United States Tennis Association Copyright 1998 216pp ISBN: 0880117346
Foreword: Tom Gullikson Take your game to a higher level! Now you can train to play like the pros by specifically conditioning each fitness component to meet the physical demands of tennis.
Complete Conditioning for Tennis improves your strength, power, agility, flexibility, quickness, and stamina. But unlike general strength-training and aerobic workouts, the ones provided here have been tested and proven to provide the best benefits for tennis players.
Experts from the United States Tennis Association provide
• 17 fitness tests, • 21 stretches, • 56 strength-training exercises and workouts, • 12 quickness and agility drills, • 18 ball and racket drills, • 13 sample training and workout schedules, and • 7 injury-prevention exercises and stretches.
No matter what your skill level, Complete Conditioning for Tennis provides programs that can be specifically tailored to your needs. Plus, you’ll learn where your conditioning is compared with other tennis players and how to chart your progress through the different conditioning levels.
Whether you’re the ace at your club or among your league’s rookies, with Complete Conditioning for Tennis you’ll finish strong in every match.
About the Author
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the governing body for tennis in the United States. Its membership consists of more than 500,000 individuals and nearly 6,500 organizations, including schools, park and recreation departments or community tennis associations, and tennis clubs.
The USTA is widely known as the owner and operator of the U.S. Open Championships, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments in worldwide tennis competition. The U.S. Open annually attracts more than a half-million fans, awards more than $9 million in prize money, and is broadcast on television to 125 countries.
The USTA also sponsors amateur tennis competition for players of all ages and abilities, ranging from events for children 12 and under to national tournaments for those 65 and older. More than 5 million schoolchildren are introduced to tennis each year through USTA school programs, and opportunities for further instruction and play are provided by a menu of USTA entry-level programs.
A full range of player development, sport science, and youth tennis programs is offered at the USTA training facility in Key Biscayne, FL, at 120 Area Training Centers spread throughout the country, and through local Excellence Training Programs. In addition, the USTA emphasizes coaching education and development through an ambitious offering of coaching seminars, workshops, and conferences.
The USTA developed Complete Conditioning for Tennis with the help of Paul Roetert and Todd Ellenbecker. Paul Roetert is the USTA Sport Science Administrator in Key Biscayne, FL. He received his PhD in biomechanics from the University of Connecticut and is a Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine. He is a certified tennis teaching professional with the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) and United States Professional Tennis Registry (USPTR).
Todd Ellenbecker is a physical therapist and clinic director of Physiotherapy Associates Scottsdale Sports Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ. He received his therapy degree from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and a master’s degree in exercise physiology from Arizona State University. In addition, he is a certified sports clinical specialist by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), and a certified strength and conditioning specialist.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Physical Demands of Tennis Chapter 2. Testing Tennis Fitness Chapter 3. Warm-up and Flexibility Chapter 4. Strength Training Chapter 5. Aerobic and Anaerobic Training Chapter 6. Quickness and Agility Drills Chapter 7. Ball and Racket Drills Chapter 8. Designing a Training Program Chapter 9. Tennis-Specific Conditioning Programs Chapter 10. Injury-Free Tennis Training and Performance
Words of Praise
"This book covers it all. Anything you ever wanted to know about training for the sport of tennis is right here. It is great to see all the exercises I have been through all these years down on paper. I had forgotten a few."
Patrick McEnroe Professional tennis player Tennis analyst, ESPN
"This book impresses me as being an essential part of the strength and conditioning professional’s library. The book gives a complete picture of all the components necessary to train team players. The use of conditioning drills specific to tennis will help the athlete or coach achieve conditioning goals in unique and challenging ways."
Donald A. Chu Past President, National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Clinical Manager, Novacare Pta program director, Ohlone College
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