Fake Weights | Fake Photoshoots

This guy is curling over 400lbs, FAKE, FAKE FAKE

QUESTION: Is it true that fake weights are often used in photo shoots to make the champs seem stronger than they really are?

ANSWER: Yes, this is true! The fake weights are now made of aluminum, but they used to be made of Styrofoam. If you don’t believe me, check out the picture of the guy above doing curls with over 400-pounds! Those weights are labeled as 45s. The pros are forced to lift heavier-than-normal weight for photos because this makes for a more impressive picture. To avoid injury, they often use fake weights when they’re shooting right before or after a show.

Tricky Tricky... The weights above are made of Foam RUBBER

Another trick done in tons of bodybuilding and powerlifting photo shoots is to just take pictures of the bodybuilder holding and then lowering a crazy amount of weight! Then in the magazine, you just reverse the order of the photos so that the “start” is at the bottom of the lift and the “finish” is the photo taken before he or she lowered the weight to begin with. Reversing this order in the magazine layout makes it look like the athlete lifted the weight, but all they did was slow it down on the way to the floor!

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