As professional badminton players we train for an average of four or five hours a day sometimes
burning up to 3000 calories! And in our sessions we do a variety of training; matches, multi-feed, training
routines, technical and weights and we're fairly conditioned to this type of training as we've been
doing it five days a week for the last eight years BUT do you think an amateur badminton player can
survive our training for just one day? Well in this video we're joined by CK Yew, a fellow YouTuber and a
self-proclaimed amateur badminton player and we're going to put this to the test it's going to be an
interesting and fun video so let's get straight into it! Good morning CK, hello! Thanks for joining
us for a day of our training! Thank you for having me. First things first we've got to ask how often
do you usually play? Two to three times a week okay and is that a mixture of training or matches?
I try and train at least once a week okay and then other session are club matches okay so you're going to find
today pretty pretty interesting and probably quite difficult and we're going to start with program
five of our multi-feed program which is a 600 shuttle program! Have you done anything like that
before? We've done a little bit yeah but they're nowhere near 600 shuttles! Maybe 60! And also with some
high intensity feeding looking forward to it, bring it! Okay so the plan is for me to feed both of them
at the same time and to put ck through a true test i'll be feeding him exactly the same as I am for
Greg and they're also both going to be wearing these heart rate monitors throughout to see any
differences although I am expecting Greg still to be pretty tired this is a really tough program
Okay enough chatting let's finish making these sets, warm up and let's go!
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We're halfway through the program, we now have a two minute rest it's funny because I've been watching those
heart rate monitors the whole time one of the biggest things I can bring my heart rate down
quicker and recover quicker so I'm able to go with quality to the rest of the set and rest of the
match if it was in a game! Here's the average heart rate so CK's was 30 beats a minute higher than
mine throughout the whole duration of the first half! 100% pushing it! But I think you started out really well
and then just tailed off! Yeah I think that's just because I can recover and go again! But you make it look so easy
that's the problem maybe that's the thing where timing and technique comes into it a little bit
I mean my techniques look great but beginner to intermediate intermediate to advantage ey?!
So CK thinks that's it HOWEVER we've got another set we're not done yet!
Now we're tired we're gonna do some single shot stuff! To finish off they've got three
sets of rear mid 20 shuttles this is more for consistency when the legs are really tired and
your lungs are feeling tired but you still have to have that quality of shot and we're
going to put a bit of a challenge on it - if you make a mistake you go back 10 shots let's go
So just looking through the stats on the heart rate monitors you spent over 50% of your
time over 150 beats per minute and I spent only 17% of my time over that so could recover quicker
and I think you fatigued a lot quicker which is probably shown by you know your shots
if we actually analysed it and I think we just discussed you're expending more energy on your
shots and were less efficient! You agree? Yeah absolutely! It's scary the difference in fitness and as
well as quality as well you know I was just really impressed with the quality that you were producing
the power and speed that's coming off your your racket and then me just miss hitting
clanging everything framing it yeah! Did you manage to keep? Jenny was feeding the same pace for both
of us, do you feel you were struggling just to get there in time to play the shot you wanted? Absolutely!
I think this is the level that you know we amateurs want to be playing at or aspire to
so it's really good to see firsthand how how good you guys are so no thank you for having
me I really enjoyed it! It's good lots more to go!! And if you do want access to our 26 multi-feed
programs we've got as well as the one we've done today then we'll include a link in the description
below to our website! Now the plan is to pick up all these shuttles uh about a thousand shuttles
refuel eat it's really important hydrate and then get ready to go again oh don't forget stretching
because you'll be saw tomorrow! Then we'll be ready to go again for our next weights session!
So we've just had lunch chatting all things badminton and youtube and now we've got our weight session
absolutely we are going to be bringing the power yeah have you done much weights before?
A long long time ago not recently okay so we're not we're not going to be doing like
the old biceps and triceps kind of work out it's going to be badminton specific weights okay
so trying to make us really strong, quick and also robust so we're not susceptible to injury
that's a good plan! So sick for weights montage in three, two, one GO!
So ck is there anything that's surprised you about the weight so far? um it's all tailored
towards badminton specific exercises so it's really catered towards badminton players so I
was really impressed with how wide the varieties are and I find it really effective it's not just
about getting big and getting massive no I think getting big and massive is the bonus byproduct yeah
but getting good at badminton that's the key! Yeah that's the most that's the most important, absolutely!
And weights are done! That was a good session now we have one more session of the day
to go and that's an on-court session so we're going to spend the first 30 minutes doing some
2v1 defence work and then the second 30 minutes is going to be a bit lighter, a bit more fun
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to the final session! So how you feeling ck? Still fresh and ready for our final session of the day?
Definitely not fresh but definitely excited for the third and final session of the day
um bring it! Yeah so we're gonna do exactly what we did this morning we're gonna still feed you
as we would feed ourselves so you really get that feel of professional training absolutely, putting you
under the same pressure so yeah two and a half minute sets let's get to it absolutely let's go!
So we've just finished defence, how did you find that? You guys are fast!
um no it's been really really good I think it really shows the amount of pace you got you know
on the driving bit getting out of trouble and then also the quality of shot you know placing
it in the right area having the ability to do that whereas me you know i'm just literally scrambling
just to get it back! Yeah that's what I noticed it's very reactive, we're playing shots
into certain areas to make it difficult for you and I don't like, often it was actually a winning shot but even if not you can only play
a certain shot and then we're like on the next one absolutely it's not all about just trying to hit a
winner straight away especially when you know the shot is flat over the net! Absolutely. Yeah I think
you did quite well no I was impressed with your defence it was good! Naturally you know you're going to make
more mistakes under the same pressure we put you in absolutely but the more you do that the more you
get used to that pressure the better you'll get at badminton! Yeah we're going to go onto a
a net cord accuracy challenge, so 15 out of 15 can you get that?!
I'll be happy if I get 2!
I'll take it so 10 for me, ck is up next!
Three, four, five, six, seven he's on a roll! Eight! Shouldn't have lagged behind as
much in the beginning! Yeah! I was aiming for two yeah 8 for ck, can Jenny beat eight? No pressure!
I think you know today you've given me a lot of insight into how professionals play you know at
what level that you know us when we watch the tv we think oh yeah we can do
that we can do that! Actually, no! We can't! I don't think, tv doesn't do badminton justice!
We might look a bit more casual when we're playing matches but in training it's like 110% all the time
yeah yeah and I think being able to sustain that I think that's also a very key
differentiator between amateurs and professionals like this morning you know the the sessions that
we did yeah I red lined as soon as the second set you know and then we had what 20 sets
18? 18 20 sets to go so I was really just hanging on for dear life whereas you were
pumping quality after quality and then the feeding as well being able to do that I think
that really differentiates pros and amateurs! So we won the technical challenge there and that
concludes our final session of the day, thanks again to ck for coming down today and we had a
lot of fun seeing if a club player could keep up with our professional training for the day
and I think he did great! He put his body and parts his life on the line, especially in that
multi this morning! I think it's been a really interesting video but yeah ck's also done a few
other videos from the day on his channel so we'll include links to all of those in the description
below so go and check those out and show him some support! Yeah thanks a lot! No thank you for having me today it's
been absolutely amazing! I've learned loads I've gone through loads and you know yeah and
now you know it's just kick starting the training bug and yeah I want to get better and so
yeah if you guys want more training programs go to their website all the links in the description below
and in the meantime, yeah in the meantime like the video smash the subscribe button oh he knows it!
Yeah really interesting to see that difference between that amateur and a pro player so yeah
hopefully you guys have found it interesting as ck said if you did enjoy it please give it a like
smash the subscribe button, we're quite close in, and we'll see you on another video! Bye :-)