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How buff are Kentucky’s players? The camera does not lie.

What if Muscle Beach and Rupp Arena got married and had twins? That thought came to mind during the telecast of Kentucky’s Pro Day last weekend.

To show the UK team’s increased level of fitness, the SEC Network showed before and after photographs of PJ Washington and Nick Richards. In each photo, the players were bare-chested. The “before” — taken at the start of their freshman years — revealed less definition. The “after” — taken at the start of their sophomore years — featured defined pectorals and suggested much time at the bench press.

“I probably feel I’m probably in the best shape of my life, right now,” Richards said at UK’s Media Day on Thursday.