KEEP YOUR PLAYERS INJURY FREE

22 januari 2020 - Đắk Ya, Vietnam

Keep your players injury free

Keep your players injury free is something all coaches want but it is very often not working out, and still it is not very hard to try to keep them from getting into this kind of problems. The biggest problem is to have to complete picture of what players are doing in the training on court but even more what they do off court. 

Badminton is a very complex sport and training for it is not something you can put in general boxes, we do not believe in power training in the gym for most of the players, I also let some players do power training but only if there is a problem that I would like to correct. Many players (and coaches) are thinking in big muscle groups for power training, so you see players in machines doing quadriceps power training this will make you stronger in JUST that movement but have a look at footwork in Badminton how many times are you just doing this type of movement? Badminton is a lot more about the suportmuscules and not so much the big muscle groups, it is a sport where the perfect balance is imported and not the great power.

Good balance start with good footwork and making the right steps, the right steps is calculating and excluding options of your opponent, when you have the right footwork you need less power, the power comes in handy if you are off balance and you have to use force to get back into balance again. All our training is based on not getting into this kind of situation EVEN when you are under pressure and not in the perfect position and we do this by making sure that the big muscle groups can do their work without the power needed from the gym. We do this by training core stability (the suportmuscules to the big muscle groups), we create the perfect balance on court even in a situation where the players are under pressure, Core Stability training is the key element to avoid injuries. Most of the training for badminton you have to do with planning, you need a hall, you need someone to play with and you need to go there so it is a time consuming thing it takes up a big part of your daily routine. Power training in the gym also is something you have to make a plan for and take up a lot of time, Core Stability training need no planning you can just fit it in when you have 10 to 20 min free time at home, at school or wherever you are.

From almost every form of training you can get in over training, so you have to have a program to go to the gym and do power training to make sure you are making use of the super compensation effect in your training. Core Stability training you can do has much has you like, it

Will never get you into overtraining and the benefits are massive. But one of the biggest benefits is that you will avoid to get injuries, we have been working with this type of training for many years now and even with the many hours of training we do a week we have almost no injuries with our players. The VBO in Holland already have done one education day for coaches with Aad van Zeijl (fhysio) but I think they should do it every year to make Dutch coaches more aware of the benefits of CS training over power training.