Chinese Man Walks In Iron Shoes Weighing 405 Kilograms

Heavy footwear is usually considered uncomfortable, but for Zhang

Fuxing weight is definitely not a problem. The 51-year-old from

Tangshan, China, spends every morning walking in a pair of iron

shoes weighing 405 kilograms.

For over seven years, Zhang Fuxing has spent his morning

exercising on a pair of impossible shoes made of heavy iron

blocks. The factory worker designed and created the bizarre

footwear himself by welding pieces of iron 30-cm-long and 20-

cm-wide. At first, the shoes weighed only 70 kilograms, but as his

workout intensified he kept adding more weight.

Now his shoes are 40-cm-high and weigh a whopping 405 kg,

about seven times his own body weight. It seems impossible that a

person could even lift their feet off the ground wearing such

weights, but Zhang says he usually manages to walk around a

dozen meters in 20 minutes, every morning. He keeps the unusual

shoes in his courtyard and says they are so heavy he isn’t even

worried they might be stolen.

Zhang Fuxin has developed his own walking technique which

actually allows him to lift the 405-kg-heavy shoes off the ground,

and says he plans to add even more weight to them early next

year. This Chinese superhuman told Xinhua News he wants to

contact Guinness World Records to have his name mentioned in

their famous book.

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