When you start training a young athlete , you have no idea on what is going to happen …sometimes the athlete doesn’t really achieve what you have been expecting and is struggling to understand and perform the exercises that you are asking him to do , and you are working hard for very little results  …sometimes (not so often) , you are lucky and your athlete understands everything relatively easily and perform faster and better than expected !

Anyways , you try your best and have to adapt your coaching to the athlete , knowing that if some people are fast learners , others need more time , but finally they all sometimes reach the same level of performance. This is why coaching young athletes is so unpredictable …and interesting !

In this background we shall now follow another NZL young athlete (Just turned 14y) who seems (so far) to be talented in the shot put and the discus. He has already done better than expected after only 6 months of serious training , certainly a very impressive start , but ….let’s take rendez vous at the end of 2025 ad see what is going on to happen !

Available documents : Visitors : 1-PDF Declan FORD shot put analysis 2025-04 (Samples) – 2-Declan FORD PDF Shot put analysis 2024-11 (Samples) -3- Video : Declan FORD Shot put Pbs progression oct 2024 to April 2025

Members : 1-Declan FORD PDF shot put analysis 2025-04  – 2-Declan FORD PDF Shot put analysis 2024-  3- Video : Declan FORD Shot put training exercises progression 2024-25