‘Son, lift less weight’: Neeraj Chopra reveals his mother’s reaction to his weight training videos (Photo credit: Twitter @Neeraj_chopra1)
Paris Olympics silver medalist Neeraj Chopra He has revealed that whenever his mother watches his weight training videos, she asks him to lift less weight as she is worried about getting injured during such exercises. Suffering from a long-standing groin injury, he won silver at the recent Paris Olympics, after having won a historic gold at the Tokyo edition of the Olympics three years ago.
After a busy two days following the Olympic final on August 8, Neeraj has started training in Switzerland and is determined to finish the season on a high despite being limited by injury.
After the season finale Diamond League Neeraj will consult doctors about his groin injury in Brussels on 13-14 September and could undergo surgery.
“I don’t know my mother very well, but every time I talk to her, everything she says is very simple. Whenever she sees me lifting weights or training hard, [videos]”She says, ‘Son, lift less weight’ because she thinks it takes a lot of effort to lift it or I might get injured,” Neeraj said in a recent media interaction.
“So I tell her, ‘Mother, it’s not like that. If I lift smaller weights, other people will lift heavier weights, so I can throw [javelins] “I think every mother hopes that her son or daughter can train a little less and achieve success because they cannot bear to see our pain every time we train,” Neeraj added.
The ace Indian athlete has been managing the injury since winning gold at the 2023 World Championships. Neeraj needs to finish in the top six of the Diamond League Meetings series to qualify for the season finale in Brussels.
Winning back-to-back medals at the Summer Olympics was a monumental feat for an Indian athlete, but Neeraj’s throw fell far short of Arshad Nadeem’s brilliant 92.97m that gave the Pakistani athlete a historic gold.
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