Meet Martyn Ford: Skinny 6-Foot 8-Inch Teenager Transformed Into 322-lb Muscle-Bound Giant [Video]

Martyn Ford transformed from a stringy 6ft 8inch, 155-lb youth to a towering muscle-bound 322-lb mountain of muscles.

The tattooed 33-year-old dad from West Midlands is able to leg press a weight of about 750 kg and deadlift 350 kg. He spends about $370 a week on food and feeds every hour.

Ford has more than 81,000 followers on Instagram where he posts photos of himself training in the gym. He also shares tips with his fans about how to build up weight and gain muscle mass.

He owns a gym, Better Bodz in Minworth, where he trains hard daily and helps others to achieve their weight gain and muscle mass targets.

Ford advises his fans on the developing the right mindset for body building, saying, “Mental preparation and success, in my opinion, are far more important to success than any drug, supplement or food source. If your mind is not in the game, you may as well just give up and go home. This is what makes champions, the ability to get up, day after day…”

His motto, “Don’t wish for it, work for it,” encapsulates his approach to body building which focuses on rigorous gym workouts.

Martyn is taking advantage of his assets to build a film career as an actor and has just completed filming for his first movie, a martial arts film titled, The Undisputed Four, where he stars alongside the British actor, Scott Adkins. The film, in which he plays a villainous character called Koshmar, meaning, “Nightmare,” is due for release early next year, according to the Daily Mail.

The “Nightmare” is a fearsome character. Ford joked that Koshmar has “given me a lovely reputation! He’s a vile character – cannibal, rapist, and murderer… a great role model.”

But Martyn assures his fans that in real-life he is unlike the film character. He admits, however, that many people find his massive frame and tattooed body intimidating.

He said, “I tend to get a few looks. I get more people looking once I’ve walked past, rather than straight at me – I suppose because people are quite intimidated before they get to know my character.”

Commenting on Instagram about his transformation from a skinny youth to muscle-bound giant, Ford said, “We have all been there, no one accidentally grows muscle. However it often seems impossible to get good advice on how they did it! After being in that place, so desperate to grow and feel better about myself, I know how frustrating it can be.”

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Ford said he began working out at the gym after suffering an injury playing cricket at Warwickshire. The accident caused 19-year-old Martyn, who had always been tall and fit, to lose a lot of weight, falling to about 155 lb.

He made up his mind to return to his normal weight, but after he had achieved it he “just carried on.”

“The Injury hit me quite hard and then psychologically I just gave up. I suppose a combination of not training and depression took me right down to that sort of weight.”

“When I hit my lowest weight I was determined to turn it around and that’s when I started weight training,” he said. “My initial goal was to try to get the size back on that I’d lost. I put this on very quickly… It was a great psychological release for me… So once I hit that initial goal, I just carried on; and 12 stone later I’m still carrying on!”

In addition to running a gym Ford has also enrolled at the university to study sports science, personal fitness training and nutrition.

Martyn told the Daily Mail that after reaching his present size, he has focused on maintaining it and if possible increasing it. He is also focusing on improving the aesthetics of his physique for roles in films.

“Now I’m just going to focus on conditioning and keeping the size because with the film work and various stuff that’s coming up, it would be better for me to be ‘aesthetically pleasing.'”

Ford is married to 5ft 5in Sacha Stacey, 26, and has a three-year-old daughter, Imogen.

Martyn said, “She [Imogen] doesn’t let me put her on my shoulders, she doesn’t like it.”

“I dropped her off at school this morning,” Martyn Ford added, “and we do get some strange looks and open-mouthed kids looking up thinking ‘what is that?’

[Image via Martyn Ford/YouTube]