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So how do you improve your tennis game or kick it up a notch separating you from being ranked at the bottom to a top 10 tennis player in the world? Ok, that may sound a little outrageous and I may have left out that it would help immensely if you were a gifted athlete as well! So, in the world of sports most athletes understand that certain attributes will help their game in areas they need improvement. This is the reason serious tennis players or athletes hire a trainer or coach that will design a program focusing on their strength, speed, agility & footwork, flexibility, and endurance to elevate their tennis game. A trainer will focus on how to increase racquet speed that is done through strength training, flexibility movements to improve a person's range of motion, and how to generate power from the legs to hips so strength or balance is being utilized. Every edge on your opponent counts or should I say every split second makes a difference if you are able to return that shot from the baseline in that final match point!

Alright, let me describe the following skills you need to focus in improving your tennis game.

1. STRENGTH-Your core strength is very important and I can contest that all athletes no matter what their sport profession is need to have a have a strong base or core balance for maximum performance. Having strong core training will improve your balance and ability to twist or rotate all angles. Common tools will be resistance bands, medicine balls, kettlebells, and stability balls to aid you in developing or strengthening these areas. Your strength training will mainly be focused in the off season (2-3 months) tailored for most athletes even though tennis could sometimes be all year around for those choosing that path. During tennis season, you can still maintain your strength by focusing on higher repetitions and lighter weight not overworking your body. When adding resistance training to your tennis, make sure they would be functional exercises meaning you are training multi-movements rather than just the muscle. For example, in the gym you perform 3 sets of 10 reps of leg extensions strengthening your quadriceps. Now, one will assume it may help a tennis player's quadriceps but instead it is only designed to limit joint involvement isolating that muscle group for the purpose of building muscle. Most machines perform concentric contractions and in this case leg extensions are uni-planar, linear, and isolated. My point is that you have to target

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