ABSTRACT
An increasing awareness in the application of sport science in recent years has led to the development of physiological testing in various sports. The results have enabled better training principles to be administered and monitoring to occur more objectively. Sports such as hockey (Reilly & Borrie, 1992), soccer (Green, 1992), rowing (Shephard, 1991) and swimming (Costill et al, 1992) have made successful use of such testing opportunities. However, very little has been done to describe the physiological requirements of elite squash play, though van Rensburg et al. (1982) have completed a comprehensive study of league players and Montpetit (1990) has reviewed applied physiology of squash. This limited research at any level of squash is unusual when it is listed among the top ten sports played in Great Britain from the General Household Survey (1987).
