Short High Intensity Interval Training (SHIIT) Sessions
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These 1-hour sessions will be structured using the scientific Deliberate Practice Principle framework to ensure you get the maximum benefit from each and every session. Register for the session according to your skill level and ability noted below to ensure all players get a full workout based on their abilities.
Short High Intensity Interval Training (SHIIT) Sessions Explained
*** ONLY FOR Intermediate, Advanced and Elite Players ***
Intermediate — Matrix 150-200 / Sporty HQ 1,000-1,200
Advanced — Matrix 200-300 / Sporty HQ 1,200-1,800
Elite — Matrix 300+ / Sporty HQ 1,800+
Intermediate — Matrix 150-200 / Sporty HQ 1,000-1,200
Advanced — Matrix 200-300 / Sporty HQ 1,200-1,800
Elite — Matrix 300+ / Sporty HQ 1,800+
Ever wonder how some people improve their squash game ‘almost overnight’ while others struggle for years or even decades with little or no improvement?
The ‘secret’ is Deliberate Practice Principles, the foundational concept behind
the Academy’s coaching success!
You can spend countless hours on court hitting balls, but unless you have a proven system that works, you could be reinforcing a bad habit that makes things worse, is hard to change and in some cases impossible to get rid of.
Deliberate Practice is a methodology used by the best in the world including Olympians, World Champions and Commonwealth Games athletes. Now you can tap into this powerful approach to either kick start your squash and create a breakthrough or achieve the ‘quantum leap’ forward you need to get to your next performance level.
The power of Deliberate Practice Principles is that they apply to all age groups and standards of player skill, regardless of fitness or physical ability. It's a framework, a process that is scientifically designed to make the most of every single minute you spend on court.
Short High Intensity Interval Training (SHIIT) sessions are structured and designed according to Deliberate Practice Principles. Concentration of focus is an important element to identify sources of improvement and push through physical, technical and/or psychological limits and barriers.
Easier said than done, which is why you need to be guided, mentored by an experienced facilitator and coach. These sessions will be led by Dr Marc Dussault, the academy’s resident Peak Performance Strategist.
Each session will have a specific outcome with drills, routines and exercises designed to focus on specific skill/ability development. All sessions will combine movement and technical development.
Short High Intensity Interval Training (SHIIT) Sessions:
PLAYING LENGTH WITH VARIATIONS
ALLEY GAME WITH VARIATIONS
CROSS COURT GAME WITH VARIATIONS
SHORT VS. LONG / BOAST-CROSS COURT / VOLLEY GAMES
TWO AGAINST ONE
These are high-intensity HITTING SESSIONS – not coaching or feedback focused sessions. You will be hitting with Marc with minimal breaks. You will be directed to focus on YOUR OWN effort rather than starting and stopping to discuss distinctions.
High intensity is synonymous with squad “pressure sessions” – but these sessions are sustained for extended periods, to develop fitness, perseverance and stamina and develop 'mental toughness'.
Often, what happens in training, there are too many breaks in-between each routine. High intensity sessions are designed to mimic long rallies where concentration and stamina come into play. Mental toughness principles will emerge as a factor depending on your level of fitness.
Benefits of Short High Intensity Interval Training (SHIIT) sessions:
Sessions will begin with structured hitting warm-ups and will NOT include any court sprints since you should be completely spent at the end of each session.
Concentration of focus – sessions will be focused on ONE SKILL, ONE ELEMENT of the game, length, cross courts, volleys, drop shots, straight hitting, taking the ball early. This attention to detail is a guiding principle of Deliberate Practice that echoes the Academy’s approach to advanced skill development.
Disciplined training principles will also be reinforced. You will learn to train like professional players so you make the MOST of every minute you spend on court.
These sessions are NOT for everyone:
These high intensity hitting sessions are for you if you:
Special Considerations:
You must show up 10 minutes before the session starts. Full changing room and shower facilities are available on site. If you're late, you forego the entire session with no credit or refund. This is part of the Deliberate Practice Principle framework – discipline to plan ahead and BE ON TIME. All sessions finish on time.
Sessions are only held in the city at World Square (corner or Pitt and Liverpool streets).
* The acronym SHIIT was chosen ON PURPOSE - because let's face it, if we can't have fun and laugh at ourselves, what's the point? We will have fun in the SHIIT sessions, but we will also take them VERY, VERY seriously.
The ‘secret’ is Deliberate Practice Principles, the foundational concept behind
the Academy’s coaching success!
You can spend countless hours on court hitting balls, but unless you have a proven system that works, you could be reinforcing a bad habit that makes things worse, is hard to change and in some cases impossible to get rid of.
Deliberate Practice is a methodology used by the best in the world including Olympians, World Champions and Commonwealth Games athletes. Now you can tap into this powerful approach to either kick start your squash and create a breakthrough or achieve the ‘quantum leap’ forward you need to get to your next performance level.
The power of Deliberate Practice Principles is that they apply to all age groups and standards of player skill, regardless of fitness or physical ability. It's a framework, a process that is scientifically designed to make the most of every single minute you spend on court.
Short High Intensity Interval Training (SHIIT) sessions are structured and designed according to Deliberate Practice Principles. Concentration of focus is an important element to identify sources of improvement and push through physical, technical and/or psychological limits and barriers.
Easier said than done, which is why you need to be guided, mentored by an experienced facilitator and coach. These sessions will be led by Dr Marc Dussault, the academy’s resident Peak Performance Strategist.
Each session will have a specific outcome with drills, routines and exercises designed to focus on specific skill/ability development. All sessions will combine movement and technical development.
Short High Intensity Interval Training (SHIIT) Sessions:
PLAYING LENGTH WITH VARIATIONS
- Length only above the service line
- Strict length, first bounce past the midline
- Length both sides, close to the midline
- Length, second bounce past the midline
- Length, straight volley drop, only if you’re in front
- Length, cross volley drop, only if you’re in front
- Length, boast only if you’re behind the service box
- Length with only 1 short ball per rally, per player
ALLEY GAME WITH VARIATIONS
- Length only above the service line
- Strict length, first bounce past the midline
- Length, close to the midline
- Length, second bounce past the midline
- Length, straight volley drop, only if you’re in front
- Length, boast only if you’re behind the service box, switch sides
- Length with only 1 short ball per rally, per player
CROSS COURT GAME WITH VARIATIONS
- Length only above the service line
- Strict length, first bounce past the midline
- Length, close to the midline
- Length, second bounce past the midline
- Length, cross volley drop
- Only short, second bounce can’t be beyond the midline
- Full court, anything goes!
SHORT VS. LONG / BOAST-CROSS COURT / VOLLEY GAMES
- With 1 bounce
- No bounce
- Only above the service line
TWO AGAINST ONE
- These variations can substantially increase your reaction speed and reflexes as well as slow the game down.
These are high-intensity HITTING SESSIONS – not coaching or feedback focused sessions. You will be hitting with Marc with minimal breaks. You will be directed to focus on YOUR OWN effort rather than starting and stopping to discuss distinctions.
High intensity is synonymous with squad “pressure sessions” – but these sessions are sustained for extended periods, to develop fitness, perseverance and stamina and develop 'mental toughness'.
Often, what happens in training, there are too many breaks in-between each routine. High intensity sessions are designed to mimic long rallies where concentration and stamina come into play. Mental toughness principles will emerge as a factor depending on your level of fitness.
Benefits of Short High Intensity Interval Training (SHIIT) sessions:
- Increased pace removes time to think, forcing muscle memory to take over. The brain operates in one of two modes – EXPLICIT when learning and IMPLICIT when playing. These sessions uniquely APPLY learnings in real time, in IMPLICIT mode.
- Higher intensity reveals when and why technical breakdowns occur (e.g. poor racket preparation, wrong approach path to the shot, bad shot selection, etc.)
- Squash 'match' fitness can only be developed on court. Without high intensity sessions, you can’t re-create 4th and 5th game conditions when fatigue and fitness come into play.
- Stamina, developing long(er) rallies is a difficult skill to develop, impossible to do in regular game play conditions. Only routines with high intensity can create the conditions to learn how to do this. You’ll appreciate this the next time you go into a 5th game – knowing you can stay the course and force your opponent into capitulating, mentally, physically or both!
- Mental toughness can only be practiced when under “pressure”. These sessions create both physical and mental stresses you can play around with to develop the skills to handle them in pennant and tournament play.
- Getting through high intensity sessions builds confidence. This will help boost your quality of shot selection, opting for the better shot in higher pressure situations rather than “just getting the ball back”.
- You’ll identify your primary weaknesses in each variation of the game so you can then tailor your coaching accordingly.
Sessions will begin with structured hitting warm-ups and will NOT include any court sprints since you should be completely spent at the end of each session.
Concentration of focus – sessions will be focused on ONE SKILL, ONE ELEMENT of the game, length, cross courts, volleys, drop shots, straight hitting, taking the ball early. This attention to detail is a guiding principle of Deliberate Practice that echoes the Academy’s approach to advanced skill development.
Disciplined training principles will also be reinforced. You will learn to train like professional players so you make the MOST of every minute you spend on court.
These sessions are NOT for everyone:
These high intensity hitting sessions are for you if you:
- Want to make QUICK progress on specific aspects of your game.
- Get squash fit, improve your quickness, speed and agility.
- Build stamina and endurance for longer matches.
- Focus on mental toughness.
- Develop a more disciplined approach to your squash training.
- Want to start beating opponents at the same level as you are.
- Create a breakthrough skill or ability that might be frustrating you.
- Push yourself and see what you’re capable of.
- Try something new.
- Have fun, but at higher level of commitment.
- Put your coaching to the test.
- Replace game play with equivalent (more) effort on court.
Special Considerations:
You must show up 10 minutes before the session starts. Full changing room and shower facilities are available on site. If you're late, you forego the entire session with no credit or refund. This is part of the Deliberate Practice Principle framework – discipline to plan ahead and BE ON TIME. All sessions finish on time.
Sessions are only held in the city at World Square (corner or Pitt and Liverpool streets).
* The acronym SHIIT was chosen ON PURPOSE - because let's face it, if we can't have fun and laugh at ourselves, what's the point? We will have fun in the SHIIT sessions, but we will also take them VERY, VERY seriously.
