Afghan Abs

Benjamin Lowy

Men's Health Magazine

Afghan Abs - Poor Afghan traditional wrestlers work out in a small ill-equiped gym on April 11 2007. In the six years since the US invasion of Afghanistan and the fall of the Talbian, gyms and specifically the practice of bodybuilding have spread across the country, with more than 90 gyms opened in Kabul alone.

Benjamin Lowy, "Afghan Abs," in POYi Archive, Item #40563, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/40563 (accessed June 8, 2025).