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In the USA if you are talented you are more likely to be selected for a specific sport than in europe, why would he have chose powerlifting when he has the potential to win the olympics?
Great video, MANY athletes use weight trraining and we seem to 'forget' that not only body builders and power lifters use them....like to see how sprinters train....
i once saw this tiktok of a female discus thrower (and she wasn't even one the best/strongest ones or anything like that) doing 5 reps of 100kg on Bulgarian split squats and that's when i knew that throwers are really strong.
In the world strongest man there was a guy names Geoff Capes former shot putter which won the event twice and was one of the best strongmen at the time. He was indoor shot put world champion. Back at the 80´s strongman they also had a shot put event. So yeah shot putters are kind of Éminence grise in the world of strength sports.
many former shot putters went to strongman. Vasyl Virastyuk was another WSM winner who was former shot putter. Sebastian Wenta was a a polish shot putter, who without much of a strongman training took second place at world's strongest man in 2007 after 2 years of competing
When the first strongman competitions were held there were no professional strongmen. Among powerlifters and Olympic weightlifters shot putters were typical competitors.
I started throwing discus and shot put in 6th grade. Did it all the way through second year of college as D1. So glad to see our elite throwers get some respect on their names!!!
As a Track and field Decathlete turned Powerlifter and dabbler in strongman as well as a lifelong lover of Strongman, for years I've argued with people that Olympic Shotputters are some of the most powerful and strong humans on the planet. So this makes me SO HAPPY that somebody else sees it!
The Olympics used to have the overhead pressing in the form of the Clean and Press in Weightlifting but they got rid of it in 1972 because it got to hard to determine between the Clean and Jerk and Clean and Press.
There’s no dominating powerlifting federation right now so it won’t happen. Para powerlifting does have one strong governing body so that’s the closest we’re gonna get for a while
thank you backGuy, I was thinking about this during the olimpics, especially the short put athletes looks so freaking strong. It would be nice to have more videos like this one about disc throwers and hammer throwers. Bless
I remember about bit over a decade ago, a number of people in the strength community advocated some sort of box jumps for explosiveness. I even remember Poundstone using them. Its a low impact (hopefully) and low load and low fatigue generating way to develop force generation.
the sports finals table in shortputting ends at 9.8 meters. that is for 18 year olds who had sports as a main subject in school. - just to put things into perspective here.
4:05 WHAT COULD SHE POSSSSSIBLY DO IF (GOD FORBID) SOMETHING WENT WRONG???? thats the most literal example of emotional support ive ever seen. bless their union💘 (edit thats arguably the most romantic squats for reps of all time)
There is also a factor of just doing different types of sports and movements that make you better at everything. Think of the dexterity with their legs, explosiveness with their hips and upper body, and overall coordination and core strength that throwers have. It makes sense that it would carry over to putting big weights. I have thought for a long time that our views on how to get stronger are too narrow.
except, we did ! :) throwers are the most ridiculous athletes of all times. There was a dude in my home town of Bacau, Romania that used to be a hammer thrower, was front squatting 200 5x5 RPE piss and he was a very low tier thrower
So squatting, pressing and deadlifting heavy, with assistance exercises like the power clean, builds the best strength? Sounds like that the pink man in Wichita Falls Texas who has the best selling book on strength, was right all along. "Sets of fahves" works folks.
Obviously they do block programming, put way more time into power clean / power snatch than SS recommends and often mix in other stuff like French contrast method and plyometrics into their training… but if you squint at it a bit then yes, I guess you’re right!
But then we need to consider that these men are tested, while strongmen are not. Although that doesn't mean they're drug free, strongmen are definitely taking crazy higher amounts of PEDs than shot putters
Most people think that powerlifters would be the best to become Olympic weightlifters, but throwers would probably do better thanks to the explosivity.
Powerlifters are generally speaking not mobile enough, although they also tend to be very explosive! Shot putters already train similarily to weightlifters, but a guy like Kovacs would likely not do as good in weightlifting as Crouser
