Speed training for tennis / Manfred Grosser, Heinz Kraft, Richard Schonborn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grosser, Manfred.

Contributor:

Kraft, Heinz.

Schönborn, Richard.

Standardized Title:

Schnelligkeitstraining im Tennis. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tennis.

Tennis--Training.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2007, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although speed is, along with technique and coordination, one of the most important performance-limiting factors in tennis, apart from a few exceptions it is mentioned only sporadically if at all in the specialist tennis literature. In the rare cases when hints for practical training are given, they are usually too short or too general and unsystematic. When one considers that in championship tennis, according to court surface, a quarter to a third of all strokes are hit under time pressure (i.e. at least one stroke per point), then the influence of the various forms of speed on the match resu

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Editors' Foreword; Authors' Foreword; 1 Introduction: 10 points on the importance of speed in tennis; 2 Some necessary theory; 2.1 What is speed?; 2.2 Some biologically and developmentally conditioned aspects and their significance in the game of tennis; 3 Overview of biological and practical training goals and long-term planning; 3.1 What are training goals?; 3.2 What is long-term planning?; 4 Training methods and exercises; 4.1 General methodical hints; ""4.2 """"Learning"""" and training of time-programmes""; 4.2.1 Definition and methodical hints

4.2.2 Exercises to form time-programmes by jumps4.2.3 Exercises to form time-programmes by throws; 4.2.4 Exercises to form time-programmes by services; 4.3 Training of reaction speed and action velocity; 4.3.1 Definition and methodical hints; 4.3.2 Exercises to improve reaction speed and action velocity without anticipation; 4.3.3 Exercises to improve reaction speed and action velocity with anticipation; 4.4 Training of frequency speed; 4.4.1 Definition and methodical hints; 4.4.2 Exercises to improve frequency speed with focus on legs

4.4.3 Exercises to improve frequency speed with focus on shoulders/arms4.5 Combined training of action velocity, frequency speed, strength-speed and coordinative abilities; 4.5.1 Definition and methodical hints; 4.5.2 Exercises for the combined improvement of action velocity, frequency speed, strength-speed and coordinative abilities; 4.6 Training of complementary performance-determining factors; 4.6.1 General comments; 4.6.2 Strength training; 4.6.2.1 Definition and methodical hints; 4.6.2.2 Basic exercises to stabilise the abdomen and back muscles

4.6.2.3 Exercises to improve chest, shoulder and arm muscles by the basic method4.6.2.4 Exercises to improve the hip and leg muscles by the basic method; 4.6.2.5 Exercises to improve the hip and leg muscles by the speed-oriented maximum strength method; 4.6.2.6 Explosive strength exercises to improve hip and leg muscles; 4.6.2.7 Reactive strength exercises to improve foot, leg and hip muscles; 4.6.2.8 Explosive strength exercises to improve shoulder and arm muscles; 4.6.2.9 Reactive strength exercises to improve shoulder and arm muscles; 4.6.2.10 Exercises to improve foot and leg muscles

4.6.3 Endurance training4.6.3.1 Definition and methodical hints; 4.6.3.2 Training programmes; 4.6.4 Flexibility training; 4.6.4.1 Definition and methodical hints; 4.6.4.2 Exercises to improve flexibility; 5 Training programmes for short and medium term planning; 5.1 Training programmes for training units; 5.1.1 Suggestions for the planning of training units; 5.2 Training programmes for microcycles; Bibliography and Authors' Profile

Notes:

Original title: Schnelligkeitstraining im Tennis. Sindelfingen: Sportverlag Schmidt & Dreisilker GmbH, 1998.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2014).

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 22, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-54125-4

9786613853707

1-84126-629-9