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Charles Carter | IFBB PRO🌐

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Army vet 🇺🇸 🫡
🌐Men’s physique IFBB PRO
@bodysbyraul_ 🥗athlete code: Carter1
@chulawear1 🩳 code: Carter1
🥷🏾 running my own race

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Olympia 2026 files dump number 2. 🔥🎯⚡️⭕️

#MrOlympia #Vegas #2027 #ItsAWrap #PFLS

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@mrolympiallc 2026 files. 🔥🎯⚡️⭕️

I’m beyond proud of my guys @kiyron_igm and @max_rep100 and the way they showed up.

2027 we on!

#BET #IGM #MrOlympia #InDueTime #PFLS

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Unfortunately chat can’t do the work for you this time.

I guess you have to put in the work and find out. 🤣

Send this to someone who needs to lock in. 🔒⚡️
@purefit_lifestyle

#LockIn #PeptidesWontSaveYou #PutInTheWork #HealthIsWealth #PFLS

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The card didn’t make me a professional. The years it took to earn it did. 🌐

When I started competing, I thought this journey was about building a better physique.

More muscle. Better conditioning. Better posing. Higher placings.

Somewhere along the way, bodybuilding started exposing things that had nothing to do with muscle:

My patience. My ego. My relationship with failure. My ability to remain committed when effort wasn’t immediately rewarded. My willingness to surrender the timeline while honoring the work.

Most importantly—who I was when nobody was clapping.

This road was anything but linear.

2022: 3rd → 4th
2023: 🥇 → 🥇 → Overall
2024: 9th → 8th → 3rd
2025: 12th.

Everybody celebrates the picture holding the card. Few see you backstage after giving everything, staring at a placing you don’t understand and asking:

Do I need a different dream… or do I need to become different for the dream?

I chose the latter.

That required humility—to be coached, see myself objectively, admit where I wasn’t good enough yet, and change without abandoning who I was.

That’s mastery to me.

Not arriving, but meeting yourself at your edge, releasing the ego attached to where you think you should be, and becoming a beginner again.

So I returned.

2025 San Francisco: 🥇
2026 St. Pete: 🥇 + Overall
2026 USA Championships: 2nd — IFBB PRO. 🌐

And when it happened…I was still me.

The card wasn’t the transformation.

It was the receipt.

The losses. Hunger. Exhaustion. Doubt. Discipline. Getting back up without allowing disappointment to harden me—that was the initiation.

Bodybuilding became another classroom. The iron another teacher. It didn’t always give me what I wanted. It gave me what I needed to grow.

To my coaches, family, brothers, friends and every competitor who sharpened me—there are fingerprints from a lot of people on this card. Thank you.

Dr. Malcolm Young, DC — IFBB Men’s Physique Pro. 🌐

Every summit reveals another mountain.

Back to being a student.
Back to becoming.

And somewhere in the distance is another stage. ⭕️

#411.
One final walk across an NPC stage.
I didn’t know exactly how the story would end—I just knew I had emptied the tank writing

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Physique Update (post chest/shoulder workout) @ 235lbs

The goal has been to keep far down and be within striking distance for when prep starts! If you know me, I constantly want more and to be better.

Simple solution: KEEP WORKING 😤🧱

Coach: @flex.ft_bricks

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In the trenches with my @purefit_lifestyle family last weekend for the @musclecontest USAs.

🎥: @malenaapadilla

#EarnedNotGiven #WinnersCircle #OnlineCoach #WINergy #PFLS

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PFLS | USAs

📸 @malenaapadilla

#championmentality#staydisiplined
#neversettle#bodybuilding#motivation

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Turn up the heat and own the stage.

The SCORCHERS combine a bold black-to-red fade with a sleek, athletic fit designed to command attention under the lights. Inspired by fire and intensity, these shorts are made for competitors who bring relentless energy, confidence, and championship presence every time they step on stage.

When the pressure rises, champions don’t cool down—they ignite.

#Boardshorts
#Mensphysique
#Pro
#Ameatuer
#Mensfashion

Wear What the Champs Wear.

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Congratulations to @purefit_lifestyle newest IFBB Pros!

@david_fit_physique Class C 1ST 🌐
@drmalcolmxyoung Class B 2ND 🌐

@felczaq Class H Bikini 4th

Couldn’t be anymore proud of each and every one of you guys!

I appreciate y’all for letting me be apart of your guys journey. 🙏🏽❤️⚡️

#WinnersCircle #IFBBPro #WINergy #OnlineCoach #PFLS

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You don’t rise to the occasion. You fall back on your preparation.

Every opportunity to learn is another opportunity to improve. Grateful to gain valuable insight from some of the best judges and coaches in the bodybuilding and fitness industry.

A huge thank you to @the_dragons_lair and @musclecontest for hosting an outstanding event and creating an opportunity for athletes to learn from the best!

📍 @the_dragons_lair

#mensphysique#bodybuilding
#musclecontest#dragonslair#posingseminar

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Locked in. 🔒

A few shots from Dragon’s Lair and check-ins yesterday. Every step of this journey has been a blessing. God first, always. 🙏🏽

Time to leave it all on stage. Thank you to everyone who’s supported me, believed in me, and shown love throughout this prep. It doesn’t go unnoticed. Let’s bring this one home! 🥇🏆🃏 @chulawear1 the stand was 🔥🙌🏽 @hvywght_chocolate it was a blessing running into you guys thank you for the bars🙏

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Thank you soooo much @the_dragons_lair for having us! Dallas, Kyron, and Charles thank you all for coming!! What an amazing turnout and experience (more to come footage to come) 🖤🫶🏾🙏🏾💙

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