For the fifth straight year, Black Husky Brewing will host the TimVitational strongman event at which you can watch brewery co-owner and brewer Tim Eichiger lift ridiculous amounts of weight for a good cause.
The event takes place at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 at the brewery, 909 E. Locust St.
“Since 2021 we have been doing the TimVitational, a strongman event in the brewery around my birthday,” Eichinger explains. “This year we have added a fundraising component for cystic fibrosis.
“(Co-owner) Toni (Eichinger) and Emily (Sutrick) from Nessun Dorma are doing a 30-mile (Wisconsin Xtreme Hike) for cystic fibrosis and I am raising money for their team, Jabberwalkies.
“I will dead lift three times my body weight – 510 lbs – for reps. I’m looking for pledges for each rep. I’ve done four (reps) in training so I'm expecting somewhere in the six to 10 rep range.”
The event, which is a precursor to the Riverwest brewery’s August strongman competition, will include six competitors in three events: the Mammoth Bar Deadlift, Sandbag Over Bar and the Big Jerk.
Cocina Filipina will be there selling food because watching other people lift insane weights can really work up an appetite.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
