The muscles around your knees and shoulders aren't strong enough for what pickleball asks of them. Court Ready builds them up in 10 minutes at home with one resistance band, so you can play more days a week and wake up without dreading the stairs.
Get Court Ready for $27Start your first session todayHi, I'm Coach David. If you play three or more days a week, you probably know how this goes.
You play two hours and feel great. You stop hard at the kitchen line, lunge low for a dink and change direction a hundred times. Your game is on.
Then you wake up the next morning and your knees ache going down the stairs. Your hitting shoulder might be stiff too, sore from all those drives and overheads.
So you take a day off. Then you take another one. Pretty soon you're doing math in your head about how many more sessions you can get before something gives out.
Here's what most players never hear. Every game, you stop your full body weight on one leg, sink into a lunge and push back up, over and over for two hours. Every overhead loads the small muscles inside your shoulder. Your heart and lungs are ready for that. The muscles around your knees and shoulders usually aren't, because nobody ever trained them for it.
When those muscles can't take the load, your joints take it instead. That's the ache you feel on the stairs.
A brace holds your knee in place from the outside. Strong muscles hold it from the inside, and you keep them when you walk off the court.
Plenty of players know they should do some strength work and will never set foot in a gym. You do Court Ready in your living room with one resistance band and enough floor space to take a step sideways. Every move has an easier and a harder version, so you start right where you are.
Who it's not for: If you have a fresh injury, sharp pain, swelling or a tear, see your doctor or a physical therapist first. Court Ready is a strength program. It doesn't diagnose or treat injuries.
One resistance band and enough floor space to take a step sideways. You don't need weights or a gym.
Every move has an easier version, and the Quick Start Guide has you begin there. When the easy version feels easy, you move up.
Keep stretching. It helps you move. Stretching can't build the strength your knee needs to stop your body weight on a hard lunge, and it can't build the strength your shoulder needs for two hours of drives. Court Ready adds that part.
You can find single exercises. Court Ready puts the right ones in order for pickleball, tells you how many to do and makes them a little harder each week. You just press play.
No. The Quick Start Guide shows you how to fit sessions around your play days, and the warm-up and reset are built to go with your games.
Talk to your doctor or physical therapist first. Court Ready is for players who want to build strength and stay on the court. It isn't a treatment for an injury.
You have 30 days. If your knees and shoulders don't feel stronger on the court, email us and you get every cent back. You don't need to give a reason.
Right after you pay, you get an email with your login. You can do your first session today.
Do the program for 30 days. If your knees and shoulders don't feel stronger on the court, email us and we'll send back every cent. You don't have to give a reason, so the risk sits with us.
Your knees ache after open play because the muscles around them aren't strong enough for pickleball. A brace, new shoes and more stretching can't change that. Building those muscles can.
Court Ready is 10 minutes at home with one band. It builds the strength around your knees and shoulders so you can play more days and wake up the next morning without dreading the stairs.