TRAINING FOR RACQUET SPORTS

When you play sports that involve racquet's you need to have good flexibility, good mental ability, good hand eye coordination, aerobic fitness, and strength. In these sports y0u need to run, sprint, jump and swing a racquet in short bursts. You can be on the court for short periods of time; around thirty minutes or for long durations, around three hours. You cant just stop in the middle of a point either because the point stops when someone loses. When you play tennis you have to be very strong mentally because you will lose some points and you have to learn how to cope with it. You also have to be very strong physically because it involves a lot of exercise.Racquet sports are a very good cardio vascular workout. Weight training exercises and explosive leg exercises are very useful exercises to improve your game. When you do sprinting exercises you are supposed to run on the court you usually play on and use the same shoes you play with. For shuttle sprints you can run from line to line on a court like suicides. Another good running exercise is to place balls along the court and to run to them and place them back on the base line. Another good training exercise is for you to have a partner throw a ball at you and when they yell "go" you turn around and try to catch the ball or hit it with your racquet. Good exercises to do are high knee running, wall squats, star jumps, lunge walking, and lying abductors. Stretching before exercising and before matches is very important because it can prevent injury.