Neanderthal man boasted of a rock-hard body including an overdeveloped right arm that could have even made Popeye envious, as per a new scientific report.

Russian Prof. Maria Mednikova told the Discovery News that the Neanderthals had a habit of hunting in the “extreme”.

From NYdailynews.com:

The professor said female Neanderthals were strong, but more evenly muscular in both arms.

Either way, Neanderthals make modern-day humans look wimpy.

Of course, they had some chemical help, it seems.

Mednikova says their strong, thick bone structure was aided by a “markedly androgenic constitution.”

Simply put, the Neanderthal body was brimming with natural steroids.

Genes, a cold climate and an all-meat diet helped contribute to the Neanderthal’s buff body, the scientists believe.

Neanderthal’s dined on mammoths and deer, among other plant-eating animals.

The scientists based their research on an analysis of Neanderthal arm bone, dating roughly from 100,000 years ago and found in what is now Russia.

These findings appeared in the journal Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia.

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