Is Tolstoy the most /fitlit/ author of all time?

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Leo Tolstoy was a well known fitness fanatic.

>Biking and fitness. In 1895, the Moscow Cyclists' Society honored the author with a truly lavish gift – a Rover bicycle. So, at age 67, he became the “face” of 19th century Russian sports fashion and taught his children how to ride a bike. Tolstoy's hobbies also included speed walking, gymnastics, swimming, horseback riding and jogging. The writer strove to demonstrate that the popular image of the weak intellectual, who was not able to lift anything heavier than a book, was a thing of the past.

He also started a vegetarian movement in Russia:

>Vegetarianism. In a 1908 interview with the American magazine Good Health, Tolstoy revealed that he had become a vegetarian around 1883. In 1893, he wrote “The First Stage,” an influential work that became a handbook to the first generation of Russian vegetarians.

This mad man could also do like 80 pullups at once.