I’m an 80kg strongman who weighs 162 lb. Read that again.
My class runs up to 176 lb. Every time I step on a platform, I’m giving away 14 pounds to the men next to me — and still placing. But “still placing” isn’t the goal. Winning the class is. So this winter, the most important training I do happens in the kitchen.
The target: 162 to 176 lb in 21 weeks, arriving ready for War at the Warehouse IV on March 13, 2027, in Sussex, Wisconsin. Here’s how a man who works overnight warehouse shifts affords to eat like a strongman.
The math is boring on purpose
Fourteen pounds in 21 weeks is about 0.6 lb a week. That’s it. No dirty bulk, no force-feeding until I feel sick, no showing up in March heavy and slow. Six-tenths of a pound a week is slow enough to stay athletic and fast enough to actually arrive.
The protein number doesn’t move: 150 to 160 grams a day, every day, tracked. Not estimated — tracked. I count grams the way I count plates on a bar, because “roughly enough” is how a bulk stalls at week six and nobody knows why.
The Costco system
There is no supplement sponsor and no chef. There is a Costco run and a short list of staples that deliver protein per dollar better than anything fancy: rotisserie chicken, oats, eggs, rice. Bought in bulk, stacked in the fridge and the pantry, eaten on repeat.
That’s the whole secret. The meals are not exciting. They’re not supposed to be. Excitement is expensive and inconsistent; staples are cheap and always there. A warehouse budget doesn’t lose to a strongman appetite — it loses to random eating. A fixed list fixes that.
Working overnights flips the eating schedule, not the rules. The big meals land around the shift instead of around a dinner table, and the staples make that automatic — no fresh decisions at 3am, just the next meal that was already planned.
Pre-sleep protein, and a public scale
My workday ends when most people’s is starting. Before I sleep, there’s protein — every time. Sleep is when the body rebuilds from the shift and the session, and I don’t send it in empty. Consistency beats timing debates: hit the number, then sleep.
And the scale is public. The Road to 80kg tracker on this site shows the milestones between 162 and 176, updated at my Monday weigh-ins. No hiding if a week stalls. No quietly editing the goal in February. Everybody watching can do the same math I can: 21 weeks, 0.6 a week, no shortcuts.
Most athletes post the after photo. I’m posting the whole climb — the boring meals, the tracked grams, the number moving in public. By March, the scale will say 176. Watch it happen.