vitamin

Vital Vitamin Requirements for the Squash Player (Part 1)

There is a wide range of vitamins that the body needs to be able to function optimally. This 2-part article takes a look at some of those that should be regarded as the most crucial, and discusses how best to fulfil those needs.

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Training Slower to Move Faster

‘Training slower to move faster” on the surface sounds perverse, and somewhat of an oxymoron. This article discusses the importance of slowing down your training to develop better speed and efficiency in your movement patterns.

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Unleashing the Champion Mindset: 3 Winning Strategies for Success

In this blog, Jesse explores three main things that champions do to win more often and how you can change your thinking to reach success!

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breathing

Breathing During Play/Competition

Heightening your awareness of your breathing is key! We need to rely way more on nose breathing rather than mouth breathing.

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slow

The Myth of the ‘Slow Starter’

It’s an oft-heard lament of players, that they’re a ‘slow starter’ and are never able to get going right off the bat in their matches. There’s no real physiological reason why slow starting should be a thing however, if a proper pre-match routine is constructed and adhered to.

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game

What Is My Game?

My hope would be by the end of this blog to arm you with tools about how to discover your game of squash and to thoroughly enjoy the process of this exploration.

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The Awesome Power Of Dopamine – To Improve Motivation, Hard Work, Discipline, And Consistency

My hope would be that you will be able to understand the real power of dopamine and how to leverage it correctly when it comes to key aspects around self-improvement such as developing greater motivation, hard work, discipline, and consistency. 

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Benefits of Bike Sprints

Whilst finding effective lower-impact squash-specific training methods can be difficult, there is one excellent method that comes highly recommended – Bike Sprints.

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Netherlands To Host 2024 WSF World Masters

Netherlands has been confirmed as the hosts for the 2024 WSF World Masters Squash Championships, with the Frans Otten Stadion in Amsterdam hosting all of the action between August 17-24.

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power

3 Tips to Boost Your On-Court Power & Acceleration

The ability to move powerfully around the court and accelerate rapidly onto the ball is a key prerequisite to being able to play at a high level, yet is an element that is often neglected or trained inadequately.

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Your Future Self – How To Be Confident And Clear-Minded

In this article, I am going to help you reframe parts of your belief system and to try and get you behaving and making choices today NOT based on your past self, but rather, your future confident ROCK STAR self!

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potential

Trying vs Effort – The Key To Unlocking Your Full Potential

It may not seem much, but there is a vast difference between trying and effort. My hope by end of the blog would be for you to understand the difference between the two words, and ultimately become aware if you are merely trying, or, putting in full effort. And when understood, using this as the key to unlocking your full potential.

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body

Balancing The Body

By being deliberate in your training with balancing out both sides of your body, you’ll be helping yourself not just from a performance standpoint, but also from an injury prevention one.

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SquashSkills Launches Game-changing New Digital Platform

The waiting is over, we’re delighted to announce that we have launched our new platform, alongside our Coaching and Training apps, plus a new look for the SquashSkills brand.

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variation

Common Amateur Fault: Playing Without Variation

Playing without variation is a very common amateur fault. This can be especially true when players have found the joy and thrill of hitting the ball hard.

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Breathing for Sports Performance

Breathing is like any technique, your grip, swing and footwork, if you have bad technique, it hinders you and works against you, if you have good technique, it helps and works for you to improve and grow. 

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footwork

Developing Fast Footwork

Frequent rapid movement is an integral part of squash, so developing the speed of your footwork can make a big difference to your performance.

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play

Common Amateur Fault – Play Slow, Move Quick

A solution I propose to help stem the tide of a confident opponent is to move quick but play slow.

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