You done good. With more practice and meets, you’ll do gooder. The braemer with a stone that heavy is a bitch and you had a good distance. The 56# for distance should only be forced on 26 year olds weighing over 300# and zero body fat. Three picks on the caber even if you didn’t get a turn is outstanding at this point. Good thing it was the catholics holding the games, we always allow drinking. BTW, did I mention Dan John is better looking than me. I’ll explain that if needed.
lots of awesomeness going on over here. Question though, have you asked Jim W to created a 5/3/1 for kilt-wearers?
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I think it’s totally awesome that you did this! It takes a lot of guts to try something new knowing you might possibly come in last. [I speak from some experience here.] Way to go!
Now. The important stuff. Where’s the skirt pic?[/quote]
the parish that the fundraiser/games was for had a photog there. if they post a pitcher of me in my mandress, I’ll link it. Bonny Knees!
[quote]hel320 wrote:
You done good. With more practice and meets, you’ll do gooder. The braemer with a stone that heavy is a bitch and you had a good distance. The 56# for distance should only be forced on 26 year olds weighing over 300# and zero body fat. Three picks on the caber even if you didn’t get a turn is outstanding at this point. Good thing it was the catholics holding the games, we always allow drinking. BTW, did I mention Dan John is better looking than me. I’ll explain that if needed.[/quote]
ugly throws farther.
he said he had not touched a caber for a year. I don’t think he’s been training for the highland games, just T&F. Didn’t talk about training, just bonhomie and drinking.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
lots of awesomeness going on over here. Question though, have you asked Jim W to created a 5/3/1 for kilt-wearers? [/quote]
I am doing it behind his back.
Not really, but if someone were to do such a thing, since most real throwers do lots of oly stuff, it would prolly just be a more oly-centric version of the 5/3/1. but that is just my guess.
My dream is to own a strength gym that just has powerlifting, weightlifting, strongman and higland games training. that would be so much fun. too bad you could never make a buck that way.
Yes, I have dreams of someday owning my own gym, however it has to be the situation where I don’t expect to make my living off of it. Breaking even would be nice.
9/14/10
kettlekwearing, 38# 1-hand swings, ladders of 4/4/4/4/3/3/4 with one min rests, total reps 98 total rest 6 min.
this fried me, but I threw at lunch anyway.
6 circuits of:
5 hammer winds
2 weight throws
broke my hammer handle (finally) without even throwing it today. On the weight, I started using 30# for a few sets, then I went to 40# for a few sets, then dropped to 20#. I am trying to use the double spin, and I am really sucking ass at it. I am trying to figure out whether a heavy or a light weight is most useful for learning the technique. I seem equally useless at both.
no caber today. My hammer is what I sucked at most, and I was hoping to get some extra work in, but I broke it. I went and bought a couple more handles so that I can get busy with it tomorrow. I also bought a couple 2x6 boards hoping to finish my squat racks.
learn harder
old lardass
MJ
there is indeed allot of awsomeness going on here
picking up heavy shit is awesome
throwing heavy shit more so
My suggestion, use a lighter weight to learn the spin. As a matter of fact, it may help to start each practice doing some spins sans any weight. That way you can concentrate more on the movements. Once you get the steps down, increase the weight.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
My suggestion, use a lighter weight to learn the spin. As a matter of fact, it may help to start each practice doing some spins sans any weight. That way you can concentrate more on the movements. Once you get the steps down, increase the weight. [/quote]
I thought that might be the case. I look pretty foolish, and get dizzy alot. but I bought some new hammer handles last night, and I am ready to throw at lunch.
That looks like a really enjoyable training day.
i thought that if I skipped the kettlefags this morning, i would have a better throwing work out. this was not the case. despite a complete warm up, i felt like shit, everything was tight, and nothing worked right.
i should have worked through lunch today.
I’ve been thinking, motivated by you and The Chad, that I want to try me some Highland Games… gotta look around for some local practitioners…
I find lighter weights for learning technique works well too. More room for error. Excellent games this weekend. 88 degrees with that 19’ thing is a hell of a lot better than no score. If the wind had just been in the right direction… The dizzy getting on the turns goes away after a while.
When my track meet (Oct 2,3) is over, I’ll live up to my recommendations and train hammer for the Oct 30th games only by doing winds, no actual throws (saves hammers handles for one.) All exaggeration aside, I plan on doing at least 1,000 winds between Oct 3rd and Oct 30th, so 250 per week, 50 per day, 5 times a week. My current bests are 71’+ and 50’+. We’ll see if anything gets better. Can’t wait till Oct 30th.
Keep up the training, MJ. Though at first look it all appears to be brute strength, lot of technique involved. Next year you’ll be winning.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
and get dizzy alot…[/quote]
I get dizzy all the time when I train. Us old guys just don’t know how to back off. Keep up the good work MJ.
Harry, one of my meathead buddies asked what the ratio to strength/technique was, I said prolly 80% technique. What do you think?
Steve, no shit, i’m alwaze dizzee
Pete, hey, if its good enough for His Chadness… reading his stuff gave me the idea, then seeing how much fun Harry had with it, that’s what sold me on giving it a try. I am having a ball, and I think I really needed something like this. If you want to find games/clubs near you, go to
http://www.nasgaweb.com/dbase/main.asp
and put your state into the calendar. they will show games in your area, along with an email address for whoever is the organizer of each meet. send them all emails asking about clubs in the area, that’s how I found my club!
Carl, I am going to try for 50-100 winds per day, but I’m gonna throw the 22 every day as well. I did just winds coming up to this last meet, and I was pretty awful. I think its because i haven’t been doing this long enough to benefit from winds only practice, i need to throw too. I gonna try to throw 1 for every 5-10 winds.
Sounds good to me.
kettlefagging 38#, 6 ladders of 4, 86 total reps with only 5 breaks. also, instead of sitting on my ass, I held a front plank during half of my breaks. first time trying, and as it turns out, planks is one of those things that are fairly hard for fat guys.
threw at lunch, worked mostly on the weight for distance, trying to get the double spin down. threw:
10lb x 6
20lb x 6
30lb x 10
I did these in pairs, then I would do a couple weight for height throws with a spin. just trying to groove the movement. at the games on saturday I’ll do the between the legs thing until I miss, then I’ll try the spin, I think I can squeeze an extra couple feet that way, but maybe not.
Since time is limited, i will probably only be practicing the weights. Also, it looks like they have me throwing with the kids in the C (novice) division, so I’ll prolly have to throw the heavy ones again this weekend.
i am sore as heck, and I found out something new that I’m doing wrong. when I do the spins, I am landing straight legged instead of with bent knees. this is beating up my bad knee and making me feel pouty. I am trying to concentrate on keeping my knees bent, but that is hurting my back. probably because of kettlefagging for the first time in a week.
make it harder
than it needs to be
sad disappointment. my son has a swim meet this weekend, so I won’t be able to make the highland games.
pout
on the other hand, that gives me more time to work the spin.
We are having a games called the rumble, where we use overweight implements, that will be fun. 30# braemer stone, 23# open stone. instead of throwing the 28 and the 42, we’ll throw the 42 and the 56. should be fun, if nothing comes up to prevent me going.
i have not kettlefagged since monday. I am hoping to throw at lunch today. still fat.