By the time you read this, Chris Bumstead may have become the 2018 Classic Physique Olympia Champion, or he may not have.
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Regardless of the outcome of that event, Chris will have further grown in popularity as a young man who to many epitomizes the ideals of Classic Physique: an X-frame structure with wide shoulders, a wasp waist and flaring thighs, full muscle bellies with near-perfect shape, crisp condition, and graceful yet rugged posing and presentation. It also doesn’t hurt that he’s 6 feet tall and looks like a Hollywood movie star. At just 23 years old, many feel he is the future of the blossoming Classic Physique division. I spoke with him in the final weeks leading up to the 2018 Olympia about competing there with his sister and coach/future brother-in-law, what the Classic division should be about, and how he is growing and evolving along with it.
I was in Tampa and saw your sister Melissa win in what might have been the biggest pro Figure lineup ever, 52 women! You were five weeks out from the Olympia and understandably couldn’t make it, but I’m sure you were very happy for her. This was her first win, right?
It was her second win; she won a contest last year in Virginia. Two weeks prior to Tampa, I’d flown out to LA for another show she did. That made the 10th weekend in a row I’d been out of the country. Starting off my Olympia prep with all that traveling was extra hard. I really did want to be in Tampa for her show, but I needed to lock down my own prep, get on a normal routine again and be home for more than five days. Melissa is very independent. She has no problem being by herself at contests if she has to.
Her boyfriend, and your training partner, Iain Valliere, earned his spot to the Olympia with his first pro win at the Big Man Weekend show in Spain.
This story is from the October 2018 edition of Muscular Development.
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