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My dad's "Man Friday" for 60 years was a strongman with super-human strength. He was not muscle-bound, but the sheer size of his barrel chest, biceps, and thigh muscles did limit some close-quarter movements. For years, he was on a very limited diet (mostly baby food & white bread) because of ulcers, but his muscle size and strength remained off the charts. I now suspect he had Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy to some degree.
As a teen, I worked with Louis in our shipping & receiving department handling freight. One delivery was of coils of copper grounding wire used by power companies. Each coil was shaped like and about the size of a 15-inch car tire. A coil weighed 220 pounds / 100k. All the coils were packed in the front of a 40 ft trailer. The dock hands (me) struggled to roll a coil to the truck dock. Meanwhile, Louis would bend over, hook a coil on each elbow, then stand and walk 440 pounds of copper out of the trailer. Rinse, repeat. ...He was in his 50s.
