warming is the invisible part of matches of padel professionals. little exposed to public insurance he deserves, however, that we speak of him so that each can to prepare her body to theYago's defensive effort.

Professional players are machines, precision clocks that need a warm-up, a warm-up, to perform at their best. In young people, nothing seems important, but as soon as reason, age, overload and some pain appear, it becomes important not to neglect this stage which allows you to better understand your body and prepare it for intense efforts of padel.

The goal today is not to warm up like a pro, but perhaps to understand that warming up could allow you to get into the game better.

Matches with friends

Is it really important to focus on a complete warm-up here? Maybe not. In this match, no stake, you are on the track to have a good time. Often the few pre-match ball strikes are enough, knowing that the first games will finish heating up the machine. Most of the time, these matches are played during the day or at the end of the day so your body is already awake.

Not to neglect : if you tend to have pain, if you are coming back from an injury, consider spending time on the bruised area by performing rotations, movements centered on this part of the body which could possibly bother you later.

Tournament warm-up

In tournaments it is different. Depending on the organization, your matches may be shortened (a few games only). You don't have time to finish your warm-up during the first games, you have to start on top. The idea will therefore be to enter the track already warm for the 5 minutes of classic warm-up against the opponents.

Several methods are available to you, and you can of course adapt them according to the situation and the availability of the slopes.

Individual warm-up

It's the one that only asks of you one thing: time. Especially for tournaments starting in the morning, when your body is not fully operational. Take the time off the slopes to wake up and warm up all parts of your body with walking, running, forward-backward, lateral movements, flexions-extensions. Go through all the movements of your game in slow motion first without pala, and all this first at slow speed then accelerate in order to finish in game conditions. That's it, you're hot and ready for battle!

This same type of warm-up works when you have long breaks between games and little track time to work with your partner.

Warm-up for two

It is necessarily more interesting since we hit the ball. On half of the field, in parallel, you warm up like the pros. You don't necessarily see it in professional tournaments, but each team is entitled to some time on the track to warm up as a team.

All tournaments do not necessarily allow you to do this, but do not hesitate to ask and above all to use this little time to really work in pairs to have the best feelings and find the best performance as quickly as possible.

From the bottom of the lane, first look for simple areas, then the glass, go up to the net, then look for more complicated areas, first at slow speed then faster, make forward runs then down At the back, work on precision when hitting high balls and finally finish with phases of the game at real speed.

During these few minutes, you must regain all your sensations, reassure yourself with your blows, reassure your partner with his, find your best support, begin to sweat and know your state of the day.

The pre-match warm-up

Here the conditions are completely different. We are not here to really warm up but more to take information on the players we have against us. It's only 5 minutes during which you don't have to show your qualities: you'll just calibrate your arm a little more and see who you have in front of you. 

The mistake would really be to believe that this short tournament warm-up will suffice: opponents who lack control or do not play the game to warm you up and it's a bad start to the match guaranteed, with games that scroll.

The warm-up is a step that is invisible or barely visible to opponents but which deserves some time. To each his warm-up according to your medical history, your age, your sensations of the moment or simply the time of day, but know that this sport is traumatic for our joints and injuries often happen because of poor preparation for the effort. . So take care of yourself. Let's go!

Julien Bondia

Julien Bondia is a teacher of padel in Tenerife (Spain). Columnist and advisor, he helps you play better through his tutorials and tactical/technical articles padel.

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