How rigorous is college training versus high school training? What are the major differences?
Similarities? Is competing different? College training versus high school training is very different in some areas and similar in others. Some of the major differences are in the travel, weight lifting, schedules and coaching styles. In high school, we all followed the same schedule: practice in the morning before school, drills and weight lifting after school. Now in college, all the throwers have different class schedules and not every thrower throws all the events like high school throwers normally do. The practices are at different times and on some days, you will only practice one event instead of two or three. With the weightlifting, all the athletes are on their own. We receive workouts from our coach at the beginning of the week and we are each responsible to get the lifting done during our free time which requires us to push harder everyday if we want to get better. Similarities are that we practice with our closest competition everyday…our teammates. The concept of throwing a
