Functional Tennis Workouts
Harry_Wild
G.O.A.T.
Top 2 ranked in the world strength training regiment shown below:
General training of top tennis players shown below:
General training of top tennis players shown below:
Znak
Hall of Fame
Awesome, great start for some inspiration. Would be great to know a full workout program... I know I could make my own, but would be interesting to find out the intensity and duration of exercises.
The "fitness" industry is gold mine for scams. Think about it! Where does the information comes from? It has to originate with the athletes. Boxing. Long, long ago, people figured out the endurance plays a key role in fights, thus running was born in boxing. If it doesn't come from the athletes themselves, I'm not buying it.
You have to be good with Boolean logic to understand what I'm saying. Even if it comes from the athletes themselves, I may not buy it. Flexibility. Dancers own flexibility.
NYC Ballet Workout: Fifty Stretches And Exercises Anyone Can Do For A Strong, Graceful, And Sculpted Body Paperback – January 13, 1997
by Peter Martins (Author)
Am I going to "buy" it, figuratively and literally? Maybe not. I read one of the review on Amazon that they take basic yoga poses and put them in the book. Unless the exercises are used by the dancers themselves as they were learning ballet, I'm not buying it.
The "gym" was created by an art, bodybuilding, look up Frank Zane. It is a perfect art that all athletes can tailor to their needs. That's ⅓. You need endurance and flexibility. You can learn from triathletes and ballet dancers respectively. Tailor, like tailors. Making a suit that fits your unique dimensions in 3D space. You can take weight training, endurance training, and flexibility training to "suit" you. Unless tennis players themselves are doing the tailoring, I consider it guessing (nothing wrong with guessing).
That's another thing. Learn where the arts come from. I'm pretty sure donkey kicks came from bodybuilding (not that arts don't learn from other arts). If you see a ballet dancer doing donkey kicks:
3 possibilities.
1. Dancers always did donkey kicks. (I don't think so)
2. Dancers now incorporate donkey kicks. (maybe)
2. They rip off bodybuilding and selling it to the public. (most likely)
Here's a good video to help you understand.
You have to be good with Boolean logic to understand what I'm saying. Even if it comes from the athletes themselves, I may not buy it. Flexibility. Dancers own flexibility.
NYC Ballet Workout: Fifty Stretches And Exercises Anyone Can Do For A Strong, Graceful, And Sculpted Body Paperback – January 13, 1997
by Peter Martins (Author)
Am I going to "buy" it, figuratively and literally? Maybe not. I read one of the review on Amazon that they take basic yoga poses and put them in the book. Unless the exercises are used by the dancers themselves as they were learning ballet, I'm not buying it.
The "gym" was created by an art, bodybuilding, look up Frank Zane. It is a perfect art that all athletes can tailor to their needs. That's ⅓. You need endurance and flexibility. You can learn from triathletes and ballet dancers respectively. Tailor, like tailors. Making a suit that fits your unique dimensions in 3D space. You can take weight training, endurance training, and flexibility training to "suit" you. Unless tennis players themselves are doing the tailoring, I consider it guessing (nothing wrong with guessing).
That's another thing. Learn where the arts come from. I'm pretty sure donkey kicks came from bodybuilding (not that arts don't learn from other arts). If you see a ballet dancer doing donkey kicks:
3 possibilities.
1. Dancers always did donkey kicks. (I don't think so)
2. Dancers now incorporate donkey kicks. (maybe)
2. They rip off bodybuilding and selling it to the public. (most likely)
Here's a good video to help you understand.
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Professionals are trained by "fitness trainers", who may or may not know what they are doing. Fitness is a gold mine for scams.
strength: bodybuilding (Frank Zane)
endurance: triathletes
flexibility:
form: other sports.
boxing.
The best server, and tennis player I know, was a baseball player.
The strongest server I know (the ball went through the fence) was a volleyball player.
I have a background in ping-pong and chess (western and Chinese) (tactics and strategy).
endurance: triathletes
flexibility:
form: other sports.
boxing.
The best server, and tennis player I know, was a baseball player.
The strongest server I know (the ball went through the fence) was a volleyball player.
I have a background in ping-pong and chess (western and Chinese) (tactics and strategy).
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She's the Real Deal. She is the current #1 female stuntman in movies.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1579713/
I forgot. I'm an X-Men. I'll explain it to your level of intelligence.
Pros are doing workouts, NOT designed by retired pros. They are designed by "fitness" trainers.
Fitness trainers are 90% scam 10% guess work.
Read what I wrote for real training that can help you in tennis.
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Znak
Hall of Fame
I'm assuming if you were an X-men, your super power would involve being a condescending a$s. Listen, I wasn't looking for an opinion piece about whether or not you believe in the so-called scam that is the fitness industry. I'm looking for functional workouts that I can use at the gym or elsewhere. You suggest doing boxing, which I appreciate, but it's not in the scope of what I'm looking to incorporate.
BulldogLouisiana
Rookie
Hey man, don't argue with crazy.
Let's get into this. I ask myself, "Would I say it in real life, face to face?" Yes, I would, so I will online.
Why do you assume that a person who thinks himself as superior, crazy? Logic: Just like poker (I don't play poker, only see on TV and movies).
A. That guy does hold a higher hand. B. That guy is bluffing and does not hold a higher hand, he's just bullshitting. A. He is smarter. B. He's trying to trick you to fold your hand even though your hand is higher. A. He is smarter. B. He's trying to trick you and win even though you have superior forces. B. That also demonstrates intelligence. Why would you think he is crazy?
That is a free lesson from an X-men.
BulldogLouisiana
Rookie
Good question.
X-men free lesson #2.
A group fighting is like 2 people fighting. Like a chess game. The king is head. The infantry is the hand. In fact they use the exact same word. Phalanx = finger bones. In Chinese Chess, the 2 guards are the shoulders, the Floyd Mayweather shoulder roll. Just like the shoulders in boxing, it protects you against direct attacks (boxing), but it's a liability in grappling, arm triangle choke, exactly how a cannon checkmates. Rooks are the legs that drive the punch (pawns). The queen is the core. Knights are close quarters punches, hooks, uppercuts. Bishops are crosses. Elephants are blocks. Shield the head, hit to the body, shield to the body, hit to the head, EXACTLY like Chinese Chess.
I would be Professor X, the king, the head, who sits in a wheel chair and doesn't move. The other X-men are the limbs of the body. Wolverine, the claws. Cyclops, the eyes. Colossus, the back bone, Nightcrawler, the knight, etc . . .
I would call myself Shuai Jiang [帥將].
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/ind...eirdo-youve-ever-played.613401/#post-12155951
Did you learn something from me?
Yes > no regret
No > regret.
Did I learn something from you?
Yes. The thread is an interesting thread. There are no good answers, yet, besides mine. But it is a good question.
This video looks 100% legit. The exercises are precise and controlled. And it is specific to tennis, especially the shoulder rotations.
Don't just do "monkey see, monkey do." Look at what, and ask why? and how?
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If it comes from a sport, it's legit. Juggling a soccer ball, from soccer. I've seen with my own eyes a soccer player juggled a tennis ball like this. It was incredible.
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For 20 years, I never served overhand. The first time I did it, by back hurts and the frame of my body collapsed. I was in bed for 24 hours. Then I remembered something I read from an Arnold Schwarzenegger book long ago. Seated twist with a stick.
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/hip-strengthening.568387/#post-11072323
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/hip-strengthening.568387/#post-11072323
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