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Olympic Lifting for the Junior Tennis Player: Audio Clip from Dr. Feder
Olympic Lifting For The Junior Tennis Player – A Perspective from a noted Orthopedic Surgeon who has been a Team Physician for Olympic Weightlifting at the 200 Summer Olympics and who works with dozens of professional, collegiate and high school tennis athletes. Continue reading
The Runaround Forehand Footwork Drill – Young Athlete
As the runaround forehand is a major potential weapon for all athletes, developing the appropriate footwork pattern at a young age should be a goal of any coach Continue reading
Posted in Growth & Development, Movement, Performance, Power, Speed & Agility, Training, Video
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2012 STMS/USTA Tennis Medicine & Injury Prev Conference Summary: Dr. Brian Hainline’s Positioning Youth Tennis for Success
Brian Hainline, current Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the United States Tennis Association who in 2013 will become the first Chief Medical Officer for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), presented a unique presentation titled “Positioning Youth Tennis for Success.” This presentation included information Continue reading
Progressive Coaching Cues for Teaching the Resisted Scapula Retraction Exercise
Here is a short video clip showing a real life example of a progressive method of teaching a basic scapula retraction movement with slight resistance (tubing). Continue reading
Part 4 of 4: NSCA National Conference & Exhibition Research Summary – Growth & Dev, High Intensity Training & More
This information is Part 4 of 4 continuing the series summarizing some of the most relevant presentations for tennis performance specialists from the NSCA National Conference and Exhibition in Providence, Rhode Island (July 2012). Continue reading
Audio Clips: Coach Loren Landow Provides Insights for Tennis Performance Specialists’ Focus When Training Tennis Athletes, and More
Coach Loren Landow provides his insight about the major emphasis tennis performance specialists should focus on when training tennis athletes and also some similarities and differences between training tennis athletes as opposed to athletes from other sports in these 2 audio clips. (Different content from ITPA blog on www.itpa-tennis.org). Continue reading
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How Much Strength Does A Young Tennis Athlete Need?
Reading some of the latest sports performance research focused on the young athlete, the ITPA research team came across a brand new study providing some very valuable information for the TPT and CTPS. If you work with young tennis athletes, one of the biggest questions that tennis parents and coaches both have is when should young athletes start strength training and how much weight (resistance) should young kids lift? Here is some data to help support your recommendations for when to start strength training and how much weight a young athlete can lift.
