Becoming a male fitness model

If you have developed a great looking muscular physique then you may be surprised at how easy it is to get some work, muscular athletic guys with well defined abs are in demand.  You do not need to be a huge bodybuilder to become a male fitness model but you certainly need to have definition and some quite thick muscle mass.  The most important thing is the abs, all the companies want killer abs, that means defined blocky abs not just a trim looking waist.  If your a muscular male you are much more likely to get work in fitness modeling than in fashion modeling, you will not get paid as well as fashion models but there are much more job opportunities.

Your first jobs as a male fitness model won’t pay well, lots of guys go in for fitness modeling to impress their friends and girlfriends, or to put pictures on their personal training website to help boost their personal training career.  Fitness photographers will either pay you a flat fee for your photos upfront or go 50:50 on the sale of the photo with you afterwards.

Getting fitness modeling jobs relies heavily on location to, you need to really be in a major city like London where you can easily travel to photo shoots, if you live too far away they will often not be interested as you may find it difficult to get to locations on time regularly.

Some pointers in the right direction-

• Mail your unsolicited photos to the editorial staff at magazines.
• Email your photos to fitness photographers who do the photos for major fitness magazines.
• Don’t worry about being in the perfect shape in your photos, the photographers can tell what you will look like coming up to the shoot so if your bulking currently it’s not a problem.
• Make sure your photos you send in focus on your abs and make sure to include a face shot.
• If asked for body part photos make sure to include just that, don’t put your head in that same photo it distracts from the muscle group and makes your muscle look smaller.
• Send in your body measurements with your photos e.g. arm size, neck size, chest size, height, weight etc

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