What to do with my season?

[jimevs]

Hi guys,

I've had a very up and down season so far and I feel like its got to the point where I need to make a change before it ends up being a disaster before its really started to get going.

My competitions so far have been:

57m - Open meeting, March. Not too concerned at this stage as the weather really was bad that day).

63m - Open meeting April - Bigger warm ups when relaxed

60m - Javfest - Physically badly prepared

63m - County champs - Again bigger warm up throws

55m - Inter counties - Just threw badly, perhaps a little rushed in warm up but threw like I did 5 years ago.

So 5 comps, 2 of them within a metre of my PB and 3 pretty bad performances which to some extent I can attribute to bad preparation but more so down to throwing badly.

For the rest of the season I am just prioritising the BAL competitions unless by some fluke I get things right and throw 67 for the AAAs qualifier. I'm not going to do anything drastic before the first BAL match as its next weekend but then I will have a month to train for the next one and a month to train for the one after that. I am trying to decide where to put my priorities for that month and would appreciate people's ideas.

I think I can throw twice a week max and I feel that I will need to as what I am lacking most is consistency right now. I have also looked back at January when I was probably throwing my most consistently and furthest ever and I was doing a lot of physical work then and throwing once or twice a week. I am tempted to go to a slightly watered down version of this but am not sure.

Any words of wisdom appreciated.

[wez]

I have thought about this myself quite a bit and in my opinion you should try to keep up the basic activities that you worked on over winter in a lower volume. As you know its important to be a bit more relaxed over the summer to aid the technique.

The one thing i don't think javelin throwers should not be letting up on atall is the leg work, i mean plenty of drills! 30-60m sprints hurdles and even long sprints/strides like 100,200,400m and tons of running with your jav.

Otherwise try to maintain peak power as close to top level as you can in weights and plyo/medball but with an emphasis on being fast.

[hollingworth]

do you rest much before your comps how much ?

have you video 'd yourself throwing recently ? (losing the tip)

make a diary (of your comps how you felt weather etc )

your last three strides are very much slower than at jav fest last year . (slow in fast out)

I'm not the best to talk about run ups I know that