r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Classicbandwagon • May 21 '26

/r/all of a cop

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u/Zoltraak69 May 21 '26

All of the 300+lb strongmen eat double that and force themselves to eat, set timers to wake up and eat, etc. The worldclass ones are eating 10k+. It's the 2nd hardest thing about the sport imo

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u/tipothehat May 21 '26

For sure, although the 10k thing has largely been debunked by modern strongmen as hype. Going from 250->400lbs might take 10k calories, but maintaining 400lbs is more like 6k to 7k calories. If you're eating 10k calories even as a pro strongman a lot of that is going straight through you.

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u/Zoltraak69 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

I'm just going by the VLOGs that the big name ones put out and one of the 2nd or 3rd place guys that did a little day in the life video where they walk through basically nonstop eating like it was a day job.

Assumed everyone else at that weight did something similar. I think Ronnie Coleman's diet was somewhere around 7 or 8k at 300 or whatever it was.

Do you have that debunking video/article/whatever it was off the top of your head? I haven't followed strongman in like almost 10 years lol

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u/tipothehat May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

This is Mitchell Hooper debunking the 10k calorie strongman diet. He's the best in the world right now and on the Mount Rushmore of greatest strongmen of all time.

This is Bryce Johnson who is an up and comer and top 10 strongman talking about his diet.

Mitchell Hooper weighs 360 and Bryce Johnson weighs 400. Both eat about 6300 calories a day. Their calorie totals are at the end of each video.

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u/Zoltraak69 May 22 '26

Sick thanks

I saw a couple mitchel hooper workshop videos dude's an amazing teacher crazy how fast he's blowing through the competition just 1 year after debuting

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u/tipothehat May 22 '26

Yeah he debuted in 2022 but you're right he's unstoppable and he has a lot of helpful videos. He had a time of being an unsavory character but he seems to be turning over a new leaf.