Maintaining In-Season Fitness & Health
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
During the competitive season we all have the desire to produce our best squash every time we step on court. This is obviously not easy to achieve...
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...
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...
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...
Developing a Training Plan – Step 3
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
If you have followed the steps outlined in the last two issues (which included a review of the past season’s training and competition; profiling and goal setting;...
Developing a Training Plan: What Should I Do? – Step 2
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In the last issue we discussed using reflections from the season just finished, combined with detailed profiling, to help establish a series of well thought through training...
Developing a Training Plan: What should I do?! – Step 1
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
For most junior and adult players in the United States who play tournament squash the competition season has finished or is close to ending. If you review...
Technique: It starts with the feet! Part 3
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In the last issue we talked about some of the common movement errors seen in both developing and relatively high level players. In doing so, hopefully you have...
Technique: It starts with the feet!—Part 2
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In the last issue we talked about the importance of footwork and movement skills as an integral part of a player’s technical ability on the squash court.
A player...
Technique! It starts with the feet!
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
As coaches and players, when we talk about technique, it is easy to narrow our focus around the swing, and analysis of the swing can too often become detached...