where you are jumping hurdles how many times do you do this training in a weekjumps we do twothree times a week there are box jumps sand jumps hurdle jumps these are very important for us it helps in gaining explosive strength our joints knees glutes legs shoulders overall strength gets increased due to the jumps training i like doing jumps training a lot it helps in bettering our fitness levels gain speed and explosive powerwhich javelin do you prefer to use the nemeth or the nordic and which one did you use at the olympicsi like nemeth as well as nordic in commonwealth games the asian games the world junior championships the asian championships i won medals using the nemeth at present for some time i am using the nordic because the new javelin nordic has come up with is really good it depends on the day if nordic is not working i use the nemeth in tokyo i used the nordic javelin it gave me the gold laughshow much has life changed in these 16 days since you won indias first track and field olympic gold is this adulation a pressurei started getting used to this adulation from the time i won the world junior championships when i returned from the competition i was getting so much attention from all quarters then the cwg and asian games happened but what i am experiencing after the olympics is a different thing altogether stadiums are being named after me these things are important in their own wayi need to understand how i can use the media to inspire the next generation i will get used to it training for an olympic gold was in my control but this adulation is very new to me ill take some time to figure how i can communicate with the world and talk about what we need to do nexti want to talk about how i want to focus on my sport and performance and also about how indian athletics and sports can be improved by providing the kind the facilities we need to grow as a sporting countrythe most important thing right now is that our country needs to host big events where star athletes like vetter come and play so that our people get to know more about athletics our people should know what athletics is in reality and what it takes for these athletes to perform people should understand why athletics is so different to sports like cricket i intend to work on this i want the media to help in this