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From Fat Kid to Fitness Competitor

Breaking Muscle
December 07, 2017
From Fat Kid to Fitness Competitor

On October 8th, 2016, I competed in my first physique fitness show. A physique show, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is a bodybuilding-type event where you are judged on stage (in either board shorts or short compression shorts) based on a series of poses you complete to show off your body—muscularity, leanness, etc. I have been involved in fitness for the better part of 10 years, putting my body through rigorous challenges to test my physical limits. Yet, for years and years I never had been interested in stepping on stage to compete in what I deemed to be too superficial a contest for my interests. So why, then, did I ...