Product Review

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