Indoor training-Coach mac any thoughts

I am thinking about attempting to make an indoor hammer by attaching an indoor shot to a PVC handle. The handle would be short about 20 or 30 inches to reduce the distance in confined spaces. Has anybody tried this? Any pictures of such a beast?

• Videos and visualization (two great things to do when the weather sucks).
• Go to the gym and hit that core stuff HARD.
• Plate winds.
• Step and turns.
• Line drills with a plate (or better yet one of those med balls with a handle).
• The list of drills could go on forever so I'll stop now.
• Med ball throws (if you have even an ounce of creativity you could probably do these every day for a month and never do the same thing twice).
• Try to piss off the hamsters.
• Make a lot of noise.
• Avoid solving equations, just work HARD!

When the weather sucks I do some cardio.....which involves my wife and a bottle of her favorite wine......Come to think about it, that's my year 'round supplemental training program.  (insert "big caber jokes, hammer time jokes, big iron ball jokes, etc. here).  I have decided to throw all winter this year and go the snow blower route when necessary.  I remember the days when NO BODY trained year around for the highland games, its nice to see it has become a serious sport. 

Check the link below, Put a 20 pound ball in the sling now just slide a piece of PVC pipe over the rope tie a knot on one end and you have an indoor hammer. I don’t know how durable the thing is but for 9 bucks its worth a shot.

https://www.power-systems.com/Nav/closeup.aspx?c=11&sc=4 4&g=2454&z=2454-1.jpg#

I am not a big fan of overweight work in the hammer. I think it encourages you to tense up the upper body which is a critical mistake in hammer. The only people who really seem to benefit from it are guys who throw with the upright 'American' style like Matt. Maybe Sean can chime in here since he used to throw that way.

I think you do need to do a good bit of rotational core strengthening and that needs to be done with weight (just not out at the end of a hammer). If you aren't doing Russian twists for reps with a 45 then your core is too weak. Winds on a roman chair (belly up, really stay long) with a plate or med ball. I also like winds on one of those 45 degree hyper benches (still belly up of course) for a slightly different angle. Barbell twists (you wouldn't believe me if I told you how much weight I've seen Ryan using on these). Barbell twists with the bar held overhead with a snatch grip. And on and on.