- [Brian] I have to own my size.

I can't go and be like,

"Well, I wanna trade my body in.

I wanna be smaller."

It's not gonna work.

Right now I'm 6'8.

And about 400 pounds.

My name is Brian Shaw.

And I'm the World's Strongest Man.

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The heaviest I would compete is about 420 pounds.

- [Interviewer] What do you have to do to

maintain that eating wise?

- [Brian] To be honest, it's a lot of eating.

Gotta have the peanut butter.

I'll buy at least close to ten pounds

if not more of the meat.

I end up pretty much buying everything they have.

You know, on a typical day I'll probably consume

at the very low end 5-6,000 calories a day

and the upper end would be about 10,000 a day.

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- [Interviewer] We saw the video of you

going through aisle on the plane.

- [Brian] Yep.

- [Interviewer] Are there any moments like that

on any day-to-day that you have to deal with?

- [Brian] It does happen.

Fitting different places,

and it can be challenging.

I find it a little bit hard when things are tiny.

Like I definitely like my utensils to be bigger.

My wife and I have different spoons,

we have different forks that we use.

Because my fingers are so big,

typing is a little bit harder.

You kind of learn to adapt to it because

they're not gonna make a keyboard

bigger just for me.

The reason I actually sit like a lot in these

folding chairs is 'cause a lot of office chairs

have arms on 'em, you know, and I can't fit my hips,

'cause you can see I'm kinda off of this chair.

So that's what works.

- [Interviewer] Do people kinda look at you

and be like, "Wow, that's a huge guy."

- [Brian] A lot of people do look.

It's kind of funny because I don't really

notice it anymore.

I like being big.

I've kind of embraced it.

I've always been able to do stuff with my body

whether it was playing basketball or strong man

or really anything.

But it's a positive thing, too.

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