You head to your training session, all you have is your discus and shot put and your body. There isn’t any weightlifting equipment, there isn’t any coach. Yo...

Throwers love heading to the weight room, they love smashing a couple of squats, a few bench presses, throw in some box jumps and get out of the gym. But is ...

You head over to the weight room, all you can dream about is throwing further and hitting that monstrous throw. The feeling of the shot or disc flying off yo...

Speed Development Part 1 Speed Development Part 2 You have taken 500 throws over the last three weeks but you still feel slow. You still feel like the positi...

Speed Development Part 1 You feel slow in the circle, you feel slow in the weight room. You feel stiff and tight, as though you weren’t meant to move weights...

We have all seen those throwers. The dude who has a 450lb bench press but can barely throw a shot 40 feet. They can squat 500lbs but they only take standing ...

For years I wondered how the best coaches in the world handled programming, periodization, and technical work. Over and over again, I would ponder how coache...

The best way to indicate whether someone is a mature athlete or not is to watch how they deal with discomfort. Can they tell the difference between being sor...

For those of you who haven’t read my article on why I tend not to program deadlifts for my throwers, check it out here. Since I try not to completely write-o...

First, I just want to address what some people have probably already decided based on the title: no, I don’t hate deadlifts. Deadlifts can be an extremely ef...

There have been too many times that I have heard from coaches and parents that a thrower is overweight and that they need to do conditioning in order to be “...