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Most of the tennis players I coach are committed to improving their game. They come my way because they want to move better, get out of pain, feel more explosive, improve their skill—or a combination of the above.
Oftentimes, when we first dig into what they’ve been doing, it looks something like this: lots of tennis, a bit of weight training, and maybe some machine cardio.
In last week’s article, I wrote about easing into COD (change-of-direction) type of work. More specifically, I touched on COD drills and some of the best ways of incorporating them into training, especially in the early stages.
I recently started working with a young 19 year old. As I always do when starting to coach a new player, I took him through some testing (both formal and informal). Part of this process is simply me asking players what type of training they’ve been doing of late, what they like doing and so on.
Funny enough, this player mentioned that explosiveness is a priority of his. That it’s something he feels has been lacking in his game - he came to the right place ;).
