How has 56-year-old Manjit Singh, a mild-mannered security consultant from the Midlands, earned the rather dramatic sobriquet the Ironman of Leicester? Because he can do 154 press-ups in a minute and pull a Routemaster bus with his ears, that's how.

Here he is pulling a van with one ear while auditioning for Britain's got Talent. You can read a jaw-dropping interview with superhuman Singh in the July 2009 issue of Men's Fitness.