I'm unlike just about any other gay guy you are likely to find.
I've been called a country boy because I love outdoor activities, I get dirty, I like to go off roading, I work on cars, like guns, camping, hiking, and fishing...

but I am much more than that.

I also have been labeled a headbanger or metalhead, because (obviously) I love heavy metal, in just about all it's forms except the cheesy 80's glam/hair rockers... ugh- That's not metal. I could fill this page with a list of bands I like, but I shall not.....

but once again, to label me that would be to fall quite short of who I am.
I also love many other kinds of music; funk, soul, r&b, country, jazz, blues, avant garde, alternative/indie, punk, even some house, techno, disco and occasional pop, hip-hop, and rap songs.

I've chosen to identify as a masculine gay bottom, sexually- though my sexuality is much more versatile than that..
I love to top in the right situation, and I have even enjoyed being with women on occasion.

I'm artistic, but I tend not to use my creativity much.. hoping to change that.
I'm poor, and hoping to change that.

I'm spiritual, intellectual, and sometimes I think too much for my own good. Unfortunately, I am a dreamer, for my interests vastly outpace my means.
I could go on and on about my interests and personality, but it would not tell you who I am... only getting to know me will!

I actually joined this site for fitness reasons, although I find now that bodybuilding.com is better suited for that purpose. You can find my bodyspace page and bodyblog on there if you care to- http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/bryanhard/ -with lots of good details about my slow and steady transformation from skinnyfat blob, to hopefully someday big and built.... it's a work in progress and I have had my stops and starts. Anyway, keeping with the theme of this site, the rest of what is written below is more or less a history of my bodybuilding saga, from where I came from to where I'm at. Hopefully I can inspire someone!

I was never athletic as a kid. I was chubby in my pre-teens, then got tall and became skinny as a rail from puberty thru 20 or so. At that point my hard partying lifestyle began taking it's toll. I got as little exercise as possible, I was quite lazy, and I drank a lot of beer and ate whatever I wanted. Fortunately I was blessed with a somewhat high metabolism, so I never became majorly obese, but by the time I was 31, I was a 220 lb huffing and puffing mess, and I knew I had to change.

After a crash diet in which I shed 50 lbs in 2 months, I was still not happy with my body, for I was incredibly puny once all the fat was gone that had given me the illusion of being somewhat tough. I decided to start working out, and joined a gym. What a rude awakening on my first day there, when I could only bench 85 lbs 3 times, and got 8 curls of a 20 lb barbell in! I had serious work to do.

I was so determined, I managed to get myself in almost decent shape in 4 months. I was benching 3x10 at 170 lbs, and curling 3x10 with 40 lb barbells. I had gotten a bit of a chest and some visible muscles in my arms. Then I quit for 2 years after I met my man and relocated. Life just got hectic. Now I am back on it, and growing every day. My goal is to have a bodybuilder physique.. Something like Matthew Rush, perhaps. I'd like to have at least 18" arms, a 50" chest, and a 32" waist, with the rest of the body proportionate.

Other sites you can find me on:
myspace.com/happydravya - lots of pics, a blog, and music galore.

www.facebook.com/ottobry - Just my closer friends and family

www.okcupid.com/profile/Bryanhard/ - personal ad, basically.

bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/bryanhard/ - again, a more detailed fitness profile for me. stats, charts, progress photos galore.

Your Personality is Very Rare (INFP)

Your personality type is dreamy, romantic, elegant, and expressive. Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 6% of all women and 4% of all men You are Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving.

To be more specific, I'd like to meet some local gym buddies, other gay friends we can hang out with and do things like camping, boating, etc. And Blu and I are in an open relationship... if you meet our standards, then we may play. *wink*

If you bothered to read anything I wrote above, and any of it intrigued you, then I would love to meet you. However, be warned, I don't have much to say to people who I have little in common with, and if you are not local, I may not be good at maintaining a long distance computer friendship. Also, I tend to get along better with people closer to my age, for we have more common experience to relate to. That said, I adore youth as much as the next guy, and have many younger friends, over 18. Not too much into older guys though, except maybe for stimulating intellectual conversations, and talks about "what it was like back then".

In addition, I would love to inspire someone to work out and get the body they want, I may aspire to be a personal trainer someday.... So if you are looking for advice, inspiration, support, or maybe a bit of a push to help you meet your goals, let me know!

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