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squashaddict1234 · Newbie Joined: 15 Dec 2007 Posts: 7

I have heard of some brutal training methods over the years. Among others, David Palmer doing 300 court sprints continuously in 12 mins 30 secs, Johnny Williams doing 32 400metre sprints all under 75secs with 45secs rest continuously. Does anyone out there have any brutal training methods?

hagesy · Heavy Contributor Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 28

I have heard that palmer does 10 sets of 120 stroke ghosting, with 1 mins rest in between, with each one under 5 mins.

I am happy to do one in under 5 mins. The mind boggles as to how much pain the top player must go through to remain superbly fit.

Adrian19 · Prolific Contributor Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 230

Used to do 100 court sprints and ridiculous amounts of ghosting routines. Now though, the court sprints seem stupid... the 400 m seems to make more sense. Ghosting's the best.

Used to do this thing called the "beep test". Run gym lengths...beep..run... beep... gotta get there before the beep and the beeps get faster and faster. Me and 2 other dudes at school beat the test... that seems better than court sprints.

Used to run in the mountains at a cottage in 30 degrees celcius heat. Running all sorts of terrain, lakes to cool off in... that's brutal... stupid too in that heat.
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HACKER · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject:

Try running one length of the court, then walk one length. Then run 2 lengths, walk one length, run 3 lengths walk one etc etc. See how many you can get up to. If you do 10, you're doing well. Try 52 like i saw someone do once! Imagine at the end of the routine, running 50 lenghts, walking one, running 51, walk one, running 52!! Brutal

bendi36 · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject:

The beep test isn't a training device is a measure used to determine fitness and their is no such thing as beating the test
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bendi36 · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject:

I'm lucky to do the 120 ghosting in 6 minutes
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squish · Prolific Contributor Joined: 28 Sep 2007 Posts: 95

the beep test has a finite number of levels so if you beat the last beep you can be said to have beaten the test. Careful not to overtrain like Marshall, Barrington, etc.

Adrian19 · Prolific Contributor Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 230

Azx · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

what is exactly stroke ghosting?

bendi36 · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:35 pm Post subject:

Adrian 19 I bet your lying. Only a few ppl in the world can do the beep test. Anthony Ricketts who is supposedly one of the fittest squash players can only get to 17. But you and a few other blokes were obviously fitter than him while you's were in highskool. I totally believe that.

Is stroke ghosting normal ghosting?? Like with a racket and swinging?
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manus · Prolific Contributor Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 202

Adrian19 · Prolific Contributor Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 230

Well then... this was the Canadian highschool beep test... don't know if its the same that Ricketts would have used. Would be interesting to find out cos then I'll really start bragging. I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
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bendi36 · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:16 am Post subject:

The canadian one is probably a lot easier considering they have the likes of Adrian 19 in their country.
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can_squasher · Prolific Contributor Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 56

I've done the Canadian high school one too...got to level 12 or 13.

Try doing 20 court sprints (back wall to front wall is 1, front to back is 2....) in under 50 seconds. Take a three minute break and do it again. And again. And maybe again.

Adrian19 · Prolific Contributor Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 230

Cubbins, why are you deleting my posts and not deleting ones that offensive against me?
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OsloSquash · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:53 am Post subject:

I have heard from some credible resources that Jhansher was doing 26 court sprints (back wall to front wall is 1, front to back wall is 2....) in 1 minuet, then 1 minuet break. And he did this 20 times mostly, but before big tournaments he did try to do 25 times. Do a try and se how many you can do. A god squash player should be able to do 22 in 1 minuet, at least 5 times. If you can do this 10 times, you are in a wary good squash form.

Have anyone tried this and how many have you managed to do in 1 minuet, who many times?

I did 20 in a minute with 1 minute rest, 5 times.
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Adrian19 · Prolific Contributor Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 230

What's the point of doing court sprints? Seriously? It makes more sense to do ghosting which mimics the flow of play. Court sprints are silly, stupid, boring, tedious, repetitive, idiotic and pointless. I'm not surprised that Jansher did them. He was probably drunk off his mind! Go Jansher! How much booze you smuggled lately,son? Sad... the guy can't even smuggle booze properly!
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OsloSquash · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:30 pm Post subject:

Sorry i dont need a medel!
How many have you done in a minute little boy?
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manus · Prolific Contributor Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 202

bendi36 · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject:

manus · Prolific Contributor Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 202

Adrian19 · Prolific Contributor Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 230

Noone should find ghosting to be easier than sprints. If you do you're doing it wrong or not being pushed properly. You should do them with the proper time limits to really push yourself hard. Sprints are way easier... Recovering from a lunging postion repeatedly over and over is much more taxing than just back and forth upright sprints.

Anyone saying otherwise just isn't doing them hard enough.

Oslo, I can't remember... I do know that when I did do silly things like court sprints I killed Jon Power's records. I'm sure i could have done more than you. And any way, even if you're the court sprint master... who cares... good for you! Again, want a medal buddy?

Manus, no! Really? Training harder than you play? WOW did you invent that concept all by yourself? Wow, guy, that's a revolutionary concept that nobody has ever though of before except for you! And you max out at 22 court sprints...? Guess you don't play that hard. why don't you go run for miles outside up and down hills instead of running back and forth on the court? Waste of court time for other members...
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manus · Prolific Contributor Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 202

Adrian19 · Prolific Contributor Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 230

I guess that they aren't pushing themselves too hard either when they do their ghosting if they're do it on 'recovery' days.

Settle down there manus... would't want you to get upset now.
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