Tan bodies, oiled skin and bulging muscles will be abundant at this year’s Greek Physique.

The body building competition is from 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Holmes Student Center’s Carl Sandburg Auditorium.

Mickey Walker, a sophomore business major and philanthropist for Phi Kappa Sigma, said the event will benefit the Leukemia Society.

The competition is divided into groups. Men will be divided by weight, while women are divided by height, he said.

Mike Evans, a junior political science major and director of Greek affairs for the SA, said the competition is open to all members of the NIU community, not just the Greeks.

Walker said the contestants put in a lot of hard work and preparation for the competition.

“They’ve trained pretty much their whole lives lifting weights,” he said. “Everyone cuts down their diet drastically.”

Evans agreed.

“The people that do it and win and are serious about it, they’ve been body building their whole lives,” he said. “It’s not something they can whip up in a few weeks or a month.”