Charleville Gym will host the first Strongman Challenge on Saturday where competitors will endure some of the hardest and heaviest weights to determine the 2018 strongman and woman.

About 13 competitors will sweat iron in five events to determine the overall winner.

Aaron Nixon, Liam Walsh and Lachlan Matthew, who are the brains behind bringing the heavy lifting sport to Charleville, are excited for the debut of the competition this weekend.

The trio also hope interest in the sport of strongman will increase, starting with awareness from grass roots level all the way through to international level.

"I hope that people will gain an interest in the strongman competition and general fitness for the gym,” Nixon said.

"We had been planning this for about three or four months before we approached the gym about it and they were more than happy to accommodate us.”

"We hope in the future we can get other townships involved and then we can have friendly competition between us because then we will be able to look at having more competitions throughout the year”

The challenge kicks off with a competitor briefing at 8.30am before the first event at 9am and the Local Ambulance Committee will provide a sausage sizzle during the event.

"The first event for the day is a double overhand axle dead-lift,” Nixon said.

"You have to grip it double over hand, which makes it harder, and you can't have straps, so its all about grip.

"The aim is to see how many reps you can do in a minute.

"The second event is the overhead medley which includes lifting a keg of sand over your head, arms extended, then Olympic bar overhead, then the axle bar overhead and then the log bar and it's doing all four of those exercises as quick as you can.”

The third event of the challenge is a dead-lift medley which includes an Olympic bar lift, axle bar, the farmers lift and then a really heavy Olympic bar.

Following the dead-lift medley is the load-medley event which includes a 10m tyre flip, sandbag carry, run with the farmers bars and then a 44 gallon drum carry over a total distance of 40m in the quickest time.

"The last event is the atlas stones, which includes moving a cement ball onto a 44-gallon drum as many times as you can in a minute,” Nixon said.

"The novice guys at the moment are lifting the 80kg ball but, if they use the 105kg atlas stone and do it once, they win that section.”