Sunday, December 31, 2006

Nick Sweeney throws the discus

Having Doc Rob show up at Stones yesterday brought back many memories.I have a new client who was a Heptathlete for Ireland and the name of my old friend Nick Sweeney was brought up.Nick was a multi time Olympian for Ireland and trained for many years at my World Gym in Campbell as well as my garage gym.Great great guy and super funny. Strong as a horse too although he had as many injuries as me and was forced to retire and resume real life as a stock broker in NY.
Found this video of him throwing in 1999 ,when he was still training with us.

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205 x 1, 210 x X, 210 x 3/4, 205 x 1, 205 x X, 190 x 1

 Pretty good for gaping on the  technique. Unracked the bar uneven on 195 then overfocused on that, taking too much tension out of my legs, ...