| Tennis - A glamorous sport, very gratifying when you win, very taxing on the aging body - train right to stay in the game.
Tennis is another essentially one-sided sport, with the dominant hand/arm/shoulder taking most of the stress. It takes great endurance along with resilient tendons, ligaments and muscles that won't snap when loaded suddenly by impact. The type of exercise that promotes these capabilities is called plyometrics. This is characterized by multi-joint exercises involving quick motions to accelerate and decelerate a modest, but significant, weight or load. It builds maximum starting and stopping strength and conditions the ligaments and tendons to withstand impact stresses.
Plyometric exerecise looks simple, but is very demanding of the systemic energy of your body - it will leave you feeling pretty wiped out with only 15 to 20 minutes workout. Seniors can get great benefit from this form of exercise done one or two days a week in preparation for the weekend game. Done too hard or too often, it will result in the same pains and strains as the game; the key is to never outrun our repair mechanisms. Plyometric exercise trains the nerve-muscle connection, coaxing the nervous system to activate the greatest number of muscle fibers in minimum time, building speed and rapid force. These exercises involve both eccentric (lengthening under force) and concentric (shortening under force) muscle activity.
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1. Tennis's Psychology and Fitness
by Jennifer Seaton
Post Date: 07/20/2008
Is physically being adapted one of the conditions most important to play tennis. The force, the intensity and the sensitivity to tennis are only possible if all systems physical, mental, and highly-strung persons of an individual player are in the air between them. To realize intensified this level of state of preparation requires regular and methodical formation on behalf of the player of tennis ...more...
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2. The Importance of Physical Activity in a Child's Life
by Amanda Alvarado
Post Date: 07/17/2008
Participation in organized sports can have many benefits for children by not only increasing their physical activity, health, and well being, but by also helping develop social skills.
The Physical Benefits
Physical education and organized sports offer many benefits, including, development of motor skills needed for enjoyable participation in physical activities; pro ...more...
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3. How To Select The Right Tennis Instructor
by matt may
Post Date: 07/16/2008
As you can imagine there are numerous considerations that you should take into account if you are trying to select a suitable tennis instructor for a child. What is suitable for an adult is not always the best match for a child and this can sometimes be a very difficult difference to distinguish. What you determine as the first criteria is obviously someone who is skilled and talented as a playe ...more...
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4. The Key to Success in Tennis
by matt may
Post Date: 07/15/2008
As most people readily realize, everything you do in life is directly determined in success by how you approach it. This means if you are willing to approach a situation with an open mind and a bit of self-confidence in yourself, you are going to be much more likely to succeed than someone who approaches with a grudge, attitude or just lack of self-confidence. At the same time if you are trying ...more...
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5. The Psychology Of Physical Fitness
by Jennifer Seaton
Post Date: 06/04/2008
Physical fitness is one of the great essentials of match play. Keenness can only be acquired if the physical, mental, and nervous systems are in tune. Consistent and systematic training is essential to a tournament player. Regular hours of sleep, and regular, hearty food at regular hours are necessary to keep the body at its highest efficiency. Food is particularly important. Eat well, but do not ...more...
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6. Tennis Elbow - how to avoid or treat
by Yunis Khan
Post Date: 05/12/2008
Tennis Elbow Injury Explained
Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis) is a common causes of elbow pain. Tennis Elbow is characterised by pain over the outer side of the elbow, which may radiate down the forearm. Despite the name, Tennis Elbow does not just afflict tennis professionals. In fact, this common elbow problem (it affects about 3% of the population) is most often associated with wor ...more...
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7. Who says men are more powerful than women?
by gilbert melgar
Post Date: 01/14/2008
This question may be partially truthful, but not in tennis.
The Williams sisters from U.S. are living proofs of this fact. Venus and Serena Williams bagged several championship titles individually. Serena, the younger of the two sisters, shook the scene in 2002 when she got the championship title against Justine Henin, who is currently the top female tennis player. Venus, on the other hand ...more...
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8. Top 7 Tips To Treat And Prevent Tennis Elbow
by Raymond Lee
Post Date: 11/27/2007
You don’t have to play tennis to get tennis elbow. In fact, about 95 percent of folks with this condition never set foot on a court. Instead, they garden, they type, they turn wrenches, they carry briefcases, activities that require them to repeatedly rotate the elbow or flex the wrist, usually while gripping a heavy object. Like a good backhand, tennis elbow takes time to develop. The first sign ...more...
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9. How to Hit Fast Aces
by Todd Scott
Post Date: 11/10/2007
Before I tell you about the single most effective upper body exercise for adding to your tennis serve, I would like to tell you that increasing the explosiveness of your serve isn't created JUST from explosive upper body strength. First and foremost, you'll need to develop explosive power in your lower body and be able to transfer this power up your body to your racquet. The second thing is, you ...more...
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10. Effective Rotator Cuff Stretch Before a Tournament
by Todd Scott
Post Date: 11/04/2007
How in the world do you stretch your shoulders before a match? I've seen a lot of strange "demonstrations" from shoulder swings to the spread eagle from players out on the court getting warmed up just before a match. Some of the things I've seen can be effective if you know the precise "feeling" you should be trying to accomplish during the stretch, but NOTHING will loosen your r ...more...
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11. Treat tennis elbow with R.I.C.E.
by Geoff Hunt
Post Date: 10/16/2007
Many repetitive stress injuries, such as tennis elbow, can be well advised to implement hot and cold therapy to prevent the injury from getting any worse.
I bet many of you have heard of the R.I.C.E. principle. It has been around and used for many years to treat various injuries, mostly muscle related tears, swelling and inflammation.
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12. Tennis Fitness Program: Are You Too Old To Improve Your Tennis G...
by Todd Scott
Post Date: 06/27/2007
Many tennis players, especially recreational players, wouldn't think twice about skipping a tennis workout , using their age as an excuse… or the excuse that they ONLY play for the fun of it. This, at first glance, would be a genuine excuse not to adhere to a tennis fitness workout.
As most tennis players are led to believe tennis workouts ...more...
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13. Tennis Conditioning: Super Effective Tennis Conditioning Program...
by Todd Scott
Post Date: 06/26/2007
Perform this Tennis Conditioning Program without any gym equipment except a jump rope, and a do it yourself, old school training gadget....
... A homemade sandbag
The sandbags for your tennis conditioning program can range anywhere between 10-100+ lbs, depending on how you make it, and your current strength level.
For the purpose of this High Intensity Tennis Training Seg ...more...
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14. Improve Your Tennis Quickness with Complex Training
by Todd Scott
Post Date: 06/24/2007
You ever feel like a deer in headlights on the tennis court? If so... here's a strategy improve your quickness... Simply put, your reaction time to the tennis ball is measured by
1) how long it takes you to recognize the tennis ball off your opponent's racquet. 2) how long it takes you to 'register' which direction the tennis bal ...more...
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15. Tennis Fitness Drills
by mark norton
Post Date: 06/10/2007
To make gains in tennis, players attack their training in a series of tennis fitness drills. Depending upon their characteristic and intent, these can be performed on the tennis court, in the gym or at home. The wide variety of options allows players to practice and improve in different venues.
Various books describe different methods to improve your game. They all mention fitness drills. ...more...
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16. Setting up your Strength Training For Tennis
by mark norton
Post Date: 06/10/2007
Fitness training for tennis is a broad, encompassing subject. There are varying approaches on how best to be prepared to excel in the sport. In essence, however, the different regimes focus on the same required elements: coordination, speed, agility, reactions, endurance, flexibility and strength.
Practice does make for perfect
There is also one other common aspect - practice. A ...more...
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17. Get Fit with Tennis
by mark norton
Post Date: 06/10/2007
Fitness and workouts specific to tennis tend to be one of the most effective means to get fit when mainly aerobic exercises are involved, but that is not necessarily true for everyone. It is essential that a tennis player condition her/his body before engaging in hard court play to avoid injury. Through various types of fitness and workouts specific to tennis, a player can gain a toned body, bette ...more...
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18. Getting and Staying in Shape For Tennis
by mark norton
Post Date: 06/10/2007
Tennis and physical fitness go hand-in-hand. It is a demanding sport exercising different parts of your body. Playing tennis requires joint flexibility, develops and tones your muscles and enhances your cardiovascular system. Your legs, arms, back, lungs and eyes get a work out. It is a marathon comprised of highly demanding skills including hand-eye coordination, balance and agility.
Not ...more...
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19. How to get conditioned for tennis
by mark norton
Post Date: 06/10/2007
Tennis conditioning techniques are useless to a body that is so inflexible that its maximum range of motion cannot be reached. For a beginning tennis player, stretching and warm-ups have to be essential to successful and injury-free tennis play. Key tennis conditioning techniques have to focus on strengthening the body as well as keeping its joints and muscles limber.
What the experts are ...more...
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20. Some Tennis Tips to improve your game!
by Gavin Dye
Post Date: 03/06/2007
Consistent and systematic training is essential to any tennis player. This "sharpness" that can mean the difference between winning and losing can only be acquired if the body and mind are are in tune. Here are some tips to give you that "sharpness" on the court.
Getting regular hours of sleep, and eating regular, well balanced meals at regular hours are necessary to keep the b ...more...
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21. The Psychology Of Physical Fitness
by John Ugoshowa
Post Date: 11/22/2006
Physical fitness is one of the great essentials of match play. Keenness can only be acquired if the physical, mental, and nervous systems are in tune. Consistent and systematic training is essential to a tournament player.
Regular hours of sleep, and regular, hearty food at regular hours are necessary to keep the body at its highest efficiency. Food is particularly important. Eat well, ...more...
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22. Julian Krinsky Camps and Programs - written by Dawn E. Wardon, M...
by grant griffiths
Post Date: 11/16/2006
Krinsky Can-do
One day, a tennis star set up camp in Haverford, and summers on the Main Line haven't been the same since.
By Dawn E. Warden
Kids and adults love Julian Krinsky. And, yeah, he's a lovable guy—especially when he's behind the wheel of the company, er, school bus. No doubt about it, Krinsky has found the secret to entrepreneurial success: Find something you en ...more...
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23. Dealing with Tennis Elbow
by Craig LePage, CSCS, NASM-CPT
Post Date: 06/16/2005
In addition to effecting tennis players, tennis elbow effects a great number of people who are involved in activities outside of the sport of tennis. Tennis elbow also known as lateral Epicondylitis is caused by damaging the tendon of the extensor muscles in the forearm. The tendon of these extensor muscles connects to the lateral epicondyle of the upper arm bone called the hum ...more...
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