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For the record, I do not like my game face. It looks very crabby and I do something with my chin which causes me to look like a baby Shar Pei. Bleh. I’ve had some good yuks with my lifter Katy down in Texas about her game face. A normally cheery gal with a gallon sized smile, it all goes out the window on the platform…

One of my all time favorite game faces comes from weightlifter Melanie Roach…

I mean, srsly, you’re smack dab in the middle of a heavy clean and you’re still smiling? That’s talent. Bigg has a pretty focused game face but last year he said he wanted to be a bit more dialed in prior to the start of the competition which produced this introduction game face in Gibraltar…

Very Bullocky. Understanding a game face isn’t hard. We put it on during game time. Some are fierce, some are friendly, some are ugly *coughMEcough*.

I’ve come to appreciate body builder’s game faces these last few years. They are twisting and contracting and still need to make their face look soft and relaxed. What is, I believe, misunderstood in the world is that a complete picture like this…

…is a game face picture. These types of images usually follow when women or men rant that women don’t want to strength train and get big and bulky (cuz they’d turn out exactly like this right? Dumbasses.) Folks, this is a game face. These images, whether on stage or in a photo shoot, are not how these people look walking around in the world. Because we don’t walk around the world in our game face. They’ve trained, dieted, and dehydrated for this look and it quickly goes away after the competition. Duh.

Lidia Valentin Perez’s game face is one of the best. Fierce, but cool. That’s what I aim for and fail. Every time.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne