Your love lifts me up: Don Akim, 43, and Rosanna Beckett, 33, from Loewstoft, Suffolk, picked up three trophies between them at the Miami Pro World Champions held in St Albans
Ship worker Don said: 'The judges didn't even realise we were a couple - when we told them they were like "wow"'
In the four months leading up to the world champions, the duo spent 14 hours a week in their local gym.
Ship worker Don said: 'The judges didn't even realise we were a couple - when we told them they were like "wow".
'Rosanna went up first and I was over the moon when she won. I had to wait a nerve-racking few minutes before I was chosen, but I was thrilled.'
Carrying his future bride over the threshold: Don practices weight-lifting in the living room... using his fiance Rosanna
Mr and Mrs Motivator: The couple, who met in a nightclub in Norwich eight years ago, have always had an interest in keep fit, but only began seriously body-building at the start of the year
Dancer and mother-of-one Rosanna said: 'I found the competition on the internet - I think I was looking for a new bikini body diet.
Rosanna said: 'It's always at the back of my mind that my body won't last forever so I want to make the most of it now'
'I saw the contestants and thought 'I want to look like that', so I signed up to the competition.
'I signed Don up as well and told him he was doing it - he didn't seem to mind, especially when he won.'
Don won his two trophies for male Muscle Model class A category and the male Fitness Model over-40's category. Rosanna took home the prize for Ms Bikini tall class B category.
PThe couple that works out together, stays together? In the run-up to the competition, Don and Rosanna spent 14 hours in the gym every week
Doesn't everyone drink tea in a bikini? Rosanna and Don say if they argue they go to the gym and when they come home they feel better
Don and Rosanna now have plans to enter other competitions, starting with the East Anglian Bodybuilding Championships in two weeks time.
They are then going to a World Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation event in London in November.
Rosanna said: 'We're already there, it's just a matter of maintaining it now. It's always at the back of my mind that my body won't last forever so I want to make the most of it now.'
PIC FROM CATERS NEWS - (PICTURED:Don and Rosanna at home) - Meet the real life Mr and Mrs Muscle: bodybuilder couple become the first to win world championship honours at the same event. Don Akim, 43, and Rosanna Beckett, 33, from Loewstoft, Suffolk, picked up three trophies between them at the Miami Pro Home is where the stone Egyptian cat statue is: Don and Rosanna say a trip to the gym can resolve any tiff between them
A quick refreshment before hitting the gym: The couple don't usually visit the gym at the same time, since someone needs to be home with their daughter Carmen
The couple get a buzz from the exercise they do at Nirvana Fitness Gym and although they are competitive, they find they are more supportive of each other.
Going to the gym is a stress relief and it helps our relationship. If we have an argument we can go to the gym and come home feeling better'
Don said: 'Going to the gym is a stress relief and it helps our relationship. If we have an argument we can go to the gym and come home feeling better.
'We don't go together because usually someone has to be at home with our little girl Carmen.'
But it isn't always easy being one half of a competitive bodybuilding couple.
Rosanna said: 'When I found out I had won at the contest I had to control my celebrations because Don was still waiting. I wouldn't have wanted one of us to win and not the other. It would be no fun for the other one.'
The East Anglian Bodybuilding Championship takes place on 3 June 2013.
Rosanna said: 'It's always at the back of my mind that my body won't last forever so I want to make the most of it now'
Rosanna said: 'When I found out I had won at the contest I had to control my celebrations because Don was still waiting - I wouldn't have wanted one of us to win and not the other'
His'n'hers muscles: The couple get a buzz from the exercise they do at Nirvana Fitness Gym, and although they are competitive they find they are more supportive of each other
Relaxing at home: Dancer and mother-of-one Rosanna said she found the competition on the internet when she was looking for a new bikini body diet
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