Low and Wright will be in Newcastle this Sunday competing in The Hunter Valley Strongman Championships and are hoping to hold a similar competition in Bathurst in the near future.

Low, who manages Bathurst Health and Fitness Centre, plans to talk to the Bathurst Show Society in the hope of organising a Bathurst Strongman Contest, like the one held at the Newcastle Show this weekend.

Low believes a contest involving local sports men would attract more people to the Bathurst Show and would prove to be a big crowd pleaser.

"The crowd loves it, because itChr(39)s something different," Low said.

"When a guyChr(39)s pulling a truck and doing freaky things like that, people will come to look at it. They might not know anything about what it involves, but theyChr(39)ll be there to see it."

As you might expect both are imposing figures with Low standing 6Chr(39)10" (208 cm) tall and weighing a massive 140 kg, while Wright measures 5Chr(39)10" (178 cm) tall and weighs in at 128 kg.

This weekChr(39)s competition will be LowChr(39)s first time competing in Strongman, while Wright came second in a Strongman Contest held at Orange in 1999.

The pair have been training together in the gym for over two years and in a regular weights session they lift anything up to 500kg in total.

But when they heard about the Strongman Competition two months ago, they altered their training to prepare them for the rigours of the contest.

"WeChr(39)ve been running up and down the field with beer kegs on our back and weChr(39)ve been pushing a ute with a tonne of sand in the back and forward for practice.

"WeChr(39)ve been practising down at the Cricket Ground and people driving past have been giving us some pretty funny looks," Wright said.

The Hunter Valley Strongman Championships is made up of four gruelling events, testing competitorsChr(39) strength, speed and endurance, with the overall winner taking home $1000.

In the first event contestants will flip a large tractor tyre over eight times before pushing a car for 20 metres to the finish line.

This will be followed by the Carry and Drag event, which involves picking up two 50kg sandbags seperately, carrying them for 15 metres, then placing them on a sled, which will be dragged for 15 metres to the finish.

The third event is a loading event in which five seperate items will be picked up, carried ten metres and loaded on a platform. The five items will be a four-wheel drive tyre, a 50kg keg filled with water, a 50kg sandbag, a 60kg log and a 60kg rock.

The Competition will finish with a multi event, which is a combination of all the four other events rolled into one gruelling test.

The winner of each event will be the person who finishes the event in the least amount of time, with first place getting 14 points, second 13 and so on through to 14th place with one point.

Anyone who is keen to compete in a local Strongman Competition in the future, should contact Matthew Lowe at Bathurst Health & Fitness Centre.