Hello and welcome back to Badminton Insight, If you're new here I'm Jenny and
this is Greg. Today we're going to go through something a bit different and
We're going to show you a day in the life of two professional badminton
players. We're also going to go through some Q and A's and some bloopers throughout
the video so make sure you stay tuned for those! So let's get our day started...
Okay it's just before 9 o'clock in the morning and we're heading out for the
first session of our day. We're trying to get up and out by 9:00 every day to keep
some sort of normality and structure to our day as we'd usually be training 9:00
till 11:00. So our first session of the day has got many different components,
So let's get to it!
So we're at a nearby park which we've found recently, now the benefits of this it's
got a nice springy floor so it protects our joint when we're jumping up and
down. Now for our skipping we're gonna do some quick fire questions to make it a little
bit more interesting, so let's have a look how Jenny does!
City or countryside?
City
Phone call or text?
Phone call
Asian food or Italian food?
Italian Food
Pasta or Pizza?
Pizza
Cardio or weights?
weights
Online shopping or shopping in store?
Online shopping
Most important in a partner, intelligent or funny?
Intelligent
Holiday or new clothes?
Holiday
Same holiday destination or try somewhere new?
Try somewhere new
Look good or feel good?
Feel good
Sensible or crazy?
Crazy
Lastly, Netflix or YouTube?
YouTube!!!
Steak or pizza?
Steak
Three thousand pound a week for life or three million pounds right now?
£3 million
Stuck on a desert island with Donald Trump or Boris Johnson?
Bozzaaa
Man United or Man City?
United!
Best all-time great, Lin Dan or Lee Chong Wei?
Lin Dan!!
Would you rather be 5 foot tall or 8 foot tall?
8 foot would be good, good smash!
Luck or talent? Pardon? Lucky or talented?
Talent
TV shows, 24 or suits?
Ooooh 24
Zhang Nan or Kevin Sanjaya?
Kevin's got more flare
Six sons or six daughters?
Oo six sons - nearly a whole football team!
Be able to run a hundred miles an hour or fly ten miles an hour?
I'd love to fly!
So we're just on the way back from the park now, we finished the first part of
our morning session which as you saw was a run to the park, some skipping and also
some fast feet! And we've included our skipping program in the description
below if you want to have a go at that. Now we're heading back home to do our
lower body weights session which is the final part of the morning session... and
we're going to show you guys some of the exercises that we do!
So that's it for our morning session, now time for some lunch!
So we've just had lunch and now we're going to answer some of your questions!
So the first question we've had comes from Harry Peters, who has asked 'what are
our goals for the YouTube channel?' So we decided on three main goals; the first one
was that we want to help grow the sport of badminton. It's a sport we've been
involved with many many years both since we're about seven or eight years old so
we've obviously grown up and loved the sport a long time, so we want to help other
people to love it as much as we do and help them learn and kind of leading onto
our second goal we want to teach them some new innovative methods that they
might not seen before. One example that we've done from the lock down
already is the net spins with the towel hanging over our island here, we haven't
seen that before! And our third goal was that we want to really enjoy the process, we want to
have fun doing it, for me personally we we spoke about it at the start was that I
wanted to get better at public speaking. And when we actually we're going to start
the YouTube channel we sat down and we said I'll be the camera woman and you can be
the coach on screen at all times and I thought to myself well how am I going to
get better at public speaking if I'm just like kind of hiding away behind the
camera. So we have three goals for the channel and that's my one personal goal I've set myself during this so far.
So the next question is from Dave M who has asked 'are you doing many takes?'
Yes! That's a simple answer isn't it?! We're getting better but probably for each say
five-minute video we're spending about an hour filming, so I think as you said
earlier it's not like natural to us speaking to the camera as it is like human
to human like we are doing now. Because we do that every day of our lives and
for me coaching as well like I've always just coached obviously humans and not on
camera so it's very different and I also like to waffle a little bit and we're
trying to keep our videos short and concise so I'm trying to get rid of that
waffling! Anyway I won't waffle any more but yeah like takes wise when we're
doing it outside there's loads of outside noise like people jet washing
their cars, bin men coming...(they're actually round here now!) Neighbours getting
parcels and vans so yeah there's definitely been lots of bloopers!!
Hello and welcome back to badminton
The last exercise we're gonna do is shoulder throws
So following on from our cha-cha side wall
plank challenge earlier on in the week we're gonna look at eight shoulder
exercises for badminton players to help you improve your game, now...
So the next question has come from Frank W, who has asked 'besides training and YouTube what
are you guys doing to keep entertained?' Well we're spending quite a lot of time
on the training and on the YouTube so we don't have much time other than that, but we are
having a regular 5 o'clock like games hour aren't we? To keep competitive - yeah, so
we're playing some cards, we're playing scrabble and we're also playing quite a
lot of Mario Kart on the Wii which does get very heated!
We're also trying to spend some time reading aren't we and making fresh meals
rather than just grabbing something on the go which we quite often do in our
daily lives because I'm busy rushing off to coach at Nottingham Trent and you're busy with
various other things. And just leading into a question about diet, can you
provide a bit more like an insight into what we eat to maybe people out there who are wondering?
Yeah we've had a few questions on that. I could talk about
diet for ages, you know we've had lots of nutrition help and there's like loads of
different strategies and I think the main thing is it's individual for you. So
for me I'm burning up to 2,000 calories in some sessions, but you've got a tailor
what you eat in accordance with that, I probably about 3000
calories a day. Real food you know, enough of it. Timing has gotta be right, we've
definitely gone wrong on that definitely in competition in the past but even
training you know you need to work out what's best for you. Yeah! I've also
recently started a cycle of creatine monohydrate
Whilst it's a good time during this kind of physical block which we see ourselves in
due to the circumstances to really focus on the physical, and I think creatine is
definitely gonna help me. I've read a lot about it as a widely researched
supplement, I read somewhere it's used by over 90% of Summer Olympic athletes and
I've seen in the badminton world Viktor has been talking about it recently on social
media so yeah, It helps explosive strength and you can just mix it in anything so it's
quite easy to take but I won't waffle on and go on about that, but if you do want
any advice on nutrition just comment in the comments section
below any questions or send us a message and we'll be happy to help!
So that moves us on to our next question which has come all the way from Finland from Nana,
Who has asked 'what are your guys worst sporting injuries' Wow! Unfortunately there's quite a
few to list but I think we've definitely between the two of us got a couple of standout
ones. Yeah! I know for me I'm actually just recovering from an injury
so throughout February, the whole month of February,
most of March I was on crutches with a stress response in my foot. I had a
similar injury about eighteen months ago in my other foot where again I was on
crutches for around four weeks. I think actually both of those injuries have
been really really good for me in a weird way, they kind of allowed me to
look at my functional movements and see that I wasn't actually that strong in
some areas and it gave me that chance of a four week period or five week period
off the court to really work on those. This lockdown period has come at a good
time for you as well! I was actually kind of excited at the very start of lockdown
because I was happy that I wasn't missing out on any of these tournaments but
by this stage I now don't think that anymore! What about you then? What would you say your worst
sporting injury is? Mine's definitely got to be when I broke my leg at the age of
12 playing football, so a long time ago but it was quite a tough time, it was a
bad break of my tibia and my fibular. At the time I didn't really know, they kind
of said they weren't sure if I'd be able to even play sport again so kind of
coming through that makes you really take a step back and appreciate the simple
things in life like just being able to get up and do things for yourself and I kind
of really have that respect now for for the people that do struggle with
that like on a permanent basis. And it also made me think about my rehab in a
different way in my sporting career now, like yeah the rehab from the
exercises I was given when I was 12 for the physio I probably didn't fully
understand the importance of them. So now every injury I've had as a result I
definitely make sure I do the rehab! I think it's made me stronger
mentally, but unfortunately I do still struggle with it when playing and
training everyday at the moment so yeah that's definitely my worst sporting
injury for sure! So that brings us on to our last question from Cejar, who has said
'I've seen you wearing lots of Victor kit, are you sponsored by them?'
Yes we are, we've been sponsored by Victor for, we're just coming up to
our two-year mark now. They're actually coming up with some really cool new
technologies that we're not seeing from other badminton brands, one example of
this is they've just launched their free core technology - here's one we prepared
earlier! Yeah, so this is in all Victor in all rackets
sorry worldwide there is as you guys will know wooden handle whereas Victor
have just launched this free core technology which is made of like a
synthetic handle. Another example of Victor's innovation is these tops that
were wearing right now, yeah! This is from their new eco-line and
all these tops are made from 100% sustainable recycled materials and I
think that for every top that they sell one euro is being donated to a charity
called one earth one ocean. Yeah we had one comment about where you can
buy stuff so in the link below we'll put a description to TRME website
who are currently stocking these tops, so go buy them!
That's it for our questions
today we did get a lot of questions asking us about specific shots which
we've written down and we'll make sure we get those done when we're back on
court, and if you have anything else you'd like us to film let us know in the
comments section below! So it's now just gone 2 pm and we're heading out for our second
session of the day. We usually start our afternoons by doing about 40 minutes
of our daily non-negotiables we call them which are things we do every day
without fail to keep us sharp. So this is wall-hitting, our shoulder rehab,
strengthening and our reaction training. All of which we've done videos on so if
you're not sure what I mean by them go check them out and then we go onto a CV
session which is usually a bike, run or tabata which we're going to show you
today! So let's get back to it!
It is a little bit cold outside so we've come inside to do our Tabata.
Tabatas are high intensity training with short bursts of
exercise but very little rest. We've got four different exercises we'll put up here for you, so let's get to it!
So we just finished our Tabata, there are lots of exercises that you can do with
that. We have six different programs of all different exercises just to keep
it fresh, now Greg's going to take you through some recovery that we do at the
end of each day to make sure that we're ready for the following days training!
Okay so there's just a couple of things we'd make sure we got it for the rest of the
day now. Firstly we'd have a recovery snack, so a favourite of ours is pitta and
hummus and we often have quite a lot of protein smoothies at the moment, but as
we said over lunch it's really important that we get that recovery snacking in so
we're good for the next day! And then lastly we do some massage therapy and
then stretching. So for the massaging we actually have this device, which you can
get on Amazon. We'll probably put a link in the description below for you. It
basically vibrates and there's different heads on it, I will do my
quads, my shoulders, anything and we'll do this just whilst watching the telly or
something like that, maybe some video analysis and then we'll have a little stretch
after, so again we're good to go for the next day!
So that concludes our day in the life video, really hope you've enjoyed it and
got an insight not only into us and what we're doing during lockdown
to make sure we'll better when we get back on court, but also hopefully you've
got to know us a little bit more as people! So if you haven't already please do
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