Powerlifter Patrik Baboumian has won the title of Germany’s Strongest Man and was seen flipping a car onto its roof in Netflix documentary The Game Changers.
He’s also vegan.
Now the 42-year-old Iranian-born German works to inspire the next generation of athletes to swap meat protein for a plant-based diet – using his own success as an example of what can be achieved.
At 26 Baboumian, who had already been in training for 14 years, was living near a forest and grew enchanted with the animals who lived there. At the time he was eating meat and dairy for protein as part of his fitness regime.
He said: “I put time and energy into helping these animals and I began to feel there was something wrong. I was eating animals and saving them at the same time.
“It made me reflect and I became vegetarian.”
After Baboumian won Germany’s Strongest Man in 2011, he decided to go vegan after receiving praise for his stance on animal welfare because of his enhanced media profile.
He began to feel nervous. Being a strongman who didn’t eat any animal products was largely unheard of at the…
