Building the body beautiful requires total dedication. It is a constant pre-occupation, a quasi-religious quest for physical perfection that consumes every aspect of your life. Bodybuilding is the fashion that happens before clothes. In fact, for bodybuilders, most clothing, although incredibly stylised for the gym or competition, is merely a distraction from the main event: a fucking massive, shiny, hard body made up of cement balloons. We spent a gym session with Lucas Queiroz, a runner-up in the esteemed Mr Titan body building contest, at his local gym, Kings in Dalston, to see if we too could be infected by his zeal for the ultimate male form.
