TEXTJOSH DEANTHE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
THE MOUNTAIN: EAT, TRAIN, ICE TUB, REPEAT.
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS WITH ONE OF THE
WORLD’S STRONGEST MEN.Big Boy
The hardest thing about trying to become the world’s strongest man is definitely the eating.
Sure, picking up and carrying two refrigerators weighing over 400kg is difficult, as is chucking a 23kg
keg over a wall and pressing a 100kg dumbbell overhead with one hand. But what really pushes Hafthor
“Thor” Bjornsson to his human performance limits is his sixth large meal of the day. The two-time
World’s Strongest Man runner-up stares at the bowl of rib-eyes and rice cradled in his enormous hands
like a child with a pile of spinach standing in the way of dessert. He sighs and swallows a forkful. “I need
to force-feed myself,” he says. “I’m fighting to stay the weight I am.”22 JUNE 2017 MENSHEALTH.COM.SG