12/07/2025
🥏If you’re an “older” Ultimate Frisbee player — by age or by how you feel — here’s the most important factor to feeling better:
Actually BELIEVING you can feel better. And that YOU have some control over it.
A sense of helplessness over how we feel/perform has become so normalized in the Ultimate culture.
And it’s f***king contagious.
“It’s all downhill from here.”
“This is my life now.”
“Oh yeah, you’ll get used to that. Wait till you’re my age.”
“I’ve been lifting and stretching for years but nothing changes.”
Respectfully, stop infecting people with complacency. And change your damn routine!
I’ve spoken to 24-year-olds who talk about pain and the rest of their career like they’re SEVENTY.
This mindset, and belief, creates inaction. Makes the pain experience worse because it sucks out the hope.
You don’t have to accept feeling like crap all the time. And if people try to normalize it, push back.
Yes, pain and aches are a normal part of being a competitive athlete, especially when we get to our 30s, 40s, and beyond.
But we can shrink the time and the severity of them with smart, sustainable training.
What kind? Focused mobility training. When we give it the same attention and focus we give to lifting & conditioning, amazing things can happen.
I’ve helped players of all ages feel better, perform better, and — most importantly — better understand and accept the pain they have.
If you want to learn more about my approach, comment “MOBILITY” and I’ll send you a step-by-step process to build a mobility routine :)