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Why Strength & Conditioning Should be a Part of Your Practise: Returning to Tennis Injury Free

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Why Strength & Conditioning Should be a Part of Your Practise

Players and athletes in any sport can attest, you ignore strength & conditioning at your peril; learn the benefits of regular S&C.

Many players focus their tennis practise and play on, well, tennis! However, as players and athletes in any sport – not only tennis – can attest, you ignore strength and conditioning at your peril. We interview Howard Green and Simon Brundish, two of the UK’s most well known and respected Strength & Conditioning coaches, so that they can explain the benefits of regular strength and conditioning to helping prevent injury – particularly as we get back on court after lockdown. They tells us what you should do and why as well as touching on other benefits including improving your overall play.

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Howard Green is one of the UK’s most respected and experienced Strength & Conditioning coaches. In his 11 years as a tennis-specific athlete development coach he’s worked with ATP, WTA, Junior ITF & TE players – including a world number one player.

Howard is an accredited Strength & Conditioning Coach (UKSCA), a Certified Tennis Performance Specialist (ITPA) and a former Royal Marines Commando. Most recently he’s developed Tennis SuperMovers, an innovative programme to help young players access strength and conditioning exercises anywhere.

Simon Brundish has been a sports scientist for 24 years. Much of his time is spent working within the elite sport environment, specialising in football, cricket and basketball at a regional, national and international level. Simon was also awarded UKSCA Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year for youth sport in 2018.

Tennis SuperMovers

Together, Howard and Simon have developed a complete online programme that aims to maximise children’s athletic potential and help them to become Tennis SuperMovers. The program features expert tennis-specific strength and conditioning in work out sessions for use at home, on court and when playing in a match play or junior competition. You can learn more about Tennis SuperMovers here.

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How Much Tennis Should My Child Play?

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Parents who are keen to do the right thing for their child regularly ask us, “how much tennis should my child play?”

In discussing how to decide what is best for your child, Adam Wharf, i2c’s Head of Performance, explains why there is no single right answer – no one-size-fits-all approach. Adam talks about:

  • Making choices about how much time you have free to play
  • Where you, or the child, sees tennis fitting in their life
  • How a schedule should change over time
  • Quality vs quantity of play
  • Should children also be playing other sports

Adam’s most important messages for parents

Parents need to understand that in the context of their child playing tennis there is nothing wrong with saying that they’d “just like my child to be the best that they can be”. However, parents and players need to recognise though that what they are saying is “that I’d just like my child to be the best they can be with the one hours a week that I’m going to commit to this sport” – and there are natural limitations that come with only one hour of anything in a week. Whether it’s one hour or five, the amount of time committed puts a restriction on what can be achieved and it’s important to discuss that up-front.

The other thing that parents often say is that, “I just want them to have fun”. Again, there is nothing wrong with the sentiment, but if that truly is all that you want your child to do, then the only way to measure that is by whether your child enjoyed playing that day. Everything else is secondary to that.

Hosted by Adam Wharf, Richard Marklow and Mark Tennant

Adam is the Head of Performance at inspire2coach. He has an impressive coaching career spanning more than 15 years, including work with Nick Bollettieri and the LTA.

Richard Marklow and Mark Tennant are the Director’s of inspire2coach; one of the UK’s largest tennis organisations.

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Dealing With Winning & Losing in Tennis

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Whilst hosting a live discussion on Life Lessons Through Tennis we polled parents to discover that dealing with winning & losing is the top life lesson they find players learn when playing, practising and competing in tennis.

In this follow-on live session with Adam Wharf, i2c’s Head of Performance, we dig deeper – much deeper – into competition in tennis. Then we move on to dealing with the outcome of competition; winning and losing.

  • Why do we actually play competitions in tennis?
  • How to choose tournaments to play
  • Making sure you have open communication with the child about competing (where and when)
  • What roles do parents, player and coach play in competitions?

Adam’s Key Points About Dealing With Winning & Losing

Start by asking why do we play tennis

Sometimes this discussion isn’t had with parents early enough in their kid’s programme. With some sports – particularly team sports such as hockey or football for example – it’s pretty clear that there’ll be competition. With tennis, because it’s a solo sport it’s maybe not so clear and parents don’t know what tournaments to enter.

Hopefully tennis is being played because children want to play and they’re getting even more from the sport when they compete. For sure, that’s open for debate.

How do you choose good tournaments to play?

The best advice Adam ever got on choosing tournaments was from a swimming coach. His idea was to group your tournaments:

  • Enter 2 tournaments where you were the favourite – gives a good opportunity to practise the skills you’ve learned. This is the time you’re going to work really hard on the skills you’ve developed.
  • Register for 2 tournaments where you’re right in the middle of the mix – not at the bottom of the draw, but not the favourite either.
  • 2 tournaments where you’re the absolute underdog – where it’ll be really difficult and you’ll have to battle as hard as you can.

You can also try to balance out your wins and losses; a bit of winning and a bit of losing. That can be hard to do but it’s really important.

Don’t overlook the value of playing local

We always recommend playing at your local club and we recommend competing. Friendly competition is also a great way to compete too.

Hosted by Adam Wharf, Richard Marklow and Mark Tennant

Adam is the Head of Performance at inspire2coach. He has an impressive coaching career spanning more than 15 years, including work with Nick Bollettieri and the LTA.

Richard Marklow and Mark Tennant are the Director’s of inspire2coach; one of the UK’s largest tennis organisations.

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Life Lessons Through Tennis

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Tennis24/7 Kids Club: Life Lessons Through Tennis

Life Lessons Through Tennis

Adam Wharf, Head of Talent at i2c, discusses some less obvious benefits and life lessons of playing, practising and competing in tennis.

We hosted a live discussion on the Life Lessons Through Tennis with Adam Wharf, the Head of Performance at inspire2coach. Adam discusses:

  • Some of the less obvious benefits of tennis
  • What children can learn about life from playing, practising and competing
  • Some great take-away tips for all parents

Three great benefits that Adam believes can easily be demonstrated are: integrity, persistence and hard work.

Adam’s 2 favourite quotes (included in this audio)

“You don’t just go to school and become clever. You’ve still got to be engaged in what’s going on and the environment has got to be set by the coaches to enable the different life lessons that could happen through tennis.”

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

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Adam is the Head of Performance at inspire2coach. He has an impressive coaching career spanning more than 15 years, including work with Nick Bollettieri and the LTA.

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Tennis 24/7 Kid's Club - Importance of Parents in their Child's Tennis Journey

Importance of parents in their child’s tennis journey

We hosted a live Q&A session talking about how all parents can support their child when playing tennis at any level.

Adam Wharf, host of this session, has an impressive coaching career spanning more than 15 years, including work with Nick Bollettieri and the LTA.

We recently hosted a live Q&A session on the Importance of Parents in Their Child’s Tennis Journey. Our host Adam Wharf, the Head of Performance at inspire2coach, discusses:

  • How all parents can support their child when playing tennis at any level
  • How being a tennis parent is different from being a parent in other sports
  • How much help can you give and when are you helping too much.

Key Take-aways for Coaches

These notes provide a brief reflection of learning for coaches.

  • Parents and coaches take different roles in the players journey and that can change over time.
  • There will be some milestones in the player’s journey that may trigger a change in parent’s role in their child’s tennis journey. Being alert to the way roles can change helps coaches and parents to understand each other better.
  • Having a “contract” between the coach and the parent can help to ensure that there are no misunderstandings.

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