Gaynell Pizzaro: Wimbledon is about three months away, June 20 - July 3. [Today's date is 18 March 2011.]http://www.wimbledon.com/championships/competingThe current issue of TENNIS magazine [April 2011] is devoted largely to fitness. It has "The Fitness Issue" in large letters on the cover. Assuming that you're an American, I believe TENNIS magazine is a benefit you get with a membership in USTA. https://membership.usta.com/Just below is the link for TENNIS magazine's home pagehttp://www.tennis.com/After clicking on the page above, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Above the list of auxiliary links, there is a section with a form for you to fill out and subscribe to the magazine.Below are a couple of books filled with lots and lots of conditioning drills and exercises for you. The second book [Pluim & Safran] is for dealing with all sorts of injuries and prevention of injuries....Show more
Ronny Dorge: You need to focus on functional and explosive strengt! h. Lots of plyometric exercises (jumps, jump lunges), planks (plain, side, lift arm/legs) for the core strength and shoulder stabilizers. Look at tennis fitness strength articles below in the resources. Also, as important, if not more is to keep your body healthy. Regular stretching and myofascial release is absolutely necessary if you train at high levels. Again, routines in links below. Good luck.
Emery Blando: Hey!Well, the first person to answer was pretty spot-on I'm guessing, with all of the links and such, but I'll just give my two cents (even though they are kind of worthless haha).I'm one of those people that can't say anything without explaining it, so here goes! In tennis, your entire body is used. Really. I can't think of any muscle not used somewhere in the game! All leg muscles are extremely important for obvious reasons- you're running, squatting, and jumping back up. So, you have to train them all (quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves). You also need a n! ice, strong core. This is especially useful on your serve and ! forehand.. Your biceps, triceps, and deltoids are all used as well. Your chest, or pectoralis major, is also used a lot. So, really, you need a full body workout!! I hope you have access to a gym, because all of the machines and stuff is SO useful.Squats, lunges, calf-raises are all exercises for your legs without any machine use. You can do jump-squats, fast squats, sumo squats... They all train with different degrees of difficulty and switch up the muscle use. The same thing applies to lunges, but calf raises are really only made different by doing it while balancing on one leg or both at the same time. If you're using a machine, then leg presses, leg extensions, and leg curls can all be used with a lot of success.Crunches, sit ups, V-sits, hover (or plank) all work abs. They're amazing, and I suggest you do a high amount of reps. The hover is so, so great for your whole body! Try to record the amount of time you can hold it for, and see how you progress! I don't know the! specific machines for your core- I just follow the description of the machine at my gym.Push-ups work your pectoralis major, biceps, deltoids, and then you can do tricep push ups for your triceps. Try to do as many as you can, again, and every 5th push-up try to hold yourself up while being as low as you can to the ground. This helps strengthen the muscle you're building so that you don't just have a lot of muscle- it's actually strong. For machines, chest presses work your chest well. You need free weights to do bicep curls and tricep extensions. Just research exercises for triceps and biceps and you'll have a lot of results with pictures and demonstrations, because I could list all of these random exercises and you'll have no idea what I'm talking about!Other exercises to do: Lat pull-down, seated row.Here's a pretty good website that you can check out:http://www.wellness.ma/sports-fitness/tennis-stren......Show more
Dorris Homola: Tala is wrong... What makes a pr! o is the meticulousness of their technique, the accuracy of their footwo! rk and the lucidity of their shot selection. You need to take your game from where it is and, starting with the striking motions, bring it to a point where you really get wonderful ease at directing the ball and at getting something behind each shot to retain the neutrality in rallies or to gain the offensive edge. Once your technique is nearly as good as it gets, you must get your footwork to touring quality footwork. Learning the right steps, going through them over and over and inserting them into playing situations until it's natural, done without thinking. Once you're there, you must have under hand enough understanding of tennis to choose which shot to play and why... you need a basis in strategy. When you got most of that work done, you can start tournaments. I think the American system to develop athletes is archaic and pointless: no need to compete at 12y.o.. What you need are the abilities and Americans can't get this through their heads. Players are MADE, not bor! n; players develop themselves through hitting as often and as many balls as it is possible and this is certainly not match play. You get into playing matches to put everything you learn together, but before you have a reliable quality game, it's not really worth it. If you enter tournaments, enter them with a practice mind-set; you don't really want to win tournaments when you're not evolved as a tennis player... you just need some hitting situational play. Tournaments are practice; don't care about results, just do what you can with what you have under hand. If I'd coach a kid, I wouldn't let that kid enter a tournament before he's able to do certain things. But, even if he'd/she'd start later, I know for a fact that he'd/she'd be mentally tougher and that he/she wouldn't have to bother about his/her technique....Show more
Clemmie Burkleo: interval training so that your body can become accustomed to hard work followed by 20 seconds of rest. There is a website for fi! tness. It is not a tennis website, but the work out you go thru is dyn! amic body movement which is great for tennis. check it out at www.bodyrock.tv
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