High Performance Badminton

Aimed at all aspiring badminton players, High Performance Badminton is packed with advice on how to improve your game, including an extensive section of tips from star players. Covering both the physical and mental approach, and nutrition, and with comprehensive sections on skill development, training, and tactics, this will be invaluable reading for players and coaches. Contents include; preparing the body; preparing the mind; nutrition and lifestyle; shots, movement and skill development; training for performance; tactical play; performance routines; the role of the coach; tips from the stars. Aimed at all aspiring badminton players and coaches and fully illustrated with 53 colour images and 27 diagrams.

Crowood Sports Guide are superbly designed full colour paperbacks providing sound practical advice that will help make you a better player whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques and tactics or reviewing the fundaments of your game. Badminton - Crowood Sports Guide features kit checks; laws checks; key points and coaching points and includes introduction to laws and club play. Skills and techniques at every level are discussed along with advice on correct equipment. Issued by the Badminton Association of England as part of the resource pack for their Teacher's Award.

'Steps to Success' books provide expert instruction and drills to help adult learners master the basic skills of the featured sporting activity, in this case badminton.

The Badminton Handbook is a compact, groundbreaking training manual that gives the reader an overall insight into the world of badminton. It is divided into two parts. The first part deals with training theory while the second contains background information about the sport and its stars, thus giving the reader an overall insight into the world of badminton. The Badminton Handbook is groundbreaking in many ways. It combines training theory and information about badminton stars by reinforcing basic explanations on badminton technique with tips from the pros. It not only relates the excitement of this sport with Asian origins, but tells you all you need to know about badminton from A to Z. It is a reliable reference book that readers will want to turn to again and again.

High-Performance Training for Sports changes the landscape of athletic conditioning and sports performance. This groundbreaking work presents the latest and most effective philosophies, protocols and programmes for developing today’s athletes. High-Performance Training for Sports features contributions from global leaders in athletic performance training, coaching and rehabilitation. Experts share the cutting-edge knowledge and techniques they’ve used with Olympians as well as top athletes and teams from the NBA, NFL, MLB, English Premier League, Tour de France and International Rugby. Combining the latest science and research with proven training protocols, High-Performance Training for Sports will guide you in these areas: • Optimise the effectiveness of cross-training. • Translate strength into speed. • Increase aerobic capacity and generate anaerobic power. • Maintain peak conditioning throughout the season. • Minimise the interference effect. • Design energy-specific performance programmes. Whether you are working with high-performance athletes of all ages or with those recovering from injury, High-Performance Training for Sports is the definitive guide for developing all aspects of athletic performance. It is a must-own guide for any serious strength and conditioning coach, trainer, rehabilitator or athlete.

Contents: Historical Background, Teaching the Game, The Structure, Elementary Stroke and Shots, Offcourt Training, Strategies, On-court Training, Training the Energy Systems, Flexibility and Warm-up, Strength and Power, Coaching Singles, Coaching Doubles, Mixed Doubles, Attitude in Performance, Rules and Regulations.

Writing or managing a scientific book, as it is known today, depends on a series of major activities, such as regrouping researchers, reviewing chapters, informing and exchanging with contributors, and at the very least, motivating them to achieve the objective of publication. The idea of this book arose from many years of work in biomechanics, health disease, and rehabilitation. Through exchanges with authors from several countries, we learned much from each other, and we decided with the publisher to transfer this knowledge to readers interested in the current understanding of the impact of biomechanics in the analysis of movement and its optimization. The main objective is to provide some interesting articles that show the scope of biomechanical analysis and technologies in human behavior tasks. Engineers, researchers, and students from biomedical engineering and health sciences, as well as industrial professionals, can benefit from this compendium of knowledge about biomechanics applied to the human body.

Have you ever Googled: ‘Badminton Workouts’ before? Well we have before, and the results were disappointing to say the least. Yes, we found a few exercises and drills that were designed to aid us on our journey of badminton fitness, but we found nothing that even closely resembled a long-term workout plan with scientific evidence to back-up those exercises and drills. So, we decided to take things into our own hands! We developed our very own fitness and footwork eBook with the help of Malaysian Ex-professional: Goh Jian Hao, and coaches from all around the world! In the introduction, we analyse the physiology of badminton players, and the upper-body strokes and lower-body movements used in badminton. With this in mind, we define 6 aspects of performance in badminton: aerobic capacity, flexibility, explosive strength, speed, muscle endurance and agility. All of our workouts and training programmes in our eBook have been tagged with the specific aspects of badminton performance it is designed to target. We’ve also got a great warm-up and cool-down routine for you in our introduction to make sure you’re ready for whatever the workouts may throw at you! Our workouts consist of weight training exercises (with mostly dumbbells and barbells), bodyweight and banded exercises, mixed gym exercises (with equipment such as cable machines, smith machines etc.), and a variety of long-term challenges that you can attempt; all with excellent, high-quality images to aid you in your form! Finally, we have our 12 on-court and off-court footwork drills. All of our workouts and footwork drills have been designed with numerous different coaches, players, physiotherapists, and of course, Goh Jian Hao, in relation to our analysis of badminton players and movements to ensure that you get the best scientific training method for badminton. Feel inspired yet? Start your badminton fitness journey today with our Fitness and Footwork eBook!