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« on: November 04, 2015, 11:19:29 am »
to be fair, physical training specifically for ultimate is at the nascent stage. but there's no need to reinvent the wheel, demands are similar to a lot of other field sports. ultimate is like rugby by without so much hitting, so you can be lighter.
w/r/t throwing muscles, i guess i'm not even sure what you mean, and i'm skeptical that any kind of isolated exercise is going to offer much benefit relative to the cost. technique > *, which obviously you know. throws are a compound movement that start at your feet. your hips, torso, shoulders, arms, and hands need to be strong enough, and that's it. if you have limited training time, which you do, i think it's much better to focus on using weights as GPP, to make your whole body stronger, than to try to build in any kind of "functional" exercise that you imagine might be specific to throwing.
think about somebody like octavia payne. she's tiny and i doubt she could close the number 1 captains of crush gripper. but she can make pretty much any throw she wants. ryan purcell is another example, a little dude who spent the summer between his freshman and sophomore years of college making 200+ throws per day, seven days a week. by his sophomore year he was handling for magnum and eventually he was a callahan finalist. i can lift more than him. i could beat him in an arm wrestling contest, even left-handed. when i was still playing, i could probably even throw as far as him. but i could not throw even close to as well.
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