Category: Fitness

In our SquashSkills ‘Circuit of the Month’ series, we introduce a brand new squash-specific conditioning session every 4 weeks, to help bring some new ideas to your physical training and give you some fresh drills and training methods to try out.

Circuits are the ideal format of training for the squash player, perfect to use to optimise your available time and to get maximum impact from your workouts.

Frequent quick movements and rapid adjustments with the feet are an integral part of the physical make-up of squash, so developing the speed of your footwork can make a big difference to your performance. Incorporating some focused drills into your training with appropriate parameters can help you make this shift, and provide a real boost to your court coverage and positioning.

In our SquashSkills ‘Circuit of the Month’ series, we introduce a brand new squash-specific conditioning session every 4 weeks, to help bring some new ideas to your physical training and give you some fresh drills and training methods to try out.

Circuits are the ideal format of training for the squash player, perfect to use to optimise your available time and to get maximum impact from your workouts.

For a lot of recreational squash players, family, work, and social commitments mean it can be difficult to find enough time simply to get on court and play during the week, let alone schedule in additional physical training sessions as well.

In our SquashSkills ‘Circuit of the Month’ series, we introduce a brand new squash-specific conditioning session every 4 weeks, to help bring some new ideas to your physical training and give you some fresh drills and training methods to try out.

Circuits are the ideal format of training for the squash player, perfect to use to optimise your available time and to get maximum impact from your workouts.

Squash is a game based upon prolonged, multi-directional, high paced rallies, so a high level of endurance is a crucial requirement of a squash player’s physical profile. Maximising your endurance will allow you to work harder and recover quicker in your games, giving you a big advantage over your opponent.

Not sure where to start? Check out our SquashSkills ‘6 of the Best’ endurance workouts.

In our SquashSkills ‘Circuit of the Month’ series, we introduce a brand new squash-specific conditioning session every 4 weeks, to help bring some new ideas to your physical training and give you some fresh drills and training methods to try out.

Circuits are the ideal format of training for the squash player, perfect to use to optimise your available time and to get maximum impact from your workouts.

While specificity in your training is a key principle of progression, incorporating some cross-training into your programme can provide some welcome variety to help replenish both body and mind. Swimming is one such modality of cross-training that can actually provide a surprising benefit to squash players.

With the Christmas period fast approaching and many of us across the world preparing to celebrate the festivities, it’s easy for squash to get lost in the shuffle at this time of year. 

To avoid that happening and to make sure you keep an equal balance between Santa and Squash this festive season, check out our top 3 SquashSkills Christmas training tips!

As an amateur player striving for improvement amidst the familiar stresses and strains of work, family, and social life, it’s crucial to learn to properly manage your time. You may not have the luxury of a clear daily schedule to work on all the multiple facets of technique and physical fitness that the professionals may have, but with a bit of foresight and organisation, you can optimise the time that you do have available to really maximise your on-court training. Check out our 5 top tips:

To optimise your game and push yourself to play at the very best level possible, enhancing your physical conditioning is crucial. To fully optimise your training though, you need to move beyond vague assertions of ‘wanting to get fitter’, and start to really zero in on the key physical areas that you need to focus your efforts in.

This week’s new article sees us revisiting our ‘What the Science Says’ feature – a blog series taking a look at squash-related scientific papers and breaking down what the authors found from their research, and detailing the info that players of all levels can take from it to use to help improve their own on-court performance.

Summer is in full swing here in the northern hemisphere, and we’re finally seeing squash courts fully re-opening and getting back to some semblance of normality. With a return to competitive action now firmly on the agenda at all levels of the game, we’re seeing players getting back into their training regimes with renewed motivation and enthusiasm.

Our featured content on the site this week takes a look at one of the fundamentals of the physical side of the game, as our SquashSkills Fitness & Performance Director Gary Nisbet takes a look at some of the best squash-specific lunge exercises you can add to your training.

Having a good base of physical strength is an important consideration for the squash player, as it provides a foundation for all of the other fitness components that are crucial to the game. Being strong will also help make you more robust, and thus better resistant to injury.

With lockdowns easing in many parts of the world and courts opening back up, thoughts are finally beginning to turn toward a return to squash for a lot of players who have been unable to indulge their favourite pastime over the pandemic period. Based on the hum of chat across our social media, a lot of amateur players are starting to step up their physical training ready to hopefully hit the floor running! But what is the best way to prep yourself for a return to court? As odd as it may sound to be doing it off the court, it’s Ghosting that is the very best way to prepare your body for your on-court comeback.

SquashSkills has teamed up with SquashLevels to devise a brand new testing system that links your test results to your playing level.

‘Fitness’ is comprised of a number of different elements, that all combine together to make up our overall physical profile.

Perhaps one of the biggest differences between most amateurs and professionals in respect to their training, is how much more schedule and structure there is surrounding the whole process with the pros. In contrast to the average club player where things are often taken day by day on a fairly ad hoc basis, elite-level professional players typically plot out their training dates and session plans well ahead of time, and in far more detail.

If you’re a squash player with serious intent to maximise your on-court performance, then developing your physical conditioning is essential. Amongst the major physical aspects, strength is one area that’s very often neglected by the squash player, perhaps due in part to the myths and misconceptions of strength training being more about big muscles and heavy dumbbells, rather than increasing actual sporting performance.

While a fast-paced, high-intensity game might not immediately seem intuitively rooted in strength, being stronger through the body is actually the foundation of all other athletic qualities.