United States Of America is a country located on the American Continent and it got border with Canada in North and West (Alaska belongs to the USA) and Mexico in the South. The US are synonymous of sport culture and the huge amount of disciplines are very notorius. The indian culture on that country got many contrasts like Seminols, Navajos, Apaches, Cherokees, Sioux, Mohawks, etc. The United States are best known inside the sport world as one for the most competitives around the planet and the bodybuilding is not the exception. On figure class, there's a woman with a lot of potential and she can be one of the most important revelations in that category. Her name is Joy Acree and you'll know thoroughly about this powerful muscle warrior.
Musculator Girl Profile
Name: Joy Acree
Date of birth: July 26, 1970
Birthplace (City, State and Country): Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Present Hometown (City, State and Country): Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.
Age: 53 years old
Profession: Legal Word Processor
Years of training: Training Since 1996, But didn't start competing until 2001.
Please give us a little introduction of yourself: My name is Joy Acree. I am originally from Cleveland, Ohio and now live in Phoenix, Arizona since 2004. I graduated High School in 1988 and took a year off after High School and went to College in 1989 and graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Processing. I love to travel, hike, hangout w/my girlfriends being going to the mall or out to dinner and the movies. I also enjoy playing Tennis, Bike Riding (both real and mountain bike), Bowling, and of course enjoy working out.
Contest History: Started competing in April of 2001.
- 2001 NPC Natural Northern USA. 6th place
- 2002 NPC Natural Ohio Figure Medium Class. 6th place
- 2004 NPC Natural Ohio Open Figure Class B. 9th place
- 2005 NPC Max Muscle Western Regional – Masters Figure Medium Class (8th place); Open Figure Class B (12th place)
- 2006 OCB Arizona Natural – Masters 35-39 (8th place); Figure Medium (8th place)
- 2006 NPC Natural Northern USA – Masters 35 over (13th place) and Class B (15th place)
- 2008 NPC Max Muscle Western Regional – Figure Junior Masters Short (6th place); Class C (6th place)
- 2009 NPC Max Muscle Natural Western USA – Junior Masters Tall (10th place); Class C (10th place)
- 2009 NPC Natural Ohio – Masters Figure 35 to 39 yrs old (10th place); Class B (16th place)
- 2013 NPC Arizona Open - Figure Jr Masters. 3rd place
- 2013 NPC Natural Northern USA - Figure Jr Masters (13th place) and Figure Open Class B (14th place)
- 2015 NPC Dennis James Classic - Masters Figure (3rd place) and Figure Open Class B (5th place)
- 2016 NPC Dennis James Classic - Figure Masters 35+ Class A (1st place) and Figure Masters 45+ (3rd place)
- 2016 NPC Europa Show - Figure Masters 45+. 3rd place
- 2018 NPC Europa Show - Figure Masters 45+ 1st place and Figure Masters 35+ 4th place
- 2019 IFBB Olympia Amateur - 16th place Figure
Training Routine: I really don't have a Set Routine…. I just make sure I hit every part once a week and on my weak parts, I try and do twice a week. But I do go to the Gym at least 6 days a week.
Best bodypart: Upper Body, especially abs.
Favorite exercise: I really don't have a favorite exercise….. I train each bodypart to benefit me in bettering my physique.
Favorite music: R&B
Favorite color: Purple
Favorite Quote: Each day, each hour, each minute is special. Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no one.
Favorite bodybuilder (man and woman): Don Long (male) & Dana Linn Bailey (Female)
Hobbies: I enjoy traveling, hiking, bowling w/friends, going fun shopping w/my girlfriends and of course working out at the gym.
A typical day in your life: I get up during the week at 7:00 am to get myself ready for the gym, get to the gym by 8:30 am and do my cardio and whatever bodypart is for that day. After I am done working out at the gym, go home and get myself ready for work. Get off work go home and relax and begin it all over the next day. On weekends I do workout but it varies from whatever plans that I will have going on.
Sponsors: No sponsors as of yet.
What do you enjoy most about the bodybuilding/fitness lifestyle?
The challenges of training and dieting in getting ready for a competition and just seeing how far you can take your body to be the best you can be on stage!
What do you enjoy about training for competition?
Again, seeing how far I can take myself and what improvements I can make in my body.
Curiosities about yourself: As each year that I plan on competing I just wonder how far I can take my body to improve the flaws that are seen on stage and to hope to work harder on the flaws to improve.
What has left in your life the practice of the sport?
In being in routine in making sure I go to the Gym every morning, cooking my food every Sunday for the week and loving how I look and feel to where I get compliments that I don't look my age.
Which are your most appraised values like athlete and person?
That I work hard, be determined, and strive for my goals in both as an athlete and my everyday life.
Which is the difference between the Offseason and On Season in your own words?
Offseason is when you can eat a little more freely and not being super strict like On Season. Offseason is where you can train harder and lift heavier because you have the energy to do so. On Season is when the strict dieting, more cardio and true discipline begins… when it is all or nothing knowing you want to be the best on stage.
Which is the greatest satisfaction in your sport career?
The preparation in getting ready for a competition. The changes that you see in yourself as the weeks go by until the big day when you know you did all you can do in getting yourself ready and to present the best physique that you have worked so hard for.
The woman in the present world has shown their capacity for take challenges in all society fields and the sport is not the exception. What do you think about the female sport on the future?
I think it is good to see female athletes compete in a sport that they say are really dedicated more to men…. but a woman can workout just as hard as a man and be dedicated in the sport to where the female should be treated the same as the man in the sport because we have to workout just as hard, if not harder than they do. We should be recognized in the sweat and tears that we put in to get on stage and perform well. I just hope in the future it will be seen and us women can be treated with the respect of the sport just as a man is.
Do you want to say something else to the Female Muscle Fans, as well as the female amateur athletes?
Never give up your dreams and goals…. strive for what you want and you will succeed!!
Photographs
After the individual phase, now is the time of the group poses. Joy and the other participants are ready to show their best physique forms to add more score for the 1st place.
The left side pose is the next step in the long and hard way for victory. Joy is making her best techninque in this aesthetic pose for a great accuracy in her score for better results.
Now is time to show the back and the well detailed job done over the months of hard training and strict diet in order to keep scoring many points for the honor podium.
The final round is rising the temperature and nerves for all crowd, and Joy knows this is the critical moment for giving the most powerful authority punch and making more history for her impressive sports career.
Now is time to make the left side pose for increasing the score, the last moments of the final round are very exciting and therefore nervousness is in its most critic point. Joy and the other participants are making the last struggle for reaching the total glory.
The tournament has ended and now the time for announcing the winners is near, Joy and the other participants are receiving many congratulations for the great tournament they gave with an outstanding level and a very excited crowd who supported their favorite athletes.
Joy finally gets the 1st place in Figure Masters 45+ Class. Joy has gotten the crown to her done efforts of hard work in all aspects. Also, Joy participated in Figure Masters 35+ Class, where she got 4th place. It was a big day for this sensational woman from Cleveland, Ohio.
After her big achievements in NPC Europa Show in its 2018 edition, Joy Acree is back to action in 2019. Now is time to face a new challenge in her sports career.
Now is time to show a back pose, in which Joy has worked out a lot for making a good performance and therefore gaining more points for rising to the top.
With no doubts, Joy has sensuality, charisma, strenght and beauty, and those attributes are key factor to gain points for each pose in the tournament. Her smile reflects the way she is making the things in this championship. Security in a few words.
As you can see, Joy Acree is getting an ascendant career in Figure Class, and little by little she's showing all her talent and dedication inside this sport. Keep an eye to Joy because she can offer to Female Muscle Fans many interesting surprises on the United States' bodybuilding scene. Joy Acree is a woman with firm convictions and one of them is her strong will against steroids because she's a natural athlete and she can fight for her goals and ambitions as a warrior by normal means. Joy Acree has shown her potential and get by assurance that she'll be a worthy ambassador of the huge winner tradition in USA's bodybuilding, competing with determination, overcoming, discipline and triumph desires.
That's all for this profile, and we hope you have enjoyed this work whose purpose is know and understand all the stories, reasons and another things related to the female muscle representatives. The female muscle is a great passion that deserves to be followed so close and this is a tribute for the women that fights everyday for achieve the best physique form in order to reach the wellbeing with themselves and the rewards to all their efforts. See you next time Female Muscle Fans.
Important Notes: All the photographies are used by Joy Acree's courtesy and personal authorization, so contact her if you want to use her pictures.
Joy doesn't do sessions or wrestling of any kind. Please respect her because first than nothing she's a woman that needs a treatment just like all the human beings.
It is strictly forbidden to reproduce any part of this journalistic work in all aspects.
Entradas
