So, Who Is the World’s Strongest Man?
We’re glad you asked. Having knocked Eddie Hall off the top spot in 2018, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson once held the title as the world’s strongest, but was beaten to top spot by US and Latvian-born strongman Martins Licis during World’s Strongest Man 2019. Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson played The Mountain in hit HBO show Game of Thrones.
Throughout the year, competitors from all over the UK, Europe and the rest of the world will battle it out to become the world’s strongest. In 2019’s World’s Strongest man Competition, hosted in Florida, US strongman Martins Licis emerged victorious over strongman legend and previous title-holder Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, after the Game of Thrones star tore his plantar fascia during the first day of the competition.
Nicknamed ‘The Dragon’, 29-year-old Licis had trained for the competition with 30-stone Björnsson — who stands at an imposing 6ft 9in — beating his previous best of fourth place at the World’s Strongest man series. Of course, there’s much more to WSM than throwing atlas stones around and dragging trucks forward. Below, we talk you through some of the world’s strongest men and what they do to become some of the world’s best.
His daily diet looks like this:
- 3am: Raw steaks and protein shakes
- 7am: Full English breakfast
- 10am: Second breakfast – fruit, beef jerky
- Midday snacks: 150 g cashew nuts, litres of cranberry juice, milk, protein shakes
- Lunch: Steak and chips, salmon and pasta or chicken and pasta/rice
- Dessert: Half a family cheesecake
- Second lunch 3pm: Tuna sandwiches, flapjacks, five or six portions of fruit, Lucozade, cranberry juice
- During training: Cranberry juice, litre protein shakes with full fat milk, coconut water
- Dinner: Curry, spaghetti bolognese or steak and chips
- Dessert: The other half of the cheesecake
- Snacks: Protein bar, beef jerky
- In bed: Protein bars, beef jerky, raw steak
This intense meal plan sets him back £250 a week! about 125,000 NAIRA ! about 500,000 naira a month for FOOD !
INSTAGRAM TRIBUTE TO GOT THE MOUNTAIN CLEGANE !
Björnsson, who stands at six-foot-nine and weighs over 400 pounds, took first place in three of the six events at the World’s Strongest Man finals in the Philippines, beating out four-time American champion Brian Shaw who took third and Poland’s runner-up Mateusz Kieliszkowski.
During this year, Björnsson has also won the Arnold Strongman Classic and Europe’s Strongest Man competitions, becoming the first person to ever win all three events in the same year.
In addition to these titles, Björnsson currently holds the world record for heaviest deadlift at 1,041 pounds and broke a 1,000-year-old record for log carrying, earning him the title of World’s Strongest Viking.
Björnsson will likely return to the screen when Game of Thrones comes back for its final season in 2019 where we may be able to catch some of his feats of strength against the enemies of House Lannister