Train your mind to train your body

  What is visualization? How can we use this technique to produce better results? And what are the benefits? To get answers to all these questions, I had an opportunity to interview a special guest and a very dear friend of mine, Tom Ford. About Tom Ford- Tom has been the under 19 European squash number one. He has played numerous professional squash tournaments and has won many of them. He has traveled all around the world to train budding squash athletes. Tom has always been very passionate and interested about the mental side of the game, a common interest which lead us to connect with each other a few years ago. I could not have asked for a better guest to discuss on this topic, than Tom Ford. Below is the interview- Amit- Hi Tom. Tom- Hi Amit, thanks for inviting me on. Amit- today we have invited you to discuss about visualization. Thank you so much for being here with us. So my first question to you Tom- what exactly is visualization?  Tom- Sure, we need to und...

All of us are itching to get back to the squash courts post the corona virus pandemic. Most of us have never stayed away from the game since the time we started playing. We all know how addictive the game is, so it’s natural to miss all the action. But there are many athletes, especially young teens that may be getting into depression as their daily routine revolved so much around squash training and the courts. They ate, drank and slept squash. I happen to speak to a 14 year old squash enthusiast whose mother was upset that he was missing squash “badly”. I asked him what he was missing the most. And he replied that he was missing his training. Well, do we really have to MISS training during this time? Does squash training only mean doing drills and fitness inside the court? We all know that’s not the case. There are multiple aspects to training and unfortunately, most of these aspects are largely ignored during our regular “intense” training programs. So how do we keep our train...