Power Up Your Tennis Game the “Complex” Way By Richard-John Mensing
ou play how you train and train how you play.” This mantra is echoed across fields, on courts and in athletic training facilities around the world. When it comes to tennis, strength, power, speed and muscle endurance are all physical performance components vital to creating a high-
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performance athlete and a successful player. It is imperative that both players and their coaches understand not only the relationships between these components, but more importantly, how integrating them into a sportsspecific program produces the desired results, at the desired times, and
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utilizes athletes’ dominant abilities. Every sport requires strength training, but it is each sport’s intrinsic demands that will determine the type of strength training needed to smartly and effectively elevate an athlete’s performance. Because tennis demands power (serve and groundstrokes), power
