| Paintball is a physically demanding sport that requires a | | | | to improve your speed and reaction time. It's a good |
| great deal of strength and endurance. If you have | | | | idea to run about three miles a few times a week to |
| ever played paintball, or watched others play, you will | | | | reach your fitness goals. |
| understand just what type of physical stress the body | | | | In order to build your strength, you should concentrate |
| will endure during a game. There are ways to prepare | | | | on specific parts of the body. Your legs are going to |
| for paintball that will allow you to perform better and | | | | be the most important, the your back and finally your |
| feel better during and after your game. | | | | upper body. One of the most often ignored areas of |
| During a game of paintball, your body will perform | | | | the body is the core. Your abdominal muscles can |
| many actions that it doesn't normally do. You will be | | | | make or break your game. They hold your body |
| crawling, diving, sprinting, and running during a game. But | | | | strong and will allow you to perform at your best. In |
| most importantly, you will be doing all of this while | | | | order to build up these muscles, do some squats, leg |
| lugging around a paintball gun and several pounds of | | | | lifts, lunges and crunches. |
| safety gear. The safety gear and the equipment you | | | | As with any sport, eating right and drinking enough |
| carry will require that you get your strength up. All of | | | | fluids can be the deciding factor between whether you |
| the running and other movement will require that your | | | | win or lose. Make sure to eat a balanced diet with |
| endurance is at top performance levels. If you become | | | | plenty of lean protein sources, complex carbohydrates |
| exhausted during a game, you will lose. There is no | | | | and vitamin filled produce. As for liquids, drinking |
| taking a time out to catch your breath, you are under | | | | primarily water is a good bet to stay hydrated. |
| constant attack and any weaknesses will be used | | | | However, during and immediately following a game, |
| against you. | | | | you may want to drink a sport drink to replace any |
| In order to build your endurance, you will need to | | | | electrolytes that you may have lost. Try to steer |
| participate in many cardiovascular exercises. The best | | | | away from alcohol the day before a game as it will |
| of course is running. You can do this on a treadmill or | | | | dehydrate your body and start you off in the negative. |
| outside depending on what equipment you have | | | | Being physically prepared and fit is the best way to |
| access to. You should focus on both long distance | | | | ensure that you're a star on the paintball field. |
| running for your endurance and short bursts of sprints | | | | |