Strengthening the Upper Body for Squash

Video Transcript

"Okay, one of the best exercises that you can do for the upper body are push ups. If you don't have time to do a lot of weight lifting or not into it, if you could do some push ups every day you'll be amazed. Because when you hit a squash ball, yes, the legs are probably the most important part of your game, but if you have a good, strong upper body, it's going to allow you to turn and to hit the ball with more pace on your forehand and backhand. So just do some push ups. So you want, what you want to do is just put your hands about shoulder width apart and try to have a straight back and just do quality. You don't have to do a million push ups. Just do some nice, slow, easy ones. And you can move the hands around. So this will make it a little tougher on the triceps. And this will make it a little tougher on the traps. But this also works the back very well. So this is a great exercise. If you just do push ups, you'll be amazed at how quickly your upper body strength improves. And you don't have to do much else. You could do a few other things, but if that's the one thing you're going to do, do push ups. And then do sit ups. So sit ups are pretty basic. We all probably don't like them, but if you want to prevent lower back injuries and be stronger, because the mid section is really, everyone wants the big biceps and big legs, but if you're strong in the middle, it connects the whole body together. So what you want to do is just lay like this, knees up, and you can just lift your hips up and then try to crunch and hold it. And then let your hips go down. So lift your hips up, crunch up, hold it. So there's probably a lot of videos you may have seen on doing sit ups and other things, but I'm just here to hopefully encourage you to do it because, I'm not going to add that much to it, but if you do the sit ups and you do the push ups, along with the leg strengthening and stretching exercises, you'll be amazed at how much fitter you get quickly."