Hunter K.

While competing in college I helped coach some of my teammates as well as high school athletes that throw Javelin. I helped increase several athletes throws by 10-20 feet within the season off only a hand full of sessions. Javelin is a very technical sport and it is always best to correct a lot of bad habits through other sports or coaching by going back to the basics! A few places that are worth noting where athletes I’ve help coach are Baker University (where I competed) and Lawrence High school. I love to include a lot of medball exercises, turbo jav, weighted balls and other things throughout my training to build strength, flexibility and coordination. Once a baseline is placed I focus more on throwing the actual javelin to improve muscle memory while holding the javelin as well as incorporating what was learned from the exercises to the actual jav. It is a lot of work, but when putting in the effort, time and determination, you will make major improvements when using me as a coach and going off of my training program and drills.

I am a 3X National qualifier in NAIA and 2X All-American. I have also competed in the Junior Olympics placing #13th in high school. Throughout high school every year I competed I went to state and broke our school record with a throw of 204 feet 4 inches. Competing for seven years I have built my skills by being taught by various coaches like Tim Byers (Javelin coach at Baker University) as well as my father that also competed at Wichita State and making their hall of fame through javelin. Along side all of this I was awarded the Lawrence Journal Worlds Athlete of the Year award, placing 1st in the regional meet for the Junior Olympics and athlete of the year for my university track team.

We will go through the fundamentals with medball work, weighted balls, turbo javs and actual javs. As well as working on fine tuning any bad habits or mistakes. I will also be implementing at home and gym workouts for individuals to do outside of training to improve strength, flexibility, speed and power. With javelin being such a unique sport, you need speed, flexibility and technique more than strength.