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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...