Recently I was asked this question. “What are some of the training mistakes top racquetball players make?
Here is what I came up with.
1. Not having a set goal. That may sound strange, but most athletes love the lifestyle, the traveling and best, the adoration of lesser skilled athletes and fans. Therefore the pro athlete bounces from tournament to tournament getting by on great athleticism but not winning consistently! The local athlete is in much the same boat.
2. Make your sport a “timed sport” not a competitive sport. An olympic athlete in a timed sport has a goal. That goal is not to defeat another person but to defeat a time. In Racquetball or other sports you have to beat a person. Or so athletes think. Really they should be playing the ball, not a person. The golfer plays the course and the score, not the opponent and the racquetball player should think the same way.
3. A real problem is see is over-training or under-training. I know some who do not train at all or watch their diet. They are not number one because of it. But there is a bigger crowd who over train and over play and over work. An exercise physiologist stated at a USA Olympic Coaching conference that 95% of elite athletes are over -trained.
4. Working very hard with poor mechanics and/or footwork. All these players do is reinforce their mistakes.
These are only 4 and I know there are more!!
Go get’em tigers!