\u201cI got back from the flight and it was chaos, just felt like death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quamina explained he had \u201cshortness of breath\u201d, was coughing and received medical care including antibiotics and a steroid shot to open his lungs. <\/p>\n
Bodybuilder Dwayne Quamina has died aged 40. Photo \/ @kingq_ifbbpro<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re on our way to recovery, baby,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re feeling better, it\u2019s been a rough two days. We made it through it and yeah, we\u2019ll start building again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Trinidad Express was the first to report his death.<\/p>\n
His wife Leah Jerez shared details of a \u201ccelebration of life\u201d service in California to commemorate him. <\/p>\n
The bodybuilder offered online coaching and regularly shared motivational tips to his hundreds of thousands of followers.<\/p>\n
\u201cStop taking life for granted go all the way and have zero regrets when it\u2019s all over!!\u201d he wrote in a post weeks before his death. <\/p>\n
\u201cWho do you want to become? Once you figure that out all that\u2019s left is to go out and become,\u201d he captioned another video. <\/p>\n
Tributes have poured in from the bodybuilding community, including eight-time Ms Olympia winner Lenda Murray who said her \u201cthoughts and prayers are for the family\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely tragic. We competed together just a week ago at the Atlanta Pro,\u201d muscle man Karol Malecki Ale Lekkie said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe he\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help pay for his family\u2019s rent, bills and daily life and described Quamina as a devoted father, loving husband and loyal friend. <\/p>\n
\u201cDwayne was a loving yet fierce man, someone who protected and provided for his family while uplifting others with his presence, kindness, and unwavering spirit,\u201d the page described him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis loss has left an unimaginable void in the hearts of all who knew and loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old won the lightweight title at the 2016 NPC USA Championships and 2017 Europa Phoenix Pro event, while also finishing 10th at the 2018 Mr Olympia tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI got back from the flight and it was chaos, just felt like death.\u201d Quamina explained he had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,17480,7120,8813,4731,6179,7126,15369,2740,16564,111,139,69,4687,283571,1305,213],"class_list":["post-575711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-atlanta","tag-bodybuilder","tag-competing","tag-days","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-dwayne","tag-former","tag-mr","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olympia","tag-quamina","tag-show","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}