Tennis Fitness for the Love of it: A Mindful Approach to Fitness for Injury-free Tennis [Paperback]

Suzanna McGee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 12, 2010

Every tennis player at any age and skill level wants to play high-level tennis without pains and injuries. If you strive for improvement but cannot train as hard as you wish to, because you hurt often, this is a book for you. You will find practical advice on how to adjust your training to the requirements of your body, and how to achieve maximum tennis fitness that will improve your performance and your tennis game. 

You will learn how to:

• listen to your body
• understand what your body is telling you
• strengthen your weaknesses
• balance your strengths
• discover and correct your imbalances
• prevent future injuries
• improve your tennis performance through mindful fitness

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Two thumbs up!" Excellent job of presenting essential injury prevention material for tennis players of all levels. The stretches and exercises would in fact benefit ANYONE who is active.

--Dr. Carmine Gangemi, DC, CSCS; Venice, CA

From the Author

To all the tennis players of any age and skill level, who always strive for improvement and who never stop believing that the impossible is possible, and who know that there are no limits to growth and performance other than the human mind.

This book is little in size, yet big in knowledge. Carry it in your tennis bag, purse, or your gym backpack. Pull it out often and reread the chapters repeatedly, until you develop an awareness of your body. This awareness will enable you to improve. Read and learn until you hear what your body is telling you. Like any mastery, to become aware needs to be practiced regularly. Strengthening your weaknesses will make you an even better athlete. This book is your friend after your tennis practice when you lie down in the grass to reflect and stretch. Small things make the biggest difference if you do them consistently and over prolonged periods. Just half an hour a day of conscious training and striving for balance will make a significant difference in no more than a few months. In the long term, you will always play tennis without chronic pains and injuries. Practice conscious tennis fitness for the love of it.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Zuzi Publishing (August 12, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982949960
• ISBN-13: 978-0982949962
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #27 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Coaching > Tennis

More About the Author

Suzanna McGee was born in 1965 in Czechoslovakia. She was a national level athlete. After earning her master degree in computer science, she moved to Sweden in 1988. She was teaching computer science at the university and in her free time she was training athletes in physical fitness. In 1996 she moved to California and has been enjoying training the athletes and fitness enthusiast full time. She was a high-level drug-free bodybuilder and later a competitive tennis player. She loves to write about health and fitness, and enjoys helping people to become fit and feel good. Her book "Tennis Fitness for the Love of it" teaches the mind-body connection, understanding your body, and the simple techniques how to become injury-free for the rest of your life. Suzanna speaks six languages, enjoys sports, reading, learning, creating things, the sunshine, ocean and her two dogs.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing Insight Into Tennis Fitness and Beyond! December 15, 2010

By Wesley

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As an athlete and parent of an athlete, Suzanna's book gives practical advice on exercises to help maintain balance in your fitness routine. Many injuries I have observed over the years in adult tennis are result of natural imbalances in tennis motions which tends to favor one side of the body. Suzanna drives home the point that it is important to maintain your core performance through exercises that balance the muscles and joints throughout the body. As a multiple sport athlete, the exercises and stretches work for many sports and she has gotten me to rethink my training routine. This is a great book for teaching tennis pros as well!

Wesley Ropp, CMA, MBA
Charleston, SC USA

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A way to understand why I get injured and what to do about it October 11, 2010

By Ari E Miller

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I've been playing tennis for 25 years, and the first 20 went by without a serious injury. But once I got hurt, I couldn't figure out how to recover. I had a job that had me sitting down for 10+ hours a day, and I just started getting less and less able to play tennis without pain. The exercises Suzanna describes in this book helped me to recover from those injuries, and to condition my body to avoid injury from the stresses of playing tennis. They also showed me how to compensate for a variety of the stresses I was inflicting on my body as part of my desk job. I highly recommend the book both for the explanations it gives of the types of stresses that lead to injury, and the excellent photos and descriptions that make it possible to understand how to do each exercise and what to focus on.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Guys, this book is especially for you, too. January 27, 2012

By CharlieinNeedham

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I know most tough guys are not going to get past the front cover. There is no picture of Verdasco on the cover, and the author is not Arnold Bonecrusher. There is not even one chapter on "How to squat your pickup truck".
Get it anyway.
Playing tennis all too commonly results in overuse injuries. Instead of feeling better from playing, many are injured and sore.
And getting you in better shape for tennis is only the beginning. It will get you in great shape to really enjoy life - no more sore back, aching shoulders and lack of energy.
So this book could be the salvation for many a weekend warrior or league layer not yet in shape.
More, it has the information to contribute to all those who think they are already reasonably fit, but are looking for a book for more great tips and how to put it all together.
It is incredibly well organized to check on sensible advice on how to treat sore knees, elbows, shoulders, etc., clear direct instructions and pics on how and why to do add specific exercises/stretches into your routine, and great advice on such diverse topics as nutrition and hydration to even a great dynamic warm-up drill before play.
What a great read.
So sensible. So refreshingly uncomplicated.
It reads like People magazine but with the huge difference that here wisdom oozes throughout.
Just the right pic to illustrate the point.
This is THE primer for tennis players looking to start getting really fit.
The author is a champion body builder who could crush most of us, but doesn't include weight work in the book. For that you you'll have to turn to Mark Rippetoe's Starting Stength.
And there aren't High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)and Agility drills - but these are easily obtainable elsewhere.
But guys, until she comes out with that Arnold Bonecrusher edition, get this book now as it is and profit from it.