Anita Ramsey’s Muscle Update

After a long 11-hour drive from the Northern New Mexico rookies to the 100-degree heat of down town Dallas I arrived with great anticipation at the 2007 Europa super show…

Friday began with meeting my girl Renea who I’m helping prep for an upcoming INBF show in Texas, we found a 24 Hour Fitness near by and got a workout in.  You got to pump up before going to a show like this.  And it helps get the blood flowing after sittingon your but for 11-hours.

We all went back to our rooms to chang and we had to eat, well were do you go, what else but at the Cheesecake Factory.  OK, now off to the Dallas Convention Center to check things out.  

Before I even got through the doors I was stopped by old friends, and one in particular Cindy James or better known as CJ, she designs suites for Pros’, she did all of mine.  We talked for a while but CJ had to get back stage, so we check tickets and proceeded inside.

As I walked in I saw another old friend IFBB Women’s Historian Steve Wennerstrom who immediately gave me a hug and exclaimed with enthusiasm how excited he was to see me, and Curtis too.  Since we haven’t seen Steve in almost 10 years.

After talking with Steve and him telling me i need to go t the Masters Nationals we had to walk over to Bodybuilding.com’s booth first to meet everyone and all who was there was BIG Chic! No offense but I wanted to see Ryan, Will and Robert. After introducing ourselves to chic that didn’t help either, I guess with so many writers we’re nothing special. I was hoping to finally see Ryan and Will who were not around…Damn!

OK then so I proceeded over to the Europa (www.europasports.com ) booth and met with CEO Eric Hilman who I was astonished to find out new me from when I competed long ago, I’m a dinosaur!  What a friendly and nice man, then we meet Mike who is our gym rep.

IDS booth was nice too…

Curtis bumped into Melissa Dettwiller (www.melissadettwiller.com) who just won 1st place in the middleweight class at the 07 Team Universe and ~ who can be found here at Bodybuilding.com interviews.

I definitely had fun at the http://www.alrindustries.com/ booth, they were all happy wanting to take lots of pictures with us…And Author L. Rea. President and owner of ALRI was fun he took pics with us too and introduced us to all his products..

We also bumped into Prince Harrison a show promotr in Texas and also the APF Texas State director Garry Pendergrase.

Not to mention Mrs’ Olympia and some old bodybuilders on the come back after a bout with a bad disease. It was great to see you big again Long!

Now, regarding the shows we watched the men’s under 210 and over 210 pre-judging and all the women’s bodybuilding sorry but wanted to watch the figure and fitness, no really, even the NPC but way too long and I was tired and needed to eat.  But, since all others are all Testosteroned up (is that a word?) and only do the men’s results here’s the women’s pro bodybuilding results…And wow Tazzie Colomb looked GREAT!

Pro Bodybuilding
Lightweights
1) Mah Ann Mendoza*
2) Debbie Bramwell
3) Debi Laszewski
4) Dena Westerfield
5) Angela Debatin
6) Claudia Partenza
7) Giusy Caputo
8) Karen Zaremba
9) Emery Miller
10) Mary Jerumbo
11) Elizabeth Gomez

Heavyweights
1) Tazzie Colomb*
2) Th-Resa Bostick
3) Beth Roberts
4) Sherry Smith
5) Marika Johansson
6) Maryse Manios
7) Figueroa Zoraina
8) Maria Calo
9) Jana Linke-Sippl
10) Aurella Grozajova
11) Desiree Dumpel

Overall:  Mah Ann Mendoza*
* qualifies for Olympia

Pro Fitness
1) Adela Garcia
2) Tanji Johnson
3) Mindi O’Brien

The fitshow guys were hard at work…
And at the Europa was also a Bike and car show, I found my next truck the Ford F-650…Wow! That’s a truck!