Masters gift for off-season: training videos for vaulters

Mike Soule is our Santa today. A champion M55 pole vaulter living in Minnesota, Mike has posted this series of videos on how to weight-train in the off-season for geezer vaulting. In fact, he calls himself vaultingeezer on his MySpace page. Mike stars in the videos, which depict exercises especially good for comebacking vaulters. This is a wonderful way of sharing one’s wisdom and experience.


In a note announcing his videos (posted four days ago), Mike wrote:

Key thing is the video segments that I put together for “just coming back” training. The idea was to put together a viable training regimen that an athlete could do with a minimum amount of equipment.
Example, my weights and bench I paid $40 for, the bike and Jake machine (even though I bought them new) could probably be picked up for less than a couple hundred bucks on Craigslist. Those that know me know I’m not “a man of few words,” so the segments are a little long but I wanted the viewer to be able to watch it once and have a good idea in his or her minds of what is being accomplished.

Great work, Mike, and Merry Christmas to you and your stick-bending friends!

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December 25, 2008

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  1. Ken Stone - December 25, 2008

    M45 thrower Milton Girouard also is Santa!
    Here’s his own page:
    http://www.myspace.com/ironslinger50
    Thanks again for the lift in Denver, Milt!

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