Category: Health & Fitness

  • Proper Breathing in Padel

    Proper breathing is often a neglected element at amateur level sport, and sometimes even professionals breathe incorrectly, although nowadays with the influence of good coaches and technology this is very rare. I definitely struggled with improper breathing myself. My biggest issue was holding my breath during padel while playing shots or while lifting weights at…

  • Fitness for Padel

    Padel is a sport that requires a broad fitness regimen. Strength, speed, agility, flexibility and endurance are all athletic building blocks of a padel player. Workout routines designed for padel need to incorporate training for each of these attributes. Balanced training involves workouts on the court, in the gym and on the track. Physical preparation…

  • Should You Deload When Training for Padel?

    A deload is a planned step back from the volume (sets x reps) or intensity (load on the bar) in your current gym training program. The idea is to give your tissues and nervous system a chance to recover after a period of intense training. For advanced lifters (or individual training styles like powerlifting) this…