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Track & Field Training : How to Train for the Shot Put

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Uploaded by on Dec 5, 2008

Training for the shot put means strength training for both the upper and lower body. Train for the shot put with tips from a sports-performance director in this free athletics video on track and field.

Expert: Les Whitley
Contact: www.velocitysp.com/coolsprings
Bio: Les Whitley is director of Velocity Sports Performance in Franklin, Tennessee. He has a degree in exercise science.
Filmmaker: Tim Brown

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  • There is absolutely no fathomable reason for a rational human being to have thumbed this video up. I have died a little bit inside for having watched this video.

  • Worst effing video i have ever seen in my life...my sister is like 11th in the nation in throwing and watched her throw a ton. This guy is the worst trainer i have ever seen! and btw to everyone here..TECHNIQUE will you help you more than anything

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  • Wes, this video would be ok if you would just edit your spin technique....C'mon man!!!

  • this guy is terrible. To aany new throwers who watch this video everything he said or did is wrong do not listen to this video find a new one.

  • @yepperpepperski Aamazing he is not the only person who says to release at a 45 degree angle

  • Training ideas are alright, but to throw the shot put well you must work on technique, not just strength training. Optimal projection angle is not 45 degrees. Due to height of release and the mechanics of the human body, it is much lower. Simple explanation, you can bench press more than you can incline press. You can put more force on the shot at a lower angle. Do not try to replicate the techniques he tries to describe. Ever. I think he took a bunch of shot put terms and threw them together.

  • @SkewLT The focus really should be on technique when you are younger. I wouldn't recommend for anybody to start lifting weights before high school. And even then, weights are very important, but far from the only thing you need to focus on. Technique is extremely important.

    There is a reason why world records were being broken back in the 70s and 80s, but it wasn't because of "oldschool" training. But yes, use Olympic lifts, train for power. That hasn't changed.

  • @CHAZ666999 I'm younger than you and I'm a girl. I average 13-14 meters with a 4kilo weight. (The shot put)

    All I can say is lift weights. DO IT. Nothing else will help. Be oldschool, because as someone said here, the record is from the 80s or 90s. Basically oldschool isn't fancy but it's real quality over quantity training.

    Good luck, sorry for pretty late awnser :D

    Stumbled over this video just now, because I want to improve too.

  • his head looks like a shotput

  • our shotput state chapion was 158 pounds and threw 55 feet in 8th grade. This guys a fucknut

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