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Laura Clements

The little ginger kid who became Wales' strongest man

Surprisingly, Wales' strongest man doesn't really get hungry, despite training for 10 hours a week and pulling seven-ton trucks on the weekends.

David Ramplee, recently crowned champion at the Welsh edition of Ultimate Strongman, is from Llandrindod Wells in Powys and is perhaps not what you might expect for a strongman. For starters, he has no Achilles tendon. And he admits he struggles to eat enough to maintain his 150kg bulk.

But stood in Nick's Gym in his home town - where he trains - he looks every ounce (or kilo) the strong man with biceps fit to burst out of the seams of his t-shirt.

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