Can you be a good discus thrower without strength?
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its good that you're nice and tall\nHowever, unfortunately, the discus throw originated as, and has always been an event of technique and strength\nHowever, strength is variable and can always be increased through working out\nYour question depends on you\nIf you want to be a good thrower, you need the drive to do it, thats the most important part\nI'm five nine and I've been throwing with my friend on our high school throwing team for about a year and right about now, I'm definitely a decent thrower. \nbasically, of course you can be a decent thrower\nlearn the proper technique, see what you can do, and then just keep improving your strength from there\ngood luck
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Simply train for strength.  Human muscle tissue contains three different fibers:  Red (endurance, low intensity), Intermediate (moderate intensity work), and White (high intensity, responsible for strength, speed, and overall size).\n\nThere's no need to do "explosive" training to become faster--such training actually WILL generate injuries from all the jerking and pulling created between the muscles and the tendon attachments.\n\nI would recommend standard weight training, doing mostly compound movements; excercises that use more than one muscle group, such as squats and bench presses.  Perform each excercise with weight that's heavy enough to reach positive muscular failure (the point where you cannot do another repitition regardless of how hard you try) within six to eight repititions.  Keep your movements absolutely under control--no jerking or swinging, unless you like your doctor and wish to visit him often!  In choosing the weight you use, make sure that you can hold the weight in place, briefly, at any point of the excercise's rang of motion.  If you can't, you didn't lift it--you threw it, using momentum to rob your muscles of work they should have been laboring against.\n\nIf you're sceptical that using slower, heavy, movements is a good way to generate both an increase in strength and speed, consider this:  Let's assume that you're about to pick up a box that you fully beleive is heavy.  You'll lift that box pretty quickly, won't you?  Also, image yourself carrying a five-gallon bucket that's full of water.  The handle breaks.  Your hand--which is still under control of an arm that was holding some weight just moments before--would jerk clean up to your shoulder before you'd be able to react to the broken bucket handle.  Strength and speed are related!  \n\nMake sure that you allow plenty of time for muscle recouperation and growth in between workouts--overtaining is very easy while training for strength, because the more intense the workout, the more a muscle is exposed to stress.  The more stress, the greater the amount of time needed to recover.\n\nFor more information, I'd recommend the excellent book by Mike Mentzer entitled, "High Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way," which is availible at most major bookstores.
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not strong at all well you have to but you just have to practise I'm a gymnast and there's some girls on my team that aren't strong they just practise a lot and they got it down easy
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I would suggest even though your a forward to work on your weakness first and then continue to  improve on your strengths.  So say if your one of your weakness might be ball handling, so then you would do a lot of ball handling drills, or if your weakness is strength and conditioning then work on them.  But, please keep in mind while your doing all these, you need to continue to improve your strengths as well.  \n\nI would suggest to check these two sites out for some really great ideas, and if you have more questions I would suggest to email "Sacred Hoops"  they are a great resource to contact!
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of corse depending on their strength most wemon can be strong especially with fitness training
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Yes you can! Don't fall for the scare tatics they use to dissuade you like "you'll get stiff". You'll just become an even more powerful karateka! \n\nThink about it. Power= Mass x Speed. The mass is your weight and what allows you to move your mass with speed is your strength. The stronger you are the faster you will be able to move your body.....provided you train correctly!\n\nJust remember to stretch often and well.\n\nBruce Lee trained very heavily with weights and he was one of the best martial artists of all time!
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my dad did, and he was able to stay reasonably flexible, but not as much as the less built guys. Stretching is a big thing.
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There are many ways to throw farther.  I have some tips:\n1. Get stronger.  Regardless of the weight, being strong is very helpful for the discus, because it's over 2 pounds at lightest and over 4 for men's (2 kg).  Lifts the top throwers like to do are squat, bench press, snatch, clean and jerk.  I guess butterfly lifts aren't so bad.  Free weights helps.  Your entire body has to be strong; you can't just have strong legs or just strong upper body.  Not only strong but powerful as well.\n2. Make sure at release, your hand is a little lower than your shoulder.  The discus tilts in mid-air due to a gyroscopic effect, and releasing it lower lets it spend more time level to ground instead of tipping to the side right away and stalling.\n3. For the full turn, hold your non-throwing arm (left arm if you're right-handed) out the entire time, until release when you pull it in hard.\n4. Try to get a good "power position" which is what you need to be in just before release.  (right-handed) Both feet should be facing almost backwards (you twist them forward when you throw).  The left arm should be extended, as is the right.  Your upper body is torqued back as far as possible.  The left arm should poitn down a little, and the right arm should point up toward the sky a little.  Then twist your feet, pull back with right arm, turn whole body, put everything into it.  Pracitce this position, then practice your turn until you can land in this position and let it rip.\n5. Practice, practice, practice.\n6. Watch videos for some ideas.\nhttp://www.macthrowvideo.com\n(click links at the top)
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Lifting weights without proper form compromises the end result of the exercise, also can lead to an injury,. Don't use as much weight only use as much as you can where you don't have to compromise the proper form.
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Based on skill not height.
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This website has info on discus technique...
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How much you can lift is no indication for how well you will play football. It will help you perform, but the only way you will know how well you can play defensive end is to get out and play defensive end.
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An average dward can kill a man in one blow - they can trow cars and jump tall buildings.\n\nNot really.  They are just short people - stronger than children as they have adult musculature but not super strong or anything unnatural.  I guess a dwarf could train to become really strong but so could a non-dwarf.
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take the discus in your power full hand and stand in throwing circle, face towards the lending sector swing your hand by the vest level to the other shoulder, make it thrice to make movement and twist your body to the sector and throw at 45 degree angle.
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Breaking by means of throwing seems more apprpriate to me, kicking always leaves lea for the possibility of injuring oneself.  Best wishes
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Hi, I'm fourteen and i throw 35 average but have had like a 42 or something before. If you really have the heart for shock putting , join a boxing club during the off season, trust me I have the best arm in my school, even over the boys. If you like I could reccomend you some good boxing clubs.
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Plyometrics like mad. Leg strengthing, lunges, and lots of free weights.\n\nVB isn't the brownie scouts.