Merry Christmas Everyone!

Video honoring LJay Silvester also featuring Nik and Leif

This is about 5 years ago....digging Nik's hair...

Videos from Intrasquad

BYU Intrasquad Shot Put Results

Shot Put Results

Random Recent Throwing Videos....

Things have been busy with school and all lately but here are some videos from practice yesterday. Any comments......?

Rickard Nilsson

This past week we had the privilege of having Rickard Nilsson come and visit us. He helped coach us in the weight room. It was really fun having him around and we are very grateful for his visit. Here is a video of Rickard playing around with some snatches one day he was here.

Good Week Of Lifting

On Friday the throwers tested their vertical jump. Colby had the highest with 38". Yesterday was also a lighter day of lifting. Here are two videos from yesterday.

Weightlifting test day 2

Here are the results from the day-

Bench-

Leif-500lbs
Oliver-450lbs
Colby-375lbs
Zach-315lbs
Mitch-305lbs
Seth-315 lbs

Power Cleans-

Leif- 175kg
Colby- 165kg
Chris- 137.5kg
Blaine- 135kg
Sean- 130 kg
Zach- 130kg
Mitch- 125kg

And the results of the Jerk Competition-
Oliver-200kg
Brandon-190kg

1st Annual Jerk Competition

Today we will be testing in power cleans and bench press. Oliver will be testing in Jerks. He was challenged by our strength coach Brandon and it should be an epic battle. I will post the results and videos from today later on.

BYU Throwers Lifting Test Day #1

The throwers tested in back squats today besides Oliver who did Front Squats and Leif who tried to test in Snatches. Here are the Results-

Zach- 250kg
Oliver- 240kg FS
Colby- 240kg
Blaine- 190kg
Chris- 190kg
Mitch-190kg
Sean-170kg

Unfortunately I didn't get film of all the lifts but posted below are the ones I got-

Rickard Helping Out

It's been fun to have Rickard here the last couple of days...he has done 2 lifting sessions with us and will do more on tuesday and wednesday. It's too bad that we can't have him here for longer....here is a video of him working with Leif on hang snatches. I will continue to post more videos later on in the week.

Weightroom Testing This Week

Most of the throwers will be testing this week in the weightroom. We will be testing in squats, cleans, benchpress and some will do snatches. I will try and post videos and results as well and video from Rickard.

Internationall Weightlifting Guru Visitng BYU

The BYU throwers are excited about Rickard Nilsson coming this weekend to workout and do some coaching for us. For those of you who don't know who Rickard Nilsson is, his bio is posted below. Rickard is a former Olympian in weightlifting and is now the head strength and conditioning coach for all Swedish Olympic sports. He is an old friend of the Arrhenius' and has visited Provo before. We will post pictures and videos from his stay later.

Rickard Nilsson

Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Swedish Olympic Committee for 10+ years

Rickard has been competing or coaching at the world-class level for nearly 30 years. After 17 years of competition at the highest level, Rickard began training professional teams in hockey and soccer as well as helping world cup skiers. His success with these athletes, along with developing a very practical testing system, led to his hire by the Swedish Olympic Committee in order to better prepare the Swedish Olympians for competition as well as to improve the development of future Olympians. Rickard has had tremendous success. Athletes under his training regimen have set several world records in track and field and many Olympic medals in many sports. In addition, Rickard has trained several skiing world cup champions, championship teams in professional hockey and soccer, and many other athletes who have won major championships. He is sought after by many professional athletes and teams for his training expertise and is often a speaker at Governing Body conventions in Sweden and other countries for all sports.

Rickard’s background as an athlete:

* 2 Time Olympian in weightlifting (’88 and ’92)
* Competed in 17 World Championships
* Holds 25+ Swedish weightlifting records

New Weightlifting Videos

2011 Track Schedule

I found this on byucougars.com. This is the women's track schedule but I'm sure the meets will be the same.


2011 Women's Track Schedule

JAN 7-8 BYU Invitational Provo, UT


JAN 14 ISU Invitational Pocatello, ID


JAN 21-22 New Mexico Invitational Albuquerque, NM


JAN 28-29 Washington Invitational Seattle, WA or
Boise State Invitational Boise, ID


FEB 4-5 New Balance Invitational New York, NY


FEB 11-12 Air Force Invitational Colorado Springs, CO


FEB 24-26 MWC Indoor Championships Albuquerque, NM



MAR 11-12 NCAA Indoor Championships Fayetteville, AR


MAR 18-19 SDSU Invitational San Diego, CA


MAR 25-26 Stanford Invitational Palo Alto, CA


APR 1-2 UVU Invitational Orem, UT
USC Invitational Los Angeles, CA


APR 8-9 Sun Angel Invitational Tempe, AZ



APR 14-16 Mt. SAC Relays Walnut, CA



APR 23 BYU Tri Meet Provo, UT


APR 27-30 BYU Robison Invitational Provo, UT


MAY 5 Weber Twilight Meet Ogden, UT


MAY 11-14 MWC Outdoor Championships Colorado Springs, CO


MAY 26-28 NCAA West Regional Eugene, OR


JUN 8-11 NCAA Outdoor Championships Des Moines, IA

BYU INDOOR SCHEDULE

HERE IS THE TENTATIVE INDOOR SCHEDULE FOR THE BYU TRACK TEAM. LOCATIONS OF MEETS ARE LISTED AFTER THE DATE OF THE COMPETITION.

Jan. 7- BYU
Jan. 15- Idaho State University
Jan. 22- Univ. Of New Mexico
Jan. 29- Boise State University
Feb. 3-5- New York Armory, New Balance Games
Feb. 12- Air Force Academy
Feb. 25-26- Univ. Of New Mexico, MWC Conference Championships
Mar. 11-12- Texas A&M Univ., NCAA Championships

1st Annual BYU Marv Roberson Memorial Throws Carnival

Byu Throws Meet

Random training videos- last 2 weeks

Interview With Sean Richardson

Sean's Bio- http://www.byucougars.com/Profile.jsp?ID=6357

Quad Test Results

Here are the throwers results from the quad test. Not everyone of the throwers competed and more plan to do it next time in November.

Leif Arrhenius 305.3
Colby Barber 246.3
Chris Reno 241.3
Zach Stetler 207.1
Clint Prestwich ??

Leif won the quad test for the whole track team and set a new record. The runners and jumpers had their pride hurt like little girls and still continue to whine.....typical.

Here is some video of the quad test (not everyone got filmed...sorry)

Former BYU Throwers highlight videos

I found some videos on youtube of some former throwers for BYU. Here they are-




here is an article about soren tallhem-
http://www.biggerfasterstronger.com/uploads2/85_Sep_SorenTallhem.pdf

Quad Test

This Friday the track team will hold it's annual quad test. This is the first of two quad tests we will have this fall. The quad test consists of standing broad jump, 2 foot triple jump, over head shot put and a 30 meter sprint. The throwers usually do really well and hopefully we can sweep the top couple of places. I will post video and results of the test on Friday.

Mr. Olympia Weekend

BYU Throwers Sean and Leif went down to Las Vegas this weekend for the 2010 Mr. Olympia Weekend. Here are some pictures of their adventure.

last week random videos

Week 3 Random Videos

Here are some videos from throwing practice this last week.

Article In Long And Strong Throwers Journal

BYU thrower Leif Arrhenius had this article published in the Long and Strong Throwers Journal......

A Great Alternative
STEP-UPS

By Leif Arrehnius,
Brigham Young University

here is the link:

http://longandstrong.com/LSTJ/Aug10.htm

check it out

New 2011 BYU Thrower Bio's!!!!!!!!!!

I just recently updated and made new bio's for the throwers. Be sure to check out the link on the right!

BYU Throwers PIcture

This is a picture taken today of the whole group. We have a bigger team this year and we will have 2 other throwers who are returning from missions that will join us in January. This should be a very exciting year for us!

Throwers from left to right: Blaine Baker, Zach Stetler, Clint Prestwich, Sean Richardson, Chris Reno, Leif Arrhenius, Mitch Swenson, Oliver Whaley, Colby Barber, Seth

Week 2

This past week was a good week of training. We started our lifting program under our new strength coach Brandon Johnson. He is working us hard and hopefully we will all get strong and powerful doing this program. We are in our hypertrophy phase of training which includes a lot of sets and reps. Posted below is some lifting from this past week.

BYU THROWERS RANKED #4 IN THE NCAA

According to Tony Dziepak "THE THROWERS PAGE" we are ranked as the fourth best throwing program in the NCAA last year. On his website (http://throwerspage.110mb.com/) he explains the formula for determining the rankings. I have no doubt we can do better next year! Here is the top ten rankings..

2009 Division I outdoor
N=500; total min=8.8; sex min=5.6; event min=3.4 or (top 20 and at least 3.2).
school total men women shot disc ham jav
Southern Ill 22.7 9.0 13.7 6.6 5.4 8.7 --
Nebraska 17.9 8.0 9.9 4.3 3.7 5.3 4.6
Oklahoma 17.4 8.3 9.1 5.0 5.8 -- 5.2
BYU 15.8 9.2 6.6 4.3 -- -- 6.4
Southern Cal 14.8 7.7 7.1 -- 3.5 4.2 4.2
Buffalo 14.2 7.5 6.7 5.1 4.0 3.5 --
Louisville 14.1 -- 9.2 -- 4.4 4.0 --
Kent State 13.8 7.8 6.0 3.5 3.6 3.9 --
Colorado St 13.2 6.1 7.1
3.5 4.8 4.3 --
Air Force 13.1 6.6 6.5 -- 3.8 -- 4.2

Clint Prestwich

Clint is back after serving a two year LDS mission to Brazil. Clint is from Rigby, Idaho and is a very good student. Clint did a year of college before his mission and he competed then as well. Clint did well his freshmen year and is motivated to do even better in the years to come.

random training videos from this last week

We were on our own for training this week but will start officially next week. Here are some random vids from some practices that I filmed.

BACK TO SCHOOL!

School officially started yesterday. We had our first day of classes and also our first team meeting. Today we have physicals and later on in the week we have more meetings. Practice is still going on but won't officially start until next week. Later on in the week we will be posting our new schedule and also new pictures of the throwers team. A season preview will also in the works. Posted below our some pictures of our locker room and lounge....enjoy

Niklas Arrhenius: Double Sweden-Finland Champion

Nik won the discus and shot put this last weekend at the Sweden-Finland dual meet. Niklas threw 19.48 in shot put and 62.76 in discus. The discus conditions weren't the best as there was a strong tailwind. He beat some good competition including Robert Haggblom and Jimmy Nordin in shot put and Franz Kruger and Mikko Kyrro in discus. Congrats!

Blaine Baker

Blaine Baker is coming off a very good outdoor season. He has a pr of 70.29 and earned an All-American award. He is also a MWC champion in javelin. Here is a video of his power clean pr.

Coming Soon...

Our 2010-2011 Track and Field Schedule should be finalized soon and I will post it on the blog as soon as I find out. Also I will be writing a season preview on the throwers squad for the up coming year. Be sure to check back often for updates on training, competitions, videos etc.

Niklas Arrhenius Double Swedish Champion

Nik competed this past weekend at the Swedish Championships held in Falun, Sweden. Nik was the favorite in both shot put and discus and ended up winning both by large margins. Niklas threw 19.25m in the shot put and 63.87m in the discus. The organizers of the meet decided to hold the shot put competition in the main square of the town kind of like a mini "Big Shot" competition. Niklas started throwing the shot put again this winter after a 3 year lay off and has accomplished a lot in a short amount of time. He has a season best of 19.75m which is also an outdoor pr for him. The 63.87m is a season best which is really good considering coming back from 2 foot injuries the last year.

New Feature

I added a link to a new part of the byu throwers blog. If you notice on the left side, under the Y picture there is a link to stats and records for the BYU throwers. I'm still compiling more of the records and stats and it should all be done in the next week. Also I'm going to add a link to current and former byu thrower bios. When it's all done it should be pretty cool! Check it out!

COLBY BARBER

Here is a video of colby barber squatting. At the time this was his pr for a double. Colby had acl surgery a year ago and recently returned from an LDS mission. He had a good comeback last year breaking his pr in shot put and discus outdoors. Colby should improve a lot this coming season and impress a lot of people.

Jill Camerena-Williams New PR

Jill Camerena-Williams is a current BYU graduate student and volunteer coach for the women's track team. Her husband Dustin is also the Athletic Trainer for the cross country and track and field teams at BYU. She threw a new pr at the Zurich Diamond League Meet. Here is a video of her pr taken by Martin Bingisser.

Sean Richardson PR Throw

Because school hasn't started yet I decided to just post the videos of all the throwers pr's for the time being. this is Sean Richardson's pr throw in the javelin at 71.84. Sean had amazing season last year earning an All-American award and pr'ing by 6 meters.

The Curse Continues

Another thrower on the BYU throw's team had surgery recently. Aaron Clark had a screw put in his wrist, and a plate and 7 screws in the collar bone.

Oliver's Hammer PR

This is a video of Oliver Whaley's pr throw at the NCAA regionals this past season.

Niklas Arrhenius new outdoor shot PR

Niklas Arrhenius a former byu thrower and current manager for our team, threw a personal record in the shot put yesterday in Goteborg, Sweden.

Curse of the Cougar Throwers?

This summer two of us throwers have had surgery. Recently I had an emergency appendectomy which came at the worse possible time, and earlier on in the summer Sean had two compartmental surgeries done on both legs. Hopefully this is the last of the problems we have!

BYU LANDS GREAT THROWING RECRUIT

The BYU throwers are excited to welcome their newest recruit Zach Stetler from Elko, Nevada to the group. Zach is a great all around thrower and will contribute greatly to the team. Zach has high school pr's of 61' in the shot put and 186'10" in the discus. He was a double winner at the Golden West invite and also had a strong showing at Jr. Nationals throwing 18.10 with the 6k shot put and 54.80 with the 1.75 discus. Zach has been coached by a former byu thrower Mike Louisiana and hopefully can bump his coach down a few spots on the all time list at byu. :)

zach's bio- http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=574680

Leif's New Pr in Shot Put