What's your warm up routine before practice?

What's your warm up routing before practice?

  • Easy volleys near net

    Votes: 2 6.5%
  • Easy groundies near service line

    Votes: 17 54.8%
  • Easy groundies baseline

    Votes: 5 16.1%
  • No warm up - Regular groundies baseline

    Votes: 4 12.9%
  • Warm up before you hit a ball

    Votes: 3 9.7%
  • Other - specify

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    31

rk_sports

Hall of Fame
What's your warm up routine before practice?

1. Easy volleys near net
2. Easy groundies near service line
3. Easy groundies baseline
4. No warm up - Regular groundies baseline
5. Warm up before you hit a ball
6. Other - specify
 

ProgressoR

Hall of Fame
i do service line groundies first, occasionally have done easy volleys at net, but mainly the groundies. I prefer to spend a while at the service line till i am hitting well and with good control and top spin and using good footwork and a good follow through. At that stage i am pretty much warmed up, if i dont get to do that, then i am not at 100% rallying from base line, not straight away that is. I find partners get bored quickly or just dont have the control to maintain this kind of warm up. The only guy i found who did maintain it and showed good form went on to beat me, none of my other partners have. Maybe a message in that somewhere.
 

russell

Semi-Pro
Right now I do light grounders on the baseline. One thing I seen more advanced players do is go for a light jog around the court - 6-7 laps, followed by some mini-tennis at the service line.
 

ProgressoR

Hall of Fame
Right now I do light grounders on the baseline. One thing I seen more advanced players do is go for a light jog around the court - 6-7 laps, followed by some mini-tennis at the service line.

yeh i did the baseline groundies first off when i started playing but now would hate to do that, and would resist it. I havent worked up to jogging yet though, use the mini tennis as a way to get the blood circulating and the muscles warm.
 

Donny0627

Professional
I start of with groundies that are not very heavy because I am not warmed up at all. As the warm up progresses my shots get closer to normal pace
 

Ptrac

Rookie
I like to start with easy reflex volleys at net then transition to easy ground strokes at the service line.
 

BMC9670

Hall of Fame
As I get older, I'm finding it more and more important to warm up the entire body before I even take a racket out of the bag. I jog a few laps of the court, do arm pendulums and circles, 1/2 to 3/4 speed footwork drills moving side to side and front to back, play a little catch with a tennis ball or football and some light stretching. THEN I start hitting. I sometimes do this at home since the courts are close by. If not, I try and arrive a few minutes before my partner and do it.

This may seem like a lot, but a good 15 minute warm up of the entire body is worth it for injury prevention.
 

SystemicAnomaly

Bionic Poster
Like BMC, my aging body requires more warmup time. I'll often try to get in 10-20 mins of low-impact cardio before heading off to the courts. At the courts, I'll then perform a dynamic warmup (no static stretches). This warmup will often include some graduated shadow swings (slow at first, gradually increasing the swing speed) along with some footwork movement.

After the shadow swings, I'll usually hit short-court groundies for while to "warmup" the hand-eye coordination. This is usually executed with a fair amount of topspin (and some underspin swings). The WW works best for the short court topspin shots. I'll then move back to a 3/4 court position to hit some faster shots. After this, I'll either move to the net to hit vollies or I'll back up to the baseline to hit full-court groundies. This last step depends on my hitting partner (or sometimes, on my own needs for the day).
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FastFreddy

Semi-Pro
Just go out and blast and play sets right away. NYC indoor court time costs money. If you want to warmup before jumprope while you are waiting for your court.
 

rk_sports

Hall of Fame
Just go out and blast and play sets right away. NYC indoor court time costs money. If you want to warmup before jumprope while you are waiting for your court.
makes sense.. last time I played in DC area in an indoor court.. its freaking expensive..:shock:.. granted it was snowing outside.. still considering the number of free courts in cali :)

Seems like there is a warm up pattern with recreational players.. as you're growing older.. the warm up seems to go from none to about 15 mts (or more)
 
At 65, I take all the warm up I can get! No matter how much warm up I do, unless I arrive early and do 15 minutes of calisthenics, stretches and serves, which is rare, it is the 3rd game of the set before I start to feel really loose!
 

Dragy

Legend
I warmup with a coffee and cool down with a beer.

Sometimes you need to cool down between points.
 

socallefty

G.O.A.T.
During practice sessions, we start with mini-tennis strokes from inside the service line, then go to consistency groundstrokes from the middle of the baseline before progressing to specific drills. For most matches, the warmup starts from the baseline, then volleys, overheads and serves - sometimes a player will want to start with mini-tennis.
 
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