1. Preparation Of The Body
A Brief Overview

2. Investigate... 3 types of fitness – physical, skill-related and mental
Each type of fitness has different aspects to it:
Physical – strength, speed, power, stamina, flexibility, local muscular endurance
Skill-related – reaction time, agility, balance, coordination
Mental – managing emotions, level of arousal, concentration

3. Investigate...
Fitness can be tested using court-based or standardised tests.
Local Muscular Endurance:
12 Minute Game Observation Schedule (Court-based)
Harvard Step Test (Standardised
Agility:
Timed Fan Drill (Court-based)
Illinois Agility Test (Standardised)

4. Analyse...
Why are local muscular endurance and agility important to a successful badminton performance?
LME – can keep moving for a long rally, can prepare for shots and make accurate returns.
Agility – can quickly move from the corners of the court to the ready position in order to move in time to return next shot. More time will make return more accurate.

5. Develop... Effective Warm Up includes:
Whole body movement (e.g. Jogging) = raises HR
Stretching = Prepares muscles for the activity
Activity specific work = Get familiar with skills
Warm Up gets you physically and mentally prepared for activity.
Prevents injury.

6. Develop... Warm Down Whole body movement Stretching
Warm Down prevents injury by gradually reducing your Heart Rate to its resting rate.

7. Develop... Method of Practice to develop LME – Circuit Training
10 stations
30 secs work, 30 secs rest
1 circuit
6 weeks of training

8. Develop... Principles of Training Frequency – how often you trained
Intensity – how hard you trained
Duration – how long you trained

9. Evaluate... How did you monitor your training?
Training Diary – completed during each session to see how many repetitions you did
Retest – restested fitness and compared results to fitness levels prior to training.
Monitoring your training lets you make changes to your programme as your level of fitness changes.

10. Revision
You should use the question sheet as a revision tool along with your jotter, text book and support notes.