Fitness & Warmup

Building a Training Routine

Structure practice so it actually improves your game.

Why it matters

Training that is not planned defaults to whatever is most enjoyable, which for almost everybody is throwing drivers. A routine is a decision made in advance about where the time goes, and its main job is making sure the unglamorous parts actually happen.

How to do it

Split the week deliberately: putting most days, approaches twice, field work once, strength and mobility two or three times.
Keep sessions short. Thirty focused minutes beats two distracted hours and is far more likely to happen again on Thursday.
Give every session one goal, named before you start.
Write down one number per session so you can tell whether it is working.
Build in rest. A week with no recovery day is a week that ends with a sore shoulder.

Common mistakes

Planning an ambitious schedule you will not keep.Plan what you will actually do. Three honest half-hours beat a seven-day plan abandoned on Wednesday.

Spending most of the time on the enjoyable parts.Keep some of it, because training you dislike does not happen — but weight the time toward putting and approaches.

No rest days.Schedule them. Improvement happens during recovery, and throwing volume without rest is how overuse injuries start.

Key points

Balance form work, putting and fieldwork.
Short, focused sessions beat long, unfocused ones.
Track what you practice.

The drill

Drill · Write the week — 1 written week, repeated 4 times. Write down an honest week — which days, how long, what each session is for — and run it four times. At the end you will have both a habit and a month of numbers, which is enough to see what is working and to adjust the next month on evidence.

Watch: The SECRET to Disc Golf Practice — Tristan Tanner