Chester Yorton

Chester Yorton (1939 to 2020), also known as Chet Yorton, was an American bodybuilder, called the Father of Natural Bodybuilding for his advocacy of steroid-free training. He was not athletic as a youth, but in high school he survived a life-threatening automobile accident that shattered bones in his pelvis, legs and elbow and nearly cost him a leg, which doctors saved with a metal plate. His doctors agreed that he could rehabilitate himself with light weight training from his wheelchair. He defeated Arnold Schwarzenegger at the 1966 NABBA Mr. Universe in the amateur class, held in London. He and his wife Vicki died within days of each other in November 2020, he from a heart attack after discovering her dead.