Ridiculous squats by Nadal

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sureshs

Bionic Poster
I had a bet with a teaching pro at the club about Nadal winning FO. He now owes me a can of balls, but has disappeared for the last couple of days. I think he is waiting to give me two cans after Rafa wins Wimbledon by defeating Roddick in the final.
 
MariaS

MariaS

Semi-Pro
He needs to move or exercise before playing a match. Haven't you ever seen him racing onto the court and racing back to the baseline? He's hilarious but he does what he needs to do. :)
 
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OrangeOne

Legend
Honestly, for those who seriously think those squats are difficult....

HAVE YOU NEVER STOOD UP FROM A CHAIR?

Those squats he's doing are dead-easy, and looking at the knee-position, I'd suggest he's doing them more for specific recovery or physio-suggested work.
 
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herosol

Professional
yea they're not hard. yes you can get tired if you do it ALOT.
But it's not like it's at a level where it's impossible to do...even just one.

i'm sure Rafa does things that are 1000x harder then what he just did there.
Probably benching the 400s...500s...600s... :p
 
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Bjorn99

Hall of Fame
It is all about compression, that is why he and Roger and now Djokovic rule. Running is one thing, compressing your body into a bending position and then coming out of it, is well, THE BLEEDING GAME.


Very few people are willing to do the exercises that NEED to be done. But if they do, they dominate. That exercise is but one, of many that Nadal does to create a body that is willing to dig the way his does.
 
jmsx521

jmsx521

Hall of Fame
Oh, you people those are easy! Plus, as OrangeOne said, it's like getting up from a chair... not a whole lot special. I can do this from my ankles strapped (on a bench-press). Plus, add 20lbs extra added onto my chest.
 
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fer

Rookie
Staying a few seconds in the same position (with your knees bent) is probably hard, not like getting up from a chair.
 
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Deleted member 22147

Guest
Why do people on this forum think that mass=strength and that mass will improve tennis, of course it wont.

Roger is the one who hits harder than Nadal, keep reminding yourself that.
 
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OrangeOne

Legend
fer said:
Staying a few seconds in the same position (with your knees bent) is probably hard, not like getting up from a chair.
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One of the two of us has in the past been a fitness trainer, and one hasn't. One of us has taught people to squat, and one hasn't. One of us knows that bodyweight squats with a short isometric hold are acheivable by most of the population, the other doesn't seem to.

Probably hard? Geez, you make it sound that even trying it would be hard! I assume you're sitting at a chair now. Raise your butt off the chair by an inch as if you were going to stand up, but don't stand up. Stay there. Hold there for 1 or 2 seconds. It's not ridiculously easy in that it takes just a tiny bit of effort, but it's an activity of everyday living that most non-sedentary individuals are capable of.
 
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OrangeOne

Legend
Gugafan said:
Nadal hits with more spin, has more natual atheltic ability and is probably alot fitter then Federer. Nadal seems to be getting stronger every year. Many had suggested he would burnout with he's playing style, but the amazing fitness training he puts in just seems to make his body stronger.
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Someone with the username "gugafan" thinks that people just get stronger and stronger, and tend away from injury?

Wow.

For the record, there are many elements to fitness. Just because someone is bigger or hits harder does not automatically make them 'fitter'.
 
superman1

superman1

Legend
Vid doesn't work for me but I was expecting a video of him squatting 400. If he's just doing bodyweight, so what?
 
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OrangeOne

Legend
Enlightened Coelacanth said:
I can see why his knees ache towards the end of the season.
His squats do more damage than good ( to his knees).
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Yeah. Sure. Or, perhaps (as I suggested above), this exercise could very well be a physio prescribed exercise designed to strengthen / balance him, possibly his VMO muscle? VMO strengthening and other similar squats etc etc can all be used to reduce elements of imbalance that can contribute to knee pain.

But yeah, you know, TTW posters with no fitness or physiological training probably know better than someone with access to the best trainers in the world.
 
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