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Antonio Smothers

CO-FOUNDER / IFBB PRO

2025 St. Louis Pro Champion. Olympia-qualified. Built the pouch he asked for.

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NINE YEARS BETWEEN THE CARD AND THE WIN.

Antonio Smothers earned his IFBB Pro Card by winning the 2016 NPC USA Championships Men's Physique Overall. Twenty-three at the show. First attempt at the Class D division, first attempt at the overall. Won both. The Pro Card came in the same hand.

The next nine years were not a highlight reel. He competed steadily through 2022, fifth at Golden State, third at Wasatch Warrior, mid-pack finishes at Sacramento and Titans where the difference between making the call-out and going home was whatever the judges saw that afternoon. Three years off the stage followed. Marriage. Coaching. Sacramento. The work continued. The contests didn't.

He came back in April 2025 and won the IFBB St. Louis Pro Men's Physique with a perfect prejudging score, beating Chevy Phillips and Rhyan Clark, both heavily favored. First professional win. First Olympia qualification. Nine years between the Pro Card and the title he was training for. Nine years of work nobody saw, and one weekend that proved every session was worth it.

That's the lifter THRUX is built for. Not the prodigy. Not the overnight story. The person who keeps showing up after they get the credential, the way Antonio kept showing up after the Pro Card arrived. The pouch in the lip when there is no one to perform for. THRUX is a serious lifter's pouch, and Antonio is the archetype.

WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT.

Antonio's father was paralyzed in a car crash when Antonio was a small child. The family was rear-ended at speed. Their car spun, flipped, landed upside down. Antonio was ejected. His father, Sherill, suffered a spinal-cord injury that took his mobility for the rest of his life.

Antonio competed for his father before he ever turned pro. He dedicated the use of his legs to the man who lost his. He carried his father's story through the football field, the track, the weight room, and the stage. Sherill was wrongfully convicted of murder in 2018 and the conviction was reversed by the California Court of Appeal in 2021 after third-party DNA evidence surfaced. Antonio fought through that. Through depression. Through the years where the Pro Card felt like a finish line that had moved. He has talked about all of it on the Vibe With Humanity podcast.

THRUX exists because Antonio asked for it. A focus pouch that does what it says it does. No marketing claims that fall apart at the start of a real session. No product designed for the audience that doesn't actually train. His input on dose, formulation, and flavor is in every can. He's not paid to use it. He's a co-founder. He helped build it. He uses it because it does what he asked it to do.

“Walk by faith, not by sight.”

Antonio Smothers

2016

NPC USA OVERALL CHAMPION

2025

ST. LOUIS PRO CHAMPION

Olympia

QUALIFIED

Perfect Score

PREJUDGING, ST. LOUIS

9 Years

PRO CARD TO FIRST WIN

IFBB Pro

SINCE 2016

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