Ways to Manage your own Ultimate Training

Hello Ultimate Frisbee Players!

I recently entered the next phase in my life - building a career! As I began to start working, I face a lot of diffculties to maintain the intensity that I used to train for ultimate, due to various reasons such as inertia and lack of time. However, after some time, I was able manage my time well to carry on training for ultimate! Here are some tips on how to manage your time for ultimate! These tips can be also applied to those who are still schooling as well!

Credits: Eric Lim S C

1) Have a schedule

It is important to spend your time wisely as you might have lessons in school or work that could take away most of your weekdays. However, if you look close enough, there would definitely be pockets of time where you can fit in your ultimate training! Translate all this into a schedule and follow it through all the way!

2) Beat the morning inertia

For those who are working, there is always the option of doing your ultimate training in the evenings. That is a lie - there is no such option. By the time you finish working, you would be mentally and physically drained at that point of time, and most of the time your would procastinate to the next evening, and so on. This becomes a vicious cycle and you will not get any training done!

Hence it would be good to wake up slightly earlier in the morning to begin your ultimate training, and here are some good ways to do so! Check it out here!

3) Keep your trainings compact yet intense

Given the time constraints, it is important to keep your trainings compact, with a lot higher intensity than your trainings previously. This is because, if trainings take too long to complete, it might discourage people from doing it habitually.

Moreover, ultimate often require a high phyiscal and mental intensity within a short tine frame, such as cutting or going for a long throw. Hence, a compact and intensive training would greatly help in your ultimate game! A good timing for your training would be about 30 to 45 minutes. This would also make waking up early more bearable and achievable, considering that you just need to wake up 30 min earlier than 1 to 1.5hr earlier.

Know what you have to train and carry it out with this short time frame!

4) Give yourself breaks

It's okay to take break and rest during some days in the week. It keeps you energised and well recovered for the trainings to come. In addition, there would be times that you are terribly tired, either after a long day of work or a full day of lessons! Accept that there is nothing you can do about it and rest well to work even harder for the next training. Do not take breaks too often or you might

5) Cultivate strong discipline and motivation

Most importantly, it is the strong discipline and motivation that keep you going on to train hard for ultimate, even in a busy week of work or studies. Find what your ultimate aim/dream is and let the rest take its place naturally!

Train well amongst the busy times, and you might pique the interest of people that are training for clubs and who knows, they might just rope you in for club training! Often they have adequate training arrangements such as track and ultimate trainings during weeknights and weekends, so you are pretty much covered!

However, that is in the future so in the mean time, manage your time well and train hard!