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One of Australia’s most well known pros Luke Wood has announced his retirement from professional bodybuilding. A multiple time Australia champion, Luke turned pro in early 2000’s and went on to compete and guest pose all over the world. Luke’s best career pro showing was the 2005 New York Pro where he placed extremely well [...]

The IFBB Tasmanian Bodybuilding Championships will be held on Saturday October 4, 2008 at the Hobart College Auditorium. Australian IFBB pro Luke Wood will be the guest poser. For more information see www.xtremegym.com.au

In light of recent events, we thought we would highlight Luke Wood’s best ever pro showing, which most would argue was the 2005 New York pro where he placed extremely well - 7th in a field of 32.
In that show, he beat well known bodybuilders including Bob Cicherillo, Kai Green, Mustafa Mohammad, George Farah, Will [...]

The summary from both Luke himself and Milos Sarcev, IFBB pro and trainer of Aussie IFBB pro Luke Wood, infers that it was caused by an incorrect dose of pharmaceuticals when posting recently about what happened with Luke at the Atlantic City Pro. Luke was reported to be shaking onstage, and was in the last callout, after showing great promise [...]

Melvin Anthony [USA] won the men’s bodybuilding, Lisa Auckland [USA] won the women’s bodybuilding, Tracey Greenwood [USA] won fitness, and Jennifer Gates [USA] won the Figure.

Australians
Con Demetriou - 16th/DNP
Luke Wood – 16th/DNP
Rosa-Maria Romero – 16th/DNP
Donna Jones - 6th!
Jacqui Jarrett of New Zealand placed 16th/DNP
Men’s Bodybuilding Results
1. Melvin Anthony
2. Johnny Jackson
3. Darrem Charles
4. Toney Freeman
5. Joel [...]

The 2008 IFBB Atlantic City Pro has two Australian bodybuilders competing in addition to Donna and Rosa; Con Demetriou and Luke Wood.
Dave Palumbo, the editor of Muscular Development had this to say about the two Aussie pros.
“Luke Wood: looks like he lost muscle…….. he’s shaking onstage………. he’s hard but completely flat and undersized”
“Constatino Demtrious [sic] Australia……… [...]

The Atlantic City Pro will be held this weekend and the competitor line up includes 4 Australian IFBB pros for one of the largest showings by Australia in a pro show in recent years. New Zealand figure pro Jacqui Jarrett also is listed as competing, making the southern hemisphere showing even stronger.
Luke Wood , Con Demetriou [...]

A selection of photos of Australian IFBB pro Luke Wood taken on September 4th - 8 days out from the Atlantic City Pro, where he and 3 other Australian pros are scheduled to compete.
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We realize this may comes across as extremely biased on our part as it is an Australian Pro – but in our opinion Luke Wood is simply the clear cut winner of these posedowns.
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Australian IFBB pro bodybuilder Luke Wood headed back to the USA last month. After stopping in at the famed Koloseum Gym in California owned by Milos Sarcev, Luke went on to Oklahoma City. A layoff last year had Luke weighing in at approximately 105 kg/231 lbs and in these March 2008 photos he is back [...]