bodybuilding competition
Muscular posing event
A bodybuilding competition is an event where participants display their physiques to be judged on muscle size, definition, symmetry, and presentation.
Competitors pose under bright lights, often oiled and tanned to emphasize muscular detail.
Categories typically separate by gender, weight class, and style—with divisions like classic physique emphasizing proportion over sheer mass.
She spent months preparing for the bodybuilding competition.
- physiqueBodily structure and form
- stageRaised performance platform
- stage presencePerformer's commanding aura
- posingAssuming an attitude
- flexTense a muscle
muscles · muscle mass · lean body mass · tanned · oiled · judges · trunks · bikini · symmetry · definition · striations · vascularity · pump · ripped · shredded · bulking · cutting · weight class
bodybuilding competitionstrength test
Assessment of physical power
Olympic weightlifting · Highland Games · endurance race · marathon · triathlon
bodybuilding competitionleisurely walk
Slow, relaxed ambulation
bodybuilding competitionsedentary lifestyle
Habitual physical inactivity
muscle wasting · physical inactivity · muscle atrophy · physical neglect · atrophy
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