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Former World's Strongest Man winner Eddie Hall has transformed his fitness and nutrition regime over the last couple of years, leaning down by 40kg and focusing his training around building stamina, explosiveness and mobility as he prepares to step into the boxing ring. This training has helped him channel that legendary strength with new accuracy, as he demonstrated when he recently broke the punchbag on a strength testing machine at the Arnold Sports Festival.
Hall regularly invites other people to try out his intense daily routine, which famously includes a brutal conditioning routine which involves being punched repeatedly in the abs. The latest guy to take him up on the offer isn't afraid of a challenge: ultra-endurance athlete and "the UK's fittest man" Ross Edgley is, after all, best known for swimming a staggering 1,780 miles around the British Isles.
Edgley's seemingly limitless reserves of energy and resilience prompt Hall to compare him to "a Labrador that's found a stash of cocaine," and he throws himself into the morning run, which Hall completes every day with a weighted vest. "That is a lovely way to start the day," he says, without irony.
They follow this up with a stretching session and breakfast, before hitting the home gym for a weights workout—and then it's time for the ab-punching portion of the day. Edgley lays into Hall's stomach with increasing intensity, but Hall remains unfazed. "Nothing's ever put me down yet," he says.
They continue the workout and then Hall takes Edgley into the boxing ring that he's had built in his gym so that they can go through some boxing drills—but after watching Hall go hard while sparring with his coach, Edgley declines. "I'm not getting in there!" He says. "Not after seeing that, no!"
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