Good analysis on where you started, what your goals were, and how you performed.
Goal setting is an important part of competition. By always striving to become a little bit better, you avoid complacency and work a little harder.
As your throws improve, you become more confident in your abilities. As I frequently say, the things we do are a confidence game. You have to BELIEVE you can do it. The Hammer-Rama and similar underweight throws teach you to expect the implement to fly every time you pick it up. And with regulation weight implements it surprisingly becomes true.
I think most of your goals for the upcoming season are within reach. Starting Strength is an excellent guide for the n00b weightlifter and should help you down that road. Just remember to be a thrower who lifts rather than a lifter who throws. If your throws start to suffer as a result of lifting, it's time to re-examine what you're doing in the weight room. Emphasize speed and explosiveness over grind it out strength. Anyone can get strong but getting faster/quicker not so much.
Training with the Rattlesnake Highlanders has been a great boost to my motivation and I've learned a lot from trying to coach the group. Forced me to think about the hows and whys a lot more than I've done in years. Seeing the group's numbers improve from week to week has been rewarding, too.
There are no books that tell you how to throw in the Highland Games. For the past 800 years, it's been passed down from one thrower to the next. Just doing my part to keep the tradition alive.
Cuimhnich air na daoine o'n d'thainig thu. Remember the men from whence you came.
The ancestors are well pleased with us all.
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