Jonas,

I recently got back the 'feel good' factor in my badminton.

So I was playing a singles match and counter acting the opponent quite adequately.

One time I went for a jump smash. My footwork was OK.

My left quadricep starting hurting. The next day, I could hardly walk the stairs. In fact I could hardly walk at all. It's now taken nearly over a week before the injury is nearly healed.

I never do weight trainig on my legs because my legs are already rather large just from badminton. Did the lack of weight training contribute to my injury?

I was playing an ex HK youth squad member, so the standard was already a good amateur level (though in Denmark 'good amatuer' might be even better!)

Sometimes you can prevent simple injuries by doing some coordination training.

There is a lot of exercises out there. You can find them in various books.

You can do all the right things but sometimes luck is out to get you and you cannot protect yourself from these kind of injuries.

I don´t know which one it is, because I have to see the injury and maybe I should have been there to give you more advice.

Jonas

It was my left quadriceps muscle. The pain was just above the midpoint of my left upper leg.

Last night I did some gentle running on a running machine and some light footwork exercises. The muscle didn't hurt.

I suffer very rarely from muscle injuries. Perhaps lucky in that respect. But unlucky that I never learnt badminton properly at a young age.