AEW star Swerve Strickland details his new bulked-up physique

AEW star Swerve Strickland is testing his own limits with his new bulked-up physique.

At AEW Full Gear this past weekend, Strickland returned after a four-month absence. He had been sidelined since late August after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus. In his return, Strickland looked noticeably more muscular than he had been previously.

“I am definitely bigger, and it’s miserable maintaining it,” Strickland said on a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet. “Because there’s times where I’m in bed and I’m like, I gotta get one more something [for calories]. Because Applebee’s is my go-to, at like, 11:45-12, most places are closing down. So I’m just like, let me order just a salmon and asparagus and rice. And it gets there, and I’m like, I don’t even have the energy to use a fork. I’m just picking at it with my hands to my mouth and, in bed, just feeling like [crap].”

Strickland said that, while bulking, his approach is just to eat whatever is in sight. His personal trainer has told him not to worry about getting fat from it because of how much he’s training. He might get bloated from eating too much, but that’s just temporary and will eventually go away.

When it comes to how big he wants to get, Strickland doesn’t have an answer. His career has always been about reaching goals and then finding even more things he wants to accomplish. He’s taking that same approach with his physique.

“I don’t even know. I didn’t even know I could get to this,” Strickland responded when asked what the goal for his physique is. “So it’s like, honestly, I got to a point where it was like, I didn’t even know I could do this. What more can I do? So that’s the addiction to it. It’s like, what more can I possibly do?”

Strickland’s return at Full Gear saw him stand alongside Hangman Page — who was once Strickland’s arch nemesis in storyline — against Samoa Joe and The Opps. Joe defeated Page at the pay-per-view to become the new AEW World Champion.

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Joseph Currier
Joseph Currier

Joseph Currier is the lead editor of F4WOnline.com, directing daily news coverage and writing articles on professional wrestling. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, obtaining a journalism degree in 2016. Joseph joined F4W during his time at UMass and has now been writing about the industry for nearly a decade.

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