We discuss Nancy's freestyle routine for her bodybuilding show and then show it.
Bodybuilding | Bodybuilding 2006 | Contest Day | Nancy Arnold
In this podcast, Nancy Arnold and I talk about the parameters of the evening freestyle performance in women's bodybuilding shows. The video then transitions to Nancy's freestyle performance in her April 29, 2006 show (Quicktime, 5.7 MB; Google Video, after a slight hiccup at the start the picture is fine).
As Nancy mentions in our discussion, there is not a lot of weight given to the freestyle performance. Fortunately, this show kept the women's bodybuilding freestyle performance. The entire women's bodybuilding evening show was dropped from the 2005 Olympia, the premiere professional bodybuilding show, in favor of a fitness model contest.
I liked Nancy's freestyle performance. It was quite creative and well-choreographed. As stated in the rules, she was given 90 seconds from when her music started. You will see that she ranges the whole stage and introduces several non-mandatory poses, including the archer (pictured) and the side ab which ended the routine.
