Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

For a beginner, find a trainer that you trust and set some goals.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

You don't get to be the best unless you dedicate yourself to what you are doing.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

I need to work on my endurance.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

Everything is expensive in Iceland, especially food, and especially healthy food.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

There's nothing better than proving people wrong.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

People laughed at him and said, 'you'll never be famous, your name is too hard.' But everybody knows who Arnold Schwarzengger is. I'm far, far away from where he is.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

I like to switch things up every four weeks by adding new exercises to my routine and alternating between high and low repetitions. This combats plateau, helping you see results quicker.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

I eat a lot of sweet potatoes, a lot of meat, fish, chicken, good fats like cocoa butter, almonds.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

I need to force feed myself. I'm constantly fighting to stay the weight I am.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

We have very good fish in Iceland.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

When you want to be the best, you do whatever it takes.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

I try not to let other people's opinions or words drag me down.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

I was a center. I was quite athletic, I could shoot okay and I trained a lot. I played with the national team in Iceland.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

You have to be willing to work 365 days a year and be absolutely obsessed with what you want to achieve and if you're willing to go that far then you're able to be the World's Strongest Man.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

I'm doing more acting, but I'm also focusing on strongman.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

We need very specific equipment to train for World's Strongest Man and it's very hard to find this equipment in a normal gym. That's why I have my own gym back in Iceland.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

It's very, very extreme how much food I need to put in to my body. It's a lot of work. More work than people realise.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

I don't get people asking me to fight face-to-face but there's a lot of brave folk on the Internet.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

No one has ever threatened me in real life but on Facebook and Twitter it's all the time. You just get Internet warriors.

Hafthor Bjornsson
Hafthor Bjornsson

People try to be rude against me, my family, my girlfriend, anything. People like to be mean to people through social media.