Posted by Doug on February 13, 19100 at 12:35:27:
In Reply to: Re: Top Asian Pacific Islanders in Sports (Suzuki 2 pics) posted by Doug on February 12, 19100 at 11:47:59:
This is becoming the Paula Suzuki forum. I understand, she's unbelieveable and it's natural to be curious.
To answer your questions, Hi-lin, I have some boigraphical info from a magazine. Paula is now about 30. She grew up in New Jersey and moved to Hawaii at a young age. When she was 13 she became fascinated with strength and decided she wanted to become very strong. So, she started to work out doing chinups, lifting weights and doing other exercises. She simply worked out extremely hard from 13 on and that's what let her develope her fantastic muscles and strength. She obviously had the genetics (as Nunchaku pointed out), or she couldn't have developed nearly like she did. Interestingly, she credits doing so many chinups and pullups at a young age with causing her back and shoulders to get so wide, giving her an advatage over others that started later. That also let her benchpress huge amounts of weight and set 6 world records for women.
She does not compete against men, they don't alow that. Also I don't think any men would want to compete against her, and lose to a woman. She is a good deal more muscular than men bodybuilders of that weight, and she has perfect proportions, and no weakneses. Her abs for instance are also incredible.
I agree with you that you'd think a phenomenon like her would be more known. It is way beyond incredible that the most muscular person on the earth weighging 132 pounds or less is a woman!!! From what I can tell she's shy, maybe that has something to do with it.