Tennisletics Blog
Getting children involved in sport at a young age is a great way to help aid their development, both physically and mentally. Tennis is the perfect sport for kids as its a sport that can be picked up at any age and teaches them valuable life lessons such as teamwork, confidence, and discipline. Below we’ve highlighted a few of the key mental and physical benefits of playing tennis.
Core exercises to improve strength and stability in tennis are a vital part of fitness training for tennis. The abdominal, oblique and lower back muscles are extensively used for the three basic and most important shots in tennis – the serve, forehand, and backhand. Strengthening your core will provide that vital stability for times when you are forced off balance or pressed by an opponent on the baseline - and likely make the critical difference between a good shot and a bad one.
No matter whether you play once a week or train every day playing tennis is a fantastic sport to help keep you healthy and in shape. Tennis requires the perfect mix of cardiovascular fitness coupled with muscular strength. In addition to this tennis is a sport that uses your full body not just specific muscles, meaning you need a greater level of general fitness.
We’ve answered some of the most common questions that we get asked about all aspects of tennis on a regular basis.
Tennis elbow, or to give it its medical name lateral epicondylitis, is a condition that causes pain around the outside of the elbow due to overuse of the muscles and tendons in the forearm. As the name suggests it is a condition that is common in tennis players due to the increased strain put on the elbow joint and forearm when returning shots.
