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You shouldn't be stepping on the court without a match plan in mind, neither should you do tennis strength and conditioning training without a plan. To make the most of your training time you need structure! When it comes to tennis fitness training, the best...
Have you ever wondered how Tennis Pros can physically back up point after point, working at such high intensity? Being able to do this for hours on end does not just happen by chance. Would you like to have the ability to move at high intensity for hours on end? You need to be...
Yes, it’s correct we are really disappointed. It really brings us down as Tennis Trainers.
It’s so disappointing to see so many young tennis kids get injured.
Over the past year, we have seen kids as young as 12 years with tears in rotator cuffs, young tennis kids having...
How many times have you been in the middle of a match or training session and had thoughts you wish you didn’t have! Frustrations, emotional reactions, then beating yourself up, the negative self-talk “why am I even playing” or “I am so bad”
Every player has been...
There is preparing for a tournament and then there is really preparing for a tournament.
Many player's preparations fall way short of what they should. Getting your preparation right will often be the difference between winning a match or losing it, particularly the deeper you go in a tournament,...
When we have new players come in to see us for Tennis strength and conditioning training, they usually have the intention of getting some fancy tennis exercises to make them move faster. The process that occurs after this, is why I love being a tennis fitness trainer.
First, we have a look at how...
If you are not getting the basics right your game will be heavily capped. There are some areas you want to avoid as a tennis player. Below is a list of some that I feel are important to get right.
7 Tennis Training Don'ts
- Bad Punctuality - Being consistently late for training has a lot of...
Most people struggle to improve their tennis conditioning (recovery between points, endurance) on a consistent basis. They get to a point where things plateau or even worse tennis injuries occur. Is that you? Maybe you have been there before.
Having been tennis fitness...
College Tennis, is it Good or Bad?
The American College Tennis system has always been a great way for players to develop their game and be in a structured environment. I believe in this day and age the majority of young players coming through should be pursuing this pathway, staying in...
It is not uncommon to see players focusing on the one percent aspect of their game when they should be focusing on what gives them the greatest improvements.
Sometimes as coaches, tennis trainers, and players, we get caught up in the small things and lose sight of what can give us immediate...
Whilst presenting at Indian Wells recently, we had the pleasure to meet and listen to one of the most successful coaches to come out of America (even though he is Dutch :)
Robert Landsdorp has coached some of the greats including - Pete Sampras, Lindsay Davenport, and Maria Sharapova.
It was an...
