Penpraghai Tiangngok (Fon) - Thai Figure Competitor

Penpraghai Tiangngok (Fon) was born on July 2nd, 1982 in Loei, Thailand, and is currently living in Pattaya, Thailand.
Fon is a figure competitor, powerlifter and certified personal trainer.
She also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Sport Science from the Mahasarakarn University in Thailand.
Fon is five foot five and weighs 150 pounds (off-season) and 140 pounds (contest weight).

Contest History:
2010 WBPF World Physique Sports Championships - Women Model Physique 160cm+: 7th Place
2010 Asian Championships for Juniors, Fitness, Women and Invitational - Women Model Physique 160cm+: 10th Place
2010 Mr. Thailand (H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's Cup Thailand Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship) - Women Body Fitness: 1st Place


http://www.thaibody.com/

Fon Working Out...



You can see more about Fon here:
http://www.athletehomepage.com/fon#profile



Penpraghai Tiangngok (Fon) - Thai Figure Competitor, posted to http://barangabru.blogspot.com/ on December 20th, 2010

More Fitness Beauty Monique Minton

Of all the the female fitness models I've done on this blog, Monique Minton is hands down the favorite.
This lovely figure competitor and spokes model has scored again, appearing on what I think is her second Flex Magazine cover.
And this five foot, ten inch, one hundred and fifty pound, half filipinia beauty has added to her contest history since my first write up.
In addition to her other figure competitions, you can now add 1st place at the 2009 NPC USA Bodybuilding & Figure Championships.
Yes Monique took first place!

What's next for her?
Well I have heard rumors of a possible MMA career.
Over at PureFight they have an interview with Monique after she won a gold medal in the no gi division at Naga Europa.
You can see it here.
Can you imagine Monique Minton in the steel cage?


posted to http://beautifulasianwomen.blogspot.com/, August 25th, 2009

Michiko Nishiwaki

Michiko Nishiwaki (Nishiwaki Michiko) , was born on November 21, 1957 in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan.
She is a former female bodybuilder, powerlifter, actress, fitness trainer, stunt woman, martial artist and fight choreographer.
Michiko started out, as a lot of fitness stars did, in gymnastics.
She looked into bodybuilding when she noticed how large her legs were when compared to her upper body, hoping that weightlifting would give her better symmetry.
Michiko became a powerlifter, Japan's first female powerlifting champion and eventually Japan's first female bodybuilding champion.
This was very unusual for a woman in Japanese society at that time.
She also opened three fitness clubs with her brother.
Michiko began her acting career in 1985 when she caught the eye of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. (How many careers has Jackie Chan launched?)
She appeared in his film "My Lucky Stars" a Hong Kong martial arts/comedy film as a Japanese fighter.
Michiko landed several roles in Hong Kong movies after that, usually playing a villain or a femme fatale.
After that, she returned to Japan, but then went to Thailand and made a few more films.
Eventually she landed in the US and began a career as a stunt woman appearing in a lot of movies you may have seen, but had no idea that she was in.
As a stunt woman she appeared in Blade, Man on the Moon, Charlie's Angels, Rush Hour 2, The Scorpion King, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Memoirs of a Geisha and Resident Evil: Extinction.
She also worked on 2009's Afro Ninja as Yuko.
Michiko has stunt doubled for Lucy Liu in four films and Kelly Hu in one.

Here she is in a clip from her first movie, "My Lucky Stars"...



You can find out even more about Michiko at her website here:
http://www.geocities.com/michikonishiwaki/index.html

Satoko Shinashi

This entry is different from our usual fitness models, bodybuilders and physical trainers.
Satoko Shinashi is a female Japanese mixed martial arts fighter.
Of course no one doubts that MMA fighters are fit, a lot of the fitness models here and on my other fitness blogs use MMA training as one of their ways to stay in shape.

Satoko was born on January 29, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan.
(Hmmm...thats me, Liza Kampstra and Satoko all born on January 29th.)
She uses Judo, Sambo, and jiu-jitsu in her matches, and is known for her armbars.
Actually she is 28-2- 2 ( her website lists her record at 30-2-2 ) in fighting with 22 of those wins being via submission and 17 of those submissions were armbars.
Pretty much if she gets an armbar locked in, it's over.
Her two losses were to Mai Ichii by decision and Hisae Watanabe by knockout.



You wont be seeing her in the ring anytime soon though.
Back in January, it was announced that Satoko is pregnant.

You can visit her website here:
http://www.shinashi.com/

And here is a video of her in action against various opponents.

Christine Wan, Another Look

Photo: Mark Mason, http://www.ifbbpro.com/

Here's another look at Christine Wan, IFBB Pro,personal trainer and photographer.
In the last entry I only touched on her contest history, but here is an updated list of the Pro events she has taken part in:

2003 IFBB Masters Olympia And Jan Tana Pro, 7th place
2004 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Figure, 16th place
2004 IFBB California Pro Figure, 17th place
2004 IFBB New York Pro Figure, 17th place
2005 IFBB San Francisco Pro, 9th place
2005 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Figure, 12th place
2005 IFBB Atlanta Pro Figure, 8th place
2005 IFBB Europa Super Show, 7th place
2006 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Figure, 8th place
2006 IFBB Motor City Pro Figure, 6th place
2006 IFBB Europa Super Show, 8th place
2007 IFBB Arnold Classic, 9th place
2007 IFBB Jan Tana Women's Bodybuilding And Figure Contest, 8th place
2007 IFBB Palm Beach Pro/Am, 10th place
2008 IFBB Jacksonville Pro-Figure / Dexter Jackson Classic, 17th place
2008 IFBB Atlantic City Pro, 1st place
2008 IFBB Kentucky Pro Figure, 10th place

Lisa Cheng

The beautiful Lisa Cheng is a bodybuilder and rock climber (her nickname is “Hong Kong Spider Woman”).
Here are a couple of links so you can see how pretty this lady really is.

Picture of Lisa with the trophy after winning the Ms. Bodyfitness competition at the 2008 Hong Kong Bodybuilding And Fitness Championships on April 20, 2008.
http://www.jamd.com/image/g/80792271

Picture of Lisa posing during the competition
http://www.jamd.com/image/g/80792275

See? She's beautiful.
And besides her win at the Ms. Bodyfitness competition in 2008, she has competed in the 2007 Asian Championships, Ms. Fitness 4th place and Ms. Body Fitness, 7th place.

And Lisa is also considering a shot at female MMA as you can see in this video here:

Tanji Johnson, Another Look

Here's another couple of pictures of fitness competitor Tanji Johnson.
These are both in her American Gladiators gear.
Even though American Gladiators will no longer be seen on NBC-TV, there is a rumor the show may be picked up by another company.
And even if Tanji is no longer associated with the show, the certified personal trainer, NPC promoter and writer will have lots of avenues to keep busy.
Despite her name, I doubt you'll have a hard time seeing more of "Stealth".

Aki Nishimoto, Another Look

The first lady I profiled on this blog was Japanese female bodybuilder Aki Nishimoto.
This young lady has amazing muscle definition.
And here is a shot of her very nicely developed arm.

Barbara Engelsmann

Barbara Engelsmann is a IFBB Pro Figure, certified personal trainer and fitness model.
Born on June 25th, 1995, in Stuttgart, Germany, this young lady is of European/Asian descent.
She competed in several amateur competitions in Europe from 2001-2003.
And she competed in several IFBB PRO Figure Competitions in the US.
The 2004 IFBB Europa Super Show (16th place), the 2004 Bulk Nutrition/Charlotte Pro (16th place), the 2005 Tournament of Champions (14th place) and the 2005 Sacramento Pro Fitness and Pro Figure (16th place).

Barbara also does nutrition seminars, championship preparations, posing, and personal training.

You can visit her website here:
http://www.barbara-engelsmann.de/

Amateur Bodybuilder Rebekah Kresila

Amateur bodybuilder Rebekah Kresila is from Cleveland, Ohio.
She's a certified personal trainer and has training as a classical pianist.
That's about all I could find out about this lady other than there are tons of pictures and videos of her out there on the net.

South Korean Bodybuilder Jung Young Ji

South Korean female Bodybuilder Jung Young Ji.
Not a lot of info on this young lady, but I expect to see great things out of her.
In 2007 she took first place at the Asian Championships in Women's Bodybuilding 58kg class (That's about 127 lbs. for the metrically challenged like me).

Japanese Female Bodybuilder, Tomoko Kanda

Tomoko Kanda is a Japanese female bodybuilder.
She was born and raised in Osaka Japan.
Besides being a bodybuilder Tomoko has a Master's degree in management from Troy State University in Troy, Alabama.
She has competed in several bodybuilding competitions.
In 2002, she took first place at All Japan Bodybuilding in the Masters category.
Also in 2002, she took first place in the All Japan Open Bench Press competition in the 56kg weight class.
In 2004, she took first place at the Osaka/Kansai bodybuilding competition and was runner up at the All Japan Bodybuilding competition.

Female Bodybuilder Michelle Jin

Asian-American female bodybuilder Michelle Jin.
Michelle was born in China, but moved to the US when she 18.
She is competing in amateur contests right now, mainly natural bodybuilding.
Other than that, I don't have a lot of info on her.
Then again, her mass and definition speaks for itself.

Chinese-American bodybuilder "Lili" Xin Li Cao

Chinese-American bodybuilder "Lili" Xin Li Cao (or Cao Xin Li) was born in Mongolia in 1981.
She started practicing Judo at the age of 12, switched to weightlifting at 15, then started bodybuilding training in 1998.

Lili has competed in the 2000 General Assembly Session of the National Sports Competition, the Chinese national Bodybuilding championship, the Asian Bodybuilding Championship, the Chinese national, and Asian bodybuilding championships among others, and has won many of them.
Right now she is training for the Eighth World Games to be held in Taiwan in 2009.

Despite her obvious power, when you watch videos of this lady, she seems..I really hate to say this..but cute.
I know cute isn't a word usually associated with massive bodybuilders, but she seems to have a very open and sweet disposition.

You can check out her website here:
http://www.xinlicao.com/

Aki Nishimoto

Aki Nishimoto is a Japanese female bodybuilder.
She won the Ms Japan bodybuilding contest in 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008!
Talk about dominating!
Besides Ms.Japan, she has placed in the 1998 Asian Bodybuilding Championships, the 2005 World Games and the 2006 World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships.
Aki started out in Karate, but got a knee injury that put her out for awhile.
Ms. Nishimoto is 41 (yes 41!) a former civil servant, a fitness instructor and lecturer.
There are tons of videos of her posing out on the web.
And here is one....
It's a short video of Aki hitting a double bicep pose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGN_SsC70c