With regard to shot put, many, many top shot putters are or were also football players. If you get the right athletes out and motivate them to stay, you will have success. I see two additional issues: athlete pool and resources.ġ) Athlete pool - pretty much the biggest thing for any sport is recruiting and retention. Carry weights.Īs an outsider, I don't think it is that Americans are lazy and/or not good enough at discus. Just handing down what I was handed down.īalance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude)
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You just don't see many universities with the rings in the stadium and full control of the throwing venue.
The modern discus is inside the stadium and very controlled.
Lack of general training, little work on arousal levels.ĥ. Lots of double biceps at meets.and I am serious. Our discus throwers still basically bodybuild. So, you could lose at a small meet with a throw that would win most Utah state championships. San Mateo county, when I was young, would have 160 throwers at almost every HS. So, you get a good thrower but they never get pushed. I was told by Robert G that there is still great throwers in HS, but there is nothing behind them. One famously told a group of young kids: "I used steriods, they helped me, never hurt me, but I was told not to talk about them, so I won't." Then, gave training advice based on his career which went from so so to amazing because of drugs.ģ. We have a group of former steroid users that tend to be the ones who do workshops. No room at the top and no opportunities.Ģ. We lose a generation of up and comers in the discus as we tend to have our international teams dominated by a few guys. When we were good in the discus, we were SOOOO good.
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