Little Hercules - this is the name of a Ukrainian-born child body builder. He became famous in the U.S. where he developed a showcase muscular physique at a very young age. Isn't that a strange picture of him? Born in 1992, he became famous by the age of 6 when he was able to lift 180 pounds. He held the title of the world's strongest boy and posed in many bodybuilding shows. It was said that he did up to 600 pushups and 300 squats a day.
Fast forward with all that media coverage of his diet (meat, vegetables and fruits regimented by his pizza-eating father), his father's abuse of his mother and subsequent prison sentence, and finally his transition to being and looking like a normal adult. The catch-up stories were late 2020, identifying that he now works as a stunt man.
The articles sensationalize his physique and minimize how it is that other children don't have muscles like this.
Medical experts argued that such muscular development would require levels of testosterone that were simply not present in a child under 10. They speculated that steroids must have been administered, which Sandrak's mother strenuously denied.
On that theme, I wanted to find out about normal muscle development. I found an article outlining many child body builders with these freak bodies and these extreme training regimes. It's HERE. So there are children training at these intense levels. And who knows about the possibility of supplements.
We need a light-hearted image to go with our post today. This clown was at the Ringling Circus display. The French advertising is for chicory vs coffee - with lots of milk in one's "coffee".
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