Stop Canceling Pickleball Games

If you’re hurting on the pickleball court, the solution isn’t to stop playing, wear braces, or get another cortisone shot—it’s to train intelligently. Start with our free mobility warmup made for pickleball players.

Now—if you’re serious about playing pickleball into your golden years, let’s talk stats: *

  • 61% of U.S. pickleball injuries happen to players between ages 65 to 80.

    Yet people over age 50 make up only 1/5 of players in the US.

  • Falls are by far the most common cause of serious injury.

    You’ve seen it—someone is backpedaling, they trip, and they’re done for a while. 

  • 44.7% of pickleball injuries in women were fractures.

    Without strength training, women lose bone density as they age. 

  • 40.5% of pickleball injuries in men are strains and sprains.

    If your muscles, ligaments, and tendons aren’t trained for impact, they’ll fail. 

  • *Based on National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) data between 2013 and 2022
    Mackie, B. (2024, March 13). Pickleball statistics - the numbers behind America's fastest growing sport in 2024. Pickleheads.ps://www.pickleheads.com/blog/pickleball-statistics#pickleball-demographics-players-by-age
    Yu, J., Yendluri, A., Linden, G. S., Namiri, N. K., Corvi, J. J., Song, J., Parsons, B. O., & Parisien, R. L. (2025). Increasing Incidence of Pickleball Injuries Presenting to US Emergency Departments: A 10-year Epidemiologic Analysis of Mechanisms and Trends. Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine, 13(1), 23259671241305364. https://doi.org/10.1177/23259671241305364

Athleticism is Longevity.

If you want to play pickleball for years to come, free of injuries, you need to develop athleticism. That is what 100 Year Athlete (100YA) is designed to do. Here’s how it works.

Start with Joint Health

If your joints hurt or fail, you won’t be playing much pickleball. 100YA develops the spine, hip, knee, shoulder, and ankle mobility you need to play for hours at a time while minimizing strains, sprains, and fractures.

Regain Speed & Power

People fall when they lack the speed and power to move the way their sport demands. By training your ability to absorb and produce force, 100YA keeps you on your feet while enabling you to move quickly and explosively in any direction.

Build Real Strength

Strength training doesn’t just make you look better naked—it also makes your muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons, and fascia more resilient to injury.  

100 Year Athlete covers 9 Pillars of Fitness. Those four above are the most important for playing pickleball into your 80s, 90s, and 100s.

If you’re doing sets of 10 to 20 reps at the gym, bad news: you’re not training mobility, speed, power, or strength.

Don’t be a pickleball statistic.

Be a 100 Year Athlete.

TestimonialS

“At 55, I’ve never felt stronger, more stable or more flexible since becoming a 100 year athlete. A few notable reasons:

1. I no longer wake up with a sore back or stiff achilles

2. I’ve gained 1/2 a club length in golf

3. I actually enjoy skiing moguls again

4. When I change into my waders, my socks don’t get wet from falling over while balancing on one foot Great gym. Great classes. Great people.”

—Andy Cusimano, Park City, UT