Javelin Throw Exercises!

[Lovett]

www.wku.edu/~kristo.galeta/Javelin/

[OlegS]

This is an excellent resource, good find Ant! I'll look to add this to the website this afternoon.

A few of the exercises raise a couple of points though that I've been thinking about for a while. Some of the exercises are quite unconventional and as a gym instructor, I'd never be allowed to teach them (i.e. the Kari Snatch). I am just interested to know who you would be willing to take advice from about performing exercises like these. Do your coaches encourage any slightly more dangerous exercises like these in the gym and from where have they learnt them?

One of the reasons I trained as a gym instructor was to understand the potential for training better and to learn some more advanced techniques but it seems that most people consider advanced to be dangerous in a lot of cases unless they are really tried and tested.

[Lovett]

I work in a gym as well and most people seem to be put of by advanced excercises because there considered dangerous as they have never seen them before...if everyone in the gym did them or magazines told them to do them then most people would follow.

Its not that javelin throwers do dangerous exercises its the facted that the average person just does the normal average exercises, as thats all they need to do.

Snatches for exmaple are only dangerous if not taught correctly!

[Administrator]

Looking back through these again, I can see some excelent exercises. I think this is my favourite: The clean and jerk into a lunge position. Does anyone incorporate this in their training?



One I am a bit moer dubious about (if the weights are heavy) is this one:

[sam]

i always do a lunge when i'm doing snatch and clean n jerks

[Lovett]

I use to do split snatch last winter, same ending position to the hang jerk above....but went for a change this winter to normal snatches.

The good mornings (2nd clip) arent a very pretty exercise but there not meant for alot of weight.

[Mack]

I don't work a gym, but I have been a member of a gym for about 8 years.
None of those exercices are ''dangerous'' as long as they are taught properly.
My technique is not great, but I do them well enough not to hurt myself.
With the clean and c/j I always dot he lunge. I find it hard to do the full drop being 6''4.

But at my gym I do sometimes see some scary stuff. Exercices some of these drama queens do.....?? I don't know where they got them from but I would never try them.

[JB]

heres a link for power training excersizes

www.exrx.net/Lists/PowerExercises.html