Long, long day. Will post vids later and details later.
Shot - 1st
Discus - 1st
95 degree weather throwing chic
Great job hel! You are tearing them up!
Nice blouse there Hel! Pink is your color.
Great job!
Do not mess with the lucky faded purplish colored towel. Besides, it takes a real man to wear pink.
It was a sports festival so that means all age groups and that means a really long day. “we’re gonna get the kids out of the way first” means the masters are last. Got to see a lot of talent in the younguns though.
Ended up winning the shot and disc. No prs which pisses me off. By the time we got to throw it had become an endurance event. Would really like to only do Master’s meets but there aren’t enough of them witout traveling realy long distances. Well, back to the gym tomorrow.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Do not mess with the lucky faded purplish colored towel. Besides, it takes a real man to wear pink.
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My apologies to the “lucky faded purplish colored towel”! I would never intentionally diss someones talisman. ;-}
Again - Great job!
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Do not mess with the lucky faded purplish colored towel. Besides, it takes a real man to wear pink.
It was a sports festival so that means all age groups and that means a really long day. “we’re gonna get the kids out of the way first” means the masters are last. Got to see a lot of talent in the younguns though.
Ended up winning the shot and disc. No prs which pisses me off. By the time we got to throw it had become an endurance event. Would really like to only do Master’s meets but there aren’t enough of them witout traveling realy long distances. Well, back to the gym tomorrow.[/quote]
Great job hel! 1st place in both! They should let the masters go first at those events huh. Those kids can take the heat better than we can.
Back to the gym yesterday. Next meet isn’t until 2 August so I really need to hit the weights.
Bench
135,185wu,225x8x4
Hammer Incline Machine
90,140wu,180x12x4
straight arm flyes
20,25,30,35x8
CGB
135wu,185x10,205x8,225x8
Tri Ext
90,100,110,120x10
Squat
135x10x4
Leg Press
200,290,380wu,470x10,560x10
bent row
135wu,185x8,225x6x3
shrugs
225x max x 4
hammer curls
35x8x4
Nice job on the meet Hel.
How’d the squats go this time?
hel,
congrats on the meet.
One day off and then back at the gym, an inspiration to us all.
By the way, I liked the pink/purple towel.
Thanks mday. Actually that’s the only towel my wife will let me use. Used one of her “good towels” once…
Summertime and a lot of people on vacation. Mandatory overtime. Last week has been 7:30 to 7:00 work, gym, home, shower, eat, bed. This is my 3 day weekend coming up so I’m hoping to get some good throwing in.
Skid, the squats are still more an exercise in shoulder stretching than a leg workout. I’ll keep on trying.
Last night
Power cleans
135wu,185x6,205x5,225x4x3
power snatch
135x6,145x5,155x4
mil press
135x8,155x6,185x4x3
rear delt raises
35x8x4
Great job on winning both events.
Btw, I saw your reference to Al Oerter on j willy's thread a while back. I met him and threw against him (if you could call throwing forty feet behind him throwing against him) long ago.
I was exactly the same height and weight, but the amazing thing was he was far more BONE than me. I mean his hands were huge, his whole body wider than mine, even his head was wide. God just made him a naturally very large man, unlike me and my insane amounts of lifting and food consumption to make myself that size. He was so comfortable in the ring he made throwing over 200 seem like child’s play.
Doc
[quote]Dr.PowerClean wrote:
Great job on winning both events.
Btw, I saw your reference to Al Oerter on j willy's thread a while back. I met him and threw against him (if you could call throwing forty feet behind him throwing against him) long ago.
I was exactly the same height and weight, but the amazing thing was he was far more BONE than me. I mean his hands were huge, his whole body wider than mine, even his head was wide. God just made him a naturally very large man, unlike me and my insane amounts of lifting and food consumption to make myself that size. He was so comfortable in the ring he made throwing over 200 seem like child’s play.
Doc[/quote]
Best discription of him I’ve heard. First US Sports Festival, 1979, at the Air Force Academy. Al was 40+ years old and making a bid for his 5th Olympics having retired after his 68 gold. (Pres. Carter kept the US out of the 80 Olympics.) I wasn’t competing, not that good.
My team did a helicopter rapid repel and rescue presentation for the crowd. We’re stowing our gear and I heard this deep voice say “real impressive”. Turned around and it was Al Oerter. Shook my hand and I swear his index finger came to my wrist. So to the man I’d had posters of on my wall as a teenager I say something like, “uh, thanks Mr Oerter.” With him was John Powell and later Michael Carter came over (Yeah, I’m name dropping).
Thanks for triggering one of my great memories, Doc.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Dr.PowerClean wrote:
Great job on winning both events.
Btw, I saw your reference to Al Oerter on j willy's thread a while back. I met him and threw against him (if you could call throwing forty feet behind him throwing against him) long ago.
I was exactly the same height and weight, but the amazing thing was he was far more BONE than me. I mean his hands were huge, his whole body wider than mine, even his head was wide. God just made him a naturally very large man, unlike me and my insane amounts of lifting and food consumption to make myself that size. He was so comfortable in the ring he made throwing over 200 seem like child’s play.
Doc
Best discription of him I’ve heard. First US Sports Festival, 1979, at the Air Force Academy. Al was 40+ years old and making a bid for his 5th Olympics having retired after his 68 gold. (Pres. Carter kept the US out of the 80 Olympics.) I wasn’t competing, not that good.
My team did a helicopter rapid repel and rescue presentation for the crowd. We’re stowing our gear and I heard this deep voice say “real impressive”. Turned around and it was Al Oerter. Shook my hand and I swear his index finger came to my wrist.
So to the man I’d had posters of on my wall as a teenager I say something like, “uh, thanks Mr Oerter.” With him was John Powell and later Michael Carter came over (Yeah, I’m name dropping).
Thanks for triggering one of my great memories, Doc.[/quote]
Hel, you did me a favor too. I always have resented Carter so much for depriving me of a long-shot chance at the 80 Olympics, but I never even realized he deprived Oerter of the chance for a historic, monumental feat.
In that meet at the Gainesville Relays, he and Powell were both heaving it out there close to the fence (back then, the discus field could only contain a 220 foot throw, the big guys hated it cause they nicked their discuses against the chain link fence.)
My memories of back then are filled with anger. I remember Carter announcing the boycott around February and then the Olympic committee caving in in April. I remember they still had trials, but don't recall who went or who did what, I was so pissed.
I missed qualifying for the bogus trials in the shot by three inches and I was about twenty pounds away from the third best American OL Super at the time. To think Carter deprived Oerter, well that makes me feel like my dashed longshot dreams in the shot and OL weren’t as bad somehow. Oerter was GOD.
Anyway, thanks, its better to remember a nice moment I had with Oerter chatting than all this other crap. He was a friendly man, and while we were in line to throw, I made him laugh as we talked about the short fence.
I told him the only way my discus got there was if I line drived one and it got up on its side and ROLLED to the fence! He laughed but encouraged me…shook my hand and told me I was just a big kid and to stay with it, I had “potential.” Doc
Got in some throwing yesterday. I’ve created a dilemma for myself, however. All season I’ve been obsessing about the rotational method of the shot and speeding up. Strange thing happened at my last meet. By the finals of the shot we’re all exhausted. The wait and heat took it’s toll. Nobody was throwing any great distances. So my last throw, I’d already won so nothing at stake, I say screw it and just use the old side ways scoot. Best throw of the day. Yesterday I do some throws and I’m really getting it out there using this method. Can really get “behind it” and feel the push. So, now I’m faced with the should I invest time training this way for the possibility of better throws? Maybe it’s just Brian Oldfield’s quote haunting me “old guys should just scoot” that keeps me from exploring it. Just rambling.
The shot looks easier and smaller than 16 pounds or i am wrong ?
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Got in some throwing yesterday. I’ve created a dilemma for myself, however. All season I’ve been obsessing about the rotational method of the shot and speeding up. Strange thing happened at my last meet. By the finals of the shot we’re all exhausted. The wait and heat took it’s toll. Nobody was throwing any great distances. So my last throw, I’d already won so nothing at stake, I say screw it and just use the old side ways scoot. Best throw of the day. Yesterday I do some throws and I’m really getting it out there using this method. Can really get “behind it” and feel the push. So, now I’m faced with the should I invest time training this way for the possibility of better throws? Maybe it’s just Brian Oldfield’s quote haunting me “old guys should just scoot” that keeps me from exploring it. Just rambling.[/quote]
Same here, Hel, only in my case I can throw farther “scooting” than even “sliding”. Same for the discus - can throw 10 feet farther scooting than spinning. Had to take a leave from practice due to a 6-week overseas work assignment, but when I come back I’ll probably stay a confirmed old scooter.
[quote]ftlty wrote:
The shot looks easier and smaller than 16 pounds or i am wrong ?[/quote]
Not smaller, lighter. I’m throwing a 125mm shot which is the same size as some 16s. They usually come 115mm to 128mm (outdoor). I find smaller diameters harder to get a good hold on.
Men
up to 49 = 7.26 (16)
50 to 59 = 6k (13.2) The one I’m throwing
60 to 69 = 5k (11)
70 to 79 = 4k (8.8)
80 up = 3k (6.6)
Keeping pounding it Chief! Good work being done in here!