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You throw with your whole body. So, lift with My throwing has been going extremely
your whole body. well this year. At my first highland
games of the year in Odessa, I won 6 out
Become a slave to good habits.
of 8 events, threw 5 prs and won the C
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class. At my second games of the year many squats as possible keeping the ring
in Arlington I had 3 more prs (including at eye level, followed immediately by a
a 4 pr in the sheaf) and missed 3rd place 20-80 yard sprint.
in the Bs by half a point (finishing last
in the caber killed me). Congrats to Most of the changes that I making for
Kyle Speer for winning the class in a the second half of the year came from
close battle with Jonathan TreeKiller conversations that I had with the pros at
Irvin. Now get the hell outta my class!! or via email after the Arlington games.
The Friday night before the games I
As far as the testing that my friends, picked up Greg Hadley and Will Barron
Chase and Thomas, and I have been at the airport. I appreciate them sharing
doing the only area where I have made some training ideas with me. It was
any real improvement has been in my interesting to hear how in some ways
sprint speed. Thomas and Chase have their training was similar and how it
both made improvements across the differed. Greg has posted some serious
board. Congrats to both of them!!! weight room numbers including a 505 lb
front squat, but has not thrown for as
One of the additions that I had added to long as Will has. Will threw
my routine was cardio. At the beginning collegiately, but has weight room
of the year most of it came from pushing numbers more along the lines of mine.
my twins in their stroller for 1-2 hours Both really emphasized the importance
on Saturdays and Sundays. One thing of really learn the technique of the
that would crack me up while I was events to someone like myself who is
walking the streets of my neighborhood relatively new to the games. Friday
was how people would react to me. night at the clinic Dave Brown worked
While pushing the stroller, people I one on one with me on the WFDs.
didnt know would stop me and talk to Hopefully the three months that I have
me and people driving by would wave to until my next games will allow me to put
me. Two or three hours later when I the drills that they showed me into effect
would be throwing at the school 4 blocks and really improve my throws.
from my house, nobody would even
make eye contact with me as they That Friday night I got to go eat dinner
walked or drove past. I would run some with the pros along with Francis
sprints after throwing or do my Brebner, who was announcing the
modified (this is a PG-rated games. Now for those of you who dont
publication) Litinov workout. Instead of know who Francis is, he is the seven
front squats, I would hold a WFD time world caber champion and 1 or 3
implement at arms length and do as (or 4) people who have lifted the Inver
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Stone overhead. If there was ever a time games start picking up again here in
for me to shut up and just listen this was September. Until then its time to go
one of those times. To hear Francis tell train!!
stories of his career was memorable
experience. I got a few diet ideas from
Mike Zolkiewicz. Where in the past I The Gary Column
have used low carb dieting to help me Gary John
Gary is a young thrower in his mid-50s. He is also
with weight loss, but would generally the Editors brother and so he gets all what is due to a
feel like crap. Z gave me some ideas on GU writer: free parking, mints and almonds!
the importance of consuming the right Since I started throwing in the
type of carbs to make sure that I dont middle of 2003, Dan has been
dehydrate in the Texas heat, but comparing my experience to that of a
watching my fat intake. new high school athlete. From last
September, he has been telling me that I
Speaking of the heat, it has gotten too would blossom as a thrower, because I
hot here in Dallas to take my twins for 2 was now in my junior year. Yeah
hour walks, so Ive changed my cardio right!
to shorter duration, higher intensity In Dans world, I would finally
work. Once or twice a week Im playing start to get it. All the drills, the
basketball at lunch at work. Im also throwing, watching videos,
taking a page out of the Mike Baab competingwould jell and my marks
playbook and doing 10 minutes of jump would take off. The hammer and the
rope once or twice a week (still cant go weight were new, so, of course I was
10 minutes without a miss, but Im going to get better. My discus had
working on that). stagnated and I was losing interest in
that event. I could still throw 110,
Since Im focusing on improving my maybe even sneak in a 114, but I had
throwing technique, Im going to limit stalled out.
my lifting to 2 days a week. The new Luckily, since I was now
plan is to squat and push press one day throwing the shot, weight, and hammer,
and do Olympic lifts and back work my enthusiasm stayed high. Throwing is
another day. If Chase, Thomas and I are my addiction. I can go across the street
going to have a testing/strongman day, and throw whenever I want. It gets me
then one of the lifting sessions will be outside, out of the house, and working
dropped that week. out. When the pressure of owning a
company gets too much, there is nothing
Well thats the plan for the rest of the like taking 30 throws with the weight.
year. The rubber will hit the road when
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With more throwing, I started to with a 325 and a 11910. That was
notice certain symmetry with the almost two feet on my discus.
different implements. The need to Finished up at Norcal with
engage the hips, grind the feet into the another PR in the hammer at 1171.
ring, and extend the arms at the end of Threw everything well, but the weight.
each throw. Less thinking about what I We were two hours late with the weight
was doing and just let it happen. My throw, and I was frankly done. Got five
practice throws for everything but the PRs in eight days.
discus improved. Nice thing about all this, at each
In late May, I had a surprise meet, another good thrower was pointing
meet. The open PAUSTTF out minor technical errors I needed to
championships were about two miles work on. The quick feedback, put right
from my house. I found out about it at back into practice, resulted in longer
the last minute, so I just went and threw. throws. Maybe Dan may have
I only threw the hammer and discus. something about this whole junior
Neither were very good, just wasnt year. I almost know what Im doing.
ready. Sometimes, a bad meet is the best
motivator.
Spent the next month working Instant Discus Camp Review
hard, especially on the discus. Id Editor in Chief
already planned to go to the Hayward Ill do my best to flesh this out, but this is good stuff
Classic in Eugene, and follow the next and needs to get out there!
week with the Masters championship for
North California. I kept thinking about A guy from Kentucky, a guy from West
this being my junior year. There was a Virginia and a guy from Vermont are
difference, I was finding little flaws in trying to fix a sewer pipe with duct tape.
technique and just kept cleaning them I kid you not.
up.
In Eugene, I threw great. Did Thats my favorite memory form
five events and got PRs by 5 feet in the campbut formally I learned some
hammer to 1112, by 4 feet in the 56# stuff, too:
weight and a pretty discus throw of
1162. Ended up with 5 silver medals. Keeping the eye on different thinking
The Norcal Masters was July 1st, is very important. We discussed at
so I ended up sneaking in a meet at Los length a hurdle coaching idea of
Gatos on Thursday, June 29th. Only improving speeddont use every
threw the shot and discus. PRd both hurdle. One workout, place these hurdles
on the track:
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Quick Idea:
Backwards Farmer Bars up hills.
Backwards sled drags up a hill. Best
quad work I have done in years
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Lonnie 121
Dan 13 11
Mike P. - 16 2
AhDiscus Camp! My daughter and her friends Dave 117
discussing the right foot work with Greg. Mike R 1111
Switching sides on the Scottish Hammer Greg 126
throw is important: throw right, throw Kara 8
left! Seth 82
Chris 137
Also, this camp mastered throwing faster Matt 118
than any in historywhy? Maybe the Greg M. no mark
next article?
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Lonnie 34
Dan 608
Mike P. 713
Dave - 445
Mike R. - 398
Greg 487
Kara - 212
Seth - 232
Chris 362
Matt 445
Or crack team of officials attempting to Greg M. 407
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Lonnie 135 Lonnie 322
Dan 287 Dan 379
Mike P. 365 Mike P 466 !
Dave - 18 4 ! Dave 319 !
Mike R. 17 Mike R. 27 3
Greg 213 Greg 353
Kara 95 Kara - 194
Seth 1010 Seth 189
Chris - 128 Chris 356
Matt 193 Matt 319
Greg M. 18 7 Greg M. No Mark
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this problem I mind started racing on All told over the 3 days prior to/during
how I was going to get well enough to the competition; I used ice and some
play in just 2 days time. I figured I was type of stim or ultra-sound treatment 8
along shot at best and would be lucky to times, this consumed approximately 4
get 5 minutes out of the busted hours of time during those 3 days.
hamstring; but I was going to give it the
old college try. Was it worth it?
First things were first get home and put On Saturday morning I step out on the
of ice on it. (man, if ice isn't the best field at 8:30 warm-up for our game, and
recovery tool out there I don't know after working through a few drills I was
what is.) pretty skeptical of what kind of effort I
would be provide. However, I kept
The next day it was off to my moving through the warm-up in hopes
chiropractor's office to get some that it would "loosen up". Come game
ultrasound and muscle stim. I repeated time I stepped into my position, intent
the icing and treatment process for the upon playing and hoping it would be for
next two days. the whole game. Much to my surprise
was able to. I didn't have much sprint
Things were starting to feel better but I speed but I was able to run and cover
was still very skeptical; but I wasnt ground for the whole game. To make a
going to be denied. So I packed up my long story short with a happy ending, my
bags on Friday afternoon and got ready injury seemed to be getting better during
to hit the road. Thankfully I was able to course of the 3 game competitions. By
borrow a muscle stim unit, and planned the 3rd game the injury was nearly a
using it along with plenty of ice for distance memory and was playing a
frequent treatments throughout the nearly full capacity.
weekend.
By the time it was all said and done I
Just how dedicated to this treatment had to consider this a successful
regimen? weekend, based o the fact that: I was
able to play in all three games without
I was so dedicated that I even put the further injury and perform at a higher
stim unit during the six hour drive to level as the competition went on.
California; and then iced and used the
stim unit again when got into our room Here are few take home thoughts that
at 11pm. might be valuable to any athlete
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attempting to deal with being injured and Stay in the game. I could have
not having a lot of time to take action: easily gone out and push really
hard in that first game and the
Just because your down doesn't blown my hamstring. But I was
mean you are out. I could have smart enough to realize that if I
easily given up and just wrote off played within my abilities I could
the competition but I made help the team that game and live
decision to pursue the best to fight another day. I guess that
treatment available to me and see is part of becoming a "mature
where it would take me. athlete"
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