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Here’s the scenario — you’ve got some hip pain while playing tennis (or another sport) and suspect that mobility drills are the answer.
For the record, you could insert back pain, shoulder pain, or any other type of ache or pain — the idea I’m about to present still applies.
But mobility</e...
I was recently reminded that the body doesn’t care about our timelines. It’ll dictate the timeline. And, in fact, if we try to rush the timeline, it’ll prolong it.
This is a story about my Achilles flare-up, and it actually started in the spring.
I didn’t play any tennis over the winter, and because of the weather — along with my garage...
If you’ve followed me for some time, you know I’m a big proponent of squatting — and really, any scalable lower-body strength exercise — for tennis players.
That includes both bilateral lifts (like the back and front squats) and unilateral or quasi-unilateral variations such as the split-squat, lunge, and skat...
Most of the tennis players I coach are committed to improving their game. They come my way because they want to move better, get out of pain, feel more explosive, improve their skill—or a combination of the above.
Oftentimes, when we first dig into what they’ve been doing, it looks something like this: lots of tennis, a bit of weight training, and mayb...
At this point, we all know that tennis players have to be well conditioned. It not only helps you during those longer rallies, it also improves your ability to recover between points; so you can do it again and again.
But here’s the conundrum: most players assume that, to improve one’s aerobic and anaerobic abilities, the answer lies in more o...
