Strength Training and the Young Athlete – Part II

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Continuing on from last issue’s theme of strength training and the young athlete, let’s consider common questions including: what age to start; how much should they do...

Deceleration—The Art of Slowing Down

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Take time to watch the top players in the world in action and observe how well they are able to control speed and movement onto the ball...

The Mind Game — Taking Control & Ownership

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist As part of championship preparation squads with the England Junior and Senior Teams we often delivered mental training sessions to players and coaching staff.  One of the...

Training for Squash: An Overview (Part 3) Physical Testing

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist In last month's article (Part 2), we discussed the use of 'performance profiling' as a simple technique for evaluating your abilities as a squash athlete. This month,...

Deceleration – The Art of Slowing Down, Part 2

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Following on from last month, let’s consider some training concepts designed to help improve a player’s ability to decelerate and control speed more effectively on the squash court. A...

Deceleration—The Art of Slowing Down, Part 3

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist In this final article on deceleration we will look at a series of exercises that can be integrated into your training to improve your ability to control...

The Mind Game — Self-Belief

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist and Conditioning Specialist In a diversion from the usual context of my articles around physical training, I wanted to venture into probably the most critical factor in influencing success in any competitive...

Endurance Training For Squash? Interval Time

By Damon-Leedale Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Squash could easily be classed as an endurance sport, especially when you consider at the higher levels of play that matches on the Pro Tour can often...

Endurance Training For Squash – Intervals, Part 2

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist In the follow up to our first article on Interval Training let’s consider some of the typical questions and uncertainties players have around performing interval training: How...

Developing Movement Proficiency in Young Athletes

By Damon-Leedale Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Squash is a movement-based sport and a major part of success especially at higher levels of play is based around proficient athletic and movement skills. The ability...