British strongman and the country’s shot put record holder Geoff Capes revealed the incredible diet he devoured during his pomp.
Capes has held the British shot put record for 51 years and won two World’s Strongest Man competitions, one World Strongman Challenge and six consecutive Highland Games in the 1980s.
Now aged 73, Capes recalled to the Telegraph his incredible diet that he needed in order to reach stardom which saw him appear on prime time shows such as This Is Your Life and Blankety Blank.
Capes would reportedly lift 120 tonnes in training per week, and his daily intake was said to be six pounds of red meat, a dozen eggs, a large tin of baked beans, two tins of pilchards, one and a half pounds of cottage cheese, a packet of cereal, two large loaves of bread, a pound of butter, a pint of orange juice and seven pints of milk.
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“Twelve eggs!?” Capes explained. “I could eat that now. I ate like a f****** horse! Anything I could get my hands on. But nearly all protein. It’s like a steam engine. Put the coal in. I was burning up to 10,000 calories every four or five hours.”
Capes competed at three Commonwealth Games, three Olympic Games, three European Championships and dominated the European Indoor Championships between 1974 to 1978, winning two gold, two silver and one bronze medal in the shot put.
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With the World Athletics Championships set to begin later this month, Capes recalled the relationship he had with the British athletics stars of the 1970s and 80 with the likes of Seb Coe, Fatima Whitbread and Daley Thompson.
He said: “We were all a gang of mates but superstars in a way. We each had our own image and, if you took one per event, we were the best team in the world.”
Capes’ sporting legacy lives on through his family with his two grandsons excelling in the sport that made him famous, trained by his son at the shot put ring Capes built in his home village of Stoke Rochford.
Donovan, 18, won the English schools title in 2019 and is heading Stateside on a scholarship, while Lawson, 14, is the best U-15 in the country by a massive two metres. “Donovan will improve and Lawson? Watch that b******,” Capes said. Although it’ll take some effort from either to match his outrageous diet.
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