Fitness writings, and wisdom from Vern
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Loading ...First, for those of you who looked forward to my fitness-related musings: while I’ll likely still make posts here as I see fit on the matter, I recently joined up with in-the-works ultimate website scooberville as a contributor and am going to be shelling out a bunch of articles relating to ultimate fitness and training as the site gets up and running this spring. For any aspiring ultimate writers(/editors) out there, they’re still looking for writers and you can likely contribute on just about anything. Hit up Talton if you’re interested in any capacity (or me if you’re just looking for details & a list of potential topics).
With the repeated attempts and failures to sustain an ultimate news/content site in the past few years, my hope is that by getting in on this one early I can help establish something more sustainable.
Second, relating to fitness and training–Vern Gambetta recently made a couple posts on evaluating a training program which are valuable guides for your thought, if (as usual) rather broad. Worth a look–does your training program make sense? Does your team’s?
A couple thoughts (I like to think too
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One thing I picked up from one of my KB trainers, Rif, was Chek’s “correct order of training”,
1) flexibility/mobility
2) stability
3) strength
4) endurance
5) power
Vern's blog post is a bit high-level for me to respond to… have you read Mel Siff's Supertraining? I'll get to it one day.
I'm not the S&C coach for our Ulty team, but I do find it interesting that we don't think too much about Chek's proposed order, or about what Gray Cook has to say about adding strength to dysfunction.
The teams here seem to do a lot of sprinting for the conditioning (off-day workouts) which I worry doesn't balance out the body, plus we don't seem to periodize conditioning to peak at tourneys, plus we don't address functional movement issues before adding S&C + playtime to young athletes… but just some thoughts
L. Wu,
I'm no S&C coach either (does your team have a training coach? we hired one to design a program for us 5 years ago but i've never heard of a team with regular access to one).
As for training balance and progressing…I think that you have to program for it consciously, but I also think that, on a team-wide level, hard work can go a long way. Does your team do any lifting or the like? Dynamic mobility work? Both are good starts, and if you have a balanced lifting program you shouldn't have to worry too much about sprinting as a means of conditioning. It is, after all, what you do on the ultimate field.
I'm playing on "PrettyFly" here and I just train hard b/c I like training hard, but I think SuperFly girls tend to do lifts/tabata-type work outside of their off-day sprints or hill runs.
I believe Bloodthirsty has a student who fills in as an unofficial S&C coach, dunno.
We do the PEP protocol as our dynamics to avoid ACL injuries, but I do worry about Ultimate women living up to the Warrior Girl ideal.
The week after the SJ RKC, I burned 3100+ calories on one day of the Stanford Invite Qualifier, and we had subs galore (unlike some of the other teams). Sprinting a marathon indeed.