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Bodybuilders strut their (bu) stu.

While bodybuilders can look intimidating, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more upbeat, protein-shaker-half-full community. At the shows, everyone is thrown into close quarters for a weekend of spray-tanning and onstage flexing, but for the rest of the season, training can be a rather solitary pursuit. So we tracked down a few of the city’s competitors and brought them together—where else?—at the gym.

Jenn Farrell AS TOLD TO Pooya Nabei PHOTO BY

Group portrait taken at Gold’s Gym, Burnaby, March 16, 2018