Must-read for all ultimate athletes.
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Loading ...You can, of course, argue that in college/high school (particularly in the “slower” women’s game) that these intervals are likely longer, but the same general tenets and ideas apply.
You might note the Crossfit affiliation of the writer; this is a good thing in my mind, but I’m heavily biased.
This is the sort of stuff I’ve got (and had) on tap mentally over the past several days, as I start thinking more and more about the How of Coaching next year, rather than the If or What. Lots to look forward to.
Update: Holy crap, that’s a lot of comments. Looks like the Huddle really struck a nerve.
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James:
My advice is to make sure you add diagonal cuts into your sprint workout, and make sure that you vary your distance; turning after a 5m cut is much different than turning after 20m.
-Bill Mill
I’m not a certified trainer, but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night
My question is how many teams does this actually apply to? I would love to do the same stats at my own local league and see what the difference is. I’m guessing our far higher rate of turnovers would make the points much longer and hence more endurance would be desirable. I do acknowledge that the article had “Elite Mens” in the title though
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I also wonder how much harm my 4km runs are doing to my speed.
Well, Richie,
I’d offer that part of playing like the best is training like them–perhaps your points take longer at the pickup/league level because people are slower and can’t attack space as quickly, to go with the skill disparity between pickup and elite ultimate. And don’t forget, turnovers often count as stoppages, providing a break to recover–we’re still talking about relatively short intervals of work with interspersed rest. Those long points, especially in pickup/league, tend to be filled with your long, slow walk-ups while the experienced guy yells at everyone else to get in a stack and make cuts, etc.
I don’t know that runs in that range are necessarily destructive to speed–certainly there’s some effect, but if you’re doing that sort of distance relatively infrequently and training strength/explosiveness/speed in the meantime with much greater frequency, I wouldn’t worry too much.
That said, …I don’t do much beyond a 100 or 200m when I’m in-season outside of warm-ups and cool-down runs.
This is a little off-topic, but I’ve been watching this discussion from the perspective of someone who recently got back into ultimate and the shorter speed training after a year or so stint being obsessed with distance running.
If you haven’t found it already I’d suggest that you track down a copy of “The Lore of Running,” by Tim Noakes. It’s up there with “Sturtevant’s Notes on Edible Plants” as the best at what’s it trying to do. The author has a bias towards long distances, where 10k is practically the shortest distance acknowledged and a standard marathon is just starting to get respectable, but the parts about the physiology, particularly bits about seasonal training with peaking and problems with overtraining come from a perspective that seems to be lacking among the ultimate crowd.
If nothing else it’s a fun book to poke around in and read about the guy who trained for 20 weeks and won the ninety kilometer Comrades Marathon. That’s pretty badass.
Andy
Hey Mackey,
Just thought I'd point to a comment I posted on Ells' UltiTraining blog on CF that you might find interesting.
http://ultitraining.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/ive-never-heard-of-this-thing-crossfit/
That said, you should really check out the Strength Coach podcast episode 19.5 with Dr. Gray Cook and see what he has to say. Enjoy your return to school! ^_^
~LeslieW