{"id":192273,"date":"2025-09-01T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192273\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:57:10","slug":"muscle-beach-bodybuilding-competitions-heat-up-venice-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192273\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Beach bodybuilding competitions heat up Venice \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Muscle Beach Championship heated up Venice Beach on Labor Day, showcasing body building competitors in different categories.<\/p>\n<p>Fitness enthusiasts began to gather at the Venice Beach Recreation Center Monday morning as they are set to compete in various divisions, including bodybuilding, bikini, men\u2019s physique and couples.<\/p>\n<p>Candice Lang, one of the competitors, said she has been competing for 20 years or so, even winning first place at some of the events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s about the gift and the blessing to be able to do this,\u201d said Lang, who is competing in the Bikini Masters.<\/p>\n<p>One of the competitors on stage may be recognizable as Joe Whitney, the competitions\u2019 promoter, said Grammy-winning artist Lil Jon was set to compete Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Day event took place in partnership with the city of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Muscle Beach Championship heated up Venice Beach on Labor Day, showcasing body building competitors in different categories.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,9176],"class_list":{"0":"post-192273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-venice"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115130810376095656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}