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In our third interview following the 2023 natural bodybuilding season, we sit down with another historic champion with a truly outlier series of performances. This time, Australian phenom Beccy Pateman joined the Erics on Iron Culture to discuss her season, which culminated not only in her winning her WNBF pro card in both Figure and Fit Body, but also winning the WNBF pro world fit body title. As we’ve discussed, for an athlete to turn pro in the WNBF and win a pro world title in the same season is incredibly rare. Further, the weekend prior to WNBF worlds, Beccy won the Professional Natual Olympia Figure title in the INBA/PNBA. Winning two world titles, relatively early in one’s career, in two different federations, and in two different divisions nonetheless, is an even more incredible feat, which only a handful of athletes have ever done in the history of natural bodybuilding. Indeed, the athletes who have done so have, in most cases, gone on to become legends of natural bodybuilding. How did Beccy do it? What did it take for her to get to this point in her career and what is in store for her? Join us to find out!
00:00 Dr Trexler… Dr Helms…
05:22 Introducing Beccy
14:54 The timeline of Beccy’s journey
20:48 A recap of Beccy’s season
31:22 Testing for Natural Bodybuilding: urinalysis and polygraph testing
38:28 Winning her pro card at WNBF Australia and competing at The Natural Olympia
43:18 Competing in two divisions and working with Joey Cantlin
48:45 Beccy’s WNBF Pro debut and potential for the bodybuilding division
59:38 The recovery and what helped Beccy have such a successful season
1:11:50 Transitioning from recovery to off-season
1:14:50 Final words and where to find Beccy
Instagram @beccypateman instagram.com/beccypateman
Unrivalledphysiques Coaching
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Website unrivalledphysiques.wixsite.com/onlinecoaching
In our third interview following the 2023 natural bodybuilding season, we sit down with another historic champion with a truly outlier series of performances. This time, Australian phenom Beccy Pateman joined the Erics on Iron Culture to discuss her season, which culminated not only in her winning her WNBF pro card in both Figure and Fit Body, but also winning the WNBF pro world fit body title. As we’ve discussed, for an athlete to turn pro in the WNBF and win a pro world title in the same season is incredibly rare. Further, the weekend prior to WNBF worlds, Beccy won the Professional Natual Olympia Figure title in the INBA/PNBA. Winning two world titles, relatively early in one’s career, in two different federations, and in two different divisions nonetheless, is an even more incredible feat, which only a handful of athletes have ever done in the history of natural bodybuilding. Indeed, the athletes who have done so have, in most cases, gone on to become legends of natural bodybuilding. How did Beccy do it? What did it take for her to get to this point in her career and what is in store for her? Join us to find out!
00:00 Dr Trexler… Dr Helms…
05:22 Introducing Beccy
14:54 The timeline of Beccy’s journey
20:48 A recap of Beccy’s season
31:22 Testing for Natural Bodybuilding: urinalysis and polygraph testing
38:28 Winning her pro card at WNBF Australia and competing at The Natural Olympia
43:18 Competing in two divisions and working with Joey Cantlin
48:45 Beccy’s WNBF Pro debut and potential for the bodybuilding division
59:38 The recovery and what helped Beccy have such a successful season
1:11:50 Transitioning from recovery to off-season
1:14:50 Final words and where to find Beccy
Instagram @beccypateman instagram.com/beccypateman
Unrivalledphysiques Coaching
Instagram @unrivalledphysiques instagram.com/unrivalledphysiques
Website unrivalledphysiques.wixsite.com/onlinecoaching




![Ep. 252- The First Bodybuilding Show
[Special Thanks To Barbell Films]
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The Great Competition, 1901, Royal Albert Hall, London…this was the birthplace of modern bodybuilding. The one and only Eugen Sandow managed to persevere through multiple years of war, logistical setbacks, and a political and cultural climate that viewed physique displays as potentially indecent, sometimes immoral, and at worst, as illegal pornography, to host the first championship bodybuilding show to find the “best built man in Britain and Ireland”. To even compete, entrants had to place top three in a full series of regional qualifiers where hundreds upon hundreds of athletes battled against one another in the years prior. Further, to even enter these regional qualifiers, entrants had to send in their pictures to Eugen Sandow’s magazine for initial screening. The eventual championship in 1901 was truly a spectacle. Nearly ten thousand attendees packed Royal Albert Hall to the brim, an astonishing number that rivals the attendance of any modern bodybuilding competition…even the Olympia. Indeed, this historic event reverberates into the modern era, as modern Olympia winners receive “the Sandow”, a replica of the trophy given to the third place winner of The Great Competition. In this episode we’re joined by Marcus Kment, a film maker, physical culturist and amateur historian, who recently produced an excellent documentary on the Great Competition and the athletes who competed in it to discuss its significance and their story. Additionally, he’s joined by our very own Dr. Conor Heffernan who consulted on this project. Join us to learn about this jaw-dropping history, as once again, history proves stranger than fiction!
00:00 It happened again… Where is Trexler? And the hierarchy of the Iron Culture Obelisk
8:58 Reviewing reviews
13:01 Introducing Marcus to the Iron Culture Pantheon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha80AQqXpT4
17:38 Marcus’ introduction to physical culture and why he does what he does
23:01 The great competition and its grand scale
41:16 The logistical barriers and generating interest
55:05 What happened on show day and the prizes
1:04:52 The dress code (black tights!?), judging criteria, and the winners
1:12:00 A festival of physical culture and what came after
1:20:22 The impact of the great competition
1:37:09 The personal stories spanning generations: the starting point of physical culture
1:43:43 The value this great documentary brings
1:47:44 Jumping to the top of the pyramid (that matters) and what’s next for Marcus
Where to find our guests
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