Lift-throw? Throw-lift? during the season

To kind of over-simplify, the last two seasons I lifted hard during the off-season:  4 months, November-beginning of March...and threw a lot during the season:  Beginning of March to early October.   I took 3-4 weeks completely off at the end of October.

I'm slowly getting stronger, overall from all this lifting and throwing.  That's a certain fact.  However, at the end of the season last year, I got pretty darned sick of throwing.

So I'm kind of thinking of alternating...kind of like this...

Basically...from now through Woodland (end of April) throw a lot, lift very little if at all.

May ... reverse the priorities...., lift more, throw only  1, maybe 2x a week through the MWC

June  .... throw more  (2x maybe 3x a week), lift less, or almost not at all

July .... back to lifting more  (2x/week) throwing 1x/week with week off before Enumclaw

August .... is always a weird month because we do a week-long backpacking trip in the middle of it, but...generally  back to throwing more, and lifting less

September .... I have three Games in September so just throw 1x a week, no lift.

October .... Ventura closes out the season at the beginning of the month.


all lifting would be speed stuff, no grinding up single rep PR's in DL or squat or bench or anything.

Thoughts?   What do you do? 

jsully wrote:   "you change your training more than................"     ok folks, lets see what we can come up with.. 123 go!

Always thinking, here, Jake! LOL  I figure I have this season and one more season (2013)  of this obsessiveness, because I will be going to Scotland next summer and I want to throw at 3-4-5 Games while I'm there.  I  might as well get as smart as I can, while it pays off!

After that I can get stupid and it'll be OK. 

If it ain't broke...

I'm not a natural thrower, no T&F background at all.  I was terrible when I started throwing HG.

What you've got to realize is that I used to practice.  From 2001-2005 I practiced (although still only wfd and hammer, and occasionally something else if I happened to get together with some folks) 

In 2006 I stopped practicing and have only touched the implements at games since then.  I had a great hammer practice and was ready for a game.  My hammer sucked that next game, and I figured "what's the point?"  That plus where HG falls on my priority scale made it an easy decision.

So, the moral of the story is, practice for a few years, then coast the rest of your career.  

C. Smith wrote: So, the moral of the story is, practice for a few years, then coast the rest of your career.

I practice each weekend, Craig did a game almost every weekend for years, what is the diff?  The guy got his reps in and under pressure.