Hi guys and welcome back to Badminton Insight where we're sharing our insight
with you into all things badminton!
Now this is our first week back to training
after having 15 weeks off court due to the corona virus, so today we're going to
show you the best routines that you can do after having had a long period off
court... so let's get back to it!!
So we're back at the National Centre in Milton
Keynes and here are some of the measures that are in place to make sure that
we're training safely!
We're only allowed a limited time in the hall so we're going to discuss getting
back on court out here before showing you the best routines that you can do in
your first session back.
Now we recommend that if you haven't played badminton in
a while you shouldn't go straight into matches. We're gonna train at around
70% this week and we suggest you also do the same! If you go
straight into 100% movement then you're going to be very stiff the
next day and also risk getting injured! Now these exercises are not specific to
either singles or doubles players they're simply aimed at familiarizing
yourself with badminton specific movements and practicing your shots, so
no matter what event you play or what level you are you're going to be ready
to win your first match back!
So here are the routines, make sure you stay tuned to
the end of the video where we'll briefly talk through how we found our first
session back on court and give our top tips to help you win your first match back!
Greg, how did you find our first session back?
How did I find it? Yeah! No yeah it
was really good, the court felt massive at the start and my
timing, well both of our timings actually we're a little bit off!
Especially on our overhead shots!
And it took a while to get our feel and touch back at the net.
It's not fully back yet but it improved a lot over the course of the session!
Our drives are actually pretty good, I think this is probably because we've been
playing lots of AirBadminton and doing lots of wall hitting!
I think as well despite all the physical training we've been doing at home it just doesn't quite
prepare you for the real thing! I was a bit stiff in my shoulder during
that session as expected, and also a bit stiff in my calves and glutes! We
finished the session with a good stretch and cooldown to help our bodies recover
for the following days training and also try and prevent any injuries! If you want
to know what stretches are best for badminton, we have done a video on this if
you want to check out after this one! We also used our massage device as part
of our cooldown
This will help further minimise any sore and stiff muscles and we'd recommend it
to anyone! If you do want to get one of these will include a link in the
description below to the one that we bought from Amazon!
Typical is just started raining! So this time actually presents a really great opportunity to
change some bad habits which we may have. I personally I'm trying to adapt my
technique to make it better and I'm sure many of you out there can also look at
areas of your game that you'd like to change for the better!
Although we haven't gone through any techniques in this video we will be
doing so in future videos so make sure you subscribe to our channel and turn on
the notifications so that you don't miss out! Finally we've been testing some new
rackets this week and we're going to do a video next week on how you can choose
the best racquet for you! Before we do this we want to know what you guys think
is important for when choosing a racket so let us know in the comments section
below and make sure you join us for this on Badminton Insight next Sunday, see you then! :)