Move on the Cue
Most players call any fast-feet drill an agility drill. By the usual sports science definition, many aren't. Agility means you change speed or direction…
Spurt Season
A growth spurt changes how a teenager's body handles training. This guide is for players and parents. The short version: keep the strength work, and cut…
Built In The Gaps
Most players think a hard session makes them stronger. It doesn't, not on the day. Right after it you're more tired and a bit weaker. The strength comes…
The Sweat Plan
When it's hot, tennis becomes a water problem. You sweat to cool down, so you lose water and salt. If you don't replace enough, your body heats up faster.…
Land Before You Leap
Most players want to jump higher and move faster, and almost nobody trains the landing. That's backwards. Every jump ends with a landing, and every hard…
Match-Day Fuel
Most players only think about food on match day when they feel flat in the third set. By then it's late. What you eat and drink before, during and after…
The Clean Restart
Missed sessions happen to everyone. Exams, travel, a cold, a busy month. The real questions are how much you lose, where to pick up again, and when to see…
Sore or Hurt
Most players can't tell sore from hurt until it's too late. One means your muscles are adapting. The other can cost you weeks. Here's how to tell them…
Built to Last
Tennis means thousands of serves, shots, stops and pushes every season. Building a robust body means getting the parts that take most of that load ready…
Pick Your Weight
Most lifters pick a weight by guessing, then wonder why the session felt too easy or too hard. RPE gives you a better way. It's a 1 to 10 rating of how…
Sleep Is Training
Most players count their sets and reps and ignore what happens while they sleep. This is sleep and recovery for tennis players in plain words: how much…
Fast Start, Hard Brake
Most running in tennis is short. A player covers about 3 m per shot and 8 to 12 m per point. That's why speed, braking and change of direction matter more…
Lift for the Court
Most players who start lifting copy a bodybuilding plan, or add weight until it burns and call that a session. Neither builds strength for tennis. This is…
The Quiet Engine
Most players think tennis fitness means running a long time without getting tired. That's only half of it. Tennis aerobic fitness is the engine that gets…
The Tennis Warm-Up
Most players jog a lap, hit a few forehands, and call it a warm-up. Then the first set feels slow.
Keep Your Edge
Most players either lift too hard right before a match or stop lifting the second a tournament starts. Both cost you. This is how to fit strength training…
Eat to Train
Most players think about food only when they feel flat in the second hour of practice. What you eat before, during and after training decides how well you…
Train By Feel
Many players have one week a month that feels different, and for a lot of them that's their period. How you handle it matters more than the four or five…
The Comeback Rules
Most injured players ask what the program will do for them. That's half the picture. The other half is yours, and it has little to do with sets and reps.…
Built for Bursts
Tennis asks your body for something odd: short, hard efforts, again and again, for an hour or more. Here's what that looks like point by point, what it…
The Case For Strength
Most players hear "strength training" and think of big muscles and a bodybuilder's gym. That's not the goal for a tennis player. Strength training means…
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