Incredible diets in sport: Haaland 6,000-calorie regime, Ronaldo 6 meals a day

Sometimes you know how bizarre a list is by what doesn't make the cut.

When compiling this feature, Mail Sport came across the dietary distinctions of legendary Panaman jockey Laffit Pincay Jr.

He totalled 9,530 career wins on horseback and did so by eating half of what a toddler should - about 600-750 calories per day. Sometimes he would stick a sweet treat in his mouth, delight in the taste, and then spit it out to avoid the calories.

But Pincay Jr. doesn't make this list of the most incredible and strict sporting diets.

Below you'll find how Erling Haaland tucks into cow's hearts and livers, the off-piste regime Tom Brady follows, a footballer who eats like a caveman, and a few others.

A word of warning: if you enjoy the occasional Coca-Cola like I do, you'll face scorn from some of the names on this list. They're not your biggest fan.

Atletico Madrid star Marcos Llorente swears by the Paleolithic diet, from cradle to casket.

'Paleolithic,' you say. 'Sounds like a museum exhibit.' And that's where you're right.

It's a modern interpretation of what we think our ancestors ate around 2.5 million years ago.

It involves swerving favourites such as pasta, bread, rice, and ultra-processed foods, and opting for the likes of potatoes, sweet potatoes and cassava.

'It would be eating what was eaten in the Paleolithic. You would have to eliminate all ultra-processed foods. Don't even look at them. And also cereals,' Llorente told 'El Larguero', a Cadena SER programme.

'Everything that is pasta, bread, wheat, rice, and also dairy outside. Only high-quality cheeses. I eat everything. Meat, like the steak that I love. Fish, eggs, vegetables. And carbohydrates like potatoes, sweet potatoes and cassava.'

'With the Paleolithic diet I will go 100