As I posted in my last blog I said I would do a blog post about my body weight, I always get comments about my size like "oh you don't look like a hammer thrower" peoples stereo type of a hammer thrower is still very large women, possibly with moustaches, but thats not necessarily the case, you need to be strong and athetic but ultimately you are trying to throw a 4kg (women) as far as you can body weight does become a factor.
To explain further, at the start of this year (2014) I was around 73kg, when I got back from Europeans I was 65kg!, I had been very sick with a stomach bug for around a week when I recovered form the sickness I was 68kg so over 6 months I had lost around 5kg, hammer is such a technical event that the slightest of changes can put off your rhythm and timing which is what I was feeling all year and of corse when things are not quite right we look at the most minuscule aspects instead of the most obvious things, as I have never had a problem with my weight it never occurred to me that it would be a problem.
So after my season finished it was the first priority to get back up to where I started at 73kg, obviously I didn't want to do it fast and just put on fat, I want to put on useable lean muscle mass. We have been doing skin fold tests to measure body composition over the past 2 months and I have got back to 73kg and put on 2.1kg of muscle, over the next few months I would like to put on a couple more kg of muscle and get to 75kg by next season. getting back the weight hasn't really been difficult I have increased my overall protein and calorie intake, also increased post training protein shakes, it hasn't been a massive change I will keep up to date on another changes. there is so much I could of wrote about this topic but I didn't want it to be to long, so if you do have any questions I will do my best to answer them.
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Have you got an optimum or maximum weight as a Hammer Thrower to aim for and if so, how do you arrive at that figure. Cheers George
ReplyDeleteI would like to get to 75kg but everyone is individual and it all depends on what works for each athlete, It will be different for everyone
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