Strength and Conditioning Guide: Off-Season by James Mead
This is where it all begins! Time to get going with your off-season training. Choose your plan based on your level of experience, and follow James' guide to get yourself on the right track this season.
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Off Season Programme
Goals:
- Establish foundation of training tolerance through accessory and stability work
- Exposure to a range of fundamental movement patterns required for Ultimate
- Improve athletic competency and robustness
- Improve musculature strength in order to tolerate the production of high force movements
Physiological outcomes:
- Increase type 1 collagen turnover within the muscles and tendons increasing the work capacity of the target muscle groups through accessory work
- Improve the ability of tissue to repeatedly perform the tasks required in both training and game
- Increase muscle cross sectional area
- Improve tendon and ligament strength
- Improvements in neuromuscular strength
Our Off-Season program is divided into two phases.
Testimonial
“At first I wasn’t sure which level to choose but looking through all three, I realised that they all start you out with fairly basic, easy to complete exercises meaning that it didn’t matter whether you had been at the gym regularly or not at all before starting the programme.
After about 3-4 weeks of following the programme, the muscle soreness you feel after exercise no longer became a problem as my recovery rate had improved.
One of the things I enjoyed most was the flexibility in choosing the anaerobic and aerobic conditioning week to week as it meant I could make a decision on the day based on how I was feeling or what I wanted to do rather than doing something that I maybe didn’t fancy.” – Ophelia Byrne, GB u24 2019
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