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Born in 1974, Mark grew up in Melbourne and now lives in Sydney. He first joined a gym while at University and eventually moved on to become a serious trainer. A multiple time state champion and three time national champion, he has competed in his native Australia, Austria, Malta, Greece as well as competed in a bench press competition in Japan where he won a silver medal.

Training 
 
"I love to train heavy, real heavy, unless I'm looking at the bar and I'm scared it's not heavy enough. The reason I train is for the feeling of leaving the gym feeling as though I pushed as hard and heavy as I could, every week I try and out-do myself, it makes it fun to go to the gym, maxing out on the big lifts every week is what it's really all about for me, and many, many times it's resulted in my breakfast being spilt all over the gym floor"
 
Diet

"Unless I'm getting ready for a show, I don't really restrict myself at all I eat whatever I want, and as much of it. I'll eat my regular chicken and beef etc. every 3 hours, but I'll eat whatever on top of that, I'm really big on KFC, Red Rooster chips. As soon as it hits 12 weeks out, obviously the hot-chips stop, the base stays the same with the chicken/ beef, but I eat a lot more rice, and heaps and heaps of broccoli with the meals instead."

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At the 2008 NABBA World in Greece:

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Mark posing at the 2007 NABBA Southern Hemispheres