Squash Upper Body Stretches

Video Transcript

"In squash, since the upper body isn't as important as the legs, but it's very important to have it loose and limber because you do develop a lot of your power and stroke obviously from the upper body. So I want to go through a few stretches on your upper body. So a really good stretch is to reach your hands up way over your head and to just lean to one side. And what this helps do is stretch out the obliques, the stomach, the shoulders and the arms on one side. So you, you're going to hold this for a little bit, and you can feel the stretch. In my case, I'm getting some good cracks going right now. And then I go back to the center and then go to the other side. So this really helps loosen up the back and all parts of the upper body. And it gives you a good warm up too. And then go back to the center, and I just lean back and I can hear some more things cracking. I guess that's good. And then I just kind of go forward a little bit. So that's a pretty good warm up. And then I can go in all the directions. And then I want to move my neck around because squash is a game where you're always having to move your neck. You've got to look at everything. Sometimes you'll make quick motions. So you want to have this all stretched out. So you just kind of roll it around and stretch it out. And last but not least, is you just get down on the floor and you want to just move this leg over here and hold this. And then go to the other side and stretch out like that. And that pretty much is gotten all that you need. There's a million stretches, I suppose theoretically you can do, but I think we've covered the good basics because you probably don't have five hours to prepare for your match. So you want to do some stretches, get warmed up and be able to get on the court quickly."