Muscle mum!
Danielle Chambers with her trophy. On Sunday she won the UK DFBA Ladies Fit Body category, just 6 months after giving birth to her first child. She will now compete at an international final in New York. (d27091153)
A FIRST-TIME mother has won a national bodybuilding contest, just six months after giving birth.
Danielle Chambers won the ladies’ fitness category at the UK Drug Free Bodybuilding Association Open Championships on Sunday, after training at Body In Design in Batley.
Her success at the competition in Rugby means she can now compete at the World National Bodybuilding Federation finals in New York in November.
Mrs Chambers, 33, has been bodybuilding for three years, and started training for Sunday’s contest just weeks after giving birth to her son Colin in March.
She said: “My trainer Ian Duckett said he would help me get into the best shape I could ever be in. Women do compete after having babies, but you have got to put in that extra work.
“I wanted to prove to myself that I could get back in shape and start competing again.”
Mrs Chambers, of Whitley Road, Thornhill, Dewsbury, said she was over the moon to have won on Sunday.
She said: “I wanted to give it my best shot. I had been working on my poses for weeks and it paid off.”
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Sonia.Armitage
Monday, October 3, 2011 at 07:32 PMDanielle is a Figure Competitor and if you took the time to understand you would see that she does not have bulging muscles and I think you would be hard pressed to find someone that looked more natural!
Ronnie.Prost
Monday, October 3, 2011 at 08:30 AMIs it just me, and no sexism intended, but I find female bodybuilders quiet a turn-off. Women were not intended to have bulging muscles, and for that reason I cannot say that the above story is of any interest as it's not natural.
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