As far as I remember this ....
I don't know if James "FLEX" Lewis ever told his story on the net, but he was raised in a Great Britain coal mine town (Wales??) in which his whole family worked way down deep.
As a young lad he did not look forward to that life-style so he began raising 'racing pigeons' and did pretty well at that and then got into the business of moving heavy household stuff (pianos, refrigerators, etc.) and did pretty well at that also.
Meanwhile (sometime between the pigeons and the pianos) he lifted heavy things in an effort to build himself up .... And did pretty well at that1
And most of you know the rest of the story.
A man who actually worked hard to get where he's gotten!
PS... I've been in a couple of mines and I have no intent of ever going back. It's too damn dark, dank, deep, and wet!