Thoughts.

This is a wonderful idea to toy with in your training, especially in-season, once you get to a point where you have the basics down; there’s a recent article on T-Nation that explains it a bit.

Sorry for lack of writing; every time I hit a brief break from school, I imagine myself as having more time than I actually do. Presently my life is dominated by surgery. My main ultimate-related ventures involve captaining & organizational efforts for a new mixed team, Wild Card, that I’m helping start this year & am very excited about!

Tara Martin, I saw your comment on wanting some injury-related writing, specifically on recovering & managing them – great topic! I’d definitely recommend checking out Injury Timeout for some basics on common injuries. Jamie Nuwer is right now what I hope to be in 5+ years; if I find the time I’d love to write and expand on that in more depth though! I’ve coached & played with a fair number of folks nursing injuries or bouncing back from them and could definitely offer some perspective there.

If anyone has particular injuries that would be good to discuss, feel free to comment or email. And keep an eye out for some more from me whenever the next Huddle article comes out about the use of stats in ultimate.

Lifting is only one component of my training these days – I’ve been ramping up the explosive work to gear up for more speed training/on-field play as well.

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Continuing to increase strength and adding muscle remain goals for me over the next couple months, along with getting ready to play this season. What am I doing to these ends?

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With some broad background explanation given in the past three posts, these next posts will really drill in on specifics I’ll be using for my training. First up: mobility work.

Gray Cook, noted rehab expert (check out Athletic Body in Balance, or his newest book on the functional movement screen), inspires a lot of my thinking here, with a strong tip of the hat to Eric Cressey‘s methods for incorporating mobility work into the warm-up and workout.

My Imbalances – What I Need to Work On

Here’s a list of various imbalances or mobility issues I’ve noticed over the past several months – I’ve already begun working on some of them, but I’d like to formally prioritize them going forward.
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Before I can start arranging all the pieces of the plan, it helps to have an idea of what I want my training week to look like. (I find organizing with a weekly cycle to be the most convenient for me, but you may find a shorter 2 to 4-day cycle makes more sense, especially for beginners when less variety is needed).
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In part 1 of this series, I touched upon my general goals; choosing a site to build, or framing the canvas, if you will. Step 2 from that is to assemble the appropriate tools to construct something befitting the site; after that, I’ll begin putting the pieces together into something coherent and useful.

From each general goal I’ll lay out some specifics in how I’ll go about applying that to my training:
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Step 1 in my planning process is always to think about my goals for training.

Some of these goals are more implicit, such as “Become a better ultimate player.” As I’ve alluded to before, these sorts of non-specific goals don’t really do a lot to inform my planning, so it needs to be broken down further.

These are my current general goals:
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