It should come as no great surprise that Lydia Haskell has risen to the top of the new sport of Figure in such a remarkably short time. She is a former NFL cheerleader and coach for the Arizona State University basketball dance squad who is a successful group fitness instructor, business woman, mother and wife. Lydia has competed in both bodybuilding and Fitness competition and her success in Figure was entirely predictable. Figure competition might be unfamiliar to most readers since it is the newest and latest addition to the world of competitive fitness events. In three short years Figure competitions have gone from an iffy proposition to incredibly popular. The number of competitors and competitions has skyrocketed and audience attendance has multiplied at a phenomenal rate.

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times, “I’m really serious about getting into shape but I can’t afford your nutritional supplements – are they really necessary? Can’t I transform my body without them?” I have to bite my tongue. Invariably the person asking the question is obviously spending a good portion of their disposable income on junk food. My first inclination is to answer in totally a sarcastic fashion, “No, actually those supplements I spent all those years researching and all those tens of thousands of dollars developing are totally superfluous and unnecessary; I just went to all that trouble for the heck of it; sure! You can do without them!”