DISPLAYING THE NEWLY made body that won her the Novice Women's category at the
May 25 Okanagan Body Building championships held in Kamptoops, is Terry Duck. The
Okanagan championships were the 20-year-old North Vancouverite's first after only six mon-
ths training. Duck is now in training for June t5 B.C. Body Building Finals to held at New
Westminster Secondary School.

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FEMALE BODY BUILDING remains a subject
guaranteed to bring out the winks, nudees, and
‘“‘oh brothers”? in even the most liberal-minded

conversations.

North Vancouver's Terry
Duck could care less. The
20-year-old novice body
builder returned from = the
May 25 Okanagan Body
Building Championships
with a win in the novice
women’s middleweight
category

The Okanagan champion-
ships, held in Kamploops,
were Duck's first body
building competitions after a
mere six months training.

Duck says she started
seriously working out with
weights at the urgings of her
boyfriend, a 10-year veteran
of the body building wars:
“the said I had good body
building potential because 1
am naturally quite
snuscular.”*

suitial reaction to her quest
Tor siuseles where women are

“‘pposed to have muscles

egative, says Duck, ‘A.

ta: of people immediately
said, ‘female body building?
ooh, gross!’, but i never had
anything against it, [ didn’t
see it as being odd.”*

Duck’s mother, Pat, says
‘that years ago she would have
considered female body

building to be toc manily,:

‘now I look at it totally dif-
ferently. 1 can see these
women are real athletes who
have to have real
dedication.”

The benefits to Duck's
physical and mental well-
being and outward ap-
pearance have converted
most other original
naysayers. Duck says she
feels better, looks better, and
has more energy and inward
confidence.

But the life of a body
builder is not all strut and
adulation nor has Duck’s six
month road to physical and
spiritual betterment been

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without potholes. Training,
says Duck, is rigorous and
strenuous. She works out
daily for two hours --dieting,
she says, is a killer.

Because body building
competitions are judged on
individual muscle definition,
even a thin layer of body fat
can mask this all-important
definition. Therefore, in the
fiveemonth period before a
competition, the diet of a
body builder becomes pro-
gressively more spartan,
culminating in the final
72-hour pre-competition
period when body builders
must know, to the hour,
when their bodies are at their
peak of muscular definition.

Duck says all fat must be
chopped from her food in-
take during training, fluids
must be restricted, and ‘‘no
salts or sugars, especially
salts because they retain so
much liquid.”

A fine balance must be
struck between burning off
fat and burning off all-
important muscle, says
Duck: ‘tyou have to keep
protein coming in or the body
will start getting it from the
muscles.""

Duck adds that, besides the

demands on muscle and taste
bud, there is the demand ona
body builder's pocket book.

“The price of tanning
alone is $100 per 26 sessions,
vitamins run approximately
$200 for a two-month supply,
and, of course, there is the
cost of your gymnasium
membership.”’

Though she has aspirations
to join the police force,
Duck, a dietician’s aid at
Lynn Valley’s Cedarview
Lodge, says she feels she has
the ability to go all the way in
the world of female body
building. [t's a matter of
priorities and commitments,
she says, “‘I°ll just play it by
ear.”

Mrs. Duck is convinced her
daughter will persevere:
“She’s at a good age to
develop. A lot of female
body builders are in their 30s,
Terry’s young, she’s always
been athletic, and she has the
drive:””

Body building, says Mrs.
Duck, runs in the family: ‘I
work out two or three times a
week, [ guess { take after
Terry.”

Duck’s next competition
will be the June 15 B.C.
finals.

Depending on her finish
there, Duck could be bound
for the body building big
leagues where the winks,
nudges, and ‘tok, brothers”’
will be those of her admirers
not her detractors.

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