my photo album

[Garry8472]

hi guys just joined the site seems a good friendly board not sure if this kink will work i'm better at movin heavy objects than usin comps but here goes:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/album8472/my_photos

my stats are

height 5'9"
weight 17-18 stone
arms 20" pumped
chest 53"
neck 19.25"

lookin forward to gettin to make a few new buds and maybe help out a bit.

[Justin Hurley]

Looking huge!!! Nice set of guns on you.

You look like Lou Simmons.

[bigger shaolinmonk]

Hi garry, welcome to ukm, you are one big fella,ditto justin...nice guns!!!
Are you a bodybuilder, powerlifter or a strongman?
Also...what can you squat and deadlift 8)

[Rob Thomas]

Hey Gary, nice to put a face to the name - you're the only person beating me in the Muscletalk powerlifting comp!

[Garry8472]

hi lads thanks for the welcome and good words, i started trainin when i was about 18 or 19, need to build up strength for work and apart from a 4 year lay off have trained ever since, some times more seriously than others, i'm now 37 :( and i aint as commited as i once was but i'm still pluggin away i'll post me lifts for ye :)

[Justin Hurley]

I wouldn't mind borrowing those guns of yours. Look good in T-shirt on a nice summers day!!!

What did you do for a job, that you had to build strength for?

[Garry8472]

yeah they turn the odd head :lol: i worked in a builders yard bags of sand, gravel back when they were 50kg bags not these ponsey 25kg half bags, pavin flags etc we had no mechanical off load for deliveries so i spent all day walkin up and down peoples drives and paths carrying this stuff ever tried to hand ball 100 3x2 concrete flags off a wagon and carry them round the back of someones house, i'm lucky me back still works at all.

[Justin Hurley]

I can see why you needed the strength.

I remember the old 50kg bags, Selco still do the 40kg bags.

Those flag stones are a bitch. I would have just unloaded on to the driveway, they could have kissed my ass if I was going to carry them in the back garden for them. You may as well have laid them, and took the job price, you'd done half the job for them.

[Garry8472]

it was our family business for 1 so you try to please, 2 i used to like to impress the ladies :wink: 8) and 3 well i didn't have the heart to tell the pensioners and the disabled no, mind you after 15 years of it i toughened the rules up ALOT from then on if someone said they were recovering from brain surgery i wanted documented evidence or a photo of the surgery being performed, mind you most of them were just lazy feckers :wink:

[bigger shaolinmonk]

That sounds like a cool job garry, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a few 50kg bags, also what is a flag stone???

[Rob Thomas]

I think Flag stones are like paving stones.

[Justin Hurley]

Yeah they are, the big bastards though that weigh a ton. Bitch to carry.

[Garry8472]

it was a cool job...... in the summer shirt off sun on ye back showin off how strong ye are in the street. you'd be delivering to some georgeous lass and her husband would get all competetive and want to help to show how macho he was :lol: i'd be stood with a bag of sand, theyd come over to take it off me and theyd hold there arms straight out infront of them like you were going to drape a sheet over them then id say "it's heavy" and theyd insist theyd be ok so id plonk the bag on there arms and whatch them crash to the floor ohh the hilarity :lol: :lol: :lol: i did feel bad for them but it was funny, blokes bein blown down the street desperatly holding onto a 6x6 fence panel :roll: does this make me a bad person :?

down side the back ache, you'd be bending from the waste literally hundreds of times a day with 50kg or more every time month after month. ohh and flag stones are paving flags err sorry stones