Rocky Road

This year’s Garden City Classic Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships on Saturday, April 14, were overshadowed by the recent death of veteran female bodybuilder, Jayne Shadbolt-Thin, 42. Along with her husband, well-known trainer, Warren Thin, Jayne had been a force in South Island bodybuilding for many years, and an inspiration to up-and-coming female competitors.

You may remember Roger Callard, as the javelin thrower in Sextette (1978) with Mae West. What about as Sgt Mulrey in Geronimo (1993)? The agent in Sneakers (1992)? Who can forget his powerful physique as Conan the Librarian alongside Wierd Al Yankovich in The Vidiot from UHF (1989)? Or as Ranger son #2 in Twins…

For Sabah Mehdi, former Mr Iraq, the meeting with his idol, Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Arnold Fitness Expo in Columbus Ohio, was a long time coming, but it was worth the 33 year wait. Not only is Sabah Mehdi’s gym in Iraq named after Arnold, but so is his son.

24/7 Gyms are just one of the ways to make a soldier’s life easier in war torn Afganistan. “Each day the multiple gyms at Bagram Airfield are packed with troops determined to return home a tougher, stronger person,” according to Blackanthem.com. 25 year old Spc. John Sheck, a military intelligence analyst for Combined Joint task…