Yoga & Squash
By Peter Nicol
I tend to have a short attention span when it comes to my physical conditioning—focusing day-to-day and/or week-by-week with my preparation and recovery. I was not always this way; when I was a professional my...
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...
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.
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Strength Training and the Young Athlete—Part III
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Following on from last month’s issue let us look at a series of strength exercises that would provide a good starting point for any young squash player’s...
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...
Protein and Energy Bars
By Candace Chemtob, B.S. and M.S. in Human Nutrition
The original energy bar was created for astronauts in the 1960s. Eating in space at zero gravity pro- vided a challenge to the early space program....
Strength Training for Juniors
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
A topic raising regular concerns and uncertainties for parents of young athletes is weight training. I am often approached by parents with questions or statements along the...
Off-Season Training: The Key to Improvement
By Jessica Winstanley, Director of Fitness
If you are reading this in the Northern Hemisphere and are not already following an off-season training program, I urge you to read on. The summer period, when league...
Getting to ONE
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist &Conditioning Specialist
In this edition I wanted to share with the readers an article that was written for the Tournament of Champions event brochure in January this year following an...
Assessing Your Season and Planning to Improve
By Peter Nicol, former World No. 1
So the traditional season is over and now is the time to assess how you performed. Ideally, you should be hyper-critical of your game initially to really identify the...