Olympic body types

As we’re well aware, women and men come in all shapes and sizes. This saying has never been so apparent than in New York photographer Howard Schatz’s latest series of photographs, which documents the amazing diversity of body types of USA Olympic athletes. Short and tall, muscular and slim, big and small – almost all body […]

Body types of Top athletes

In Olympic weightlifting, people of every body type imaginable can be seen competing at the highest levels.

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“I am enjoying using Howard Schatz's images of female athletes as my reference for female Super Hero body types when I work with artists. I'm sort of in love with all these powerful women.”

Body types of Olympic athletes

"howard schatz's images of female athletes are unbelievable" by nina bahadur, huffpo: you always hear a lot of talk about female body image along with fitness and exercise. i found this post, which actually digs up an old picture from back in 2004, to be pretty interesting and relevant to that topic. basically, it says that athleticism comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

Olympic athletes show strength comes in ALL shapes and sizes

Olympics athletes are in the peak of condition to perform and excel at a range of sporting events — which means that their body types and how they train vary dramatically.

A new project by New York-based photographer Howard Schatz has laid bare the wide spectrum of body types that can make an athlete.