Badminton Agility Amateur Training Programme

Do you know how to improve your athletic performance for Badminton, whilst reducing the risk of injury? If not, then DS Performance training programs are for you.

DS Performance have created an exclusive series of sport specific, strength & conditioning training programmes that have underpinning, evidence-based training methods, which have been put in place to improve your performance for all ages and abilities. All programmes have been designed to develop each specific performance variable through the progression of intensity and volume.

This Badminton strength and conditioning training program will focus specifically on agility training systems to:

• DS Performance training programmes are designed to run alongside a skill/sport specific based training plan. Our programmes provide sessions for 3 days of training a week, to alternate between your skill/sport specific training sessions. We have selected five of the most important physical performance variables/attributes for each of the sports that are essential in developing your performance.
• Our 12-week strength and conditioning training program is broken down into 2 x 6-week cycles, with a de-loading between the two training blocks. This will allow the body to recover, prepare you for the second training phase and reduce any risk of injury.
• Along with your training program this book contains a supporting guide to mobility training. This guide uses myofascial release, static stretching and activation work to mobilise the major body parts used in training.
• Designed to reduce the risk of injury and avoid bad training habits through our sport specific training programs. We are providing you with training programmes designed by ex-Team GB athletes and coaching staff that have the practical and applied experience through a wide range of individual and team-based sports.
• Our program has been developed to bring elite training methods to everyone, from all levels of sporting ability. Our mission is to make training programmes utilised by professional athletes available to all sporting enthusiasts and performers.

Agility training is massively underrated in all multi-directional sports like Badminton. With our agility training programs you will increase your ability to react, adapt and move quickly. This will also support your ability to think and understand game scenarios faster. By training agility, you are not just training the mental reaction, but the physical one as well, in a very small period of time to react, you need to decelerate, change direction and accelerate.

Agility is one of those key attributes that can be trained and utilised throughout all phases of training to keep you sharp. The agility range of performance programs, like the speed programs, are ideal for the pre-competition and competition phase of training.

Covering the essential physical aspects to Badminton is just as important as putting the time in on the field. Choose your current training level, Amateur, Intermediate and Advanced for the variable you would like to train and progress your way up to "Advanced" to really improve your performance.