Thanks for noticing. And you’re welcome. 
What’s stopping you?
Right now, the absolute shock and horror that this gallery still exists. Though barely. Last updated in 2012?
No, I think he adds photos whenever someone submits one.
When I get closer to contest shape, I’ll update my photos.
Triathlon, if I recall. What distance?
No, I’m going to do a Masters bodybuilding competition.
My training partner wants me to run with him, and we ran a short distance to the restaurant after working out yesterday, and that really reinforced the fact that I am so not a runner. Still, I’m game - if he’s patient enough, I’ll try to build up the stamina to do a real run!
Well, now I’m definitely not posting a photo. 
Best of luck to you in your competition.
With the internet, decent exercise and strength programs are super easy to find. As well as proper nutrition.
I believe PED’s are more readily available as well, and are very common with gym rats. It’s not uncommon to overhear gym brahz talking about cycling so and so, or stacking this with that at most bigger gyms.
Just don’t go accusing anyone with better physique/performance of juicing though, because some gym lovers are natural.
I find it to be a pretty good/inexpensive hangout place for people like myself who dont smoke or really drink.
I submitted a picture last year (or maybe even the year before) when I first heard about this gallery. I just checked and it’s not there. So I don’t think it’s being updated, at least not with any regularity.
Maybe you should PM him…
I take it you are not from central Ohio, where most people seem to attain their body habitus from Tim Horton’s and Wendy’s.
I’d actually be curious to follow up on some of those with the very low body fat, high muscularity, look like they are in training for an MMA match individuals in ten years time.
In teens at least there is fairly solid data that individuals most fixated on their physical appearance and using more dieting behaviors were at both greater long term risk of obesity and of anorexia than those who do not. The strongest shared elements are body image dissatisfaction and dieting.
There is no question in my mind that minimally achieving and maintaining very low body fat percentages (e.g. 8% or less) and high muscularity requires extreme fixation on the goal and that most who achieve it use fairly extreme dieting methods in its pursuit.
I still question the premise of the op that there are more with that extreme body type around now, but it would not surprise me to see that as the flip side of increased obesity sharing similar underlaying psychopathologies in some cases.
My speculation is that those with extremely low body fat percentages are at higher risk of obesity long term than those who are more traditionally moderately fit.
I see a lot of middle-aged (or older) men at the gym. Heck, I’m one.
I lot of them look like they were weightlifters or bodybuilders when they were younger, but now look like they are just muscular older guys (big arms and chest, strong, but little definition).
But, still - they are no fatter than the average non-gym rat, and carry a lot more muscle.
So, maybe your ex-MMA guy (or ex-bodybuilder) does end up putting one weight, but I think they still end up being in better shape than someone who never trained.
My own observation is that heavily-muscled folks are a lot more common now than when I was young (I’m 55), but at the same time there’s a LOT more overweight people. Back in the 1970s, we had obese people, and a few super-fit people, but the large majority of people in my recollection were just regular-sized.
Nowadays there are way more overweight/obese people, some more super-fit people, and less of the folks who are what I think of as a healthy but not obsessed size.
I see lots of those too.
And former (natural) fit people always have the advantage of knowing what it takes to shape themselves back up.
How to avoid carbs, sugar, etc… and the compound lifts that builds muscle which will take up more calories just to keep on.
And note my question is between those who are aiming for extremely low, e.g. 8% or less, body fat, and the “more traditionally moderately fit.”
The middle aged or older men at the gym, who likely lifted since youth? Not so sure they were of that group fixated (and it does require a fixation) on achieving that extremely low body fat percent. To me they were more likely the “more traditionally moderately fit”. That group likely includes you, includes people like Shodan who hit new personal bench goals in his late 50s and has moved onto aiming for new pull up goals … maybe even the less impressive but still fit ones like me (all together averaging 5 to 6 hours exercising a week in a combination of activities). What the “more traditionally moderately fit” are not are people “who never trained.”
There is in my mind a fundamental difference between those who are primarily motivated by fitness goals (be it an endurance goal, a speed one, a strength related goal, or some personal balanced hybridized one) and those who are primarily motivated by body image. Again, my speculation is that the former, which includes many lifters, fare better long term than the latter (who have the magazine cover abs.) Not sure that my speculation is correct, but I think so.
A huge fan of exercise I be but accuracy is accuracy -
The amount of calories burned by increased muscle mass is in fact pretty dang slight, maybe 6 to 10 Calories/pound, maybe less. Even 10 extra pounds of muscle is at most 100 Calories a day, the calories of one medium banana, a third of an Einsteins bagel, or less than half a Kit Kat bar. Maybe half as much.
Yet resistance exercise in particular does work as part of a weight maintenance plan. Why? Because people who exercise, especially resistance exercise, move more the rest of the day than those who lose weight and do not exercise. Note that resting energy expenditure (REE) decreased in both exercise groups even though the resistance group presumably had more muscle mass … but total activity increased more than offsetting the decreased calorie burn at rest.
My apologies for the nerdy aside.