Odd Haugen
Odd Haugen is a savvy businessman and world-record-holding strongman who is Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for Apex Fitness Group. Odd has owned 11 Gold's Gyms in Hawaii and worked in various executive positions with 24 Hour Fitness. Odd's quest for fitness began in a little Norwegian town constructing handmade weights out of birch trees. Odd used money from a paper route to buy American bodybuilding and strength magazines. By his teens he was competing in ski jumping, wrestling, and track and field. He moved on to powerlifting and bodybuilding.
Odd came to the USA to better his English and learn more about training. In order to work out with good equipment he got a job cleaning out the bathrooms and showers at a health club. He entered the IFBB Mr. World and received a medal from Joe Weider. He tried his hand at wrestling and wrestled for NCAA titles. His size and strength led him to a sport he knew little about, football. Suddenly, he was all-state and then all-conference, then drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals. At the Washington Redskins tryout camp with 500 men, George Allen personally selected Odd Haugen. Eventually Haugen ended up with the 49ers.
Using the Apex training techniques he helped to design, combining workouts with a scientific diet and an Apex supplement program, Odd says he's more injury-free and is increases his strength each year. Haugen calls his approach to training "functional strength training." In his view, athletes should combine their training so they'll be functionally strong and fast. With that foundation they'll bring super speed and super strength to any sport.
3-times Hawaii's Strongest Man (latest 2003)
Ranked 10th in the 2003 IFSA World STRONGMAN Super Series
Tied for 6th in the 2002 IFSA World STRONGMAN Super Series Championship
4th in the 2002 IFSA Irish Grand Prix
2-times World's Strongest Man competitor
5th in the 2000 and 2001 IFSA American Strongman Championship
4th in the 1999 and 2000 IFSA Prague Grand Prix
1999 AFSA GNC USA Strongman Champion
3rd in the 1999 IFSA American Strongman Championship
3rd in the 1998 AFSA USA Strongman Championship
Won Sr.IFBB Mr. Norway in 1970
2nd in Jr. IFBB Mr. Scandinavia in 1970
Won Jr. Mr. Norway in 1968, and competed in the 1968 IFBB Mr. World. Also won Junior and Teenage National Championships in Olympic Lifting and Powerlifting
AAU and USPF National Masters Powerlifting Champion
Gold medal in deadlift in the 1997 IPF Masters World Powerlifting Championship,
(Bronze medal overall.)
WABDL Masters World Champion in Deadlift and Benchpress
More on Haugen & Odd's training schedule: The Hawaiian Viking
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