Ultimate Mobility

07/15/2025

NEWS: My Ultimate Mobility Masterclass is coming soon 🎉

👉 Comment “MOBILITY” to register now 100% FREE

WHEN: August 24th 3:30pm Eastern Time

WHERE: Online! It’s a webinar 😉

WHAT: This is going to be by FAR the best resource I’ve created for Ultimate Frisbee training.

I’m going to cover:

🥏 How & why we incorporate mobility training into our Ultimate programs.
🥏 Keys to efficient, sustainable training.
🥏 The roles of lifting, speed, and power work
🥏 Exactly how I design a training week and month.
🥏 How to train and manage the most common aches, pains, & injuries.
🥏 The most common questions I get from clients, members, and social media.

👉 If you’ve seen my stuff and been curious what this mobility stuff is all about, or you just want to get more out of your training and feel better, this Masterclass is for YOU.

WHY: Because it is my mission to help as many Ultimate Frisbee players as possible make the absolute most of their time and energy. And I want to make plenty of resources accessible to anyone.

You don’t need to overhaul your life to incorporate mobility and feel better.

There is ALWAYS hope for improvement if you’re smart about where you focus your energy & training.

I’d love for you to join, so I can show you how to make it happen ❤️

PS - if you know anyone who might be interested or benefit from this, please pass this along 🙏

07/15/2025

NEWS: My Ultimate Mobility Masterclass is coming soon 🎉

👉 Comment “MOBILITY” to register now 100% FREE

WHEN: August 24th 3:30pm Eastern Time

WHERE: Zoom! It’s a webinar 😉

WHAT: This is going to be by FAR the best resource I’ve created for Ultimate Frisbee training.

I’m going to cover:

🥏 How & why we incorporate mobility training into our Ultimate programs.
🥏 Keys to efficient, sustainable training.
🥏 The roles of lifting, speed, and power work
🥏 Exactly how I design a training week and month.
🥏 How to train and manage the most common aches, pains, & injuries.
🥏 The most common questions I get from clients, members, and social media.

👉 If you’ve seen my stuff and been curious what this mobility stuff is all about, or you just want to get more out of your training and feel better, this Masterclass is for YOU.

WHY: Because it is my mission to help as many Ultimate Frisbee players as possible make the absolute most of their time and energy. And I want to make plenty of resources accessible to anyone.

You don’t need to overhaul your life to incorporate mobility and feel better.

There is ALWAYS hope for improvement if you’re smart about where you focus your energy & training.

I’d love for you to join, so I can show you how to make it happen ❤️

PS - if you know anyone who might be interested or benefit from this, please pass this along 🙏

06/23/2025

🥏 I’ve learned (slowly) — from 15+ years of professional training and 20 years of playing — how to train smart for Ultimate.

But I want to be VERY clear: I don’t always make good training/playing decisions.

In fact, I’ve made SO many mistakes playing and training for Ultimate, that I’m uniquely qualified to help you NOT make the same ones.

Or at least minimize the fallout from them 😅

So if I give advice and it makes you feel dumb or undisciplined, please remember 2 things:

1️⃣ Every mistake you’ve been frustrated about? I’ve probably made it too. Good chance it happened between 12-227 times before I finally changed my behavior 😂

And I’ve made mistakes you can’t even IMAGINE. I partially tore my right shoulder labrum laying out for a huck that I threw TO MYSELF.

On an EMPTY field.

2️⃣ Just knowing something doesn’t change behavior. As you learn more, be kind to yourself — behavior & habit change isn’t easy no matter what anyone tells you ❤️

Unfortunately a lot of my clients a come to me in a state of desperation — pain is a very strong motivator. I don’t want you to get to that point, so I’m gonna keep sharing the good stuff.

PS - I’m not just some rando Ultimate guy who trained like a fool in the past or likes the gym. Training, mobility, performance is my career and has been for a long time. I share because I KNOW it will help if you follow consistently.

06/16/2025

🥏 How can you feel good enough to SPRINT up a massive hill after 6 games of Ultimate? (See last vid)

Here are some tips (besides eat well, hydrate, sleep well).

SHORT-TERM (during the tournament)

👉 Do a thorough warm-up Day 1

👉 Re-warm-up if you have a long break

👉 Do a cooldown at the end of the day AT THE FIELDS

👉 Get consistent movement in the evening: brisk walk, extra CARs, isometrics, and active stretches. Avoid being entirely still for long periods of time.

LONG-TERM (weeks & months before)

👉 Train consistently for months: speed, conditioning, strength, power, MOBILITY.

👉 Prioritize mobility training to improve the capacity of your joints, tendons, and ligaments. This is where many of the overuse/fatigue injuries take place.

👉 Give extra focus to the areas Ultimate hits hardest AND where you have been injured before.

PS - that last vid is me and my buddy sprinting up a delightful hill at the end of our 6th game of the weekend.

Smartest move? Nah, of course not. But I freakin love hills, felt fantastic, and it was fun. THAT’S why I train for extra capacity: I want to have fun and feel good doing it 😁

PPS - Did not know we were being watched (or filmed) till the end. Humbling to see how slow my max effort was on that behemoth.

06/06/2025

🥏 Ultimate players, get ready for the heat 🔥

To be fully transparent, ALL of these apply to some past version of me.

But you know what I did? I spent 20 years learning from my mistakes, taking courses, workshops, seminars, and training 100s of people through 20,000+ sessions.

I realized that I couldn’t expect to feel a change unless I significantly changed my behaviors, my environment, and my training philosophy.

In 3 months, I’ll be 38. I work my ass off to be healthy, athletic, and resilient. I work my ass off creating resources for, and training, Ultimate athletes.

And it WORKS.

But every single time I’m out on the field, I hear players complaining about how sh*tty they feel or how their nagging [insert pain] won’t go away.

Often from people 5, 10, 15 years younger than me.

These memes are funny, maybe a little too on the nose, and meant to wake some of you up!

If what you’ve been doing doesn’t have you feeling how you want, then something needs to change.

If what you’ve been “doing” is randomly saving exercises the algorithm decides are most entertaining, then you’re not helping yourself.

At the VERY least, commit to doing something, and do it consistently. Ideally, you find a program or work with a trainer/coach/PT.

And for the love of plastic, do your mobility training. Exciting doesn’t mean effective. Boring doesn’t mean ineffective.

If Ultimate is important to you, then be a grown up and put the work in — it doesn’t take a massive commitment to feel better.

Lemme know if you want some help from me. But my private sessions are mostly full, so be ready to make a damn change before you reach out. My memberships are open to everyone ❤️

PS - Having pain and soreness is part of being an athlete, so don’t beat yourself up for that. It’s when it becomes more constant, gets worse, or limits us that the pain becomes a problem.

Continued in the comments…

06/02/2025

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride, friends! 🏳️‍⚧️ I hope more people will come to understand that their own experience and beliefs are not THE universal experience.

And they do not create an arbitrary reality and moral code for everyone ELSE.

Everyone deserves basic human rights, to express themselves and live their life in a meaningful way to them—without fear for their safety or health.

I know there are things I’ll never understand—no matter how hard I try—because I’m white, male, cis-gender, straight.

Just your average white dude, so what the f**k do I know?

The wonderful thing is, we don’t have to fully understand someone to listen to and believe them. And to want them to have a happy, fulfilled life.

The more people can be their entire, wonderful selves, the better this world will be 💛

PS - While I DO try, it’s very flawed. I still have blind spots and biases, and I gotta confront them regularly. It’s not fun, but is important, just like other training 😉

The difference is, this type of training can benefit far more people than just ourselves.

10/20/2024

As a long-time trainer and ultimate frisbee athlete, I hear from tons of Ultimate Frisbee players about what’s holding them back.

Hint: pain, injury, fatigue, soreness. A MAJOR theme in their stories is that they keep doing the same things for months and years despite it not working.

OR they dabble in all different directions for years, going nowhere.

It's important that we know which direction to go, and also to fully commit, giving ourselves a fighting chance to improve.

I created my Ultimate program and community to give you a direction. To teach you where to direct your training time and energy, so you can actually feel & perform better. For the long-term.

Invest in yourself, click to join the 100+ athletes in the program right now, and start making real progress 👇

PS - Support is another important piece of a good program. Which is why I do weekly group coaching calls with members and interact with everyone on our private threads :)

This is a program & community helping Ultimate Frisbee athletes feel & perform better for the long term. Reduce pain, build resilience & power.

10/17/2024

“I want my daughter to see me play.” This thought popped into my head yesterday.

I’m 37 and I’ve been an explosive, enthusiastic athlete all my life.

And I want to hang onto that — and feel good — for as long as possible. My amazing wife is 38 weeks pregnant, and we are SO excited to be parents 🥹

But it has me thinking further into the future…

Will I be the bouncy, playful, positive dad I want to be? Modeling the joy of physicality & movement for my daughter? Or will pain get in the way?

Can I stay healthy and athletic long enough for her to see — and remember — me in my element on the Ultimate Frisbee field?

And will I be able to share with her the absolute joy that comes with physical freedom? It’s a nutty, unpredictable world, but a lot easier to feel secure & optimistic with parents who are fully present.

And pain makes it very difficult to be present, and to play. I also know from experience that lack of play makes me a far less happy, optimistic person.

Which means, to be the best possible parent and partner, I need to stay healthy enough to play 🤗

That isn’t a reality I used to believe was possible.

I never used to think that far into the future with my health. It was all about reactively putting out fires in the moment so I could keep playing:

Shoulder subluxations & dislocations from layouts, ankle sprains, achilles tendinopathy, knee, hip, and back pain. Hamstrings & groin strains.

It always felt like the next significant injury was right around the corner. Even when I felt good, in the back of my mind, it was only a matter of time.

But my life, my training, and my mindset has changed. The way I train gives me SO much more resilience and confidence. I’m still explosive, I still ACT like a 20 year old when I play.

I just don’t have that fear anymore. I don’t have the same underlying dread or assumptions that I’ll only feel worse from here.

And it is absolutely PRICELESS. To extend not just my playing career, but the span of fulfillment and physical joy in my life — what could be better?

[Continued in comments👇]

09/13/2024

🥏 Ultimate Frisbee Athletes 🥏 I created a community just to help you improve mobility & joint health so you can train, perform, and recover better.

All you have to do is comment “ULTI” on this post and I’ll send you a FREE invite (for life)!

In my 19 year Ultimate Frisbee career, I’ve dealt tons of many pain & injury setbacks.

After 10’s of 1000’s of hours of training (myself and others), 1000’s of hours learning, practicing, & experimenting, I’ve found the best ways to stay on the field and compete while feeling genuinely good!

Learn from my mistakes and experience, for free!

In the community, you’ll get the basics of mobility training, how to personalize a routine for yourself, and a sample performance program.

You’ll also have access to:

👉 Monthly Live Group Calls
👉 Bonus Modules that you unlock through participation
👉 Support from me & the growing Community!

👇 Comment “ULTI” for free access, and tell a friend who could benefit too!

07/31/2024

Most ultimate frisbee athletes have a big gap in their training: between what they’re doing and what they actually have to do for the sport.

For many, there are several qualities they should focus on:

✅ Strength
✅ Aerobic fitness
✅ Mobility
✅ Power

Consistently the biggest opportunity I see — the lowest hanging fruit — is mobility. Because athletes just don’t spend a lot of time/energy there.

So you’ll see significant improvements even if it’s not close to perfect. Even a very general yoga or stretching program will help…initially.

Similarly, a lot of athletes don’t do regular strength training, so their ability to produce force isn’t high enough to optimize their speed or power (or resilience).

Again, a general strength program will yield benefits fairly quickly. But the problem is, just because it’s effective early on doesn’t mean it will continue to be. It doesn’t mean it’s a sustainable, healthy strategy.

When a quality is severely undertrained, almost ANYTHING will make it better. But that ANYTHING doesn’t mean it’s a good, or healthy, approach.

Just because an approach helped at some point in the process, doesn’t mean it adequately prepares you for your sport.

General stretching for 5-10 minutes does not prepare your joints or tendons for the stress of Ultimate Frisbee.

It might help & might be a good place to start. But much of your mobility training should feel like strength training. Do it with focus & progression to see better & lasting benefits.

PS - you can train several qualities at the same time. I’m not suggesting you put everything on hold for mobility. But you CAN re-allocate some of your valuable training time/energy to mobility.

Better mobility = better potential and capacity for other qualities.

🥏 DM me “UMM” to learn more about my training program.

05/05/2024

I have a brand new Ultimate Mobility Membership! It's a community where you can share and interact with members, learn from my courses, and join live events! You can even earn points to unlock lots of extra free stuff 😆

It's only $6/month before it goes up in a few days. Check it out here: https://www.skool.com/smile-performance-4367/about

05/02/2024