Many tennis players ranging from the weekend warrior to the competitive athlete sometimes find themselves down in the dirt late in a match - Kicked out wide and unable to recover to the ball.
Did you need to work on your footwork?
Endurance?
Strength?
The answer may shock you.
---------------Training to Recover From Wide, Crosscourt Shots---------------
The logical assumption in this instance is that you may have footwork problems.
That may be the case, but what if your footwork is sound, your endurance is great, your strength is there, yet you're still getting pushed out of the point from across the net?
Well, frankly, sometimes it will happen. You won't be able to recover. I'm not going to sugar coat that for one second.
But sometimes, a lot of times, you're able to *almost* recover, bringing your racquet to within inches of the ball, but it's still not enough.
A fraction of a second determines whether the ball zips by you or whether you smack It back across the net - maybe for a winner.
So what gives?
It could be your first step back towards the ball - lack of power output.
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Measuring Power Output
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Power Output =
Total Weight X Total Reps
{divided by}
Total Working Time
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Take 2 players, Player A and Player B.
Each can squat 135 pounds for 8 reps.
It takes player A approximately 30 seconds to Perform 8 reps and Player B it only takes 27 Seconds to perform 8 reps.
Power Output for Player A:
1080 (135x8)/ 30 seconds = 36lbs/second
Power Output for Player B:
1080 (135x8)/27 seconds = 40lbs/second
Player B has greater power output moving 40 lbs per second and will be able to recover alot quicker than player A if he's kicked out wide by his opponent.
Increasing your power output on your first step will greatly increase the chances of you fully recovering from a wide shot from your opponent. Increasing your total power output doesn't necessarily mean increasing the amount of weight lifted. Here are a few ways to increase your total power output.
-1-> Total reps increase, while total working time remains the same
-2-> Total working time decrease, while the total weight and total reps remain the same
-3-> Total weight increase, while the working time and total reps remain the same
-4-> All of the above occur at the same time…
Total weight increases - total reps increases - total working time decreases.
Shave a fraction of a second off your recovery time in tennis by increasing your power output and your opponent may have unknowingly just set you up to smash a winner.
As one of the nation's most in-demand fitness trainers, Todd Scott is a training advisor to Men's Fitness and Muscle & Fitness Hers magazines. You can find his articles on news stands today and in nearly every issue of Men's Fitness or Muscle & Fitness Hers magazines for the past 2 years. A high school champion tennis player-turned-fitness expert finally decided, after a little arm twisting by his tennis clients, to allow public access into his Tennis Specific Fitness Databank to help people just like you develop strength and power to hit stronger shots and win more matches. TennisFitnessTips.com is a website designed to help you "Train Hard & Win Easy!"...
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