Shaun was diagnosed with Parkinson’s after noticing the symptoms develop over several years.
He said: “I started getting slower, my limbs started getting more limp.
“I got a limp in my leg, and cramps in my feet.”
Parkinson’s is a condition that mainly affects older people, but about 500 people under the age of 40 in the United Kingdom are diagnosed with the condition each year.
Shaun said that after training with weights to ease the pain and spasms that can sometimes developed in his muscles, discovering disabled strongmen competitions had given him a new focus.
He added: “You see all the strongman celebrities like Mark Felix, Eddie Hall and the Stoltman brothers and you think ‘ooh they’re big’.
“Then you go into the arena, you’ve got crowds watching you… your adrenalin’s all over.”
