The Hammer Throw Handbook

The Hammer Throw Handbook is a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive handbook for coaching the hammer throw. Written by one of the top hammer throw coaches in the country, Larry Judge, who, along with his co-author Kevin McGill, is highly active in coaching education. The result is a book full of knowledge gained from first-hand experience and extensive research that is presented in such a way that anyone from a beginning coach to a coach with significant experience can benefit from its contents. This book is truly a hammer coach survival guide. Also included is an entire chapter on the weight throw.


The Hammer Throw Handbook includes detailed information on:


• Important concepts in sports science

• Applied biomotor development

• Designing throwing workouts

• Developing a resistance training program for the hammer throw

• Teaching basic fundamentals

• The technical elements

• Teaching progression and drills

• Mental preparation

• Detecting technical flaws

• Injury prevention and treatment