GoT’s ‘The Mountain’ Talks CBD: ‘My Body Feels Great’

On July 1 CBD-based sports supplements business Champions Legends released with the announcement of the brand’s very first set of athlete partners.

Signing up with the company were two-time Super Bowl champion James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Thor “the Mountain” Björnsson, winner of a number of Strongest Man competitors, world deadlift record-holder, and actor in the hit series “Video game of Thrones.”

Throughout a recent discussion, Thor discussed his decision to join Champions Legends came from the quality of the company’s products, but likewise from the fact that they are made from hemp, and not psychotropic cannabis.

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” I am always searching for ways to end up being a much better athlete. CBD is still a new arrival as far as supplements go,” he stated.

Strong Outcomes For A Strong Guy

Thor revealed having attempted other CBD products prior to Champions Legends’. However he had always knowledgeable disappointing results.

He ‘d seen other athletes around him utilize it, and wondered why it did not work for him.

” I was certainly hesitant to use CBD at the start, but after attempting the Champions Legends CBD products, I can say they are effective for athletic preparation, efficiency, and recovery,” he voiced.

Thor then shared some stories about completing in the World’s Strongest Man contest, which requires athletes to take their bodies to their very limitations.

” Often, this causes inflammation and pain,” he explained. Among other approaches he uses to treat these is CBD.

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” My body feels excellent. I feel like I have the ability to recuperate faster, and even press harder during my exercise sessions. Up until now, for me it’s been working marvels, I’m feeling much better throughout and after my sessions.”

In truth, CBD items are as good for healing as they are for actual exercise, Champions Legends CEO Sonny Mottahed, a fan of strength-based sports himself, inserted.

” From our view and the line of product that we have actually developed, a great deal of it is based around how the product is utilized and developed, as well as the does you’re taking for a particular time, when you’re trying to find a particular type of impact. So, when it comes to sleep, you need a greater dosage of CBD, while as an athletic preparation tool, it’s a much lower dosage and different products.”

CBD And The Athletic Neighborhood

When prompted about the approval of CBD amongst the athletic neighborhood, Thor said it is growing quick.

” As an athlete, when you train hard, you push yourself, you get a lot of swelling and discomfort in the body. That’s why you need to choose the best supplements for you. For me, one of these products is CBD,” he voiced.

Reinforcing his point, Mottahed brought up the WADA’s (the entity that establishes doping requirements for expert sports, among others things) decision to eliminate CBD from their list of prohibited substances starting in 2018.

” We are seeing lots of sports enable CBD too.

” Try CBD out and see if it works for you. I understand it works for me,” Thor concluded.

To end the conversation, a random Video game of Thrones question: Do you feel the series would have been different if the people in it would have had access to CBD?

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” Yeah. For sure,” stated Thor. “Absolutely when I think of it now, it would have been excellent to have Champions Legends items when I was filming for Game of Thrones. Especially, for the fight against the Red Viper and the Cleganebowl battle, because those fights were extremely challenging, not only psychologically, however also physically … And I make certain it would have also made me look better on screen.”