Beijing, November 4 A Chinese man from Hebei province Monday said he plans to apply for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for his ability to walk in heavy iron shoes.

Zhang Fuxing, living in Fengnan district in Tangshan town, does daily exercises in a pair of iron shoes that weigh 405 kilogram, about seven times his own weight.

The shoes are thirty cm long with a width of twenty cm every, but the sole is made from welded iron chunks to a height of forty cm.

Zhang spends twenty minutes walking in the shoes every morning, usually only about a dozen metres. He keeps his iron shoes in the yard because “they are so serious that i do not need to worry they might be stolen”.

Zhang has done exercises in these shoes for over seven years. he works in a local mill and made the shoes himself.

Initially he created a pair weighing seventy kilogram and has added weight to the shoes as he intensified his routine. He plans to add additional weight to the shoes early next year.