Strength Training for Squash Part III —Squats & Lunges
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Last month we discussed philosophies of effective strength training techniques for squash, and highlighted the benefits of exercises performed in standing positions (i.e., body-weight squat and lunge)...
Strength Training for Squash —Part II
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Following on from last month when we discussed the importance of strength and mobility for squash, we will now begin to look at effective techniques for improving...
Strength Training for Squash —An Introduction
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In the last issue we discussed ideas for a balanced summer training program, with one of the key areas being functional strength and mobility training for squash.
Squash imposes...
Summer Training…A High Altitude Experience
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Having just returned from a fantastic three weeks of training in Colorado with a group of squash players including professionals James Willstrop, Vanessa Atkinson and Julian Illingworth,...
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,...
Training for Squash – An Overview (Part 2) – Profiling
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Last month in Part 1 of this article we outlined the physical demands of squash and included examples of statistics from elite level play. In this month’s...
Training for Squash—An Overview (Part 1)
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In order to plan effective physical training programs for any sport there are two important initial steps. Firstly we need to understand the physical demands of the sport...
Everything’s Changing A forty-something goes to a movement squash camp for teens and finds...
By Will Carlin
Photographs by Damon Leedale-Brown
In my June column, I mentioned that I was an idiot. The ostensible reason for my claim was that I had signed up to go to a speed, movement, and...