Photo emerges of Channing Tatum as a teenage bodybuilder

Channing Tatum has always been a buff.

It's not just for “Magic Mike” that the actor started sculpting these weapons – oh no – he's been busting those quads and crunching deltoids or whatever since he was a teenager.

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Depicted in some of the smallest trunks known to man – calm down everyone – Tatum appears to have been liberally oiled and doused head to toe with St Tropez.

Whether he won the gun show, we're not sure. But to be honest, the other guy looks a little more sculpted.

The photo appears after he revealed that he hated acting in “GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” made long before he achieved his credibility in films like “21 Jump Street” and “Magic Mike” (although that didn't stop him from going). for the sequel four years later, “GI Joe: Retaliation”).

Speaking to Howard Stern, he said: “Look, I'll be honest. I hate this movie. I hate this movie. I was pushed to make this film.

“I’m like, look, I love GI Joe. Can I play Snake Eyes? And they're like, 'No, you're not playing Snake Eyes, you're playing Duke.'

“The script wasn't good…and I didn't want to do something that I thought was one, bad and two, I just didn't know if I wanted to be GI Joe.

“Maybe I should have done my Mark Wahlberg impression for the whole movie. The film could have been better. My game could have been better too.

He then addressed the development issues currently plaguing the planned “male-oriented” “Ghostbusters” reboot.

“This thing has gotten complicated, I’ll be honest,” he revealed.

“There's a lot of people doing a lot of Ghostbusters stuff…Look, I'd love to do it. I say there are a lot of people in the pool right now, in the Ghostbusters pool.

“Magic Mike XXL” is scheduled to be released on July 3.

Image credits: AKM/GSI/Warner Bros