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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...
Coaches love to fix things. Over the years, I have changed my approach to the way I go about improving a player's game. As a young coach, I thought coaching was mainly about improving weaknesses, making sure there were no holes in my player’s game.
I picked up lots of tennis tips along...
The best way to prepare for any surface is to hit on it and do your tennis training on it as much as possible. The law of adaptation teaches us that when we are exposed to certain stimuli repeatedly with enough time to recover; physically, technically, and mentally we will adapt.
Without...
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...
Tennis is one of the most played sports by young people globally. So it is important to have the right information getting shared around. Over the past 20 years, a very common question we have been asked as tennis strength and conditioners is, "When can my child, start tennis...
The greater tennis community is always blown away by the level of commitment, discipline and work that goes into preparing tennis professionals for competition. I truly believe the level of work that goes into the process would not be match by many other sports. It is really important for young...
We have been very fortunate in our tennis fitness careers to have worked with some great players (some of them the best in their era). I think when you are in it, working and all trying to achieve greatness and maximize your potential it is easy to lose sight of all the little things that...
Many people can’t be bothered with a proper tennis warm-up, and it always seems to be the first to go when pressed for time. But I’m going to give you some advice—DO NOT SKIP YOUR WARMUP.
Why? Well, think of your body as a car in the dead of winter. If you turn the ignition and...
We have long been goal-orientated; growth mindset driven people. We believe without a target and a positive mindset, it can be very challenging to move forward without feeling like you are going around in circles or even worse, not moving anywhere at all!
We love the new year and the...
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...
Tennis elbow is one of the most common tendinopathies affecting the elbow and can be a tricky condition to fix. Have you had pain on the outside of the elbow that won’t go away, despite doing all the right things? If so, we will take you through a couple of steps that can help make...
