A collection of videos from my own lifting and throwing as a professional highland games thrower. Also, I intend to put out some great content related to health, fitness, nutrition, and training with the goal of sharing the knowledge that I have gained with as many others as possible.
Hey Justin , any pertinent modifications to your wob standard or pretty much same design as one in video you put out long ago . I need to build one, yesterday, an abysmal event for me so far this year
Your videos have really been helping me and my group who are green to Highland games and getting involved with competing this season. I’m Spreading the word about your Videos as often as I can! Thank you genuinely for all of the help and informative content!
That is super awesome to hear! Thank yall for the support and good luck! Best and most strength sport out there! Let me know if yall have any questions
It was awesome meeting you in person, man!! As long as Nik (and I, to a lesser degree) have any sway with NMCA, you will get another invite. Glad you made the trip.
"Hometown" Games are AWESOME!! Can't agree more about being able to sleep in your own bed and not disrupting your normal routine too much, then getting to compete. Great stuff, man!
Enjoyed getting to see you compete in person at these games. Great group of guys (and gals!). Hope to compete with you one of these days. I'll be competing this weekend at the Blairsville, GA games.
You could just put some marker tape at a couple of the measurements around where you expect it to go to and then just look at the footage to find what marker came off the ground.... but your way looked more fun.
Yes! Here is a link to a video I made with how I do this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M52TYL_itpE.htmlsi=2bVYgU7LfOWubNB4 If the link does not work, you can just search “Strength Empire Gym throwing with a strap” and it should be the first thing that comes up
saw this and replied in a different video - have tried it but it has blown off or its like the runoff underneath it. Need the entire parking lot re-graded really
Just doing it? Hard to understand what you are asking, it is kind of just how you throw. Throw it more until it can become comfortable. And always continue to push to get stronger which should make it easier
Nice work. I've been enjoying your channel. I've been getting back into highland games after a ten year hiatus, won a C level comp and then went off to do other things and now I'm back and plan on some B level comps. My training routine is similar, nice to know I'm on the right track. I'm a wildland firefighter out west so I'm planning on a couple fall/winter games after my busy time is over. Really appreciate your technique videos as I live in the middle of nowhere. Thanks.
1:35 to 2:45 is good content, man. I like the idea of doing full throws first then doing drills, although I do have a couple "primer" drills I always do first. Definitely on board with throwing before lifting.
Question: I’m thinking of building a home gym. Besides the obvious things (rack, BB, DB, ect.), what are 5ish pieces of equipment you find translates to the HGs well.
Hmmm Well first would be having the throwing implements! So if I would do a home gym, a glute ham raise/reverse hyper combo would be near the top of my list. A trap bar (prob one of the new open versions) would be on that list, a landmine setup (maybe attached to a rack for space save and price save), a velocity measuring device (open barbell, tendo unit, vitruve) to measure bar speed, I love my jerk blocks but that's a lot of space so maybe a box squat box too (and/or drop pads if you know how to oly lift), and definitely an assortment of BANDS! You can get super creative with bands to give you exercise variety.
@@StrengthEmpireGym Thank you so much for the reply. One thing I did once for the velocity measuring was buy a wrist holder for my phone and used the phone’s potentiometer to measure my speed. It worked decent except all I got was raw data. I had to sit down and render it into something useful. Too time consuming. Possible app potential. Thanks again for your suggestions. They will help guide me.
Sheaf question for you. I have seen some folks, and messed around with it myself, that almost jump up during their backswing. Do you feel like that can be helpful, or is it counterproductive putting too much upward motion into the backswing, as you then have to counteract it? I guess what I mean is, is it more beneficial to maybe just get some decent momentum from your backswing, but really focus more on that upward lift? Thanks, man, and make sure to say hello before things get crazy in ABQ!
I guess I am not the biggest fan of it, but I do end up with some movement on the backswing from time to time. I've seen people purposefully jump, and if you throw higher that way then do it lol But, the highest sheaf throwers DO NOT jump on the back swing. If you are in the air, you cannot apply force on the implement. I think back swing is important, but losing power is a no no
Throwing with no blades also messed my hammers up last season. I spent 3 weeks throwing bladeless leading up to enumclaw last year and my furthest throw was on day 1 of that training block. From there it just went downhill, and my hammers felt “off” for several weeks after switching back to using blades
Thoughts on doin a wov video? Touching on what cues you work off of, drills, weight training for it, etc? Just a deep dive on specific throws would be a cool series
I have posted a couple on this recently - a beginners video that covers the basics to technique and a strongman sandbag video that takes the same cues from highland games
