Squash, often considered the world’s healthiest sport, tests players’ balance, strength and agility to the maximum. A full-body workout that benefits eye sight, social interaction and motor skills.
Squash TrackR allows users to monitor their recovery and strain using a wearable device attached to their racket. It tracks key aspects of your swing while providing a comprehensive report via its app.
SquashSkills Training
By offering our all-new SquashSkills app, we are revolutionizing how members take sessions and access exclusive resources. Furthermore, the app reimagines your training calendar around your lifestyle by offering ready-made squash sessions, fitness workouts, as well as training programs that can help improve your game.
Squash can provide a challenging yet full body workout. The sport requires short bursts of cardio energy, quick turns and deep lunges – all while emphasizing core stability. Squash conditioning sessions may be beneficial in helping get players in shape but may make the task of finding your feet easier.
Although many modern fitness trends focus on burning calories, squash is the perfect mind-body exercise: its strategic game can often outwit brute force and its laser-like concentration may even lead to improved performance at work or school. Squash also makes an incredible strength-building workout; its compound movements strengthen wrist and back muscles while its short sprints challenge fast twitch muscles development.
Since a squash game can leave players’ legs feeling particularly fatigued, add lower body focused training sessions such as squats, lunges and resistance band ghosting drills into your training plan to address this.
At the core of any effective squash-specific strength or conditioning sessions is the principle of “squash specificity”, where your movements and joints must closely resemble those involved in playing squash as closely as possible. Therefore, effective weight training sessions must focus on hip, knee and ankle extensions as well as multi-directional lunging actions and stability exercises which are so vital to its success.
Running as a conditioning method for squash may not be as beneficial as some may believe, however. Indoor courts feature specially sprung floors which offer some cushioning and support; outdoor pavements, roads or gym CV machines do not. As such, running increases the risk of overuse injuries such as shin splints and patellofemoral pain syndrome – not an ideal practice either!
As such, running can often become a source of discomfort for squash players and can hinder their progression. To reduce repetitive knee strain and facilitate progression more effectively, consider shortening and breaking up running sessions into more interval-based workouts to lessen distance travelled per session and time spent running.
Squash TrackR
Squash is an athletic pursuit which demands the highest levels of physical fitness. Players must be able to quickly move in all directions while maintaining stamina for an entire match. To do so requires cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and flexibility – those who prioritize their physical fitness may enjoy playing more fully and experience less injury during matches.
Squash offers more than just aerobic fitness; it is also an incredible leg and core workout. This makes the sport especially beneficial to people who spend too much time sitting down, helping improve overall strength and tone their legs. Squash can also ‘wake up’ the glutes which provide support to the whole torso and may help alleviate tension and stiffness from lower back issues.
To maximize their training opportunities, players should combine on-court and off-court sessions to develop skills most useful to their playing style. This may involve engaging in speed drills, ghosting patterns and endurance circuits as well as off-court exercises targeting specific parts of their bodies (like strength or flexibility) not easily trainable on court – this can further improve players’ performances.
Physical fitness offers many other advantages for squash players in addition to helping improve technical ability, including reduced risks of heart disease and obesity, better mood and self-esteem, increased chances of restful nights’ sleep, etc.
Studies have demonstrated the beneficial impact of squash in terms of burning calories; one hour of play can burn over 1000 per person weighing 80kg! As such, all players should make squash part of their training programs, since it can improve both health and performance.
Squash TrackR is an easy and free way for athletes to track intensity and duration during training sessions, providing users with an easy way to set training goals and record results of sessions. Available both for iOS and Android devices.
Racketware
Racketware is an innovative new piece of technology that empowers players to analyze and improve their squash swing. Easily attached to any racket end, it transmits data directly into a mobile application for analysis by coaches or players and can help identify areas in their game where more work should be put in. Furthermore, its performance statistics compare against that of competitors.
The sensor can track up to 15 different aspects of a player’s swing, including speed, direction, vertical rotation, racket preparation, impact and follow-through. With this information in hand, software can suggest ways to improve and also compare your swing to that of professional golfers.
Information gathered is then made accessible to players either in live mode, where instant feedback can be seen in real time, or post-match analysis. Furthermore, fitness stats that go far beyond traditional calorie counts such as winner/loser counts as well as shots made with power and accuracy statistics are provided through this system.
The new sensor has been specifically engineered to be more durable and can withstand the rigours of a game of squash, boasting a strong dock attached to its handle with four thicker legs than before and lighter overall weight (9.5 grams less than its predecessor).
New features have also been introduced into the app to make it even more useful for coaches and players of all levels. One such new feature allows coaches and players to compare performance between multiple rackets in real-time sessions, making comparison easier between team performances. Furthermore, instant audio feedback enables instantaneous practice without distraction from using phones during sessions.
Racketware sensor is an indispensable addition for any serious player – be they professional or amateur alike. Both the app and sensor can be downloaded free from Racketware website.