The latter is exactly was happened to a Japanese man known as Shirapyon. He had grown perhaps too comfortably into middle age, and so was thrown into a sense of disarray when his wife quite suddenly left him. The self-described “sad, bald middle-aged guy” was left with the choice of wallowing in drink-fuelled self-loathing or getting back into the fitness regimes he used to partake in when he was younger. He chose to throw himself into bodybuilding with gusto and has never looked back.