Bill Gates is younger than me...
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Sorry, but both pics look unhealthy from an ancestral and biological perspective.
Extreme muscle hypertrophy is NOT a longevity strategy... it throws off the energy calculus of the entire physiology in a couple of ways. One is that you can't create extra mitochondrial density in your muscle tissue and expect the same for the most important organs as you age: the brain and the heart. So heart conditions and neurodegeneracy risks will increase as you try to look like Adonis on the outside. Second, its highly inefficient to supply all that precious additional oxygen to maintain constantly rigid, tense muscle systems. It may be the ideal physique culturally speaking, but biology don't care about cultural tastes.
He's not muscled beyond anything you'd build naturally so not sure your point of "extreme" applies here. I've seen construction workers and manual laborers with very impressive bodies, guys who never stepped foot in a gym. My father was one of them, he was a house painter and then contractor and was built like a tank.
Native Americans were also impressively built and were far more robust and larger than the European settlers.
Also Jack Lalaine was MUCH bigger than this guy and he lived to 96.