I’m at a point in my life where I’m reviewing my accomplishments and want to share some of my experiences and opinion along the way. Towards the end I also provide some food for thought. As a player I was decent. When I was a junior I was amongst the best players in my state…
Category: Coaching
Why Athletic Strength Training Makes Sense
Athletic strength training for performance is essential in improving performance on the tennis court by optimizing transfer of energy throughout the body. Athletic strength training for performance is the application of strength as it relates to conditioning, which means that the athlete needs to transfer energy through various muscle groups effectively in order to optimize…
Player Development: How To Become a Great Tennis Player
Player development is a complex task and requires an individual approach to coaching. Player Development: Having a Strategy is Key It is helpful to devise a strategy to reach an overall long-term goal (e.g. top 100 ATP/WTA ranking by age 20) early on. Parents and athletes must understand that one doesn’t become a good tennis…
How to Find Sponsors for Tennis
How to find sponsors to fund your pro tennis career is one of the issues everybody needs to solve. Developing a social media fan base is essential in achieving that goal. Finding sponsors to fund your professional tennis career is an essential ingredient for a successful tennis career because you need to pay for travel…
Why Balance & Stability Training Is Important
Balance and stability training is important for every athlete because it directly affects their performance but how? Before I provide you with an explanation for why balance and stability training is important for tennis players to improve performance, let’s define both terms first so we are all on the same page. Definition of Balance &…
Quick Foot Speed: 6 Speed Ladder Drills
Quick Foot Speed: The 6 fundamental speed ladder drills can be used by beginners to improve tennis-specific footwork and agility. Being able to move quickly on the court and change direction swiftly is essential on the tennis court. Therefore, it is important for tennis players to develop their coordination, footwork and quick foot speed early…
Ideal Tennis Player Body: Lean Mean Machine
Developing the ideal tennis player body is very important because it directly impacts the athlete’s performance; knowing what to strive for may impact your training priorities. Generally speaking, a tennis player should have powerful and well-developed legs, a strong core and a lean upper-body. Because powerful and well-developed legs allow for a solid base of…
How To Develop Agility Via Speed Ladder Drills
The ultimate reason why you want to improve your agility is to optimize your power because speed, distance over time, is one component of power (force x distance/time) and if we can increase the speed component then we will optimize power as well. Find out more about agility training: how to improve tennis specific agility.…
22 Static Stretching Exercises For Tennis Cool Down
Static stretching exercises are mainly being used after the workout or match to reduce muscle soreness the following day. Another aspect to static stretching is that you can improve overall flexibility or range of motion (ROM) at a particular joint. Having functional ROM is desirable for efficient body movement and transfer of energy capabilities. Both is…
Tennis Conditioning Book: How I Ended Up Writing It
Tennis conditioning nowadays has become brutal because more and more players are pursuing their dream of a professional career as a tennis player. A tennis conditioning book may come in handy! Getting in good physical shape and taking care of your body becomes more and more a necessity if you want to make it in…
Tennis Footwork: How Important Is It?
We usually strive for a straightforward answer but, you guessed it, it’s not that simple when it comes to tennis footwork. Tennis players have to do many things well at the same time in order to be successful and footwork is just one part of the puzzle. How important depends but what does it depend…
Cable Bicep Curl: How to Perform It
The Cable Bicep Curl is a resistance training exercise for the upper-body, which focuses on developing strength targeting the anterior arm musculature (biceps). Make sure you use appropriate weight so you can control the action throughout the entire range of motion. Otherwise you may only reap half the benefits. Very often, people use too much…