In 2012, the New Yorker reported that Brian Shaw, a professional strongman, might be the strongest man in history. That was after he won both the Arnold Strongman Classic and the World's Strongest Man contest in the same year, the first man to ever do so. He did it again in 2015. He can dead lift 880 pounds and squat 825 pounds. And yet, training to be this colossally strong (he weighs 415 pounds) is, quote, "the fun part." Eating is the challenge: "I've said this a lot, it's the hardest part. It's constant, and you don't ever stop," Shaw says in a new video.
For example: For breakfast, Shaw consumes Cinnamon Toast Crunch, eight eggs (12 eggs if necessary), and peanut butter, for a total of 1,180 calories. And breakfast does not really fill him up. On a given day, he follows breakfast with six more meals in 13 hours, consuming a total of 705 grams of protein, 1,402 grams of carbohydrates, 399 grams of fat, and 12,019 calories (per a dietitian's guidance). The video tracks that enormous daily intake. "It's like we're filming a cooking show, a strongman cooking show," Shaw tells the camera, which is surely not the most ridiculous idea to be pitched to a TV network.
