At the Petit-Couronne weight room (Seine-Maritime), it's not easy to talk to Pascal Mazure.
A check here, a quick word there, the current French champion of natural bodybuilding in less than 80 kilos is here like at home.
It must be said that he spends between two and three hours there almost every day, when he is not training at home, just to sculpt a body that he first learned to know through martial arts: "C was my passion.
And it is precisely to gain power that I started bodybuilding.
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Only here, the year in which the Blues won their first World Cup, he suffered a serious road accident which left him paralyzed in his lower limbs.
But already the will of the champion allows him, after long months of rehabilitation and numerous operations, to walk again and then to begin his own “remountada” which will take him to the heights of bodybuilding.
Without anabolics or steroids
This Saturday, November 6, at 48 years old, Pascal Mazure will defend the colors of the French team for the first time in his career at the ICN European Natural Bodybuilding Championships in the Czech Republic. "It is a recognition of the work accomplished, of the sacrifices that I make on a daily basis to be efficient", assures with emotion the one who leaves nothing to chance, from food, weighed to the nearest gram, to hours of sleep, by the way. by each muscle fiber he works like precision mechanics.
All without anabolics or steroids since it competes within the Natural Fitness and Bodybuilding Association (AFBBN).
Only food supplements are tolerated to avoid deficiencies related to hours spent lifting cast iron.
“We're less impressive than some bodybuilders, that's for sure.
But we preserve our body, ”says Pascal Mazure.
It would be better.
Because he hopes to one day become the oldest competing bodybuilder in the world.
