Bodily strenght

There has been in our time, in the kingdom of Galicia one called, the Marshall Peter Pardo of Ribabadineira, who was at deadly enmity with a certain Bishop, the reason could not be known, yet at the mediation of certain friends, who sought to take up the matter, and make them friends, he consented to an interview. As they drew near together, this Marshall feigning that he had forgot all that was past, and that he would be friends with the Bishop hereafter, ran to embrace him. But it was a deadly embrace to the Bishop, for it was so rude locking him so fast in his arms, as he brused his sides, crushed his heart and entrails, so as he left him dead in the place: I have seen a man in the town of Ast, who in the presence of the Marquis of Pescara handed a pillar of marble three foot long, and one foot in diameter, the which he cast high into the air, then received it again in his arms, then lashed it up again, sometime after one fashion, some time after another, as easily as if he had been playing with a ball, or some such little thing. He brought from the shambles certain ox feet newly cut off, set a knife upon one of them, and with a blow of his fist cut it across in two pieces he took another ox-foot, and broke it against his forehead, as if it had been against a piece of marble, without hurting himself at all. In my presence he took another, and with his fist broke it into diverse small pieces. There was at Mantua one named Rodamas, a man of a little stature, but so strong, as he wreathed and broke with his hands a horseshoe, and a cable as big as a mans arme, as easily as if they had been small twine threads mounted upon a great horse, and leading another by the bridle, he would run a full Carire [gallop], and stop in the middle of his course, or when it liked him best.
SIMON MAIOLVS an Italian Bishop, in his Canicular dayes. Col. 4.

In the year 1582 in the months of May and June, at a solemn feast of the circumcision of Mehmet, the son of Murad Emperor of the Turks, was seen amongst many other active men, one among the rest most memorable a lusty man, and wonderfully strong, worthy to be compared with that most famous Milo of Crotonne, who for proof of his prodigious strength, lifted up a piece of wood that twelve men had much a do to raise from the earth, which he took and put upon his shoulders, where he caried it without any help of his hands and afterwards lying down flat, his shoulder and his thigh tied together, he bore upon his breast a great and weighty stone, that ten men had rowled thether, making but a jest of it. And which is a thing yet more wonderful, four men stood leaping with long pieces of wood upon his belly: Besides this he broke with his teeth and hands a horse-shoe, with such force, that one part remained between his teeth, and the rest in two pieces, in either hand one. At the third blow with his fist, he broke a plowshare: he licked the plowshare with his tongue, being taken red hot out of the fire he was covered with a great pile of stones, but he never stirred one iota, but remained firm and inviolable, as if he had been planted there. The same man, with his teeth only, saddled, bridled, and harness a horse, with many other wonders, which got him much money, and praise of all, by reason of his extraordinary force.
GEORGE LEBELSKI a Polander, in his Description of things done at Constantinople, at the Circumsition of the Sonne of AMVRATH, 1582.

Georg Baron von Frundsberg

Amongst the Germanies of our time, there are two recorded for strength: George Baron of Fronsberg, and John Baron of Schuartzbourg they easily broke horseshoes with their hands: Fronsberg never found man so strong, but he would remove him out of his place with the little finger of his right hand, he would stay a horse (how strong so ever) in his swiftest course with one hand. And would remove with his shoulder a cannon whether he list Schuartzbourg would wreath horseshoes, as if he had been some pliable substance.
Potocova, captain of the Casiques [Cossacks] of Poland (beheaded by the commandement of the late King Sterven) would break horseshoes, as easily as a man would tear a piece of paper.
George le Fevre (a learned German) writes, that in his time, in the yeare 1529. Lived at Meissen in Thuringia, one called Nicholas Klunher, provost of the great Church, that was so strong, as without cable or pully, or any other help, he fetched up out of a cellar a pipe of wine, carried it out of doors, and laid it on a cart. A canon of the same church called Ernest [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_von_Mansfeld], of the house of the Earles of Mansfelt, a strong and tall man, would needs one day wrestle with him: Nicolas took him up and lifted him into the air, and afterwards cast him against a door, with such force, that he broke it, notwithstanding that it was fast locked.

King CHARLES the IX taking pleasure in exercises of the body, being at Blois, caused a Breton (a man of little stature, but well set) to be sent for to the court, to wrestle body to body against all comers, many both great and small tried their strength with him, but he foiled them all, casting one over his head, another into the air, with his heels upwards, some a if they had been feathers, others like little stones he cast into the air, and so against the ground, it being impossible for any to cast him to the ground. Sometimes he would lie flat upon the ground, but who so ever came near him, was forced to make one leap or other, to the great contentment of the beholders. To conclude, another brave wrestler, would need buckle with him, but in the end the Breton having his adversary upon his knee, first lift him up into the air, and afterwards locked him so fast in his arms, as he crusht him sore and to end his conquest, he cast him with such violence against the earth, as he was lifted up, and caried half dead to his lodging, whereof he died shortly after. In the Histories of our Times.