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Place your racket on the floor at the T and spread out your old squash balls around the court. Taking care not to step on a ball, move and pick up a ball, then return to place it on your racket. Move at a comfortable pace as remember this is a warm–up. Also bend your knees to pick up rather than from your back. Continue this for 8 – 12 balls and then have a short rest. Repeat the sets until all the balls are on the racket.

 

If you have a small number of old balls just spread them out after every set! Here we have just demonstrated movement in the front of the court but you can do the same exercise using the whole court.

 

This exercise can be adapted to work as a speed drill. It is as per the warm-up only your movement is at full speed for six balls. It is important to pick up the nearest balls first to avoid accidentally stepping on one as your movement is now at speed. Take a longer rest (work to rest ratio of 1:3) and repeat.

 

As the sets continue the closer balls will have gone so your speed movement will be over longer distance. Note Chris’ backward recovery to the T and racket here as we are using the front of the court!