The petite Kacy Catanzaro shocked and awed people with her performance on "American Ninja Warrior." She became the first woman to complete both the preliminary course and semi-finals course -- and she made it look easy. Don't even get us started on her impressive run up the Warped Wall (a 17-foot high curved wall that contestants get over to get to the next stage of the course. Considering she's only five feet tall, this is a most impressive feat).

Unfortunately, she didn't make it through the finals course, but the former gymnast definitely left her mark. She trains by doing bodyweight circuits and cardio (and, of course, practicing on the "Ninja Warrior" obstacle course she has in her backyard).

There's not a single part of Crossfit Games champion Camille Leblanc-Bazinet's body that we don't envy -- but her toned, ripped quads are some serious "leg day" inspiration (and they cause us to use the term "quadzilla" in a completely serious, non-ironic way).

The 26-year-old Canadian Crossfitter kicked some serious butt in the Crossfit games this year, earning her the title of the Fittest Woman on Earth. The 5'2" 125-pound powerhouse trains hard; she works out at least twice a day three times a week. While she is religious about what she puts in her mouth (clean foods only -- and she weighs her food), it's not because she's watching her weight. Beauty, she says, isn't about being skinny. It's about confidence and accomplishing your goals.

But Leblanc-Bazinet's not all about lifting heavy weights and doing impossible-looking gymnastics feats -- she's also studying to become a chemical engineer. Talk about brawny and brainy.

Every inch of Danyelle Wolf's 6-foot-tall frame is taut muscle, but it's her abs that are seriously enviable (and force us to admit that we may need to put some extra effort into our core work).

The Olympic hopeful is also proof that it's never too late to start on your dreams: she'd never even touched a pair of boxing gloves until she was 25. Now, she's a two-time USA Boxing Champion and is on Team USA, thanks to a lot of hard work (think two to three hours of training a day, plus cardio). And even though she's ripped, tough and sporty, she also makes it a point that she likes fashion and other so-called "girly" endeavors, because the perception of a female boxer is quite the opposite of that. See, muscles and high heels don't have to be mutually exclusive.

24-year-old Jamie Anderson has the kind of Zen approach to life you would expect more from a Venice Beach hippie than an Olympic athlete; she brought her essential oils and crystals with her to the top of the mountain at the 2014 Winter Olympics (where she won the gold medal in the Women's Slopestyle event), extols the virtues of yoga and talks about the moon cycle. But that's not to say she isn't dedicated to her sport: in fact, she's one of the few professional snowboarders out there who doesn't have a coach.

She told ESPN, "I'm not your typical rock-hard ripped girl. [Editor's note: we'll take her abs any day of the week.] But that's what I love and embrace about myself. I feel good, but I always feel like I can be better."

Aja Evans alternates between being lean and mean on the field and strong and muscular come bobsled season. That's because the athlete trains for not one, but two Olympic sports: track and field and bobsledding. (She took the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics.)

While we won't exactly be winning any Olympic medals anytime soon, we're still inspired by the variances in Evans' training and diet depending on her specific goals (she's said that track and field requires you to be leaner than the muscle-y powerhouse of a body that would excel at bobsledding).