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EP 90 Sports Science
#90 - Tennis: All Things Fitness, Agility, Hitting Power, Injury Prevention
Tennis demands fitness, speed, power, reflexes and the ability to actually hit the ball. James and Jacob break down how we train tennis athletes to build real athleticism on the court, covering sport-specific conditioning, ankle sprain prevention, cutting mechanics, thoracic posture and the plyo step transitions that separate good movers from great ones.
Show notes
Tennis players definitely need to have high levels of aerobic fitness, but that still doesn’t mean pounding the pavement with long slow runs. All the same rules of sport specific fitness apply