Maximize Your Delts

Photos by Per Bernal “I WASN’T ALLOWED TO LIFT WEIGHTS. SO I’D WAIT UNTIL MY PARENTS WENT TO SLEEP, AND THEN I’D GO OUT IN THE BACKYARD AND DO PUSHUPS AND LIFT CHAIRS.” Such were the humble bodybuilding beginnings of Maxx Charles. Emigrating from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to Long Island, NY, with his family when he was 12, Charles was always fascinated with muscle. From lifting whatever he could find around the house, he eventually made his way to a local gym, lying t