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"I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.”

--Steve Reeves

Exhausted, but in a good way!

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pumped AF, sweaty and exhausted (in a good way) 😀

Taipei, Taiwan

Brief History of CrossFit

CrossFit was founded by former gymnast Greg Glassman, and the first CrossFit affiliated gym opened in Santa Cruz in 1995. CrossFit itself is a strength and conditioning fitness methodology that promotes broad and general overall physical fitness using a myriad of exercises more commonly found in the activities of weightlifting, sprinting, and gymnastics.

Designed to enhance a wide array of physical characteristics simultaneously such as cardiovascular endurance, power, flexibility, speed, agility, and balance, the popularity of CrossFit has truly taken off in recent years. The number of affiliated gyms grew from 18 in 2005 to almost 1,700 in 2010.

CrossFit attracts and is truly for any person that engages in some fitness regimen. It inspires those of us who train to perhaps think of new, fun, and creative methods for training. And in much the same way as the Olympics inspires us to think and dream of what we are capable of when pushed, I’d argue that CrossFit offers this emotion and concept to a greater array of people who are perhaps not as gifted in one particular area as an Olympian or professional athlete but still have the drive for self-improvement.

Roses are red

I'm pumped AF

This isn't a poem

While wandering around downtown Ft. Lauderdale we came across a CrossFit competition in a parking lot beside the Revolution Live nightclub. The males were strutting their stuff at the time so here are 4 "beefy" shots.

THE REVOLUTION GAMES

The inaugural Revolution Games are bringing a whole new experience in fitness competition to South Florida. The Revolution Games will be held in downtown Fort Lauderdale, and will combine two days of intense physical competitions along with the best in South Florida entertainment.

Crossfit Muscle Farm has partnered with 3J Hospitality to bring you two full days of non stop action that will challenge athletes both physically and mentally. The Revolution Games will give athletes the chance to compete in a classic, Games style format of competition. The athletes will be test on their strength, skills, and overall endurance during each of these events. Be ready for a weekend of high level competition combined with the best entertainment and night life in Fort Lauderdale for an experience like no other. Come out and see what the future of fitness competitions in South Florida looks like… Join the Revolution!

100 SW 3rd Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL

While wandering around downtown Ft. Lauderdale we came across a CrossFit competition in a parking lot beside the Revolution Live nightclub. The males were strutting their stuff at the time so here are 4 "beefy" shots.

On April 12-13, the inaugural Revolution Games CrossFit Competition gathered a lean and muscular crowd to work up a sweat in a unique locale, downtown Fort Lauderdale’s typically boozy Himmarshee District.

The competition will took place 8 a.m.-6 p.m. each day outside the Revolution Live nightclub (100 SW Third Ave.), with an expected 250 men and women in amateur, professional and team categories vying for $10,000 in cash and prizes. The games were broken down into five groups, including elite, RX, masters, team and the scaled division, “a fun competitive category open to most any CrossFit fan.”

Contestant entry fees was $110, and $220 per team, with applications at TheRevolutionGames.com.

The free-to-watch event was hosted by 3J Hospitality (owner of Revolution Live) and CrossFit Muscle Farm. And, yes, there was an afterparty at Revolution, America’s Backyard and Stache each day.

Even when seen during a slow weekend afternoon on a sports-bar TV, watching a CrossFit competition, with its glistening contestants powerlifting and kettlebelling and grunting and doing those crazy handstand push-ups, is always highly motivating. If only we hadn’t just ordered that pitcher and platter of wings.

Some dude trying out the fitness challenge set up by Coastal Fitness at the 2013 Hong Kong Beach Rugby 5s, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong. For more of my rugby pictures, click here. I have more pictures from the Beach 5s, so if you played on Sunday get in touch with me as I may have taken your picture.

We're Here theme: What else? Milk!

Turning 40 Project: 40 photos/4 weeks

these were so funny had to upload a couple more

We're here theme: Milk

We're Here theme: What else? Milk!

Turning 40 Project: 40 photos/4 weeks

This figure is found at the casino entrance on the Mariner of the Seas cruise ship.

desktop wallpaper of former bikini now figure competitor Melissa Marx

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and I officially have proof she enjoys participating in my charades!!!! Huge smile on her face... HIP HIP HOORAY!!!

We're Here theme: milk

Turning 40 Project: 40 photos/4 weeks

I tried to keep my eyes open but just couldn't do it!

We're here theme: Milk

Fitness gym woman strength training lifting dumbbell weights in Bent-over One-Arm Dumbbell Row. Female fitness girl exercising indoor in fitness center. Beautiful fit mixed race Asian Caucasian model.

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A powerful muscular man lifting weights

Mixtape Photo Challenge Vol.1

Track5. JaughnBearen - Survivor-Eye Of The Tiger

Rocky 3 is one of my all-time favorite movies. The acting might not be the greatest, but the story is awesome. A man who went from nothing to World Champ who let himself become "hollywood", and let the fame and success go to his head, until he got his ass whooped by Mr. T, who was the hungrier fighter the first time they fought. It took this major ass whooping to give Rocky a slap in the face which brought him back to reality. Its a real jungle out there, and the competition is cutthroat. Time does not wait for anybody. We are not living in a movie, and sometimes you only get one chance. No matter how good we may get at our trade, we must never let that get to our head. It is vital to always maintain humble and keep that hunger that pushed you to get to where you wanted to be. It is important to always have that "Eye of the Tiger" and always fight to make your dreams come true. The only thing in the way of us and our dreams is ourselves, once you lose that hunger, that fight, and that passion about what you do, then is there anything worth fighting for? Always remember why you are a photographer in the first place...Do what you love, and do it how you want to do it. No one can ever take that away from you.

I had tons of ideas for how I wanted to shoot a picture for this song. But here I am in "The Lab" doing the Alien Bee Bench Press, pushing weight, and pushing lights at the same time. The Lab is where I do my fitness and excercises. Im always eating and im even hungrier.

Strobist:

Nikon SB-900 Speedlight into a 43" Umbrella above subject

AlienBee AB-800 @ 1/8 bare on Right

AlienBee AB-400 @1/8 bare on left

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