How Weight Lifting Can Help Tennis Players

How Weight Lifting Can Help Tennis Players Olympic Lifting in Tennis MCTA Group Building the Tennis Athlete 01 Introduction JCZ Green MCTA Director of Physical Conditioning There’s no doubt modern tennis is an extremely fast pace sport where speed of movement and pace of shock are fundamental importance. Top players are always searching for a competitive advantage. In this DVD we will look at the early stages of Olympic lift and how it transfers into Tennis. It’s worth nothing that tennis players are not professional weight lifters nor do they need the technical efficiency to lift heavy loads. We are merely using this powerful and functional method of training to become a better tennis athlete. The key area of this type of conditioning is this improvement of rate of force development. Firstly a more powerful leg drive which in turn will result in a faster pace of shock. Secondly, it improves the very players built to push into the crucial first step. In turn improves agility the ability to accelerate and decelerate effectively. Combine this with a proven improvement in flexibility, posture, and intervention and have a clear conditioning method. This DVD is not intended to replace experience or qualify practitioner but merely to show athletes and coaches the progressions teaching points, drills and coaching of the early stages of Olympic lift. Read by either my upright to the Tennis court and training. I hope you found this basic introduction into Olympic lifting for tennis players for educational and excitement. I just point I would like to you use introduce world reknowned power trainee expert Clive Brewer who will help us with the demonstration of Olympic lifting and the stages here. So this evening we’re going to look at past form of training to Olympic lifting with the help of Clive here and we’re trying to introduce you to the mechanics of creating power and now what you’re going to see this evening and the drills we go to are vital for many reasons and none when as I said before the encouragement of power from the floor upwards but these drills are so useful for flexibility but athletic dynamic flexibility for intervention because your posture has to be so good during these exercises. Speed and power of movement and these are directly transferable into tennis. The reason you do these is that if you get highly coordinated at these specific drills of Olympic lifting you can directly use these to create power in the tennis court through the legs, through the ankles, through the knees, through the hips on every show you hit you think about the real key of Olympic lifting well is this idea of triple extension so you got ankle, the knee and the hip joint and the coordination of these three areas up into real extended powerful strong posture exceptional and functional position will really help you do to create power in the court and in this position we see a forehand here when you load up you know this loading position really well and if you can time this extension through this part here and get up into the contact point and If you knew that smoothly fast and with high coordination obviously what’s going to happen is you’re going to hit the ball up harder so you could if this age we’re out of what okay or out of sync. In same on serve, the classic one is served you’ll see the position where you go up with the bar and you trade power by going through this position here which is again just your classic jump face position for the Olympic lifting with lifting technique you got it here and if you can smoothly again transfer your way up through the ankle up to the knee and up into the hip again you’ll fired up into the ball much more and increase the panel would be easy for you, okay. Another thing this is really going to be useful for is first step speed. For example the posture and that the real strong positions and functional position you’re in a an overhead split lunge position and putting power through into that position. Okay this is going to be unbelievably hopeful for the first that point of tennis court to getting a drop shot or to running faster a wide ball so in those two things hugely of hitting the ball harder with functional triple extension and that real explosive first step from a split are in invaluable in these kind of exercises. Obviously you got to do a perfect technique. He’s going to take quite a long time to get these exercises really, really posture correct but at the time if you keep the practicing the stuff what you’ll see is you’ll power an easy in which you create power and easy in which you are fast to a drop shop or jumping up into a smash will be so much easier to do. The beauty of this technique also is the fact that it’s about power, it’s about speed. It’s about highly coordinated movements. It’s about functional movements. They’re going to again help you hit the ball harder and move faster in your first on the court but the real beauty of this is this is going to really lean you out. It’s not designed to bulk you up. It’s not designed to make you a really bodybuilder kind of shape. It’s actually the complete opposite. I know that’s this guy here is a very powerful man but when we’re done you need make concise you a tennis player you know player we’re going to use this to function train you for tennis. Okay, for tennis again you need again incredibly good posture. That’s what this will give you because these forms are very strong, okay. It will give you very high levels of flexibility, again you have a bottle that you’ve had and you’re going to go into a full squat position. Okay that is going to open your hip joints up. Open your shoulders out if ever you need to move smoothly and efficiently on the court okay and the same is open. It will let you vote powerful with keeping you very lean without putting any extra bodyweight on the other one which is a great thing for a tennis player to have in their training tool book, okay.