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Tennis Conditioning Program to Increase Strength, Speed and Agility
Tennis Conditioning Program
The Drop Depth Jump: A plyometric exercise to increase vertical leap and improve jumping ability
Plyometrics Training: The drop depth jump
Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung
A progression from the One Foot in Each Rung drill, challenges the speed of co-ordination of the athlete.
Tennis conditioning programmes should be adapted to surface
Tennis surfaces and energy demands
World-class tennis conditioning
A real case study
Squash, Badminton, and Tennis players: Improve your power!
Big hitting for racquet sports players – prepare yourself!
The sports psychology of tennis
Game, set, and match – developing resilient self-confidence in tennis
Skills Based Training: Female Games Players
Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training
dumbbell exercises
Dumbbell Exercises : Supine dumbbell straight arm pullover
rotator cuff rehabilitation
Rotator cuff rehabilitation: how to shake off shoulder injury
rotational power
Building rotational power: all you need to know about getting in shape to perform zippy turns on the hoof
Sports Injuries: prevention and treatment of tennis elbow
Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis) prevention and treatment
Tennis: a physiological assessment
Tennis players should focus on developing their motor skills
Eating before competition
Eating Before Competition: Can you give your performance an edge by fuelling up before exercise? Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no, and sometimes it can even have a negative effect. Here are the guidelines.
Creatine | Tennis players
Creatine serves tennis players poorly
Cure For Tennis Elbow
Cure For Tennis Elbow: Follow these rules if you want to avoid - and treat - the dreaded tennis elbow
sports vision
Sports Vision: In most sports, you'll never achieve your true potential if your eyes aren't up to it. Here's a special report on how they can be trained.
vision in sport
Vision In Sport: A guide to improving performance by training the eyes.
running foot injuries - plantar fasciitis
Running Foot Injuries - Describing plantar fasciitis is easy: It's simply an inflammation of the fascia on the bottom of the foot. Getting rid of plantar fasciitis is hard
Sports psychology: Tennis
Sports Psychology: Tennis. How a promising young tennis player was rescued from the clutches of overtraining.
Upper extremity power: tennis
Upper Extremity Power: Tennis: For years, exercise scientists with an interest in tennis have tried to determine the physical factors which allow certain tennis players to have unusually powerful serves.
Does foot structure affect injury rate?
There's been considerable confusion concerning the effects of foot structure on injury rates. Some researchers - and large numbers of people in the population at large - believe that individuals with low-arched feet have weak foot structures and are more predisposed to injuries in the lower extremities.
Winning: squash
In the weeks building to an important tournament, a squash player needs a workout that can deal with both fitness and skills in a time-efficient way. A "pressure session" can handle both these demands in just 40 minutes and is also extremely specific to the demands of squash.
Reading the game
Reading The Game: While lesser mortals grind out victories with their patient shots, eliminating risks and playing the percentages, the truly gifted seem to conjure with time. They bring an unhurried genius to their game that allows them to play shots with an audacity that sometimes surprises even them.
Tennis Elbow Treatment
Tennis Elbow Treatment: Between 10 and 50 per cent of players suffer from this nagging complaint. Here's what science says about treating and preventing it.
Tennis Elbow Treatment
Tennis Elbow Treatment: Between 10 and 50 per cent of players suffer from this nagging complaint. Here's what science says about treating and preventing it.
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