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This upcoming Saturday Jefferson high school will host the Natural Bodybuilding Grand Prix for the second straight year.

NEWARK — It keeps getting bigger and bigger.

A preview capsule for the National Gym Association’s 2011 Heart of America Natural Bodybuilding Classic which will be held at Five Points Washington on Saturday.

Since the sport’s revival during the Taliban era, about 200 gyms have sprouted in Kabul alone — many for Mr. Afghanistan contenders, but some for women too. Use of steroids is also on the rise. Mr. Afghanistan is doing his best not to break the leg press as he flexes his toned calves, pumping away under the fluorescent lights of Iron Men Gym. It’s a small basement facility in a strip mall off …

Local bodybuilders gather for competition in the Jefferson High auditorium.

Self-motivation and a lifetime full of doubters are a few things one Boiler bodybuilder uses to stay ahead of his competition.

For two centuries, fund managers in Edinburgh built their companies by handpicking stocks. Now, an academic and former bodybuilder from Mexico is in the city trying to prove a computer can teach itself to do better.

A Mexican academic and former bodybuilder is trying to prove that a computer can do better at picking stocks than a human

Agartala, Apr 29 (ANI): Both beauty and brawn was much on display in Agartala, as men and women from all over the state competed in the 2010-11 state level championship of bodybuilding (DVDs here) and weightlifting.

Mario Lopez, best-selling author of Knockout Fitness, Extra Lean and the newly released Extra Lean Family, and Bodybuilding.com, the Internet’s most-visited bodybuilding (DVDs here) and fitness site and largest online retailer of nutritional supplements, have teamed up to shrink the ever-expanding waistlines of America’s Families. On the tail of Mario’s new healthy-family cookbook, Extra Lean Family …