Congrats on your successes, Myra – and here’s to your continued success as a natural bodybuilder. I look forward to reading more of your thoughts on the MuscleHack forums when you have the time to contribute.

Adam W.
North Bay, ON, Canada

Myra, clearly you are both gifted and very dedicated. Getting a balanced physique can be tough for us petites (just over 5′ [154cm] myself), but you look amazing. Keep it up! (And kudos on the organic & sustainable lifestyle – I’m working toward the same myself.)

Kudos to Mark, too, for providing all the great info and busting the myth that women need some kind of extra-special program to get lean.

First of all, I have to thank you for checking out my interview and the video. As Mark said, there are clearly visual differences between myself and enhanced athletes. I have been told by several people “if I didn’t know you I’d think you were on the juice” or “if you told me you used roids I’d believe you”. Other athletes have said that some women using steroids can’t acheive what I have being clean, especailly in only 2 years. I take these statements as compliments.
You can believe what you want, but I can honestly tell you, the most I supplement with is L-Glutamine, Creatine, and whey protein, and even at that the most Creatine my body can handle is 1/3 of a tsp. per day or I start to lose my voice and get an insatiable thirst.
At 5’0″ it doesn’t take a ton of muscle to look muscular, it takes leanness to expose it though. I do consider myself genetically fortunate to be able to put on muscle the way I do and as symmetrically as I do (which also comes from a pile of hard work!..thank you to Daniel for also pointing this out). I was able, thanks to the MANS Diet and my workouts, to be up 5 pounds on my previous stage weight.
If anyone could see my dad they would see where my muscle comes from. He hasn’t trained a day in his life but his legs are lean and ripped and huge! When he was an EMT his taper was amazing and topped off with huge shoulders, again from his job of lifting people on stretchers into the ambulance, not from weightroom training.
IDFA, the drug-free organization I originally competed with in 2008,(my pic. is in the results gallery) discontinued women’s bodybuilding this year. I had wanted to compete with them this year but upon learning that wasn’t an option, I decided to compete again with the ABBA since I had already qualified for Provincials in the competition 1 week after my IDFA 2008 show. My goal was to go to Nationals so I did. I competed with the CBBF in a non-drug-tested event and happened to place well. I will take any drug test you throw at me though and I guarantee you will not find anything in my system that shouldn’t be there.
I value my health and want my body to age as best it can. I am a certified organic farmer, building an off-grid home with my husband. We try to represent organics and eco-friendly, healthy living the best we can and set an example to others on how to acheive this as well. This would be a huge contradiction for me to make if I were using drugs, not to mention I can’t afford a trainer much less a drug supply. Furthermore, it totally goes against my moral beliefs, upbringing, and Christian perspective, to put these substances in my body.
So, I stand here now (actually I’m sitting), in my own defense, telling you that I bust my ass and I eat right. There is no “myriad” of anything hiding in my home, or anywhere else I frequent, waiting to enter my bloodstream. There never will be, and I am proud to represent natural athletes that show others what hard work and dedication can do.
Now I ask you, Roi, if you doubt what a human is naturally capable of, are you working hard enough?
I’m off to the gym but I must leave you all with Mark’s words and say:
Train with intensity.
xoxo
~Myra~

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Ekim

Nonetheless, amazing physique!