And who is this faceless sentinel to the left?!

Bodybuilders are the products of their own craft. That's right: the creator, and the product. Their bodies are the packages they have deisgned for themselves (we have so much more in common than we realize, go package design!)

A Package in Bodybuilding, refers to the "overall impression a competitor presents on stage, based on a balance of several key criteria: size, symmetry, and muscularity". It is what they're actively and competitively being judged on: the results of their craft. Their brand.

This guy to the left is like a portal of sorts: he's magical, like 212 bodybuilders. Special. He allows you to step in-and-out of the package, a privilege that NO real bodybuilder ever has. Except you, of course.

When you step behind him and put your face where his once was, you're inside the package, the cool thing is that you actually get to step out of it - he doesn't. Until he retires. And even then, the muscle doesn't just leave, at least, not that fast anyways.

Bodybuilding makes you into a product, and he allows you to imagine what it must truly be like to devote your body full-time to a craft.

Below you can find photos of some of my brave classmates who dared to become packages!