5 Must Do Exercises In Your Thrower Training

These five exercises are a must if you want to develop the important muscles involved in throwing mechanics. No matter what if you are a hammer, discus or shot put thrower you need to develop explosive strength and the ability to get into positions quickly. Below are the five exercises that helped me develop explosive strength and quickness while competing as a thrower.

1.Hang Clean- Extremely important to improve overall explosiveness and allows for an athlete to demonstrate and improve overall power and coordination.

2. Front Squat-Allows the athlete to improve overall flexibility and focuses on a strong core as well as explosiveness with the legs and hip mobility.

3. Push Press-Improves shoulder strength and allows the athlete to improve on explosiveness balance and coordination. Shoulder strength is very important in all the throwing events and Push Press translates well into the throwing circle.

4. Medicine Ball Rotational throws-Not one you will see on many list but is a personal favorite of mine. Combined with the other exercises this can be great for truck mobility and stability. ALL throwing events can benefit from this exercise increasing the weight of the medicine ball in your training will help develop the core and rotational strength.

5. Bench Press- All to common but still very important a strong bench press translates well into overall explosiveness and elbow mobility. In the shot put this is very important as it translates great into the finish of the shot put throw.

Examples of these exercises can be found on Throwing Lifes Youtube page and Tic-Tok Account

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh_xkyfpTCXGANazVUMejaA

Tic-Tok: @keeganluker