Eddie Hall used to eat 12,500 calories PER DAY as he bulked up for World’s Strongest Man tournaments… now his physique looks totally different since he got into boxing

Eddie Hall is officially done being strong.

In 2017, the Beast was rewarded for years of perseverance by winning the title of World’s Strongest Man in Botswana, fending off Brian Shaw and Hafþór Björnsson to claim the crown he had been aiming for – and promising his grandmother that he would win when he was young.

Not that he needed the validation. We’re talking about someone who has been Britain’s Strongest Man six times, Britain’s Strongest Man five times, and England’s Strongest Man… well, ‘only’ twice, but you get the point. essence yes.

It was the culmination of years of pushing the boundaries of human physicality.

In 2020, however, Hall set his sights on something else. Instead of throwing beer kegs, he wanted to throw punches.

And so began one of the most unique body transformations in sports.

Nicknamed ‘The Beast’, here he was in the months leading up to his successful World’s Strongest Man title challenge in Botswana

This is a photo from recent weeks, showing off his slimmer physique after losing a few stone

Old rival Bjornsson, himself a former Strongest Man in the World and the man who played ‘the Mountain’ in Game of Thrones, challenged him to a boxing match, and so the shedding of pounds began.

In 2017, he weighed 30th as the strongest man in the world. This was a man who at one point was eating 12,500 calories a day, including two full English breakfasts.

Hall revealed that he set 20 alarms every day to remind himself when to eat, even throughout the night.

High-calorie, high-fat foods were the premium in his strong life, as he had to match his competitors in weight and came in at a shorter height than them.

He even had a show, Eddie Eats America, where he tried to overcome some of the biggest food challenges.

Naturally, his lifestyle changed when he turned his priorities to boxing. Although he was already doing cardio exercises, he had to train much more intensively to burn calories.

To prepare for boxing, his workouts included half an hour of swimming in a hot tub while attached to an elastic chain, running through the hot streets with a punching bag over his shoulder, and he shared many videos from the gym.

Hall ate up to 12,500 calories a day and had a show called ‘Eddie Eats America’

Coach Lindon Newbon helped him prepare his body for the fight against Hafþór Björnsson

Before his boxing match, one of his training techniques was swimming in a hot tub

He said he enjoyed the greater variety of boxing workouts because he was used to constantly lifting heavy weights as a strongman.

He said, ‘Because I’ve been a strong man for the last eleven years, and for the last three years I’ve only trained heavy, heavy weights, you become a bit robotic, I’ll be honest.

‘I’m having fun. I’m as clueless as anyone when it comes to boxing. I am not an expert and do not claim to be an expert. So there’s a lot to learn, a lot to progress.”

In 2020 he had lost five stone to face Bjornsson. Hall decided in 2018 that “the sun was setting on his life” as a strongman and that he wanted to be healthier.

Unfortunately, the fight could not go ahead as originally planned and took place in 2022.

Unfortunately for Hall, Bjornsson won the fight by unanimous decision and left the Englishman bleeding above both eyes, but both did well to get into boxing shape after years of being strongmen.