Lisa Lyon

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Lisa Lyon
Personal Info
Birth	1953, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Professional Career
Pro-debut	1979 AAU Junior Ms America, 1979
Best win	1979 AAU Junior Ms America, 1979
Active	Retired 1979

Lisa Lyon is a female bodybuilder from the United States. Her stats as taken on October 1980: She stands at 5'3" and weighs only 105 pounds, but she can dead-lift 225 pounds, bench-press 120 pounds, and squat 265 pounds; two and a half times her own weight.

[edit] Background

Born in Los Angeles, California in 1953, Lisa Lyon is regarded as one of female bodybuilding's pioneers. She studied art at the University of California at Los Angeles, and became accomplished in kendo, the Japanese art of fencing. She began weight training to build more upper body strength for kendo.

Lyon entered and won the first IFBB Women’s World Pro Bodybuilding Championship in Los Angeles on June 16, 1979. This was the only bodybuilding competition of her career. Nevertheless, she became a media sensation, appearing in many magazines and on television talk shows. She also wrote a book on weight training for women titled Lisa Lyon’s Body Magic (ISBN 0-553-01296-7), which was published in 1981.

Lyon became the first female bodybuilder to appear in Playboy in October, 1980. She was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame in 2000.

Lyon played Cimmaron in Vamp, a low-budget 1986 film starring Grace Jones.

Lyon modeled for American fine art photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, resulting in the 1983 book Lady: Lisa Lyon (ISBN 0-312-05290-1).

[edit] External links

• IFBB Hall of Fame profile
• Lisa Lyon at the Internet Movie Database