Tennis Anatomy

See your tennis game as you never have before. See what it takes to improve consistency and performance on the court. Tennis Anatomy will show you how to ace the competition by increasing strength, speed, and agility for more powerful serves and more accurate shots. Tennis Anatomy includes more than 72 of the most effective exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting muscles in action. Tennis Anatomy goes beyond exercises by placing you on the baseline, at the net, and on the service line. Illustrations of the active muscles for forehands, backhands, volleys, and serves show you how each exercise is fundamentally linked to tennis performance. You'll also learn how exercises can be modified to target specific areas, improve your skills, and minimize common tennis injuries. Best of all, you'll learn how to put it all together to develop a training program based on your individual needs and goals. Whether you’re a serve and volleyer, baseliner, or all-court player, Tennis Anatomy will ensure that you step onto the court ready to dominate any opponent.

Tennis Anatomy shows you how to ace the competition by increasing strength, speed, and agility for more powerful serves and more accurate shots.

Filled with time-tested drills designed to improve every aspect of one's game, this updated edition is the ideal resource for any tennis player who wants to gain an edge on their competition. With more than 100 practice drills for both group and independent practice, readers will learn how to improve their serving, returning, groundstrokes, lobs, drop shots, approach shots, overheads, volleys, and much more. The singular, authoritative source for skill-enhancing drills, this guide is equally useful for beginning or advanced players of all ages.

Barron’s Anatomy & 100 Stretching Exercises for Tennis includes guidelines and advice designed to help racket sport players improve their safety and performance. You’ll get full-color photos and illustrations, along with step-by-step descriptions of each exercise and technique and its impact on anatomy. This guide can help you improve your form and learn new techniques for a variety of racket sports, including tennis, paddleball, squash, and badminton. Whether you’re a recreational player or a high-performance athlete, you can benefit from learning about biomechanics, ergonomics, stretching techniques, and more. You’ll get: 88 specific stretches to help players achieve optimal performance, along with detailed explanations of each stretch 12 dynamic warm-up stretches to delay the onset of muscle fatigue and avoid discomfort due to prolonged playing Knowledge about the biomechanics of racket sports, including the anatomical descriptions of the muscle groups involved Instructions on choosing the right racket to fit your specific needs for greater comfort and performance The basic history and evolution of tennis and other racket sports, and more These 100 stretches can help players and racket enthusiasts learn how to improve their form—and reach new performance heights—with every serve, volley, and passing shot.

This book shares my personal knowledge of tennis. I am an amateur player. I started late, at the age of fifty-four. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, but I always understand the game. It was impossible without knowledge. Years ago my frustration in skiing came to an end due to a picture that compared skiing to bicycle riding.* It was all I needed for skiing technique to become natural to me and to become an advanced skier in a matter of days. The necessity to find the "bicycle" of tennis to really start playing was obvious to me. My background made it possible. Actually, it was two "bicycles" two elements that constitute a powerful tennis stroke. Once found, my game changed from end to end. Implementing these two elements in a stroke and practicing them, rather than chasing a ball, became a major part of my training. Hitting the ball became a result of a well-designed tennis stroke. Identifying and understanding elements of a tennis stroke require knowledge in physics. Sharing this knowledge in a simple language is all this book is about: illustration of two elements that constitute every powerful tennis stroke and then presenting the forehand, backhand, and service as a combination of these two. *The Anatomy of Skiing by R. J. Sanders, MD