I only train in my back garden, but now I compete in the world’s strongest man

Andrew Flynn managed to qualify for the world’s strongest man in his own backyard.

Flynn, 33, will fly to Sacramento later this month to compete against the greatest and best strong men from all over the world – all thanks to his “Poky Little 8×4 Single Breeze Block” Home Gym.

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The former rugby hopeful has lifted weights since he was 13 and training as a stronger For 10 years, but this will be his first crack at the biggest competition of the sport.

Flynn fell in Strongman when he moved a house and realized that he could not chase his dreams to be a rugby star and balance his life at home with a new house.

He said Sunsport: “I played a lot of rugby, but I bought a house with my missus and I couldn’t play the rugby games and do a house and start a family at the same time.

“Instead, I started a gym near my new house, and the gym where I was training was a strong man gym.

“They ran the strongest man in Worthing and I would see the people there training.

“So it’s a kind of things I wanted to become a rugby player, but I couldn’t bind much to it.

“And there was a gym here and I could be a strong man and I could give it my time. So I thought, I will try.”

Flynn remembers that it was “taking a fish to water” thanks to his rugby background and his broad framework, but never thought he would go to California to fight almost a few years later for almost £ 100,000.

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Another house movement meant six years ago that he should start training in his garden, something that has not changed since then.

Flynn goes outside where he uses a mix of weights and improvised equipment such as sandbags to prepare for the biggest names in Strongman.

The 33-year-old, who could show his ‘gym’ out of his window, said: “If I showed you my gym, you think ‘no, no chance that he can train for the world’s strongest man’.

“Because it is literally just like a Pokey Small, eight with four single Briesblock building.

“And I personally built up an extension for it, so that I could train there in the winter because the ceiling was so low when we moved that I couldn’t even get over the press there.

The East Sussex Strongman, which weighs nearly 22 stone, used that gym to train for every competition that led to his qualification for the world’s strongest man.

It has been a long process for Flynn, starting with virtual qualification 15 months ago to finish third in the strongest man of Great Britain by fair Half -pointed In February – A competition that sealed his place in Sacramento.

Flynn admits that it feels “bizarre” to call himself one of the strongest men in the world, and after the realization of what was for him, he felt that he had to train at least once a week in a good gym.

95 percent of my training that I have done over the past six or seven years has been at the bottom of my garden

Andrew Flynn

He added: “For the world’s strongest man I have a coach in Southampton and he owns a gym. So on a Saturday I go to him.

“But that is not regular, 95 percent of my training that I have done over the past six or seven years was at the bottom of my garden”.

The Home Gym is more than a necessity, because Flynn is a husband, father of two, Strongman competitor and a full-time job in material control for Southern Railway.

He said: “I can’t go to work, come home, travel to a gym and come back. It is not feasible, would not happen.

“It is one of those things that I don’t have the choice, if you know what I mean? This is the best thing I can do, so this is what I will do.”

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Balancing that job means that Flynn has an incredible schedule that sees him working non-stop from 6 a.m. to around 11 p.m.

He explained: “I get up at 6 am, get on the train to East Croydon, and then I walk from his East Croydon to Selhurst. I will do my job and then I will return around 4 pm.

“Then I have about two or three hours to take care of the children, put them to bed and then usually go to the gym between 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. and I will come back from the bottom of my garden around 10.30 am.

“It’s pretty intense. You get in immediately. It’s a bit like, you know, coming in, eating, shower, bed and up again at 6 o’clock in the morning.

“It is not optimal to sleep. So I am tired, but again, I am used to having two children, so I don’t really go.”

That schedule requires that Flynn is fed himself, so he and his nutritionist have drawn up a plan that sees him eating about 6,000 calories per day – spend almost £ 5,000 a year on his own meals.

He describes his meals as “buckets and trogs of food”, but knows that clean food will help him give a competitive advantage in the US.

It may sound like an easy ride that ties to the bottom of the garden to exercise and manages to earn a place in the strongest man in the world.

But the 6ft 2 in Muscle man fought along the way with injuries and suffers from two torn biceps – which means that his biceps literally torn from the bone – and a sliding disc in his neck.

He remembered: “I released both my biceps that Strongman did. What happened, because we do this all the time, it is normally a lack of concentration.

“Sometimes the environment touches you a little too much, which I think you are doing something in a mistake, so that you get injured.

“When you tear your biceps, all nerves go in with it. So I couldn’t feel it … but you feel a click in your arm.

“It’s almost like you clicked on your fingers or something, but imagine it’s your entire biceps.

“Since then I have had operations to have them both confirmed again. Before I had injuries, I thought I was more invincible and it will be fine.

“Then you have two biceps and a disc in my neck and now I am a bit more on my care for my body. There is a life after Strongman, so I don’t want to do myself completely.”

That life would be his wife Ruby and their eight and six-year-old children, whom he paid out of his own pocket to bring him to Sacramento.

Flynn described the gym as “part of his life” and a “non-consumable”, but still sees himself as an underdog when it comes to this month’s competition.

He discussed his goals in the United States and said humbly: “I have no high expectations if you are against 25 of the best guys in the world, not to say that I am nonsense.

“I just want to do what I can do to the best of their ability and I hope that may be good enough to get me around.”