When practising squash alone, repeating a familiar drill can leave other parts of a session underplanned. Feedback and session structure are separate questions; this article offers one possible structure, not an explanation for every plateau.
It's not just about knowing if a shot was good
SquashRT provides real-time judgments for shots in its online drills (see: Every Shot Gets a Verdict). These are in-app judgments, not an assessment of your real-world stroke technique. The separate planning question is what to practise, in what order, and for how long.
The plateau can come down to a sequencing problem
One common pattern: left without a plan, it's easy to default to repeating whichever drill felt good last time. That can build one narrow skill deeper while everything else stays flat. A session structured for variety and order — warm up with something low-pressure, work a weak point while still fresh, and finish with something closer to match rhythm — is one way to counter that pattern; this article doesn't claim it's the only cause of a plateau or guarantee a specific outcome. SquashRT already covers the mechanics of putting a session like this together — see Build a Squash Routine in 60 Seconds for how to assemble one. What follows is one way to fill that structure using drills and routines already on the site.
A simple way to structure a 20-minute session, mapped to real public routines
- Warm-up (5 min) — Foundation Drives: straight and cross-court drives from a steady feed, low-pressure enough to find your rhythm before the session gets harder.
- Focus block (10 min) — whichever routine targets your actual weak point while you're still fresh enough to concentrate on it: Front-Court Touch for a shaky short game, Volley Rhythm for taking the ball too late, or Receive & Move if recovery to the T is the problem.
- Rally simulation (5 min) — Match Rhythm: long neutral rallies with a sudden trigger and an attacking finish, described on the routine page as "the final step before match play."
Where routines fit in
Building this sequence from scratch every time is exactly the kind of friction that makes solo practice fall apart. Running one of SquashRT's public routines as-is — or adding shared drills to your own routine (sign-in required) — is a faster starting point than assembling a session from single drills (see: Routines and Drills: Copy Any Drill and Build Your Own Training Plan).
These are suggested blocks for off-court practice in SquashRT; the timings are illustrative, not measured prescriptions. SquashRT uses a physics-based approximation of ball flight, not a full simulation.
A structured session is designed to target specific skills — it's a complement to on-court coaching and match play, not a replacement for either.