Real Life: 'I've Got Bulging Biceps - at Just 12' ; Richard Sandrak, Started Body Building When He Was Five Years Old - but His Muscular Body has Caused a Storm of Protest and Criticism

Sunday Mirror › October 03, 2004

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'I'm off school and in training at the moment. My agent is negotiating a three-movie deal and we're hoping to start shooting next year. The first film is Tiny Tarzan, about a boy who is raised by chimps after he is shipwrecked on an island, and the second, The Boy King, is about the son of an Egyptian Pharaoh who has a magic medallion, then there'll be a sequel to that.

My personal trainer visits three times a week and then I do a daily 45-minute work-out with my mom, including martial arts and crunches. I'm working on my abdominals at the moment. I love the movies. I'm not into body building any more, I never really was. I always just wanted to be an actor who is also in great shape. I was born in the Ukraine and was six months old when I started working out. My dad was a martial arts instructor and body builder and my mom was into aerobics. When I was a baby she'd do stretching exercises with me, stretching my legs and arms. It sounds pretty wild. By three I was doing gymnastics and by the time I was five years old I was really training and would lift small weights. I enjoyed it, but it's not the only thing I do. I also play the guitar - I had three lessons - and classical piano, which I taught myself. I can play Debussy's Claire De Lune, but I did buy a book with my allowance to learn the Hercules song.

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Real Life: 'I've Got Bulging Biceps - at Just 12' ; Richard Sandrak, Started Body Building When He Was Five Years Old - but His Muscular Body has Caused a Storm of Protest and Criticism

Little Hercules is my nickname because when I was eight I could bench- press 200lbs (14 stone), which made me, pound for pound, the strongest person in the world. I made quite a few appearances on TV at the time, on things like The Howard Stern Show...

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