The mindset, diet, and training of Hafthor Bjornsson

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Expert, Ben, 40, Pakulski, Alternative Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Intelligence, Biohacking, Mi, Intelligent, Mi40, Nutrition, Diet, Hormones, Muscle, Exercise

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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What does it take to become the world’s strongest man? In today’s episode, you get to hear my recent interview in Iceland with Thor Bjornsson, aka The Mountain from the HBO, hit series Game of Thrones.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the muscle intelligence podcast. I'm your host, Ben Bikolsky, as always.
0:21.6	I frame this podcast around living your greatest life in a body that you absolutely love.
0:26.6	Everything we do is focused around what's it going to look like to decode human optimization,
0:33.6	both body and mind and everything that goes into living your greatest life.
0:37.9	And today I've traveled to Iceland to interview the mountain.
0:42.1	Thor Bjoranson, the world's strongest man as well as star of Game of Thrones.
0:48.2	joins me today to sit down and talk about his journey and his path to becoming the world's
0:53.2	strongest man, giving an idea of what this man looks
0:55.0	like, 6'9, 200 kilos, 440 pounds with abs. Just an absolute monstrosity of a human being.
1:03.7	And the beauty of it is, he's a gentle giant. He is so humble and kind and welcoming
1:08.4	it and myself and my friends into his gym to train to enjoy his
1:13.3	company. We enjoyed some dinners together, had some great Icelandic food and then some great
1:17.6	good old-fashioned beef. Really, really awesome to sit down with Thor. We talk a little bit about
1:21.8	his decision to become world's strongest man. We talk about his future, what it holds. Is it acting? Is it more
1:28.6	strong men competing? His family life and some really, really interesting insights into how he
1:34.4	focuses on becoming the world's strongest man, sticking with some really, really basic
1:39.8	principles, right? Keeping first things first and sticking with first principles. And Thor is an
1:45.7	amazing man. I hope every one of you guys heads over to Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, and
1:50.5	follow him there because he's definitely somebody worth watching and just an absolute monstrosity of a
1:55.5	human that sometimes I think human beings like to watch the people who are just exceptional
2:00.6	at what they do.
2:02.0	And, you know, Thor being a big guy, him and I train legs together.
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