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4:51 pm
February 15, 2011
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Jonathan
OK, thanks for that. How much time do you have to put into training? There’s no point me spending hours on a program is you don’t have much time to do the training.
Paul
6:57 pm
April 4, 2010
Offline Hmm I will train more during holidays so I guess I will have at least 1 hour per day to spend on it.
For the rest of this season, you can consider that I can only train one or two hour on friday and during the week-end.
7:18 pm
February 15, 2011
Offline Hi Jonathan
OK, so I’ll give you a training program based on maximum 1 hours per day.
You’ll need to give me some time to think through what could be best for you and then I’ll be in touch.
Paul
9:12 pm
April 4, 2010
Offline Hi Paul,
Just take your time, I’m not in a hurry haha. It’s not like I’m playing in first division or something.
I’m just a little passionate shuttler who wants to improve his game for pleasure.
Jonathan
9:07 pm
February 15, 2011
Offline Thanks Jonathan
You really have no idea how much is in the pipeline at the moment. Some very special announcements will be made soon. Subscribers to the Big Secret will be getting more information next week and give then a chance to get their spot first.
It’s all hotting up although I’m not sure whether we get through everything in two weeks as I’m having a weeks holiday with my family after that.
Paul
5:05 pm
March 2, 2010
Offline Hi Paul, I somehow missed this post a bit, but now I’ve found an easy way of retrieving my posts in the forum (
).
Same for me, don’t hurry. I can imagine moderating a forum takes a lot of effort. But take it from me, you’re doing a hell of a great job. IMHO, I think a scedule of an hour training a day should be sufficient ? For rather “starting” guy’s like me. I’m doing a bit of street running, all together a few hours a week. At home, I do your armchair exercises, and sometimes (my garage driveway is large enough) I do the 4 corners (2 diagonals of the court). But only when it gets dark (so the neighbours don’t get alarmed 
).
When I’ll start my gym sessions with my friend, I only want to know what exercises would be good for a shuttler, and what are a waist of time ?
Thx a million in advance !
9:13 pm
February 15, 2011
Offline Ed
What I suggest is that you work two key areas – your legs and your core. Both play a major part in your movement on court and surprisingly with power too.
For your legs, work on squats, skipping, leg presses, and a good deal of running/cycling.
Abs/core are a lot harder. Use sit ups, back raises (to balance this area), sit ups on an exercise ball, special breathing techniques, leg raises, side twists and other abs exercises you’ll find on youtube.
For your arms and chest, I suggest press ups with a clap in between. This ensures you are generating power in the arms and shoulders.
I’ll write more on training once I’ve had the chance to interview experts. With a little luck, I may be able to capture some of the interview on film.
Happy training
Paul
PS Remember, pro players generally don’t like to train. However they don’t like to lose either. Guess which one hurts the most?
10:51 pm
April 4, 2010
Offline Paul said:
PS Remember, pro players generally don’t like to train. However they don’t like to lose either. Guess which one hurts the most?
Nice one hahaha … I guess we are all the same.
9:45 pm
March 2, 2010
Offline Hi Paul,
Your tips have been tremendous valuable. I've worked mostly on my legs, core and a bit on arms. Mostly cycling, a bit running (because this is not my favorite sport), swimming, and for my core situps and side twists. This gym thing was a wise thing to do for me I guess. The press ups with hand clap, I guess I'm too old for that. I do manage however press ups quite fast, but the handclap doesn't work (yet).I didn't go for the kilo's in the gym, I went for as many times as possible, without exaggerating (another friend of mine had to stop the gym because of 2 tenniselbows). Just been once now last sunday (my first time ever), on monday no pain, no stiffness.
Yesterday evening was the first playing evening in the club, and to keep the trend, I went by bike (about 6 km), played for 2 hours, then back home. This morning, no pain. No stiffness. So I guess I can say I really boosted my condition in the past few months.
Technically I made progress too, but my backhand is still a bit weak. I manage to hit the shuttle far enough to the back of the court, but I don't think I hit it correctly and the direction and control can be improved. But I'll study your (and others) posts to work on that.
Resuming, thanks a lot for the gym tips. It helped me a lot !
Cheers
Ed
10:00 pm
February 15, 2011
Offline Ed
Great to hear from you. I’m so pleased that you have found the exercises useful and in particular gaining benefit from the work you’ve put in.
Incidently, I was at Leeds University today with their specialist training team who monitor and set training programs for some of the up-and-coming England players. I was there with the two lads I coach, undertaking an initial assessment and getting a basic training program together. What an eye-opener! There was a lot of things I knew but the guy really took the lads through a huge range of motor and flexibility tests. Even at their young age, they didn’t do too well on many of the exercises. But it gave me an insight into what will follow once the foundational exercises have been mastered.
I am about to withdraw the video analysis service I’ve been running for some time. So Ed, you can be the last to send me a video and I will let you know what’s happening to your backhand and hopefully help you correct it.
The video analysis service will be intoduced again but only as part of my Online Coaching Program which will be launched on 12 August.
Paul
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