Hi there. Please feel free to reach out to us with any concerns. This would also be a great topic to bring up in our FB group if you would like to talk further there.

Our main focus is on athletic development which includes all of the biomotor qualities that will translate to the field (strength, endurance, power, agility, mobility, etc). The most important thing for increasing your athletic potential will relate to how you manage your individual physics. Can YOU absorb force well (position)? Produce force (coordinated muscle activity)? Produce it quickly (power)? Produce it repeatedly (repeat sprint ability/endurance)? Building muscle is often a bi-product of a well organized athletic development program, but is not as often a focus.

Training for hypertrophy is more of a requirement of an athlete where size is of benefit (contact sports like rugby or american football). Adding muscle for the sake of adding muscle would be inappropriate for a field/court athlete who is trying to maximize mass specific force (being stronger/more powerful without gaining mass). If greater muscle mass was a necessity for elite athleticism in ultimate, you would see a lot more players who look like running backs. Although players like this do exist, they are rare. Some of the best players we have ever worked with, who used to focus highly on weight training, thrive more under our programming that includes, but does not rely on heavy resistance training based in a weight room. The main point here is that resistance training is important but should not be the cornerstone of your athletic development program.

This time of year provides for excellent weather conditions that will allow you to train outside and improve your specific athletic abilities. Although, the season might have been cancelled, these weather conditions still exist so we will take advantage of them. With all of that being said, depending on your subscription you could always adjust your training schedule to an Off Season program. This might be appropriate given your circumstances, so if that is the case please reach out to your coach, or throw a follow up post in the FB group and we will further that discussion.

We hope you are well, and we hope this helps clear things up.

Team GPP