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UC - With Ultimate evolving rapidly, where should players be looking for training advice and assistance? MA: Anyone serious about training should go seek a certified strength and conditioning specialist. Get an assessment done, find your weaknesses and find out why you might be getting injured in certain places. After solving these issues, you can focus on working on strength, power, and conditioning. RB: As an athlete, you typically want to get advice from those that have the most experience, most practical knowledge and know how best to apply it. Look at the resumes of which you want to work with and see who they are training and where they are getting their information.
UC - Any advice to players looking to get in the weight room for the first time? MA: First, get a program designed for you and then focus on training with proper technique and form. There are so many athletes out there that aren’t even squatting properly -which can cause many injuries. RB: Get a coach that will focus on your movement patterns and then load the lifts according to how well you can move within that lift. A heavy load with a poor movement pattern can very likely make you a slower athlete. But once the movement is good and you are strong enough to hold form then you definitely need to increase the load and speed within a lift.
UC - How much training is too much training? MA: In the gym, I wouldn’t recommend more than 8 hours a week. The more balanced your body is (left and right side of the body), the less likely you will be to get injured. If you create a good solid base (strength wise and conditioning wise) during the off-season, the more you will be able to train in the ladder stages of training. RB: One could easily argue that there is no such thing as too much training; there is only poor regeneration. If one isn’t regenerating enough on a daily and weekly basis, then you have to reduce workload. I am going to look at various signs from an athlete to decide on a daily basis how good his/her regeneration is. This helps to determine the training volume and workload.
UC - What sport do you think is the best cross training for Ultimate? MA: In my opinion, I find indoor soccer to be very close in terms of energy systems to Ultimate firsbee. Indoor soccer is highly anaerobic with lots of sprinting and changing direction with subbing on the fly. RB: Playing another sport isn’t considered training. Plain and simple. Track athletes don’t play soccer to get into shape. They might play soccer on occasion for fun, which is fine, but it is not considered a conditioning element.
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