Fun Fact of the Day: This is the gold medal winner in the World Championships of weightlifting in 1946, Bob Higgins, and he probably looks better than you do with his shirt off in spite of his diminutive stature. 

Higgins stood 5’2″ and competed at 132 pounds, rocking measurements that have no business being on someone that tiny: a massive 17″ neck, 40″ chest, 15″ biceps, and a 29″ waist powered him to a world record in the press with a bonkers 232lb effort, alongside a 198lb snatch.  Higgins started lifting wieghts as a 113 pound high school freshman after tearing up his knee playing football.  By the time he was 22 he’d nabbed a world title in lifting, then opened the most hardcore gym in Indianapolis.  

There, Higgins likely trained a ton of notable athletes, but the one whom I could find quickly and easily was Mr Universe and Mae West’s onetime boyfriend Mickey Hargitay, who at 6’2″ and 220 lbs could “clean” 300 pounds without bending his legs or moving his fucking feet and could standing press 280lbs- obviously Bob Higgins knew how to train the overhead. 

Hargitay ended up a contractor in Hollywood after one of Mae West’s jealous nuthuggers stepped up and Hargitay easily trashed him (in addition to being Mr Universe, Hargitay was also a world champion speed skater at 500 and 1500 meters and a silver winner at the 5000m race, so it was unlikely anyone was going to beat him if the fight went more than a couple of punches just because of the man’s fitness).  And don’t pity him, because that contractor married the hottest broad on Earth, pinup goddess Jayne Mansfield.

In other words, if you’re not where you want to be in life, your overhead press and shoulder gains must be lacking. And for fuck’s sake, get your neck game up.

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