Because of the coronavirus, the FFT and WPT competitions are on hold. You will therefore have time to work on your physique. We tell you everything.

La French Tennis Federation announced it yesterday, all competitions are canceled until further notice, this is also the case on the World Padel Tour. If in addition, your club padel farm, you may find yourself unable to practice your favorite sport for a while. In order to come back stronger, to fight frustration, and to boost your immune system, you could engage in a quality physical preparation.

If you hadn't worked too hard on your physique before the recovery, this might be a chance to redeem yourself. As we have seen previously, it is essential to padel to be enduring enough to chain the dots without ever getting in the red. Besides good fundamental endurance, which generally good players have, it is a job of aerobic power which will be preferred.

As your gym also risks closing down in these times of coronavirus, we offer you a work to improve the Maximum Aerobic Speed. This work is done on 5 weeks, ideally three sessions per week. Once your AMV test performed, you will be able to perform three split sessions, spaced a day of minimum rest. You can, according to your needs, choose different formulas, ranging from 2/1 (two minutes of effort, one minute of active recovery) to 15/15 (15 seconds of effort, 15 seconds of rest). It is also possible to replace a running session with HIIT.

Au padel, support play a fundamental role in being always in the best position when playing a stroke, so we advise you to work on them a little each session. For this, you can very well do it as a warm-up before your aerobic session. We leave you as an example this video of Alex Ruiz.

If you have a lot of time to work on your physique, no need to do more than 3 split sessions per week. Instead, include bodybuilding, twice a week, in order toimprove your power, or protect your joints. Likewise, if you've already completed five weeks of MAS work recently, don't bother doing it again right away. Maintain your MAS at the rate of one interval training session per week, and focus on other parameters to improve to progress in padel, such as mobility, sprints, relaxation etc. We will come back to this shortly.

 

Xan is a fan of padel. But also rugby! And his posts are just as punchy. Physical trainer of several padel, he unearths atypical posts or deals with topical subjects. It also gives you some tips to develop your physique for the padel. Clearly, he imposes his offensive style as on the field of padel !

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