Balance Points

Balance Points Which side of your feet do you lean and what thoughts are controlling this behavior? By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation Whenever I write these articles I am concerned as to whether...

Range of Motion (ROM) The Freedom to Move

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Many players have come to the end of their competitive season in the US which typically begins to wind down from mid-March onwards, with the only major...

Peaking for Matches

By Peter Nicol, former World No. 1 So you've done the hard work, you're physically fit and technically better than ever but you just cannot convert these qualities into your match play. This has got...

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...

Final Training Push During the Season

By Peter Nicol, former World No. 1 Although I'd always recommend staying in good physical shape, due to different circumstances, we all tend to lose some fitness during the course of the season. Sometimes matches...

Endurance Training for Squash?

Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist In the final article of our 3-part series on interval training I thought it would be interesting to see examples of different types of interval sessions performed by...

Endurance Training for Squash? Intervals Part 3

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist In the final article of our 3-part series on interval training I thought it would be interesting to see examples of different types of interval sessions performed by...

Resolution Willpower

By Candace Chemtob, B.S. and M.S. in Human Nutrition "For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a...

Sum of Its Parts: You don’t strike the ball in match play by ignoring...

By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation Languages, cultures, pursuits, attitudes, personalities—all can be reduced to their constituent parts. But once we have taken them to pieces, we need to be very careful...

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...