You don't get to be the best unless you dedicate yourself to what you are doing.
Hafthor Bjornsson
I treat my body the same way I would treat a brand new car. You have to treat it well so it can run for a long time.
Don't tie yourself down to one workout, as your muscles quickly adapt to a certain style of training, so you'll see less results over time. The same can be said about cardio and your diet.
White rice, not traditionally healthy, is easier on my tummy and lets me eat more.
I need to work on my endurance.
The best training partner isn't the guy who is the strongest; it's the guy who motivates you and helps you to get better.
When you want to be the best, you do whatever it takes.
I try not to let other people's opinions or words drag me down.
I go the grocery store every day, or at most every two days.
There's nothing better than proving people wrong.
For a beginner, find a trainer that you trust and set some goals.
Everything is expensive in Iceland, especially food, and especially healthy food.
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.
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.
I eat a lot of sweet potatoes, a lot of meat, fish, chicken, good fats like cocoa butter, almonds.
I need to force feed myself. I'm constantly fighting to stay the weight I am.
We have very good fish in Iceland.
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.
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.
I'm doing more acting, but I'm also focusing on strongman.
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.
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.
I don't get people asking me to fight face-to-face but there's a lot of brave folk on the Internet.
No one has ever threatened me in real life but on Facebook and Twitter it's all the time. You just get Internet warriors.
People try to be rude against me, my family, my girlfriend, anything. People like to be mean to people through social media.
If there's anything that offends me, especially if it's towards my family, I just block them. I don't accept that. I don't get upset because I like to focus on the positive.
My mindset has changed to think about what I can eat to become a better athlete, not just a bigger one.
To begin with, I basically ate everything. Pizza, pasta - anything to make myself bigger. I am now very conscious of what I put into my body.
I think it's good to be nervous. It means you care.
There were so many people who didn't believe in me.
To be the best, you have to have the right equipment at your disposal.
One cheat meal once in a while is fine as long as you stay on track the rest of the planning. I had five really good meals today, one cheat meal.
I can still be 200 kilograms but still have enough endurance for strongman - I feel like if I get much heavier than that it's going to affect my endurance a lot.
The easiest part is the training, the hardest part is the diet.
I always knew, in my heart of hearts, I would win World's Strongest Man.
The deadlift is the single best exercise.
People often forget that even though training is very important, your diet also has to be very good. You have to get plenty of rest. That's when your body reacts to the training.
A lot of big guys can't bend down, have knee pain, are slow. I'm fast. I'm flexible, especially for my size.
I'm fast for my size. I'm very good at moving events - throwing, pulling trucks, Atlas stones. I win them all.
When people ask me about my routine, it's hard to say because I change it every week.
If you're dedicated, it's going to pay off.
I've always enjoyed lifting heavy; I saw extremely good results. I just got hooked, seeing how strong I got and how much my body changed.
Everybody said you're never going to win this whole Classic. You're not strong enough. You're big, you're athletic, you're fast - but you will never win this Arnold Classic. Those were the people who didn't believe in me... I put in the work every single day - and here I am, three times champ!
Maybe after my strongman career, I'll focus more on acting. Who knows?
Acting just came to me.
Remember, there is no right way to train, so you need to experiment until you find the right routine for you.
I'm the kind of a guy that if I go into something, I go all in.
I never back down from a challenge and when I learned that a single drop of Krazy Glue was strong enough to hold up to 1,000 pounds, I knew I had to put the product's strength to the test for myself.
I am the future of strength as I am King of the Stones!
I love my life, I get to travel the world, meet a lot of people.
