- Location
- Limavady, Northern Ireland
So.....
Always been into sports and was playing rugby for many years till I was 22, standing 6ft 3 21 stone fairly ripped. Interest waned as the sport got boring and work and social life took over more and more.
Moved to kickboxing and spent a few years fighting and weight dropped down to around 19 stone strong then but got bored as I had fewer people to fight with lightweights.....
I went into grecko wrestling and doing some mixed martial arts, was helping a friend work at cattle when I took a slap to the knee, still unsure of what it was but I was told by stupid doctors I had done cruciate damage etc and that iv never do sports.
Soi got fat went to around 30 stone fat piece of crap after I left a job in England and came home again, new gym locally started and I was blessed to meet a guy who helped me turn around my life in a way. Starting to train classes and weights and started to get strong but always had a fear of my knee so avoided heavy squats.
So....doing what I thought was right until my first strongman exposure came meeting a former WSM and he asked me down to train at his gym met another guy and boom suddenly my gym changed. The weight fell off me to a point i reached 151kg and was starting to feel i was strong.
My first night doing proper weights I managed 190kg deadlift 85kg bench and 140kg squat.
Currently squatting 310kg deadlifting 320kg benching 190kg and still going up.....plus i now weight 173kg and never felt better!!
twice top 2 strongmen in Ireland compete this weekending in Scotland as well
Il do a bitta updating if people wanna know more but just wanted to add this so people can see the progression
Always been into sports and was playing rugby for many years till I was 22, standing 6ft 3 21 stone fairly ripped. Interest waned as the sport got boring and work and social life took over more and more.
Moved to kickboxing and spent a few years fighting and weight dropped down to around 19 stone strong then but got bored as I had fewer people to fight with lightweights.....
I went into grecko wrestling and doing some mixed martial arts, was helping a friend work at cattle when I took a slap to the knee, still unsure of what it was but I was told by stupid doctors I had done cruciate damage etc and that iv never do sports.
Soi got fat went to around 30 stone fat piece of crap after I left a job in England and came home again, new gym locally started and I was blessed to meet a guy who helped me turn around my life in a way. Starting to train classes and weights and started to get strong but always had a fear of my knee so avoided heavy squats.
So....doing what I thought was right until my first strongman exposure came meeting a former WSM and he asked me down to train at his gym met another guy and boom suddenly my gym changed. The weight fell off me to a point i reached 151kg and was starting to feel i was strong.
My first night doing proper weights I managed 190kg deadlift 85kg bench and 140kg squat.
Currently squatting 310kg deadlifting 320kg benching 190kg and still going up.....plus i now weight 173kg and never felt better!!
twice top 2 strongmen in Ireland compete this weekending in Scotland as well
Il do a bitta updating if people wanna know more but just wanted to add this so people can see the progression
