Manohar Aich, 4-Foot-11 Bodybuilder age of 103
Manohar Aich, 4-Foot-11 Bodybuilder Known as the Pocket Hercules, Dies at 103 They called him the Pocket Hercules. As a teenager he could bend steel bars in his bare hands, as well as with his teeth. At 39, after he had taken up bodybuilding, he won the Mr. Universe competition . And he managed all this despite being only 4 feet 11 inches, thus the nickname. About manohar Aich Manohar Aich died last Sunday in India at 103, remembered not only for his almost superhuman strength but also for a colorful life. As an airman in the colonial Royal Air Force, he was court-martialed for insubordination and imprisoned. He performed for more than a decade in a traveling circus, where he flexed muscles in time to music. And he ran a gym on the ground floor of the three-story building in which he lived, grooming some of India’s greatest bodybuilders. Manoghar Aich’s diet Beyond all that, he was revered for leading a profoundly simple life, both physically and phi...