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Explosive Exercises (Not Only) for Throwers

April 22, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Over at JTS Strength Chad Wesley Smith (himself a former Shot Putter) shares various explosive exercises.

I don’t know about you, but I have neglected explosive work (like Plyometric Push ups / Throws) for too long. Time to get better at them.

As always use with caution and read his article for the details.

It is important to progress through these drills from least (box push ups), to most (rebound push ups) advanced, giving your body at least 3 weeks with each variation.

Then he linked to the famous Werner Günthör training video. This is just too awesome not to show it again here.

If this display of explosive athleticism doesn’t get you excited to do some jumps, I believe nothing will.

Filed Under: exercises, explosive, Jumps, throw, videos

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Comments

  1. Asgeir says

    April 22, 2013 at 15:15

    David Storl released a video yesterday that might even deserve its own post but definitely fits to this topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwQF52NsHPk&feature=player_embedded

    • GregorATG says

      April 22, 2013 at 15:31

      Thanks, that’s a cool montage.

  2. Kavi says

    April 22, 2013 at 15:25

    Mullet, moustache, awesome background music, and a name like Gunthor — the jumps are only the icing on the cake in this video! More seriously, the Swiss world champ’s jumping, leaping, and bounding up the stairs was pretty cool, and impressive.

  3. Roberto Rosario says

    April 22, 2013 at 21:14

    I definitely did plyo jumps at the gym today as a result of this video.

    • GregorATG says

      April 23, 2013 at 00:25

      Nice to hear that 🙂

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