Pulling trucks and flipping tyres is all in a day's work for Toowoomba's Travis Weick.

"If it's heavy and awkward, I'll lift it," he said.

After 15 years of lifting weights for fun, Weick finally found his calling in the sport of strongman last year and after just 12 months into the sport he is already setting the bar high ahead of his next competition, Australia's Strongest Man.

"I grew up on farms and with farming you have to be strong, so I think that is where it all came from," he said.

"I only started lifting for strength in October last year. The opportunity came up and I have never looked back."

His incredible rise through the sport has seen him compete in Africa and at the Arnold Classic in Melbourne earlier this year.

But Strongman is like no other strength sport, one day you can be carrying atlas stones and the next you could be deadlifting a car.

And Weick has seen it all in terms of the obscure events that Strongman occasionally throws up.

"A wheelbarrow race was probably the most awkward one," he said.

"It was a 50 metre course and you start with an empty wheelbarrow at 270kg, then you run 10 metres and pick up a keg, run another 10 metres and pick up a keg. It ended up at 370kg.

"That was fun that one."

His biggest test is now just months away in Melbourne where he will lift, carry and throw in a bid to earn the title of the nation's strongest man.

"If I could finish in the top five that would be awesome," he said.

"But there are some strong boys in Australia."