, “It was all smoke and mirrors”.  Amazing how some clichés are perfectly appropriate.
It became the focus of all our training that Alison’s stage presentation would be our primary objective.  “It Just Doesn’t Matter” was the slogan that drove her training, but we put that on the back burner on contest night.
The rest, as they say, is history, as it became apparent from the initial lineup that the contest was, in fact, no contest.  Alison happened. Instead of a competition, it was more like her coronation.  Sort of like a debutante ball, minus the gowns.  Maybe a little oilier too, but then I’ve never been to a debutante ball…yet.
The months of preparation were intensive, but a distant memory at that moment.  Her devotion to the details made my job easier, as I had just tried to relieve her of the need to experiment.  The final product was a presentation that would have justified her being a guest poser in her first time on stage, this according to Bill Nelson, Hawaii NPC Chairman at the time.
I am proud to have been part of this quantum leap forward in Alison’s life, where her potential began to bloom into her legacy. I wish her fans on this forum could have seen her at her peak.  Alison’s abbreviated career is a matter of record, but suffice to say, she deserved her spot on stage as one of the best of the best. 
My feeling is, at her current age, with 3 months of preparation, that she would be highly competitive in an “over 50” women’s competition.  OK, we’ll give her 4 months. They have them for men, I say, why not?   Alison may have to be cajoled, or dragged, kicking and screaming into doing it, but in the end, would she really have a choice?
Yes......I was NOT a happy camper as a teen walking around looking like the hulk.
This is a pre-lifting, just me "normal" pic
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/197/6d3.JPG) (https://imageshack.com/i/5h6d3J)Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: steved6464 on September 29, 2015, 03:56:21 pm
Landscaping with a machete.  Don't forget to switch arms now and then.  Alison is the only girl who was ever my friend, even though I had my share of girlfriends.    :hey:  I think the laughter was her best ab exercise. We certainly did plenty of that.  If she got grumpy, she had Bill.  If I needed grief, I could get it from my girlfriend.  I am thankful that after 30+ years of meandering, that I was able to make contact with good friends who i thought might be just a memory.  I had a new article published on Starting Strength, Bill Starr: A Legend Walked  Among Us.  Maybe you can find it. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 29, 2015, 05:19:48 pm
Backatcha Steve ,
Cool Steve I'll look for the article.
BTW the eclipse here in Panama was covered with about as many clouds as I was in fat in the foto below.  Just a hint visible now and then. Pitty...try figure.
On friendship.....what Steve meant  was we enjoyed the hell out of each other without ever having a "relationship" if you know what I mean.   Muscle lusting minus the lust.....(Laughing........)
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: jdm022 on September 29, 2015, 05:25:52 pm
Great pic Alison!!!


  (http://img217.imagevenue.com/loc738/th_547216634_Alison_122_738lo.jpg) (http://img217.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=547216634_Alison_122_738lo.jpg)
     
Funny that you hated being "The Hulk";  I dated several girls in high school and college who were also naturally muscular, and every one of them at some point, also commented negatively on their own "larger than normal muscularity."  Of course I complimented them highly on it and encouraged them greatly.  Hell...that was precisely why I found them so attractive.

Quick note: Alison, you have probably encountered the same thing, but one of my college girlfriends' legs were so muscular, especially her calves, that even just standing in line at the store she would get compliments from women and was constantly asked for exercise advice...she was definitely complimented 10 times more than the opposite...which I thought was very cool :cool2: 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 29, 2015, 07:33:35 pm
Image Shack GONE !!!!!!    All the Image Shack photos are gone and as well, I get a 404...site not found error when i try to log in or open the site.
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: steved6464 on September 29, 2015, 10:55:03 pm
Alison,
Moveeguy asked several pages back about Harold Sakata. He was training at the Nuuanu Y when I was there with Tommy Kono.  He was Oddjob in the James Bond film.  He was the guy who threw his derby like a frisbee. I believe he wrestled under the name of Toshtogo.  He was a super nice guy, in the background of many of my lifting shots.  He died at the age of 52.  He was an Olympic lifter and, I believe, competed in the '52 Olympics.  I laughed when I saw the muscle lust comment.  When you call, i will arrange to send you articles that won't be published.  Maybe good for a laugh
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Timmon on September 30, 2015, 07:52:07 am
Image Shack GONE !!!!!!    All the Image Shack photos are gone and as well, I get a 404...site not found error when i try to log in or open the site.
Alison

Yes, According to a post on Twitter 18 hours ago, it may be 72 hours before full service is resumed, so don't delete anything!
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 30, 2015, 12:50:18 pm
Timmon.....whew...signs of life at Image Shack today!   Still can't log in to my account however........................yup on backup of the backed up backups.   Meanwhile I still have stacks of molding fotos in the closet which Moveeguy would so love to see out of the closet.  Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 30, 2015, 01:02:29 pm
http://startingstrength.com/site/article/bill_starr_a_legend_walked_among_us#.Vgva5Jcxb3U (http://startingstrength.com/site/article/bill_starr_a_legend_walked_among_us#.Vgva5Jcxb3U)

Steve's article on Bill Starr.....a good read !   It was MY good fortune to benefit from what Steve learned directly from his years with Bill Starr.  I never met Bill Starr ( smile) That's just how many folks that wrote testimonies to the man began their eulogies of him as Steve mentioned in his own article ....BUT through Steve, benefited from what he taught.  Bill Starr was a legend that walked among us .....
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 30, 2015, 09:25:46 pm
Oh wow...found this and bumped it up.  Brain surgery early 90's.   I had taken just for fun after the surgery.  My mom carried it in her wallet.  She'd whip it out to show her friends what her daughter looks like.  Great.....my mom was a kick....(picture my eyes rolling)                                   ....................ALISON

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on October 01, 2015, 12:59:16 am
Glad to see Alison's old trainer visit and confirm what we all thought. Alison is as good as they come. She did it the old school way...which is much better for long term health.

We used to train like that in school...prior to high school when weights slowly began to come into training....but mainly b/c I played football. The weight room was rarely hit hard by any team other than the football team in those days. I went back to my old high school a decade back and the weight room was so much better than in the 80's....we had a few free weights a universal and one bench. Pushups and weights you had at home were the rule when I was hitting my teens.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 02, 2015, 01:39:22 pm
Oct 2 2015   Image Shack BACK.  Slow .  Most of the photos are there...some are not.  Lets hope it gets fully restored, as they work on it.
Oct 9 2015   Image Shack has a number of dropped photos.  More problems methinks
Nov 2015  Image Shack restored 95% of client photos, the rest being lost.  They have discontinued FREE service.  Only paid members can now use the service
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 08, 2015, 06:18:17 pm
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Just got back from another fantastic 5 days of surf !  Life is good
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: steved6464 on November 06, 2015, 06:59:48 pm
Alison and Bill,
    Just on a computer and letting you know I'm still out there.  People say that about me a lot, like, "wow, you're really out there".  I had another memory for you.  Remember when Ginny Hontz trained with us at Deltoid House.  She was the January 1959 Playboy Playmate of the month.  I laughed when I read the part about coconut oil mixed with iodine for tanning.  That stuff would be a good substitute for Mace.  I hope you're training, or at least thinking about it. 
            Steve
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on November 06, 2015, 08:24:18 pm
Alison and Bill,
    Just on a computer and letting you know I'm still out there.  People say that about me a lot, like, "wow, you're really out there".  I had another memory for you.  Remember when Ginny Hontz trained with us at Deltoid House.  She was the January 1959 Playboy Playmate of the month.  I laughed when I read the part about coconut oil mixed with iodine for tanning.  That stuff would be a good substitute for Mace.  I hope you're training, or at least thinking about it. 
            Steve
I do hope you have photos of that because I don't remember her.   I was most likely "out there" at the time.   Yah...we had a dog show up and now is "our dog"...so now I am running the dog with my bike...doing curls...surfing...that's about it for this 70 yr old ex- FBB.
I'll call you......plan time
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: steved6464 on November 19, 2015, 04:26:38 pm
 :angry: Never used an unhappy face before, but this one seemed appropriate.  A dog is a good training partner.  Any time you call will be OK, as long as I'm home.  Im doing curls now and then too, I like sets of 5 reps.  Activity on your site seems to be at a lull.  Tell Bill hi.    Steve
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on November 19, 2015, 11:21:01 pm
Hope life is going well for you Alison. I'm learning new things about the body almost daily. Amazing machine....the human body. I'm glad you found your old trainer.  The net has some value in finding old friends.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: steved6464 on January 22, 2016, 07:37:21 pm
Alison and Bill,
    Got a rare opportunity on a computer today sending out a quick note.  Give me a call when you can.  Remember the sissy squat benchwe "invented"
    Steve
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 22, 2016, 07:53:37 pm
Alison and Bill,
    Got a rare opportunity on a computer today sending out a quick note.  Give me a call when you can.  Remember the sissy squat benchwe "invented"
    Steve
(http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac349/brundagebaABLeever/BODYBUILDING%20ALISON/c6074e07-75d0-4366-ae00-f456dbb814fe.jpg) (http://s914.photobucket.com/user/brundagebaABLeever/media/BODYBUILDING%20ALISON/c6074e07-75d0-4366-ae00-f456dbb814fe.jpg.html)

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Steve,
I don't have many of our old Deltoid House gym shots...practically none.  Here's one, along with a pic of the very first contest for women in Hawaii in the high heels era.   I wrote you a private message with my email addy.

I'll give a call Steve.  Looks like it's gonna get a bit nippier there for ya !  Almost 100 here out in the sun.
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on January 23, 2016, 08:58:27 pm
Guess my comment was erased or did not make it. Well Alison I was wondering what the status is on getting hold of those pix from days of old I was inquiring about.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 23, 2016, 09:23:18 pm
(http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac349/brundagebaABLeever/BODYBUILDING%20ALISON/Bodybuilding%20Publicity/BBPublicity037_zpsc0719cf7.jpg) (http://s914.photobucket.com/user/brundagebaABLeever/media/BODYBUILDING%20ALISON/Bodybuilding%20Publicity/BBPublicity037_zpsc0719cf7.jpg.html)

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Doubles competition.  Muscle and Fitness Mag.  That's my trainer Steve Dussia and I upper left.  Cory and Jeff won.
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Surfer Magazine. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 24, 2016, 08:00:56 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on January 25, 2016, 01:50:24 am
I think I couple of those pics if I am not mistaken are from the 1983 American. If I may ask, how tall are you in relation  to Pillow when you competed and posed down with at the Gold's Classic?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 25, 2016, 01:45:09 pm
As I recall, I think pillow was a tad taller than me.   Only a few pics. (  I had gone to the contest by myself.)  My friend Lori Okami's family I think took this one.(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/843/bbodybuilding150.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/nfbbodybuilding150j)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on January 25, 2016, 05:07:26 pm
Well I hope that question about your height didn't hot a nerve. Sorry if it did. I recall reading an article in Flex (January 1984) where the author of it noted that though Pillow was the overwhelming favorite in the judges' eyes you showed up more than prepared on that day. And Okami was a very muscular lightweight.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: phy911 on February 06, 2016, 10:31:58 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/s1XEZmr.jpg)
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Color correction and some minor repairs/touch ups.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 07, 2016, 02:34:19 pm
Ahhhh to be young again !   Thanks The Street fighter...very nice.

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Alison 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on February 08, 2016, 05:04:24 am
How did you manage to get through a posing routine early on with the smell of the iodine and baby oil probably being unwelcoming to your sense of smell?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 08, 2016, 02:47:18 pm
How did you manage to get through a posing routine early on with the smell of the iodine and baby oil probably being unwelcoming to your sense of smell?
Stung the eyes that's for sure.   On top of that we took these pills to make you tan   I forget what they were called...but you got sorta orange from them.    Then there was laying down on the asphalt between the cars in the parking lot to get tan.  Amazing I survived !

We didn't have a lot of money....   We made a gym out of found objects.   BUT life in Hawaii back then was fun...and we made to most out of every moment !

(http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac349/brundagebaABLeever/Hawaii/PICT0255_zpsd39e529e.jpg) (http://s914.photobucket.com/user/brundagebaABLeever/media/Hawaii/PICT0255_zpsd39e529e.jpg.html)

This was an abandoned car on the side of the road.   Just a fun photo-op.  Thank God I didn't get bed bugs.   Crazy stuff !!!!
Alison
OK........it was Canthaxanthin pills we took:
How does Canthaxanthin work? Canthaxanthin is a dye similar to the carotenes in vegetables such as carrots. It deposits in the skin to produce an artificial "tan." It might protect against sun sensitivity through antioxidant activity.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on February 08, 2016, 11:35:20 pm
How did you manage to get through a posing routine early on with the smell of the iodine and baby oil probably being unwelcoming to your sense of smell?
Stung the eyes that's for sure.   On top of that we took these pills to make you tan   I forget what they were called...but you got sorta orange from them.    Then there was laying down on the asphalt between the cars in the parking lot to get tan.  Amazing I survived !

We didn't have a lot of money....   We made a gym out of found objects.   BUT life in Hawaii back then was fun...and we made to most out of every moment !

(http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac349/brundagebaABLeever/Hawaii/PICT0255_zpsd39e529e.jpg) (http://s914.photobucket.com/user/brundagebaABLeever/media/Hawaii/PICT0255_zpsd39e529e.jpg.html)

This was an abandoned car on the side of the road.   Just a fun photo-op.  Thank God I didn't get bed bugs.   Crazy stuff !!!!
Alison
OK........it was Canthaxanthin pills we took:
How does Canthaxanthin work? Canthaxanthin is a dye similar to the carotenes in vegetables such as carrots. It deposits in the skin to produce an artificial "tan." It might protect against sun sensitivity through antioxidant activity.

Cool picture Alison. That station wagon looks loaded with lord knows what. Thanks for sharing that one. :thanks:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 08, 2016, 11:46:41 pm
Hey Zig
Been thinking about you.......survived the snow ?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on February 09, 2016, 12:43:32 am
Doing great Alison. Been thinking of you as well. I hope you and Bill are well and enjoy 2016. The shoulder issue is still there, but everything else is great health wise and otherwise. The winter has been kind of tame here. One 14 inch snow and a few small ones, but one of the warmest winteres I can recall. Record in December and ....swear on my grave truth that after Christmas (broke the previous NYC area (back before 1900) records for the month by almost 7 degrees) the grass was green a patches and even growing a little. That has never ever happened near that time of year. November was also a record warm...and December was above the normal November.....no snow and days in 60's several times in December. January was normal and Feb seems headed that way....but no long winter this year. The shoveling got my shoulder tho......not sure if it is fading.....or I was lazy on technique.....probably both. I'm always trying to build it back tho.

Thanks for the response. Hope all is well and enjoy that nice lifestyle you have going. It sounds like a fun place. We had surfers up here on Christmas this year....was mid 60's and people were out in shorts and on the news for stuff like that. Surf is never great here, but the guys said the water was quite tolerable.....not that there were a ton, but a few who made the news of course when they show up at the beach on Christmas and people are actually using it. Only surfers.....polar bear guys did not even make the news this year....water wasn't cold enough. That is a New Years Day Event up here and this year was not covered.....water temp was 11 degrees above normal.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 10, 2016, 03:36:09 pm
Zig...
We've been shopping for a second home in the upper mid Florida area....around Silver Springs.   That's a beautiful area of the country.   Huge Oak ,Pine and Hickory trees...Spanish moss, clear rivers and springs for canoeing and fishing.   My husband grew up in Florida and i went to college there.  We've been re-thinking staying in the Rep of Panama forever.   These pictures were taken when we were camping in that same area of Florida when we first got married.  We had some real good times there and most likely if we got a second home there we'd once again explore the rivers and enjoy more camping there.


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(oh wow...I just noticed that pot. I'm still using it!  Revere Ware...great stuff.  That pot is probably 50 years old )

Surf here has been grim.  Going nuts waiting for the season change.  It's dry as a bone...no rain and windy as hell right now here.   Been doing a lot of bike riding...which to me gets a bit boring.    The shoulder thing is a drag for you.  Lots of surfers my age stop because of chronic over use.  Fortunately I can still enjoy big wave excitement with my wave ski.
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Stay in touch !
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on February 11, 2016, 03:04:35 am
Sounds great Alison! No state tax there which is a reason many live there and up here too. 6 months and a day + there works. That looks like a great area.....know it a little bit. Fun. Best of luck and keep me informed. That would be cool to have a 2nd home and fun area.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 12, 2016, 03:23:04 pm
Meanwhile...there are lumps on the Pacific horizon and we will be off for another week to test ourselves in the waves here in the Rep of Panama once again.   There's an enormous advantage to keeping young if you stay moving along with young people in a sport.  Once you concede to life among the grey haired folks ....yeiks, I shudder to think about it !    Anyway, it will be good to be back in the water again after several months of Pacific flat conditions.

I'll let you know how it goes......

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on February 13, 2016, 12:12:35 am
I tell myself that too. I see people who sit around and generally they do not get back up to full activity even in 50's and 60's. You need to keep the body and mind active. The connection is amazing between healthy activity and all sorts of good things. I could not agree more. The alternative is talking about how old you are....which so many people do. They are in their own heads that you can't do things at a certain age b/c the lady your age or man your age said so.

I am glad you have it right.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 13, 2016, 12:21:41 am
  Yah...I have neighbors that whine about how much they pay their gardener.  They're 50 lb or more overweight and their only exercise is taking the garbage out.....and, they're at least 10 years younger than me.    A little yard work gets the heart pumpin.......why hire a maid when you can sweep mop and dust yourself.   Movement for heavens sake !   

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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on February 13, 2016, 01:13:58 am
Aliison. Have you heard from Pillow lately?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 13, 2016, 03:35:49 pm
Aliison. Have you heard from Pillow lately?
I was just thinking about her...   No I havn't.  I'll have to send her another letter.
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on February 13, 2016, 03:41:35 pm
Gather a number of those magazines and pics of yours are still in storage.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 14, 2016, 03:10:02 pm
Gather a number of those magazines and pics of yours are still in storage.
Boy am I lazy.......
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on February 14, 2016, 07:27:58 pm
  Yah...I have neighbors that whine about how much they pay their gardener.  They're 50 lb or more overweight and their only exercise is taking the garbage out.....and, they're at least 10 years younger than me.    A little yard work gets the heart pumpin.......why hire a maid when you can sweep mop and dust yourself.   Movement for heavens sake !   

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/280x200q90/7/jvlt.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/07jvltj)

Preach on Alison! I'm in an area that is supposed to be well off and I still see people my age or younger....or say 50's even....moving like they are 75. Low awareness levels that it is not healthy.....but there are some women you'd love.....very fit in their 60's and 70's still moving well and healthy. One is a lifelong tennis pro and still plays great at 68.....no bum shoulder like me....her serve is not a huge one, but she's a very solid player....one of the best women in US in her age group. She moves like a cat and is solidly built. One of the only people of any age who walks even faster than me. I usually have people dodging out of my way in stores.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: steved6464 on May 09, 2016, 05:09:54 pm
 :angry:  ALISON, Trying out my new laptop.  I finally made the leap to the 21st century.  I was looking at a character called Hot Curl the surfers idol, reminds me of Bill in his youth.  I put together a sissy squat machine, remember that thing that annihilates your thighs with no strain on the spine.  I laughed about the part where we mixed coconut oil and iodine, back in the days when spray tanning didn't exist.  Or we used Tanfastic or some cream that turned you orange.  Remember Sam Boyd's California hotel in Vegas.  No pool and no sundeck, so we flattened out some boxes that bums slept in, and tanned in a dirt parking lot, thought better of it and moved to Caeser's Palace.  Maybe bums isn't politically correct, more like Panhandling Americans. 
Steve

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 09, 2016, 05:56:21 pm
:angry: ALISON, Trying out my new laptop.  I finally made the leap to the 21st century.  I was looking at a character called Hot Curl the surfers idol, reminds me of Bill in his youth.  I put together a sissy squat machine, remember that thing that annihilates your thighs with no strain on the spine.  I laughed about the part where we mixed coconut oil and iodine, back in the days when spray tanning didn't exist.  Or we used Tanfastic or some cream that turned you orange.  Remember Sam Boyd's California hotel in Vegas.  No pool and no sundeck, so we flattened out some boxes that bums slept in, and tanned in a dirt parking lot, thought better of it and moved to Caeser's Palace.  Maybe bums isn't politically correct, more like Panhandling Americans. 
Steve
Well welcome to the 21st century !   A computer...wow. 
Bill and I have bit the bullet and now go to a free weight gym daily.  We joined last month.  I haven't had a gym membership since the PowerPit days back before time began!   Into a sort of 3 and 1 diet....with canned chicken and limited carbs .  ( If I can blast some fat I'll probably look better than when I first started cranking iron )  So far so good....haven't dropped dead on the stair climber so it's all good.  Certain joints are shot....right hip now metal, left knee blown but operational and pain free, left shoulder semi frozen.   Working around all these war injuries. 

Some friends a bit younger than me but still in their 70's sailed their own sailboat around the world and landed here in Panama. Here I am with them just a month or so ago
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( off to pan for some gold.......with my dog's help)
Still some muscle left !   
I'll send you my email by private message.
Good to hear from you........
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: beowulff on May 09, 2016, 10:26:17 pm
Nice biceps!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 15, 2016, 09:49:28 pm
Nice biceps!
Thanks
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Just hangin in....
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on May 17, 2016, 09:38:18 pm
Nice Alison. You look pretty darn fit and healthy! Hope the Florida scene works out well for you and Bill! :rock:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 20, 2016, 05:08:40 pm
Nice Alison. You look pretty darn fit and healthy! Hope the Florida scene works out well for you and Bill! :rock:
Hey Zig...  Eh, we're just window shopping around the Ocala, Silver Springs area of Florida.   Great prices there...beautiful area of the country.   Lots of clear springs, rivers, horse ranches etc.   Could be fun if we ever quite surfing here in Panama.   So far surf's still happening here for us.

Now hitting the gym daily which is a new thing for us being back yard lifters.  Much easier in a gym I tell ya !  We're usually the only ones there which is totally cool!  ( well not really ...it's sorta hot and humid actually ...;-)  )
Alison
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( old 80's pic...can't lie)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on May 21, 2016, 12:49:48 am
Nice Alison. Surf on! The gyms have some pretty nice equipment these days that are very body part specific. A non crowded gym is awesome!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 27, 2016, 08:12:06 pm
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My surf session last week.  71 yr old and I'm still movin' ...thank God
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on June 29, 2016, 05:21:21 pm
Great Alison! :bravo: That is 71 years young!

I will shoot you in e-mail sometime soon. I have been making tremendous breakthroughs in my personal fitness and strength. I found a combination that has me feeling ten years younger and you might find some of it interesting or new.  It is working great for me.  You look excellent. I'll catch up with you soon. Enjoy the surf and I hope you and your hubby are both doing great.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on June 29, 2016, 06:39:56 pm
Zig
I've been on a ketogenic diet now  on and off for a month or so.   Once I get past the white knuckle stage I always feel better.   We're enjoying the gym. Interesting...here what I see are naturals that generally don't push the weight.  Oh there's a few guys that enjoy dropping heavy dumb bells to get your attention...but generally the energy level is low on average in that gym.  The gals spend a lot of time taking selfies and playing their phones with their thumbs...the guys just stand around , laughing and shootin the shit.   Bill and I do a rapid pace bunch of sets til we are close to passing out....and leave...usually in an hour.

I'm hoping that with the consistent weight lifting now along with the diet I can encourage some increased energy output in that gym !...LOL  Sooner or later some muscles have to start to appear here and there on my bod...or so I hope.
A
I look forward to your email
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on July 01, 2016, 08:57:12 pm
That kind of deit definitely works. Lets hope you and Bill spread some energy into that gym. I'll shoot you soon and see if anything I have learned and played with myself would be of interest. I'm glad you are both doing well!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 01, 2016, 10:08:42 pm
The real deal gym's blowing my mind.  I've been a backyard lifter pretty much from the start once I began the contest thing.  Amazing what can be accomplished in a hour in a full gym !   I feel spoiled now.   A retirement treat fer sure.  Do write and share your progress.
A
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/32/bbodybuilding063.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0wbbodybuilding063j)
That was my calf machine over there on the left
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on July 02, 2016, 07:21:59 pm
Will do Alison. The backyard stuff is doable, but the technology is nice too. It helps someone like me with some joint issues keep myself from crushing my back or shoulders and isolating muscles.

You look great. Very lean and I see muscles showing as you lean out. It is harder to get the muscles to show as we age without the leaning out. Even younger people....the leaner....more you see the muscle. The lack of fat helps clean the organs out a bit too and allow them to re-generate!

Have a great 4th! I'll shoot you this month. I have a feeling I may violate a few of my new lifestyle habits this weekend at bbqs. I've been saying no, but once in a while... No grass fed meat at these bbqs!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 09, 2016, 11:58:15 pm
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Alison and Steve Dussia my best friend and trainer who taught me all I know about bodybuilding
1981  (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/538/uY5MwT.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/eyuY5MwTp)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 10, 2016, 12:03:56 am
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1981
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 10, 2016, 12:07:36 am
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ALISON
September 2016
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on October 10, 2016, 08:06:51 pm
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ALISON
September 2016

Great pictures Alison! :clap:

You look to be handling those tall looking waves with ease. You look very fit. Hope all is well!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 10, 2016, 09:30:39 pm
Well Zig.....I stay moving.   I'm trying to unlock a partially frozen left shoulder using trigger point therapy on myself with some limited success.  ( remember that tool and book I told you about?)   Every time I push upper body workouts I seem to tweak my shoulder/scapula a bit.  No doubt there is some tear in the rotator cuff ....not uncommon at my age.   I am able to push the wave ski action without difficulty because all the force  is low ( not above my head) .   Drag getting old...but it is what it is what can I say?   I just do what I can....stop if it hurts and try to evaluate how I can make what's hurt better.   Anyway...good to hear from you.   Stay in touch.
ALISON
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on October 11, 2016, 08:42:35 pm
Well Zig.....I stay moving.   I'm trying to unlock a partially frozen left shoulder using trigger point therapy on myself with some limited success.  ( remember that tool and book I told you about?)   Every time I push upper body workouts I seem to tweak my shoulder/scapula a bit.  No doubt there is some tear in the rotator cuff ....not uncommon at my age.   I am able to push the wave ski action without difficulty because all the force  is low ( not above my head) .   Drag getting old...but it is what it is what can I say?   I just do what I can....stop if it hurts and try to evaluate how I can make what's hurt better.   Anyway...good to hear from you.   Stay in touch.
ALISON
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I have the same type shoulder issues as you know Alison. Maybe even worse and yes you must keep moving that area in particular. After a big surgery on one of mine they had me doing rehab at home within days just to keep the scar tissue from building and it freezing up. I have tried the trigger points and continue with it...some success...some of the points are hard to get at which is where the tools come in...or even balls.

I'll write you soon with some other interesting things I've learned and that have been effective with stretches, movements, and light weights being used to strengthen the labrum as many of us (me too) have overused certain  parts of the shoulder and not worked the back as much. The pain in front is often from not working in the back and poor posture or leaning the shoulders forward.

You look great. Talk to you soon and hope all is well! :rock:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 11, 2016, 09:07:28 pm
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Got both at Amazon.com.  DMSO and strong menthol massage of the trigger points in my shoulder girdle have increased my range of motion and shoulder power without pain in the gym.  I go carefully in the gym.  By the time you hit my age...most of us walk around with rotator cuff tears already.

ALISON
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then                                                now
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 14, 2016, 11:41:02 pm
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 24, 2016, 08:57:29 pm
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Merry Christmas  !!!!!

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Keep moving and enjoying your days.........
ALISON
71 1/2 yr old...and still movin !
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...this one's from the way-back-when era.........................83 or so???
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: beowulff on December 24, 2016, 11:23:13 pm
Merry Christmas, Alison.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 24, 2016, 11:33:26 pm
Merry Christmas, Alison.
Thanks !!!!!!...luv you guys
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on December 26, 2016, 10:36:34 pm
Alison, with regard to the pics of you snorkeling, were they recent? Were the pictures taken with an underwater camera or a camera in a waterproof housing?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 27, 2016, 02:40:04 pm
Nikonos underwater camera....1980 or so...Oahu
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: jg300 on February 26, 2017, 10:03:02 am
Hi Alison! Thank you for sharing your life stories. I found them very interesting. I am impressed by how you looked even before you started bodybuilding, especially the picture where you were carrying a surfboard on page 20 of this thread. It is hard for me to believe that you didn't lift weights back then. Take it as a compliment from me.

I have a few questions for you out of curiousity and because I like the way you tell your stories. These questions all refer to the time from your childhood to adulthood but before you started bodybuilding.

- When did you first notice that you had muscles? How did you notice them?
- As a child, teenager, or even as an adult (before you started bodybuilding), did you ever "explore" your muscularity by flexing in front of a mirror in private? If so, how did that go?
- Were there people who admired or were curious about your muscles and asked you to flex for them?
- Was there a time when your muscles "disappeared" or looked less toned under a layer of fat or were they always toned like in your pictures?

If you have time, it will be great to see more pictures from the pre-bodybuilding era. I am also curious to see how you looked as a child and/or teenager. :)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: jg300 on February 26, 2017, 10:04:50 am
P.S. The smiley is supposed to be a smiling face. It appears to be grinning instead of smiling. Lol.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 26, 2017, 12:34:01 pm
- When did you first notice that you had muscles? How did you notice them?
I was a little girl.  My dad had a used furniture store.  He'd always be moving furniture from one place to another....and I'd help him.  My parents called me "Powerful Katrinka"  .  Powerful Katrinka  was a comic strip character popular in the 1930's
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** Was I ever fascinated with my muscularity as a child or teen?   NO !   I was VERY self conscious.  I absolutely hated how I looked.  I was made fun of as kid in school for being muscular.  Remember I graduated HS in 1963.   Muscular women then were considered "queer".   Popular girls were very thin and feminine.

**Were there people who were fascinated about my muscularity and who asked me to flex?  No.  That came later when I was in my mid 30's and began lifting weights and bodybuilding for the first time in my life.  By then it was popular. Of course that healed a lot of wounds I had about who I was as a naturally muscular woman.  When WSP came out and stories about muscular women were printed I loved it. Finally I had a new sisterhood of women who were like me.  Two of my first friends I met while in competition were Pillow and Kay Baxter.  It was comforting to have friends such as these women.

** Was there ever a time when my muscles disappeared ?
No, I'm 72 now and still look muscular as I did when I was in my 20's
 (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/924/85oSK4.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/po85oSK4j)This was taken a couple of years ago.

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I was in my 20's here.  Never lifted a weight other than this turtle.

I won the first FBB competition in Hawaii where I lived after 6 months of training.  You don't add much muscle if any in 6 months.  I never took steroids.  I won every FBB contest I entered in Hawaii...can't count.   Probably 80% (or more) of the muscle I ended up with was what I started with.  What I learned was how to pump up and control in posing what I already had.  I had excellent advice in coaching early.  That happened pretty much by chance.  I never sought out a coach nor to be a FBB and compete in contests.  I was feeling fat and joined a gym to merely get in shape.  Through that gym I met a fellow who was a weight trainer for the U of Hawaii football team and worked with Bil Starr ( he wrote The Strongest Shall Survive) .   Both these guys ( my coach Steve Dussia and Bill Starr) came out of eastern USA and rubbed elbows with the guys at York weights in Pennsylvania.  They were experts in weight training.  Steve saw my potential and conned me into training for the very first FBB contest in Hawaii.  It was all an adventure...an experiment.  The gym I trained in was all hand made other than an Olympic set and a power rack.  It was all constructed out of pipes and pulleys just for me in Steve's backyard.  I trained in total isolation.  I was very fortunate to have this experience.  I love weight lifting to this day and am extremely grateful to those who helped and encouraged me.
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Steve Dussia my coach and good friend... posing practice for a doubles competition .  He took this pic BTW...on a timer.  He developed it in his bathroom.  Everything was old school .  Steve made bodybuilding fun for me.  Great times we had !  An adventure

Alison

I assumed most of the early women were naturals.  I was pretty naive as to the steroid issue until after I quit in the early 80's when it was fairly obvious there was chemical help happening. I was old then ( coming into my late 30's) and with steroids on the scene there was no point in my continuing competition.   I think I was not alone in this exit....other naturals left as well.   End of that era.
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 26, 2017, 02:24:05 pm
Old pics....I don't have many on the computer

That's my mom who was probably my age ( 70's ...maybe late 60's ) when the pic was taken.  She was very physically capable .
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I was about 20 here...that was before I started surfing.  I began surfing in my later 20's. 

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It was this surfing activity that grew my arms, shoulders and back
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: jg300 on February 26, 2017, 03:09:24 pm
Thanks for the detailed response and pictures! It seems to me based on your pictures that you were no that muscular before you began surfing. Your muscles started to show after you started surfing. Of course I'm only basing it on the pics you've shown and the black and white pics are small so I cannot see much detail there.

It is so awesome to have a bodybuilding legend such as you who is so humble and willing to chat with her fans.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 26, 2017, 04:01:23 pm
Hey...I'm happy to be considered a legend and to have a fan.  I'm nothing special . 
Yes the obvious muscular look appeared more so after surfing. As a kid I was stocky.  Bill and I lived in  Hawaii where the waves were intense and large.  We both had night/evening jobs and surfed together every day  there was waves.   I had a natural tendency to gain muscle mass with activity.  Mesomorph type
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The waves we rode were big.  This is me riding Sunset Beach in a ladies professional surfing contest
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: jg300 on February 27, 2017, 08:32:37 am
The waves look really high. You must be a good surfer.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 27, 2017, 12:35:32 pm
The waves look really high. You must be a good surfer.
Well, better than average back at the time.  Now I ride a wave riding kayak designed in Australia.   It's sort of a half kayak, half surfboard. Here's a wave I rode here in Panama with that equipment.
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/823/sg9u.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/mvsg9uj)

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on March 01, 2017, 07:05:43 pm
Great pic Alison! Glad you are doing well! :clap:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 01, 2017, 10:15:42 pm
Great pic Alison! Glad you are doing well! :clap:
Yup...all' well.  Still at it.(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/922/3FxUFj.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm3FxUFjj)
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 22, 2017, 09:44:33 pm
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72 and still at it.  May 2017
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: UK_Fan on May 23, 2017, 11:38:51 am
Great pic Alison! Glad you are doing well! :clap:
Yup...all' well.  Still at it.(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/922/3FxUFj.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm3FxUFjj)
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Hawaii seven 2!!

It certain beats my parents (just a bit older), whose highlight of the week is a trip to the local coffee shop!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on May 23, 2017, 04:34:40 pm
Wow...that's encouraging.   
Show them how I cut my lawn.....great exercise
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ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 20, 2017, 12:00:37 am
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Still strapped on to my crazy kayak wave rider,  surfing here in the Rep of Panama.  Most of the time I'm riding the wave...but sometimes it rides me !
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Other adventures?   A 7 ft poisonous Fer de Lance viper we whacked in our yard
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I cleaned it
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...and we ate it
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End of snake...and  the story.

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on August 20, 2017, 06:00:12 pm
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Still strapped on to my crazy kayak wave rider,  surfing here in the Rep of Panama.  Most of the time I'm riding the wave...but sometimes it rides me !
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/924/ln785s.jpg)(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/924/Vw8v2L.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poln785sj)

Other adventures?   A 7 ft poisonous Fer de Lance viper we whacked in our yard
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/923/uQC4PH.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnuQC4PHj)

I cleaned it
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/924/frA2re.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/© SaradasrA2rej)

...and we ate it
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End of snake...and  the story.

ALISON

Great pics as always Alison. I hope you and Bill are well. You look it in these pics. Do those snakes get near your home or do they stay away from the house area.  My guess is word is out about Alison in the snake community. :clap:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 20, 2017, 07:30:58 pm
Zig,
We find them in our garage, garden and all around...not often but enough !   Interesting the bite of the small ones are the ones that really can do you in.  They lack control of the amount of venom when young...and give you a blast.   That snake we got this month was in the same field I cut with my machete.  It's right across the street from the house.   You really have to keep your eyes open.  These are aggressive snakes.  Moths balls keep them at bay.  I toss them all around the house, house and garage.   If bitten you have to nail the snake and bring it with you to the regional government hospital 30 minutes away from our house.  That's the only way they know what antivenin to give.  Wonderful.  Meanwhile i have snakechaps now....along with high top rubber boots.  I walk softly and carry a big stick !
ALISON
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/540/imtgLY.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/f0imtgLYj)

Here's another one we got in our backyard years ago.  Our backyard is a cliff to a river and jungle...so count on snakes there.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on August 26, 2017, 08:04:09 pm
Zig,
We find them in our garage, garden and all around...not often but enough !   Interesting the bite of the small ones are the ones that really can do you in.  They lack control of the amount of venom when young...and give you a blast.   That snake we got this month was in the same field I cut with my machete.  It's right across the street from the house.   You really have to keep your eyes open.  These are aggressive snakes.  Moths balls keep them at bay.  I toss them all around the house, house and garage.   If bitten you have to nail the snake and bring it with you to the regional government hospital 30 minutes away from our house.  That's the only way they know what antivenin to give.  Wonderful.  Meanwhile i have snakechaps now....along with high top rubber boots.  I walk softly and carry a big stick !
ALISON
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Here's another one we got in our backyard years ago.  Our backyard is a cliff to a river and jungle...so count on snakes there.
 (https://imageshack.com/i/f0imtgLYj)

Wow. Scary stuff Alison. Stay safe ! It sounds like you have it covered. Moth balls for snakes....never knew that.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: global5 on August 31, 2017, 03:17:33 pm
congrats good hunting
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 05, 2017, 09:25:01 pm
congrats good hunting
I used to cut that field myself.  Now we get fellows to keep it trimmed out.  But here I was chest deep in brush right where that snake was whacked
This is the spot the snake was whacked and pretty much the same spot I used to be the hero with the machete !  Yeiks(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/7/jvlt.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/07jvltj)
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Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 09, 2018, 02:35:27 am
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Alison Bill and Flossy the dog.....Happy New Year !!
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Still surfing ! (December 2017)

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Christmas with our  Ngobe Bugle indian friends here in the Rep of Panama where we live.

73 yr old this year.. ...stay active, stay healthy, stay happy, be kind and love one another.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on January 10, 2018, 01:16:01 am
Happy 2018 Alison! I'm glad to see you and Bill both look great.  Keep at it! :cool2:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 26, 2018, 11:26:36 pm
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Alive an well.  73 yr old and still moving
ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 28, 2018, 01:17:28 pm
Wow, great legs!
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Thanks
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 29, 2018, 10:02:27 pm
Upside down was the easiest way for me to train abs...and cut my own hair
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 04, 2018, 08:20:14 pm

I do abs hanging by my legs from a punching bag. I don't trust those inversion boots...



Inversion boots are the very best in my book
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 14, 2019, 05:05:43 pm
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Just checking in.  Life's good.  I'll be 74 this year...still surfing.  I still maintain weight lifting and surfing are two of the best things that ever happened to me in my life and have served me well.  Of course I'm also thankful for my husband ....who sometimes serves me well !( ha ha )

Happy Valentines Day

ALISON
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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: beowulff on February 14, 2019, 07:23:57 pm
You, too!
 :heart:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: zig563 on February 14, 2019, 09:05:05 pm
Glad you are well, looking healthy, and still active Alison.  :clap: I always enjoy hearing from you.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on February 15, 2019, 12:19:55 am
Well. You are: an inspiration to us all, Alison. Congratulations!
I wish I could get in such good shape at this age!
It's always a pleasure to get this kind of good news from you.
All the best.

OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 15, 2019, 12:43:02 am
Well. You are: an inspiration to us all, Alison. Congratulations!
I wish I could get in such good shape at this age!
It's always a pleasure to get this kind of good news from you.
All the best.

OdoHerr
Keep moving...helps if it's something you enjoy.  Surfing..you're not really thinking about the pain in the ass of exercise...it's just fun.  Forced cardio when trying to get out of the way of a bomber.(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/924/MqeVh4.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poMqeVh4j)


Now for you OdoHerr  it's more of a challenge as it's more a finger and eyeball thing.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/59/jf56.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/1njf56j)

Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on December 30, 2019, 09:25:57 pm
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Merry Christmas to all of you !   Have a fantastic 2020.

Alison
74 yr old, still surfing and lifting.  Life is good and all is well
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on December 31, 2019, 03:39:55 am
Have you heard from Pillow of later? Or Lori Okami?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: achilleus on January 01, 2020, 12:26:17 am
Merry Christmas, Alison. Happy New Year.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 05, 2020, 03:15:44 pm
Have you heard from Pillow of later? Or Lori Okami?


Pillow's still in AK .  No word on Lori. ALLOF US ARE GETTING OLD NOW.....
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 05, 2020, 03:18:56 pm
Merry Christmas, Alison. Happy New Year.


Thanks.   Looking forward to an exciting 2020 with lots of new adventures !
Alison
 
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/922/0536eT.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm0536eTj) Alison, Nov 2019

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: FbbFanatic2522 on January 05, 2020, 04:17:09 pm
Alison has some amazing abs! I think there's a novel or tv/movie there somewhere - old FBBs get together and reminisce.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 09, 2020, 12:47:42 am
Yes and it was such a great adventure.   
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on January 10, 2020, 02:37:16 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/922/j5Vkep.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmj5Vkepj)

Bill and I were so sad when our doggie passed away in November.  This is our new sweet little dog we just got yesterday.    Our New Year will be so much better now !   If you were one of those who wished me a happy New Year..THANKS !
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/924/Gjtcw9.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poGjtcw9j)............ALISON

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 28, 2020, 05:58:14 pm
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This virus is the shits.  Here in the Rep of Panama there are no beaches open.  You are arrested if you are surfing...like handcuffed and dragged away. $ 50.00 fine OR 6 hr public service 3/wk.

It's almost Sept 2020 and no sign of beaches opening.  Panama is pretty locked up !

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/922/kathVO.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmkathVOj)

( I just hope I don't die of old age before I surf again !...pushing 76 now ! )

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/923/mzxFXI.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnmzxFXIp)

ALISON (I don't look like that anymore sad to say....time is marching on!)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on August 29, 2020, 04:08:32 am
Where was that shot of you in the gym taken, Alison? Was it at the Mecca?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on August 30, 2020, 04:23:58 pm
...a gym in Venice Calif .  Golds Classic......
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on August 31, 2020, 12:14:23 am
Hmmm. Well when I think Venice, I think that there is Gold's and World's. I believe that Pillow preferred Gold's from what I have read. The impression I had of World's was that it was well more a place of order and neatness while Gold's was about well being hardcore in training attitude.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: achilleus on September 06, 2020, 06:26:44 pm
I have been to both Golds and Worlds, had the impression that both were hardcore, but Golds more about seeing and been seen.

However, that was in the 90s, back in the 80s ... those must have been the days. Wasnt it also the gym, where the women of pumping iron 2 were working out?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on September 06, 2020, 08:15:35 pm
I think it was a World's Gym. The logo on the wall was of a gorilla hefting a considerable amount of weight and the simian attired in a bikini. I am all but certain you can see Pillow, albeit momentarily, lacing up her lifting boots as she is on a slant board with headphones in her ears, sunglasses covering her eyes, and blowing bubbles attired in some animal print leotard but not looking exactly muscular.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 22, 2020, 11:18:52 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/alc1Bi.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmalc1Bij)....................still hangin in   (https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/8LVuWk.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm8LVuWkj)  (https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/fBmB8Z.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnfBmB8Zj)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 23, 2020, 12:13:18 pm
Most never get anywhere near embodying this level of physical prowess. Don't be sad. You don't have to look to far to reminded of some who lives took truly sad turns.

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/923/mzxFXI.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnmzxFXIp)

ALISON (I don't look like that anymore sad to say....time is marching on!)


Well I was one of the fortunates to be born muscular.  I was already 35 yr old when I began.  It was clear that there was a growing new guard in bodybuilding.  Among them was Paula Suzuki there in Hawaii where I was living.  It was time for me to leave  and give the profoundly muscular the stage.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/673/aDpUW1.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/ipaDpUW1j)...here's Paula !




 I returned to full time surfing as my sport of choice.   One of the very special things for me to have happen was this photo with Larry Scott.  He was guest poser for my last competition.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/SGSGgx.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/poSGSGgxp)
It was an exciting adventure...all old school. No steroids.....Knox gelatin and liver pills was all I had !  ha ha ( and if you compete in bodybuilding in Hawaii you get a lot of trophies !...they gave one for each "best" bodypart ! ( those were all my troophies ( for bodyparts)  !

This was the big trophy for that contest...(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/202/bbodybuilding.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/5mbbodybuildingj)..wow what a way to go out in glory !   
..I was soooo blessed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on October 23, 2020, 02:03:43 pm
What bodypart do you find was the easiest to develop and which one(s) did you find you had to work extra hard to develop?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on October 23, 2020, 03:25:18 pm
What bodypart do you find was the easiest to develop and which one(s) did you find you had to work extra hard to develop?
My back was the easiest...shoulders and back. ( I was a surfer.)   BUT.....Paula Suzuki from Hawaii that came after me?....she was a power lifter.  What a difference in backs !!!!!!  ha ha .  It was easy to concede defeat.
Hard to develop?     I can't say that I put on a profound amount of extra muscle to tell you the truth....a tad maybe...like chest.  BUT most of what you see is refining what God gave me to begin with.  No steroids...nah I was a career nurse so that was not something I entertained to do.  ha ha...when I was competing?...I thought all the girls were naturals like me. That was......until I went to Venice to compete.  That's when I saw girls on steroids for the first time.  An eye opener for me.
 Here's a fun one. 
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/8UbaSR.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/pn8UbaSRp)(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/688/bbodybuilding146.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/j4bbodybuilding146j)
Home from my last contest on Maui.   I went with an extra suitcase,  a screwdriver and plyers and came home with the motherload of trophies.....confidence...ha ha
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: mooveeguy on October 23, 2020, 08:24:00 pm
I suppose I oft got the impression that abs and arms were the ones which women found they absolutely had to punish to develop.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on November 08, 2020, 08:46:11 pm
I suppose I oft got the impression that abs and arms were the ones which women found they absolutely had to punish to develop.


Those arms...I was born with.  I had a huge head start as a natural being born muscular
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on November 10, 2020, 06:19:41 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/85oSK4.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/po85oSK4j).........68 yr old.  No longer lifting.  Just mowing lawn. 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on November 11, 2020, 01:57:28 pm
Genetics.    Heck in the beginning I thought all lady bodybuilders were naturals !   Then I got left behind while running the race.....eh, I just went to full time surfing once again.

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/kathVO.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmkathVOj)

Now at 75....healthy and still muscular but stiff and sore with  yard work...and I just feel old sometimes.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/K6U66s.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poK6U66sj)


But we can't stop time eh?   Bummer getting old

ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on July 31, 2022, 05:06:37 pm
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/225x320q90/924/HzOyf1.png)....................ALISON BRUNDAGE 80's
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 03, 2022, 03:29:58 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/811/4csy.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/mj4csyj)


Still alive and well !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALISON BRUNDAGE
77.5 yr old now.
No vaccine, no COVID and never steroids.
Retired.  Rep of Panama


(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/921/t7ro5c.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/plt7ro5cj)


(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/854/ormc.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/nqormcj)


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Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 03, 2022, 03:58:01 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/923/cx67rg.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pncx67rgj)  (https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/924/411Znx.jpg) (http://htt ps://imageshack.com/i/po411Znxj) 


(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/923/WdCV9d.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnWdCV9dj)


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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/22/bbodybuilding062.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0mbbodybuilding062j)


ALISON BRUNDAGE and STEVE DUSSIA my trainer and friend.  Steve was a weight trainer working with the Univ of Hawaii with Bill Starr author of The Strongest Shall Survive, How to Win at Weightlifting





Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 03, 2022, 04:03:25 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/809/bbodybuilding011.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/mhbbodybuilding011j)


Alison Brundage 77 1/2 now
No vaccine, No COVID , Never steroids


Still at surfing


(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/924/BQ1hWs.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/poBQ1hWsp)



Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: FbbFanatic2522 on September 04, 2022, 04:49:04 pm
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/22/bbodybuilding062.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0mbbodybuilding062j)


ALISON BRUNDAGE and STEVE DUSSIA my trainer and friend.  Steve was a weight trainer working with the Univ of Hawaii with Bill Starr author of The Strongest Shall Survive, How to Win at Weightlifting

Thanks for the great pics! I wish that mixed pairs would come back to current bb contests.
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 04, 2023, 05:42:51 pm
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Alison still alive and well and surfing !~       Living the good retired life in the Rep of Panama.


Alison Brundage
78 yr old
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: jdm022 on March 04, 2023, 07:16:24 pm
Alison…you ate a complete bad-ass!!! 😂👍

Keep Livin-the-dream !!!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on March 04, 2023, 10:09:48 pm
,,,ha ha.  Yes.  always my weakest bodypart.


(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/35/bbodybuilding099.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0zbbodybuilding099j)


Bad ass.  Disperse.  Nothing to see here.


Surfing?...nuther story.   Yup badass.

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/540/925a70.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/f0925a70j)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/661/Yi1R84.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/idYi1R84j)
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ALISON.......thanks.  At 78 I need encouragement.

Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on April 22, 2023, 08:27:37 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/922/myHAl3.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmmyHAl3p).......................I was a kiss from dropping dead.   I lived.     Alison ( now older, a tad wiser...and still breathing )
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 16, 2023, 08:28:33 pm
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79 yr old.   Healthy and happy in the mountains of Panama.   Almost 17 years retired.    I feel blessed. 


(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/85oSK4.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/po85oSK4j)


Best wishes to all of you,


ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: OdoHerr on September 17, 2023, 12:11:19 pm
Many thanks for your wishes, Alison.
It is always very rewarding to be able to be in contact with one of the women bodybuilders who marked their time and who also marked us, by making us realize that there is nothing more beautiful than a beautifully muscled woman! In return, best wishes to you and yours for the times to come, hoping that you will be able to enjoy the same kind of healthy and happy life you have now for a long time to come.

OdoHerr
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on September 17, 2023, 01:23:36 pm
Good to hear from you OdoHerr.  You have always been such an encourager along with Bill Jentz and Steve Wennerstrom......   I never had much of a following and you guys made me feel special,.  Thanks.


These daze I am taking it easy......life's good.


Hugs


Alison
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/T4rxV6.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmT4rxV6j)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 04, 2024, 08:01:07 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/K6U66s.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poK6U66sj)


Cheers to all.
Still alive and well.


ALISON
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Female Bodybuilding on February 04, 2024, 08:27:30 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/K6U66s.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poK6U66sj)


Cheers to all.
Still alive and well.


ALISON


Legendary Alison Brundage is back to home. Welcome back Alison  ;) Miss you much. Hope you and Bill are alright!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 04, 2024, 09:09:54 pm
Remember Larry Scott ?   Was he the very first Mr America...I forget.  Anyway he was guest poser at this contest here where I won all these trophies.  Somewhere I have a pic of myself and Larry Scott doing a side chest together.  Boy did that make my day or what.  If memory serves me well, I believe Julie McNew was there posing as well.    We had great times walking the beach and I guess boggling the minds of those bathers that had never seen a woman bodybuilder before.

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/921/twIbQJ.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/pltwIbQJp)(http://thumbnails101.imagebam.com/23331/d9d71e233307331.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/d9d71e233307331)
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 04, 2024, 09:22:34 pm
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/320x240q70/922/4AIwXh.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm4AIwXhj)   (https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/320x240q70/923/Qo4Wqc.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnQo4Wqcj)
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on February 14, 2024, 09:40:05 am
Hey Alison,

You look incredile!  I much prefer your look compared to todays bodybuilders.  Hard and musular without looking like a cloud haha
All your poses look beautiful!

I love your flexed look!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 14, 2024, 02:12:30 pm
Thank you so much.  All I learned was old school stuff and the fellow that taught me was right out of York old school ilk. ( Steve Dussia his name)   He grew up in Pennsylvania and his idols were of the John Grimek camp.   He migrated to Hawaii where I lived and assisted Bill Starr football weight trainer with the U of Hawaii.  He took the photographs for Starr's book .   It was only chance I was introduced to this man and the adventure we went on was birthed.  We made all the weight equipment and trained in his backyard.  I had a safety rack and an Olympic set.  My supplements were protein powder and liver tablets.  My resource was IRON MAN magazine.  I became lean by eating only 3 cans of tuna a day..period.  Three days on and one off.  I ended up winning every Hawaii contest I entered and placed 7th twice in Nationals as a middleweight.  I was pretty much clueless but just did what he told me.  He taught me all my posing.  He took my training photos....had a darkroom where he developed the film.   This was before internet and fast photography. My skin was tanned naturally and before the contest I was slathered with IODINE mixed with baby oil...nuther old school trick.  We entered doubles together ...and I guess I was too big and he was too small.  Cory and Jeff won. 
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/cx67rg.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pncx67rgj)


I was in my mid 30's and for an older gal who was always ashamed of my own muscularity , the entire adventure was a huge ego boost for me !   I was one of the last naturals in a National event. What an experience !


ALISON
 
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on February 14, 2024, 11:27:37 pm
I love couples.  Wathing them flex their ripped muscles together is beautiful and sexy!  Do you prefer couples posing or individual?

Yes alot has changed since then with contest prep...which conest was your favourite?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on February 15, 2024, 04:47:40 am
I have been going through some of your photos and your story...truly amazing Alison!  I can only imagine what you would have achieved if you had all the resources available today with all the training techniques, equipment and nutrition...thats another level!
I absolutely love your competion physique and are just as gorgeous now :)  Your muscles are hard and ripped...I love your smile as you flex and hold the pose!!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 15, 2024, 11:59:31 am
I have been going through some of your photos and your story...truly amazing Alison!  I can only imagine what you would have achieved if you had all the resources available today with all the training techniques, equipment and nutrition...thats another level!
I absolutely love your competion physique and are just as gorgeous now :)  Your muscles are hard and ripped...I love your smile as you flex and hold the pose!!


Thank you...BUT I ended my entire career because I was natural .   The only thing I did not take advantage of was performance enhancement drugs.   I DID NOT like the appearance of off season steroid enhanced ladies.  I never would want to look like that.  I discovered that when  I left my backyard gym in Hawaii and did the Gold's Classic contest in Venice, Calif.    Bodybuilding for women was going in a direction I was not at all able to go.   (there was an ugly side.....the pay to wrestle-me stuff)    Drugs changed things for me with regard to serious competition.  I was having a lot of fun building by lifting and nutrition alone.  I just loved all my home made gym equipment.   THAT is what made all of it exciting !  It was easy to walk away.  Surfing will always be my first love.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/kathVO.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmkathVOj)




Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 15, 2024, 12:08:55 pm



BELLZ:
I love couples.  Wathing them flex their ripped muscles together is beautiful and sexy!  Do you prefer couples posing or individual?

Yes alot has changed since then with contest prep...which conest was your favourite?


______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



My trainer and I did the couple for fun when I was training for the Nationals that occurred at that same venue.  Both of us moved together with complimentary poses much the style of Grimek. or Zane.  That was NOT what judges wanted to see.  They were more into big men lifting very thin-looking gals over their head.  ( or so it seemed ) .


Gold's Classic was my fav because I got to know Pillow and we both turned out to be on the exact same page.......we both left the sport to pursue other interests.   Steroid use was the deciding factor.  Neither of us were into it.  We stayed in touch for years after.


(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/921/5wIyv6.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pl5wIyv6j)


Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on February 15, 2024, 10:57:26 pm
I am so happy you stayed natural as you look better than all the female bodybuilders now...even the physique ladies who arent far off bodybuilders themselves...sometimes I cant even tell the difference between the two.

I mean, they dont fold their arms with their side shest and open hand for their double biceps and i believe they dont perform a lat spread but physique wise its hard to tell them apart!

Can I ask, you have mentioned Kay Baxter, were you a fan of her physique?  Also was a huge fan of Pillow...have you heard back from her?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on February 15, 2024, 11:02:33 pm
We also share a love of the ocean BTW...I scuba dive!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on February 16, 2024, 01:21:15 am
Thats a shame about the couples posing as I love watching a couples routine...did anyone by any chance record yours?
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: hwillish on February 16, 2024, 04:55:19 am
Allison...I'm right there with you in age and just happened to see this thread.  Didn't really know there was such a thing as women's bodybuilding until I happened to see one of Robert Kennedy's Muscle Magazine's in a drugstore around the mid 90's...and the rest is history!   The Arnold, The Olympia and obviously the Masters... Ive attended them over the years now and have gotten to know many competitors and wonderful fans with whom I have become friends .

I And just wanted you to know that if I had the money, you would be my "inspiration" to create a "Super Masters" event and obviously have you be the first lady to be invited...lol! :bravo:
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on February 16, 2024, 05:59:56 am
I second that!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 16, 2024, 12:38:30 pm
Allison...I'm right there with you in age and just happened to see this thread.  Didn't really know there was such a thing as women's bodybuilding until I happened to see one of Robert Kennedy's Muscle Magazine's in a drugstore around the mid 90's...and the rest is history!   The Arnold, The Olympia and obviously the Masters... Ive attended them over the years now and have gotten to know many competitors and wonderful fans with whom I have become friends .

I And just wanted you to know that if I had the money, you would be my "inspiration" to create a "Super Masters" event and obviously have you be the first lady to be invited...lol! :bravo:


God bless you for your kindness !
Alison
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on February 16, 2024, 10:34:14 pm
Hi Alison, were there any other competitors physiques that you admired while you were competing?

I personally think Kay Baxter looked amazing!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: alison brundage on February 23, 2024, 01:53:32 pm
Hi Alison, were there any other competitors physiques that you admired while you were competing?

I personally think Kay Baxter looked amazing!

Here is some that I thought had a genetic gifts. 

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/35/mjfx.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/0zmjfxj)


Juliette Bergman...what an outstanding package !!!!!!


(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/661/iM9ldY.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/idiM9ldYj)


Marjo Seljin ( another Hawaii star...beautiful gal )


(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/811/4csy.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/mj4csyj)


All these gals were from my era.    I assumed all were naturals at the time. 


ALISON
Kay Baxter was special....genetically gifted for sure.  She was an early California star.  She, Pillow and I commiserated together after feeling somewhat slighted after an early National contest because of our obvious muscularity that was not yet in the vogue.    Pillow brought her blender and somebody had the booze and fruits..  All three of us got a healthy drunk on after a National event in Vegas....80's.   I felt honored to be invited to the party !
What an experience I had.....a blessing !
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on February 24, 2024, 01:09:10 am
Juliette was outstanding, loved watching her in the mixed pairs with Tony Pearson!

I like Marjo Selin too though I must confess I prefer a more muscular harder physique

Who are the other girls in the photo?  I think thats Pillow in the top left and you in the top right?

I loved yours and Kay Baxters physiques...hard muscularity with symmetry and proportion...the total package!

That party sounds like a memory that will be treasured forever!
Title: Re: Alison Brundage
Post by: Bellz on March 25, 2024, 02:26:14 am
Hey Alison, havent heard from you in a while, hope all is well and that our enjoying your surfing!