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Unbreakable - Have you read the book? The tennis journey of Jelena Dokic.
What an amazing read.
We had the privilege of interviewing Jelena recently for our Tennis Podcast series
Tennis Podcast - “In the Mind of a Tennis Champion”
The insight Jelena gave us into her tennis journey...
No matter the level you play at, at some point in your tennis career you are going to go through a period, possibly periods where you lack self-belief and confidence.
We now mentor tennis coaches, tennis parents, and players globally through our online system. What we have worked out over...
Today I want to talk to you about something extremely important if you are a player that wants to get as much out of themselves and their game as possible, so if you’re a tennis fluffer and not serious about pushing yourself and learning, then give this blog a miss, simply due to the fact I...
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...
As tennis legend Arthur Ashe famously said, “There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.”
Paralysis by analysis is the state of over-analyzing a situation, resulting in poor execution. Have you ever experienced this or witness someone doing this? It is not a nice...
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...
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...
Having been tennis trainers for over 20 years and worked with a diverse range of players from tennis professionals to tennis kids, we have seen a lot. We have also found some major missing links in players' tennis strength and conditioning programming and training. These are areas we are...
At Tennis Fitness we are all about education. We don’t know everything, that's for sure, what we have learned along our journey, we like to pass on. We encourage you to do the same!
We wanted to give you some useful Tennis Tips as well as other helpful tennis...
HOW DO YOU IMPROVE YOUR TENNIS WORKOUT INTENSITY?
This is a question we hear often. As tennis conditioners, we've worked with many top athletes. One thing that always stands out among professional players is that when they workout for tennis (off-court), they push even harder than they would...
FIND OUT THE 5 MUST DO'S FOR PLAYERS "OVER 40"
Training for tennis over 40 can be challenging! For many players, the loss of energy and time makes it challenging. We need to also consider physically what happens as we age (Loss of muscle mass, aerobic capacity, and flexibility).
These factors...
I want to highlight an issue we often see in tennis players. Being aware of this and addressing it is something that has the capacity to prevent many tennis injuries for players.
Whenever we assess a player’s tennis mobility and flexibility we always start from the ground up (big toe...
