ABSTRACT
Standing 6-foot-3 and weighing in at 250 pounds, Luke Cottrill is one of the biggest men at the gym. Most people, he tells me, find it hard to believe he is gay, because he’s so “not the stereotype.” His colossal size-he’s extremely muscular as well as fat-can appear intimidating to most guys on the street or at the gym. But Luke is not just big; he is usually the strongest guy at the gym-any gym. He can squat 450 pounds, bench press 350, and dead lift 500. Luke says that he does not “work out for symmetry and beauty; I train for strength.”
