All set for Body Building Championship
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Tough competition: Body builders, Champion Mbewe (left) and Mogomotsi Kgabo are ready for the November tournament. PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
The organiser of the event, Lust Sithole said the body building competition, which was introduced in 2010, would see the introduction of new categories.
The new categories are men’s fitness and women’s bikini challenge. The main contest is for the Mr. Iron man and Miss Iron woman award. Sithole said the contestants will be judged in the relax, compulsory and the freestyle poses. He said under the poses, judges would look at the athlete’s body proportion, symmetry, density and definition, looking at thickness and muscle separation.
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