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...
Gluten-Free: Diet or Fad?
By Candace Chemtob
With “A-list” movie stars, and nearly one third of Americans decreasing or completely eliminating gluten (Huffington press, 2013), why is “everyone” on this diet? And what is gluten? Gluten is a latin...
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,...
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.
A...
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...
The Mind Game — Self-Belief
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist and Conditioning Specialist
In a diversion from the usual context of my articles around physical training, I wanted to venture into probably the most critical factor in influencing success in any competitive...
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...
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...
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;...