Off-season training

[eclarkhb]

In the "So you want to be an athlete" thread, there is a link to some DIY instructions for equipment. I followed the instructions for a DIY Scottish Hammer - cost me about $10 total, and its awesome! Just thought I'd share - here's what I did:

I bought some sched 80 conduit at Home Depot - $2 for a 10' piece with a flange at one end. Then I bought some 1" weight plates for about $8 from Play It Again Sports. I got two 5 lb plates and two 2.5 lb plates. Cut the conduit down to about 48", slid the weights on. Wrapped the plates in duct tape to hold them together. Viola! Scottish Hammer!

Went to the park for some throws, did about 20 throws, thing works like a champ. Made MASSIVE improvements in my hammer technique today. Throws were consistently in the 65-75' range I think, I didn't really measure, just paced it off. But they felt good.

Went home & weighed my hammer, it's 16.2 lbs. Just about
perfect.