A mountain sized diet for uber gains.

Strongmen and bodybuilders are certainly two different animals. Where bodybuilders focus on building aesthetic muscle, strongmen focus purely on building strength. If it doesn’t make them stronger then there’s no point to it.

Strongmen perform squats, bench press, and deadlifts in order to acquire new strength. They could care less about bicep curls or leg extensions as these movements offer them nothing in the grand scheme of things. If it’s not helping them grow in strength then it’s useless to the cause.

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Some strongmen even have diets that may not be conducive to building a great physique, but certainly helps to build strength. When you see some of the meals that strongman Eddie Hall consumes you’d either be shocked or disgusted, by the amount of calories he eats.

Hafthor Bjornsson, The Mountain of Game of Thrones fame, isn’t your typical strongman. Hafthor’s diet plan isn’t like most strongman athletes. Rather than consuming any and everything in sight, instead Hafthor eats considerably clean. He consumes a tremendous amount of calories like his fellow strongmen, but that fact that the foods are all clean has not only given Hafthor a tremendous amount of strength, but also a physique that is more aesthetic than your average strongman.

Just take a look at all the food The Mountain consumes per day.

People been asking me a lot about my diet and what I eat! Here’s my diet plan for my preparation for World’s Strongest Man 2016! Yes this is a lot & I don’t recommend YOU to try this!! 6:50 Morning workout! Cardio + CORE for 30min Bcca, Glutamine + handful of almonds 7:30 8 eggs + 200gr Oats + blueberries & strawberries + avocado 9:30 400gr Beef, 400gr Sweet potatoes, handful of spinach & greens 11:50 Bcca, glutamine, 12:00 400gr Chicken + 400gr potatoes, greens + some fruits 14:00 Blender = 150gr oats or sweet potatoes, 2 bananas150gr kelloggs rice krispies, frozen berries, handful almonds, peanut butter and glutamine 14:30 Training strongman, Bcca, glutamine, Vitargo 17:30 60gr protein + 2 banans 18:00 500gr beef + potatoes, greens 20:30 500gr salmon + 500gr sweet potatoes 22:30 50gr casein protein or 6 eggs + avacado + 30gr almonds + 50gr peanut butter Drink a lot of water throughout the day + Juices to get more calories!! middle of the night 50gr casaine protein or raw eggs

A photo posted by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (@thorbjornsson) on Apr 26, 2016 at 2:56am PDT

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