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Accelerating your Tennis Game with Off-Court Training
A fit player is a stronger player both physically and mentally. Off Court training accelerates a player’s on court performance. When the player gets fatigued their movement gets sloppy, their stroke spacing is off and unforced errors begin to fly off their racket. Poor decision making and negative emotions set in. Often, the actual cause of a child’s emotional breakdown is lack of fitness.
Unfit players do not perform their rituals, they do not spot tendencies and they do not manage their mistake. Poor physical fitness manifests in mental and emotional breakdowns. For instance, most juniors go for low percentage shots due to the fact that they are too tired to grind out the point. So is off-court training linked to the mental side? Absolutely!
The Following Off Court Training Skills are Essential to High Performance Tennis:
- Lateral Movement (Side to side)
- Up & Back movement (Forward & back)
- Aerobic Fitness
- Ability to Accelerate
- Ability to Decelerate
- Speed/Agility
- Stamina
- Recovery Time (Between points)
- Recovery Time (Between matches)
- Strength (Upper body/core/lower body)Body Coordination (Gross motor skills)
- Hand-Eye Coordination (Fine motor skills)
- Flexibility/Stretching
- Anticipatory Speed
Accelerate your child’s tennis game with proper off court training. High level tennis demands high level fitness. Ignoring off court training and only focusing on stroke mechanics will severely limit your child’s tennis potential. I recommend you begin by selecting two or three of your child’s weakest off court tennis skills and begin developing. A stronger fitter player will be more confident and mentally tougher!
FYI: Proper hydration and nutrition is also a critical factor in the physical, mental and emotional links of every tennis competitor. As parents, we have to insist that our players fuel up before battle. Dehydration triggers fatigue, dizziness, headaches and nausea. Improper nutrition lowers the blood sugar levels to the brain. Improper nutrition and hydration guarantees poor decision making skills at crunch time.
Contact: Frank Giampaolo
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