TRAINING LOG: Hapy Mayer

Hapy, 245 looked ridiculously easy.

sweet dead Hapy!!!!

I tried later to do just the bar 1-handed, (135lb) but think I was just too
tired. Will try next time to do it fresh and see if I can hold onto it.

Not throwing in Maine this year, but I will be there to judge and cheer you all
on. Looking forward to it.

Hapy that is a sweet bar.  What is the typical axle size 2 or 3"

8/15 - caber cutting...

Headed over to a friend's place who had some deep old woods... found some
beautiful Hophornbeam which are going to give people fits. This wood is
incredibly dense, and the trees seemed to like to grow pretty straight. 2 nice
18fters and one 20'6, plus a nice 16ft maple for the ladies to work with.
Workout was pulling/walking them out to the road.

You pros coming to Goshen will have a nice stick to play with...

Great job Hapy!!! Hope to see you soon!!!

Good throwing workout for my first 2-a-day in a while in honor of Ryan.

Open stone - first over 42 foot in a VERY long time - very excited.

LWFD - Had 3 over 59 foot, but couldnt quite get to 60 - but still way better
than I have been throwing.

Caber - ugh - not sure if I was running out of gas of if my new cabers are
just way too hard, but was not good. Will have to get Carlton, Mike or Bill
over to try them out to see if its just me.

Well in just two weeks I don't think you are going to add much strength to really effect caber and wob. I would really work the line / turn drills, some box jumps and high pulls.  Unless you have a platform and bumpers, I think if you can do the pulls outside, pull as high as you can and release.  Mix a couple of normal wob pulls just to keep timing.

Strategy = "So, what we'll be calling on is good ol' fashion blunt force trauma. Horsepower. Heavy-duty, cast-iron, piledriving punches that will have to hurt so much they'll rattle his ancestors. Every time you hit him with a shot, it's gotta feel like he tried kissing the express train. Yeah! Let's start building some hurtin' bombs!"

Get it all out in the trig Tink...don't save anything.

looking forward to it bud.

these aren't the comp cabers for Loon - unless Wayne wants me to bring
them :)

Had to try them out to make sure they were tough enough....

9/21/10

Went over to the Shedrick's after work. I am done with throwing for this
year, so am now concentrating on a strongman competition I have coming
up in 3 weeks (Harpoon Brewery Octoberfest). Today was Axle Deadlift
day.

130x5, 220x5, 310x5, 360x5, 400x5, 450x3, 400x5
Then I nearly died - let's just say that wearing braces and lunch coming
back up is not a good combination.

I felt better after that so did incline bench 135x5x2 and toyed around with
an approximately 120lb keg to prepare for the keg carry portion of the
strongman.

Lots of skating the rest of this week (Thursday, Friday and Sunday), then
back at it next Tuesday.

I can't - plus the stones you are pressing are too light

My grandmother's 90th birthday party is that day, plus I have a officiating
seminar I have to do on Sunday, and if I skate well there I will get a job
refereeing high school games in Vermont, so wanted to be on my A game.

Seriously though.  90!! Wow, that is awesome.  Have fun, we'll miss you but I'll drink one to his health.  Sto Lat! (100 years)

You don't need a 42, just keep throwing your 56.  JK,

Welcome to the Masters.

Strongman day at Harpoon - 10/9/10

1st event was a medley - 250lb keg carry 50ft, then 180lb keg in each
hand farmers walk, 50ft.

2nd event - 225lb press for reps with crazy 10ft long 2" pipe with kegs
and weights on it. I was not able to get it cleaned :(

3rd event - 450lb deadlift with the above apparatus - I got 4 with straps,
and 1 more without straps.

4th event - overhead 1H dumbbell press - 2" pipe with 2 kegs and some
weights I think was 110lb - got 1 rep in - extreme awkward apparatus.

5th event keg load - 200lb, 250lb, 250lb, and 305lb kegs loaded onto 48"
box - had to carry the kegs about 15ft each time. got first 3 but missed
the 305 - (couldnt carry it to the box) Think I could have loaded it, but
my legs were gassed, and werent going to let me walk it in.

Ended up last overall, but still a true test. Pretty happy with my
performance in the medley and the keg load, deadlift wasnt horrible, but I
was hoping to be able to get 8. Pressing just is not my strength.