Complete sport, the  padel request  a good physical condition  as well as a lot of training to reach a good level. Put yourself in a second sporting activity can help you strengthen your skills in this sport.

To progress in your sport, three aspects are important: technique, endurance and strength. Choosing a second discipline will allow you to diversify your sporting activities  while working on each of these points.

To improve your technique

Often  compared to tennis  and squash, le padel is practiced like both sports with a racket. To improve your performance, you need to  handle your racket well, and understand how it works to get the best out of it. From this perspective, the practice of another racquet sport can help you diversify your technique.

Le tennis,whose  padel is a derivative, is the most obvious sport for this purpose. The popularity of this sport (the tennis is the second most popular sport in France with over a million followers) will allow you to easily find a gaming partner who can teach you the basics of the discipline. The similarities between the two sports make many players tennis start at padel,and vice versa. Tennis champion Rafael Nadal is thus himself a follower of padel. And that seems to succeed to the player who is  one of the great favorites  this season.

Other racket sports, like the squash,  badminton  or  table tennis  can also allow you to work your technique to the racket while improving your physical condition. Do not hesitate to test them all before  choose the one you prefer.

To improve your endurance

If the technique is essential to  padel, to have good endurance is also a must if you want to improve your performance. There is no secret: the best sports to improve your stamina are those that make  work the cardio.

An obvious sport to fulfill this goal: the course. One of the big advantages of this sport is thatit is easy to practice and requires almost no investment (just good shoes and sportswear). Set the goal of running to work, and  you will quickly see the result.

Another sport that you can practice on your daily trips or more relaxed on weekends, the bike will also do miracles for your stamina. Ideal to work your heart, it will also improve the muscles of your legs to allow you to shine on the grounds of  padel.

To improve your strength

Au padel, your strike force can make the difference. There is a very simple strategy to work on this aspect: get into the muscles. Regular exercises will allow you to develop your shoulders, biceps and triceps to gain power.

To develop the shoulders, the machine-developed or the neck-developed are your ideal exercises, while a work on the biceps will require to dumbbell. The triceps, meanwhile, will be stimulated by extensions above the head. And if you do not want to go to the gym, regular pump series before training or at home you will also develop your muscles with ease.

Another sport that will allow you to develop your strength while discovering a new discipline is therowing.

This very complete sport stimulates 80% of your body's muscles, whose shoulders and biceps. Beyond the overall improvement in your endurance and resistance to effort, put yourself at therowing will allow you to develop a strong musculature that will improve your strength when practicing padel. And if its outdoor practice does not tempt you, you can always fall back on its equivalent in the gym: the  rower.

Endurance, strength or technique, each of these sports will allow you to develop an aspect that will allow you to improve your performance in the padel.  So, which of them will you start practicing?

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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