get fit for badmenton
PART ONE
The Nature of Badminton
1
The Requirements of the Game
In order to write a book on fitness-training and to recommend appropriate and realistic training methods it is necessary to be clear about the nature of the game.
The greater one's understanding of the game and its demands, the more accurately can training programmes be devised and the more effective will be the training. It is very easy to devise training schedules in accordance with general principles of training. The difficulties are to make the training programme appropriate to the game of badminton and, more specifically, to the player being coached. For example, the training schedule of a highly skilled but relatively unfit player would be very different from that of a less skilled but extremely fit player. The coach and the player must have clear indications of their targets with respect to training.
Hence the requirements of higher standards of play are analysed and once these are known, particularly from the point of view of work demands, then realistic training programmes can be prepared.
Simple observation provides us with much information about the work demands.
From this we can learn that the game requires the player to perform work of the nature of sprints, stops and starts, jumps, leaps, lunges, rapid changes of direction, twists and turns and a variety of strokes. All this work goes on for a period of time and eventually leads to a certain degree of fatigue. Our concern is not so much with these move-ments as with the work demands of these movements on the player. We want to know how the work affects his body: his heart and lungs, muscles, blood, joints and all the other components of the machine that he is when he performs work. Our main concern is to examine the effect of work on the machine and to devise the means to make that machine more efficient. The greater the efficiency the greater the work load it will be able to take on.
Unless we can gain
The Nature of Badminton
1
The Requirements of the Game
In order to write a book on fitness-training and to recommend appropriate and realistic training methods it is necessary to be clear about the nature of the game.
The greater one's understanding of the game and its demands, the more accurately can training programmes be devised and the more effective will be the training. It is very easy to devise training schedules in accordance with general principles of training. The difficulties are to make the training programme appropriate to the game of badminton and, more specifically, to the player being coached. For example, the training schedule of a highly skilled but relatively unfit player would be very different from that of a less skilled but extremely fit player. The coach and the player must have clear indications of their targets with respect to training.
Hence the requirements of higher standards of play are analysed and once these are known, particularly from the point of view of work demands, then realistic training programmes can be prepared.
Simple observation provides us with much information about the work demands.
From this we can learn that the game requires the player to perform work of the nature of sprints, stops and starts, jumps, leaps, lunges, rapid changes of direction, twists and turns and a variety of strokes. All this work goes on for a period of time and eventually leads to a certain degree of fatigue. Our concern is not so much with these move-ments as with the work demands of these movements on the player. We want to know how the work affects his body: his heart and lungs, muscles, blood, joints and all the other components of the machine that he is when he performs work. Our main concern is to examine the effect of work on the machine and to devise the means to make that machine more efficient. The greater the efficiency the greater the work load it will be able to take on.
Unless we can gain