Fitness for Ultimate Frisbee

You may not think that playing with a frisbee would be physically demanding, but if you ever see a game of Ultimate Frisbee being played you will be surprised at the physical demands that are required to excel at this sport.

Demands

To be a successful Ultimate player, you need good speed, acceleration, power, agility, strength and endurance. Not much really! Of yeah, some exceptional skill would be handy. We have a couple of polls about fitness for Ultimate, and also some expert opinion, which seem to agree about speed and agility being the most important factors, with other components of fitness also being important. See more on Fitness Components for Ultimate.

Ultimate Frisbee game in the park

Videos

• Have a look at these Ultimate Frisbee videos for a demonstration of the athleticism required to play this sport.

News

• An news article on the Seattle Sockeye showed Ray Illian, a member of the Seattle Sockeye Ultimate team (The defending UPA Club Champions and the team which represented the USA at Worlds this past August) doing the VO_2max Testing and getting 65.27 ml/kg/min.