Complete Conditioning For Tennis [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Paul, Ph.D. Roetert (Editor), Todd S. Ellenbecker (Editor) "Todd Martin and Michael Chang are top-ranked tennis players and have won many titles..." (more)
Key Phrases: internal rotation flexibility, periodization training program, side service line, Exercise Action, Key Point, Hard Strength (more...)

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Product Description
Take your game to a higher level! Now you can train to play like the pros by specifically conditioning each fitness component to meet the physical demands of tennis.

Complete Conditioning for Tennis improves your strength, power, agility, flexibility, quickness, and stamina. Experts from the United States Tennis Association provide the very best training exercises and drills, sample workouts from the game’s top players, and sample programs to maximize your tennis performance. You’ll finish strong in every match.

From the Publisher
"This book covers it all. Anything you ever wanted to know about training for the sport of tennis is right here."

Patrick McEnroe Professional tennis player Tennis analyst, ESPN

"This is a great book with extremely helpful information for players of all levels—from beginners to professionals."

Mary Joe Fernandez Professional tennis player 1992 and 1996 Olympic gold medalist

"Finally, a training book that’s tied directly to tennis performance. The USTA’s conditioning program combines the best in exercise science with the best in on-court skill development."

Pam Shriver Tennis analyst, ABC Sports and ESPN Former professional tennis player

"This is the most comprehensive conditioning book on tennis currently available."

Lindsay Davenport Professional tennis player

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Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; illustrated edition edition (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880117346
• ISBN-13: 978-0880117340
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #314,738 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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66 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Complete Conditioning for Tenis Review, March 9, 2002

By	S. Dohring (North Redington Beach, FL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I gave this book 4 stars mainly beause here is nothing out there like it. Power tennis training is not even close to the coverage of this book. This book is for serious players in good shape already. I would say it is designed more for Juniors and Satalite hopefulls than the weekend player. If your working on the gut and hoping this will bring your game up you need to do more work before getting started on this book. It has great streching tips and fantastic agility drills and explains how to train based on playing tennis. What it contains is very good. The training programs however are written by people with no real world lives. They are all pros or have been around pros without I would suspect a normal 9-5 family and job. It references a lot of weight training equipment that must be in a nice gym. It covers and gets into more tournament fitness building strategy rather than an average weekend game. A modified version for the average guy would be nice. A very big dissapointment was nutrition. I was really hoping to learn when to eat, what to eat before a match etc. This book covered nothing about nutrition. It talked about water and sodium, thats it. If your really into tennis and run three times a week already and work out some, you can benefit from this book. The fitness test is good and gives you goals to shoot for but you better be self motivated. If they add two more chapters; nutrition and a modified weekend players life, home workout system this book would be perfect.

41 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Safe & Scientific Conditioning, May 9, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Sinagpore) - See all my reviews

Most conditioning methods recommended by even some of the leading lights in tennis have been a regurgitation of methods which was non-progressive and relied heavily on `past, successful experiences'. Afterall, he won with those exercises and practices, so I don't see why .... This book stays closely to the latest research so that the exercises thus recommended are safe, time-saving, objective and practical - the last a criteria for adaptation into actual court strategy w/o too much of a hindrance. Language is simple. Coaches worth their salt should have a serious look at it before dismissing it as another scientific hoodwink by a bunch of scientists who'd never played the real game, except after work.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference for Tennis Conditioning, July 16, 2000

By A Customer

Paul Roetert was formerly the Head of Sport Science for USTA Player Development in Key Biscayne. He has been instrumental in advancing US tennis scientifically and shows why here. This book was created for the tennis player and coach and perhaps is the best book on the market regarding conditioning for tennis (there are 3 or 4 other inferior books). For myself, I think it is a bit basic (a primer) and doesn't cover enough scientific applications and how to scientifically create a conditioning program. Anyhow, I think that is for the German DTB (e.g., look up Richard Schoenborn books). Otherwise, Paul and Todd (a top trainer) would limit their audience. The authors produce an excellent resource for most serious players perhaps applicable to all. This book should rank among the top ten tennis books written in the past decade.