Bell's palsy is a – usually – self-limiting condition that causes paralysis to one side of a person's face.

“I feel tired, because I have to move more weight.” He also has trouble breathing and, according to Andrea, snores more often, and louder. It even affects his sleep. At a more typical weight – say, 400 pounds – Björnsson sleeps 8 hours a night. “But when I'm heavy like this I get 6 hours,” he says.

With 31 international competition wins, he is the third most decorated strongman in history, and in terms of pure brute strength and having broken 123 world records, many strength analysts and Strongman experts widely regard Hafþór as "the strongest man to have ever lived".