How much do professionals train?

[Tyler]

How much do professional badminton players train? 5 days a week? 8 hours a day? Or perhaps just a couple times a week for a couple hours?

Are they on strict diets and training, or are they pretty relaxed on such issues?

[gyang333]

They usually practice badminton 8 hours over the span of 3 days adn do weight training and jogging and conditioning the other 4 days for about also 8 hours. This is of course on thier own, the national team may require that they put in some hours also.

[Birdie]

Wow I didn't know there was so much training involved in professional badminton. I have only ever just played for fun.

:)

[smonsleskyb]

I heard they practice 5 days a week, for 8 hours. Including badminton, jogging, weights.
It depends on how good you want to be, if you want to play like this or not
http://www.olympic.org/badminton-singles-men