Its amazing to me that the logic of, If I want my biceps bigger, right, I can do, say, curls, and do a bunch of sets of curls. Ill throw well, and throw a PR and then lose by 15 feet. These were used as counter balances at the feed market. What Ive been fighting for in my sport is, essentially, the same rules that the NCAA, IOC, SHGA, WADA, etc. Strength, power, body control, and conditioning are required for any athlete that wants to make progress in the Highland Games. Even though he looks like Goliath, hes a wonderful guy. Like I said earlier, a strong posterior is critical for my events, so adding in the things you showed me has not only helped my training but also my back health. I can do that, but Im also going to gain a bunch of weight, lose some mobility and be slower. It takes a long time for you to finally learn that, its like, OK, just diet.. How do you balance athleticism with getting big and strong, because Im sure getting big and strong, because Im sure getting big and strong helps in throwing more weight. Am I right that its usually the two of you battling it out for first and second spot? Matt Vincent: Its trying to be the best I can be. Was it just like, Hey, you want to go do this? Its such a weird thing to get into, I think. Its okay Dan, we all want a biceps pump. From there, youll actually meet some people, and perhaps find a training group. Go see if you actually like it first or if you like the environment. Liberty or Death: SCBC goes all in at the LibertyOpen. If it is straight the toss is said to be in the 12 o'clock position. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. Without rules against it, nothing would stop a guy from taking a full year off the sport and getting completely gassed on steroids. Since then, he has competed in Powerlifting, Strongman and CrossFit. How much longer do you think youll be doing this and what do you plan on doing after you have to hang up your caber tossing shoes. You have two stones that you throw exactly like the shot put. around your body. Whatever I can do to stay in that. Matt Vincent: I dont know. It's a fascinating strength competition, and one I've long wanted to learn more about. Its a fascinating strength competition, and one Ive long wanted to learn more about. Great interview, Bret. In conjunction with Renaissance Periodization, Dr. Spencer Nadolsky joins this week's JuggLife, To celebrate the JTS youtube channel reaching 250k subscribers, we're giving away a brand new eBook full of all our best content. I would take these ideas and implement them as the following: Olympic lift full, power, hang or any combination there of, Unilateral oly movement opposite of the previous, Corresponding squat to the first oly movement. Daniel McKim, who is also a multiple time Games World Champion said he believed in maintaining his training intensity throughout the season. Brett McKay: Got you. Matt Vincent: Youve got to. The trick is balancing the weight and the body. Its a five week program that can be used by any athlete, really, and its called , Brett McKay: The Hate, but you spell it H with roman numeral eight. Dr. Clinton Lee helps you improve your shoulder health. Some days arent going to be great and some days are. You look at someone who, say, has a 700 pound squat. 20# Sheaf Toss: 352. Your glutes were burning like crazy after just one set of all 3 exercises. BC: I met Matt Vincent the year before at the Sorinex Summer Strong conference, and hes another strange combination in that hes a humble, gentle giant just like you. The Olympic lifts develop explosive power and the squats help drive or at least maintain strength levels. Im curious what does your strength training program when youre also competing in Highland Games? Clearly you have deep hip sockets and cant squat deep due to your anatomy. Not missing lifts, for me, is the accumulation of work thats going to make you stronger. He is a Highland Games champion and competitor, and you can find more information about his work at MattVincent.net. Brett McKay: How do you battle with our programming? Matt Vincent: After I hang up the kilt, huh? I feel like singles and heavy singles are more of a test than they are an actual strength building exercise. Two Dumbbell Clean and Press: start light and go up to max.2. I do travel quite a bit, and I like enjoying myself. Injuries are going to happen, and setbacks happen. My program, the Hviii was really basically a condensed version of my program, the long program with strength lab or training lab, that Heres five weeks, quick rotation, and just allows you to, you dont want to think about a whole lot or reprogram every five weeks. I may even like to see the squats come second, alternating Overhead Squat with Back Squat. The throws I do are very reliant on a strong posterior, and that was very evident in my testing! The structure and exercise choice that he put into his program really let me continue to work on strength but also added additional components of dynamic work, jumps, and throws that really helped my highland games performance. Whenever Im not willing to do what it takes to train for it. I work them in once a week for looks, but mostly for auxillary work. Given the movements I do in my sport, I was very posterior dominant. How did it come up? Sorinex sells a glute ham roller, a new piece, that I love doing leg curls and glute ham bridges with. Powerlifting Benching for Big Throws Bench is one of the most common exercises used in every gym in the world. I cant guarantee you will win, but you will be prepared and you will have a good time. We live in Kansas City, Missouri where I work as the Midwest Rep for Sorinex. Ill find something else Im into, whether I get into some cross fit or I get more into cycling like I have been. He is now a Highland Games Athlete, and won the 2016 U.S. Highland Games Lightweight National Championship, and in 2019 he won a Masters World Championship. Its exactly the same rules as throwing the Olympic shot put. We ordered kilts and went and had a good time. Athletes that had that different drive than your normal people. We throw two weights for distance. How can you best recovery from your Hypertrophy training? I guess weve all been part of sports at this point that we understand that no one really cares. The Quick and Dirty of Heavy/Light Lifting: Choose your program options from the pull down menu above. Good idea. Ive loved every minute that Ive spent doing Highland games. Brett McKay: Who is the Hviii for? Ive really enjoyed the online coaching and stuff, the little bit that Ive done of it. Team Juggernaut: Matt Vincent Wins World Highland Games Championship! I think, when Im done doing this that strength will become less of a focus for me. Focused hypertrophy training is often overlooked by coaches and athletes in competitive CrossFit. It was extremely helpful to get those emails when my gym opened back up. Your Strong Man, power lifting, and especially toward the top end, right, your professional classes in those sports have it a lot more. Curlz are admissible, too, as they may have some carry over in flipping the caber, if you are so inclined. John has gone from an average gym guy with no throwing background to a Pro-Heavyweight, and eventually reinventing himself as a Lightweight world record holder and National Champion. Instagram is I hviii Matt Vincent, spelled the same way as before. Bret, you da man when it comes to muscle theory. Training Highland Games, throwing Maybe you sleep with a Captains of Crush gripper under your pillow or lift stones for fun and think 20-rep squats are the key to enlightenment, as well as to gains in muscular size, strength and fitness. Easy throws focusing on form. I cant see myself becoming a guy thats finishing tenth in the world and still grinding at that. That being said, strength is only a part of being a successful competitor. Powerlifting Training for Everything 210kg Snatch, 250kg Clean and Jerk, 920lb raw deadlift, 2,221 raw total, 3rd at 2010 World's Strongest Man and 19' . Dan McKim Twitter I dont have anybody in my gym telling me, giving me white lights, and I dont have the ego anymore to say, Well, Ive got to bury all of these squats. What I want to do is perform better and I perform my best when Im not hurt. They have an amateur class and they have a novice class. As Dan John said, "throwers throw". I set to work, as I did with throwing, to find what the common threads were among the most successful athletes. And in some of the throws you will be whipping 50lbs. Matt Vincent:Best place to find me would be mattvincent.net, or the hviii.com. So many of us appreciate your work and expertise. I always thought it was heavy. The Iron Thistle Games were awesome. How did that first invite happen? In the caber toss, a full length log, usually made of Scots pine, is stood upright and lifted by the competitor using both hands under the bottom of the caber to rest against their body. Thats the gist of it. Brett McKay: Right. We do the caber, of course, is the on everyone knows. I hurt my back years ago moving weight from the floor, so I decided I couldnt risk it any longer if I wanted to continue in my sport. 3 sets of 8 with a minute rest OR 55 OR 53 OR Pyramids OR multiple Pyramids, aka Waves. all have in place. Matt Vincent: Its for myself. As I progress into each phase, the reps drop while the weights increase. Keep moving weight violently and fast. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. All right, Matt Vincent, welcome to the show. Dan McKim Website I always recommend that to people. Maybe too simple. Doing that is going to allow you to be a little bit smarter in training and think which one actually makes more progress. All of our top Strength & Conditioning content in one incredible (and free!) Technique and timing trump overall brute strength. Well, it's not and we will show you how with a little effort, creativity, and a playful attitude. Overhead Squat: Mix reps each workout. As I prep for this off-season, Im excited to move my depth from letting my buttwink hinder and hurt my squat development. Youre a large man. Podcast #295: Kettlebells and the Psychology of Training, Weightlifting Shoes and Barbell Training [VIDEO], Art of Manliness Podcast #76: Barbell Training With Mark Rippetoe Part II, Podcast #118: A Wrestling Life With Dan Gable, How Matt became a professional Highland Games competitor, The different events in the Highland Games, How to get started with Highland Game competitions, Matts philosophy on training and dieting for performance and notaesthetics, Overcoming mental barriers in competition and strength training. Abs are cool and all, but I wouldnt skip some delicious dinners with my wife to have abs. Brett McKay: If youre concerned about six-pack abs and being chiseled . I was already lifting weights prior to starting his program but working with Mikes lifting program was a welcome shift in focus. BC: You dont deadlift from the floor, correct? Right. 56# Weight for Distance: 475 Matt Vincent: Thats what novice is for, right, youre brand new to this. When Im done competing, Ill still program like this, as I simply love to work out. Participants use the handle to whirl the hammer around their head and then throw it as far as they can. Weve been going at each other for a few years now, and it doesnt look to be slowing up anytime soon! You just keep trying to figure out whether, you know, you take one step back to make some steps forward, or you take a side-step. Youre saying youre chasing Daniel, right, in the competition. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that youre a god or a total bastard. Matt Vincent: The Highland Games is really all about application of force and power. The heavy stone is anywhere from about 22 to 28 pounds and you throw it just standing like a shot put throw, but you dont get an approach. Matt Vincent: Yeah, McKim, Daniel McKim. Theres eight traditional events and in the States, we do nine. The stone is thrown either after a short run-up to the toeboard or from a fixed standing position, depending on the rules of the competition. Post-college, I gave It a run at owning a bicycle shop, and that didnt work so well. Then, when they were ready to compete again, since they now have low T from their steroid use, they could get prescribed TRT to keep their levels high. Brett McKay: Is there an event that you specialize in, particularly? Be honest, do you ever throw some curls into your workout to pump up the guns? If you did, you probably lived a really boring life. This program, for me, is any athlete looking to perform better. Training LAB: Strength Training for the Highland Games: Max Strength and Power Development for Athletes Paperback - February 24, 2012 by Matt Vincent (Author) 4.6 out of 5 stars 47 ratings That doesnt make any sense. Brett McKay: Thats an interesting question. Great interview, Bret. Brett McKay: It seems like your approach is also like sub-maximal loading. Dan McKim eBook: Behemoth: Power Training for Strength Athletes MILO articles on Highland Games heavy events technique for weight for height, caber toss, weight for distance, putting the stone, hammer throw, seasonal weight training and more, from Jim McGoldrick and others. Now lets talk eating. Do you have any idea about the history of the Highland Games? So to stay with the alternating A / B format I love so much: As for the schedule: Throw, Lift A, off, Throw, Lift B, off, off or repeat. That helps me keep that. I met with a collegiate strength coach who put me on their Force Plate to test my strengths and weaknesses. Build power with these Clean tips from Max Aita. Is it for anyone, like even someone who doesnt compete. He will share some of the secrets to the ancient art of stone lifting. Want to start taking action on the content you read on AoM? Matt Vincent: No, thats correct. $30/month($15/month if also signed up for Throws Programming). It takes a lot of ego out of training. All of our best Nutrition content in one convenient place. Ive really spent a lot of time over the last couple of years trying to improve that event and its been a relatively futile attempt. At 55, he set two world records for 28-pound and 42-pound weight throws for distance, records that stand to this day. Former Highland Games World Champion, Matt Vincent, and former thrower, Chad Wesley Smith have both said that training in the gym only gets you so far. So, in short, Im realizing that the glutes are very important to my sport, and my time with you and on the Force Plate helped reiterate that to me. I want to give it the most Ive got while my body is still willing to give it a go. Kettlebell training for Highland Games: 12.4: Caber tossing 101: 14.1: Hammer throwing : 14.3: Standing weight-over-bar: 17.4 . Thankfully, its still considered a PED in mainstream sports, but my sport has been soft on it. DM: Taller guys do have leverage advantages as well as release point perks, but Id say your success in those actions is due to your athleticism. Just search for him on Instagram, hes got a really entertaining Instagram feed as well as find him on YouTube. Or, Im going to take a big, giant burlap bag and hoist it over with a pitchfork, whats going on there? Add in 2 lifting sessions, one reppy, one snappy. I was a collegiate thrower and always loved throwing, so this was a great transition for me. Matt Vincent: Its very, very similar to when I was a collegiate athlete. Its pretty simple. Im not going to be a guy who just phones it in. I dont necessarily count them, though, as its a struggle for me to maintain a high body weight. Welcome to the official website of Professional Scottish Highland Games Athlete Daniel McKim! Some calisthenics. Im guessing, but most likely its 3 4-week meso-cycles with a dropback/contrast week in week 5 10. What that allows me to do is like I said, never miss a rep during training. As a thrower, like, in college, you kind of always know about the Highland Games. Lifting days are to develop explosive power and improve stability. Just a few years ago putting testosterone in your body was considered a PED or even steroid use; without question. Mikes core philosophy is that in order to become a better athlete, you must gain strength, but you must also learn how to apply it with speed and precision. I think its a very valuable lift. What I mean by that is accelerating mass. That wraps up another edition to the Art of Manliness podcast. You believe that this is unfair, right? Hes very good with the hammers, and hes got world records in both of them. Ive been chasing the same guy in the number one and number two spot in the world, for the last couple of years. 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