Former WWE star Braun Strowman has always been known for his massive size and larger-than-life personality. At his heaviest, the 6-foot-8 powerhouse weighed nearly 400 pounds and never shied away from eating big meals. But his latest revelation shows that even while having a high-calorie diet, he still pulled off significant weight loss.
Speaking with E! News ahead of the second season of his USA Network show Everything on the Menu With Braun Strowman, he revealed that he actually lost weight while filming the series.
Braun Strowman lost 9 pounds while eating up to 20,000 calories a day
The show, which premiered on June 5, follows Strowman as he travels across the country visiting restaurants and trying almost everything on their menus. Naturally, that means consuming a lot of food. On some filming days, Strowman said he ate close to 20,000 calories.
Despite that, by the end of the seven-and-a-half-week filming schedule, he had lost nine pounds. Moreover, he dropped about three percent body fat.
“The cool thing is they do that calorie counter and things like that…Some of these restaurants, we were getting up there close to those 20,000 calorie marks. In that seven and a half weeks, I dropped 9 pounds and around 3 percent body fat while doing this. So it was a ton of work going into this,” Strowman said.
His weight loss secret was sticking to a strict workout routine throughout production.
“I would fast for 24 hours before I would film, hour of cardio the night before, get up in the morning, an hour of cardio, my workout, then go to the first location, pig out on that,” Strowman added.
The routine continued throughout the day. After one restaurant stop, he would head to another location where he would take on the show’s signature challenge.
Depending on the schedule, he sometimes squeezed in even more cardio later in the evening. If there were no plans to go out and explore the city, he often ended the day with another workout before heading to bed.
Strowman also hinted that he is slimming down because he has several projects coming up later this year that require him to be in top shape. “I’m cutting right now because I have a couple of things I got to take my clothes off for money later on in the year,” Strowman said.
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