Author: play.smart.tennis

The purpose of the warm up is:
 To increase the muscle and body core temperature
 To improve the blood flow circulation throughout the body to the working muscles and joints, making them ready for the physical activity
 To improve the oxygen delivery which results in better fuel utilization by working muscles
 To enable the muscles to contract and relax at the faster rate
 To protect muscles and joints of any type of strains or injures

80% of total carbohydrate is stored in skeletal muscle and about 14% is stored in the liver (6% in the blood in the form of glucose), therefore it’s understandable the importance of nutrition to delay the onset of fatigue

Tennis game is pretty complex combination of: the movement patterns which brings the players to the strategic position (towards the ball or related to the opponent) and the decision making process of stroke execution and reaction. Based on that, fatigue shouldn’t be regarded as the one dimensional physiological outcome of the training process

Recovery strategy, as the opposition to the high performance training strategy should be equally understood and applied as the part of the training process, rather then just considering it as a day off the practice