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Tennis conditioning is important to all players at all levels.
With the
power
and
movement
demands of the modern game, changes in surface and equipment as well as the facility for players to play every day of the week if they wanted to, players really need to address the need to train to play as opposed to play to rain (as they tended to years ago).
In order to play at the highest level you can you need to get a good program in place.
It needs to address all the major physical areas of the game - speed, strength, endurance & flexibility.
But.......this is not as easy as it seems.
To be effective, the program must do several things.
1. Fit the demands of the game
2. Fit the needs of the player
3. Consider the way a player will be affected by the training
4. Be able to develop in the long term as well as the short term
5. Be linked into a simple testing structure
Without these things in place it is unlikely that the program will be effective.
Below are 2 videos you should take a look at.
This is a video of a talk I did at a conference a short while ago.