Worlds Strongest Man Is a Vegan
Story of Patrik Baboumian, Insanely Strong Bodybuilder
Someone: How can you be strong as an ox without eating meat? Patrik Baboumian: Have you ever seen an ox eating meat?
Patrik Baboumian: A Glance
Patrik Baboumian is a strongman born in Iran to Armenian parents. He moved to Germany with his mother and grandma. He is currently living in Germany. He developed interested in strength and weight training at a very tender age.
He was very sensitive and compassionate as a child as well. He sheltered hedgehogs in the winter and saved dying tadpole. He had a lot of compassion for animals and was into bodybuilding as well. As per conventional bodybuilding diets, he ate lots of meat. This created a sense of contradiction in him.
He didn’t want to eat other animals while trying to save some. One day he made up his mind and gave up meat at the age of 26 in 2005. People warned him against it. Because the kind of profession he chose for himself, people could not see him doing well without meat but he didn’t listen and took that chance anyway.
Then with growing awareness of animal suffering and cruelty, he finally became vegan in 2011 and gave up all animal products.
He says that it allowed him to eat less and more efficiently. As per Baboumian, giving up animal protein made his metabolism more efficient and his performance also improved. He made two big world records after becoming vegan.
Patrik contradictory to his appearance is a gentle soul, who won’t even hurt an ant.
“Strength must build-up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as a weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”
Records and Achievements
- 1999 German Champion Jun. Bodybuilding-IFBB
- 2009 German Team-Champion Strongman-GFSA
- 2009 German Champion log lift -GFSA
- 2009 Record log lift -105 kg (165 kg)
- 2010 German Champion log lift -GFSA
- 2010 German record in log lift +105 kg (180 kg)
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After becoming 100% Vegan
- 2011 Germany’s Strongest Man
- 2011 German record in log lifting +105 kg (185 kg)
- 2011 German record in beer keg lifting (13 reps)
- 2012 Guinness record beer keg lifting (150,2 kg)
- 2012 Guinness record Front Hold 20 kg (1:26,14 Minutes)
- 2013 World record yoke-walk, 550.2 kg over 10 m in Toronto
- 2015 World record yoke-walk, 560 kg in 28 seconds
He was also featured in a vegan documentary, THE GAME CHANGERS. You can watch it on Netflix.
Diet: The Daily Dose
Many people questioned how someone could be so strong just by consuming plant protein and plant-based food. It is not possible and they doubted if Patrik was really on a vegan diet.
And hence he recorded all that he eats in a day and shared it publicly.
Meal 1: Shake — 80 grams of protein, 5 grams Creatine, 3 grams Beta-Alanine
Macros: 80 grams of protein, 0 carbs, 0 grams of fat
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Post-Workout: Meal 2: Smoothie — Black currants, frozen mixed fruit, 80 grams of protein, Glutamine, Beta-Alanine, 5 grams of Creatine, dried greens, turmeric, cinnamon, 5–10 grams BCAA’s, orange and mango juice, and water.
Macros: 80 grams of protein, 100 grams of carbs, 0 grams of fat
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Lunch: Meal 3: Vegan sausages, Falafel, Low-fat oven fries, Peppers, Other grilled veggies
Macros: 60 grams of protein, 250 grams of carbs, 90 grams of fat
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Afternoon snack: Meal 4: Protein shake — 50 grams of protein, 5 grams of fat
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Dinner: Meal 5: Veggies, Tofu, Cooked potatoes
Macros: 40 grams of protein, 100 grams of carbs, 15 grams of fat (from curry paste mainly on the zucchini)
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Nighttime Snack: Meal 6, Peanuts — 60 grams of protein, 20 grams of carbs, and 90 grams of fat, Protein smoothie — 50 grams of protein
Macros: 170 grams of protein, 20 grams of carbs, 90 grams of fat
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Patricks’ Macros After a Full Day of Eating and All of This From Plants
K Cals: 5,320
Protein: 410 grams
Carbs: 470 grams
Fat: 200 grams
Animal Rights Activism
Patrik is vocal about animal rights and rallies for rights of cow, and their forceful impregnation. whose calves are killed. He protests against close confinement of Hens for producing eggs and meat.
He is working actively to spread awareness about his dietary and athletic philosophy. He is a vegan activist and shares widely about veganism and its benefits. He is actively fighting for animal rights and try to teach people that compassion is not just for humans it includes all beings.
Patrick began vegan in 2011 and he remained athletically active after that also. And gave best performance of his career.
He is a big proponent of Vegan Power.
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