Tennis

When you get a call that you feel wasn't the correct call, deal with the situation in a mature manner. You can ask your opponent if they're sure about their call or let them know that you think they made a mistake on the call. If you don't have an umpire or arbiter, try to do the best you can. When dealing with an umpire, express your opinion and see if you can at least get your point across. Remember that tennis is still a game of etiquette and be hopeful that your opponents are being as fair as possible.
 
Transcript: "Well, first of all, how can I be a hundred percent sure that my opponent made a bad call? I think too, often when players go in two matches against any given opponent, they go in with some sort of an assumption that they're going to get bad calls from their opponent. And the first time that there's a close call, they assume that they've gotten cheated on that call and they're 100% sure of a ball that may have actually been called correctly. So I think when Get a call that you're feeling wasn't the correct call that you handle that in a very calm and controlled and mature manner. You can ask your opponent right away if they're sure about their call, you can let them know that you think they made a mistake on the call and that because you feel they made a mistake that you're going to ask for an Umpire or an Arbiter. Who's going to then help you out in that match? Obviously, if you don't have an An Umpire or someone else on the match, then you're probably playing a junior level match, or a club level match in the first place. And you may not have the option of having somebody come out and arbitrate your match. So from that position you have to do the best you can. But I think even if you are on a match that is umpired that you then deal with the Umpire only you don't engage your opponent. You again deal with the situation in a mature manner, Or express your opinion, let them know what you think and and see if you can at least get your point across. Hopefully it helps out for the next time but you know, tennis is a game of at least some etiquette still even in these modern days and you're hopeful that your opponents are being, as Fair as they can be with, within the matches and doing a good job with the line. Calling good luck."

In order to become a better player, it's important to spend more time playing and competing in matches. This helps players to develop their competitive skills, as well as test out what they have learned in lessons or clinics. It is also important that these matches have a winner and loser, so that players can learn how to compete and find ways to get through tough matches.
 
Transcript: "I think one of the things that we've lost engine development over the course of the last 10, 15, 20 years is just competing more more match play in the olden days, back in the 80s, and 90s. I mean, everyone used to play tons and tons of sets nowadays, it seems like Junior players spend so much more time drilling than they used to and playing actually in competing way less. I feel like part of that has to do with the That kids today don't take as much responsibility to set up their own practices. It's almost like they don't practice unless something's organized for them at their club, or with their Pro, or with a clinic, and it's important for them to develop a network of other players around their level that they can compete against. So, for me, I would say that somewhere in the neighborhood of probably 7032 leaning. Towards playing and competing more, you can always work on things in your game. If you're spending time, if you're taking lessons, if you're doing clinics you can take those things that you're learning within those programs and apply them to your match play and exploring things, testing things out, trying different things in match play to me is is a very, very important factor in trying to become a better player. And it's also where you'll earn your competitive skills. You have to learn to compete and find A way to get through those kind of matches. I also think it's important during those practice matches that you played a completion, meaning that there's a winner and there's a loser so you might play just one set. If you're playing two sets and you split sets play a breaker for the third. But actually have somebody walk away as a winner and have somebody walk away as a loser. I think that's an important lesson that you're learning as a player. Also, as you develop, hope that answers the question. Well for you, good luck."

Before working on improving tennis speed and agility, I look at mobility and stability of the joints first. Ensuring that the athlete can control the joints before attempting to put force through them is important for achieving real speed improvement and better results in a speed training block.
 
Transcript: "Yes. I tend to start looking at mobility and stability of the joints before. Looking at real tennis Speed and Agility. I think you can work on specific movement and stability, fairly simple, taneous lie. But if you're talking about real code speed and really acceleration and deceleration maybe more importantly deceleration, then the joints have got to be in line and they've got to be stable. And the player has got to be able to control the The Joint in kind of like a perfect athletic posture before trying to put Force through through the major muscles and the joints themselves. So, you know, as also, you know, about speed speed is a really a factor of strength and how fast you can fire those muscles. So I like to make sure that the joints are stable and muscles are really activated. Eating properly before trying to really put Force through them. Obviously in time, the more stability a joint has and the more force a muscle can create and how fast it can create that Force, then you really are on a much faster path to, to be able to train, you know, real speed and see a real Improvement after a speed training block. So that's kind of what I think. I kind of think there's a real Continuum of Mobility. The strength and then speed. But I do differentiate movement and speed stability of the joints and specific tennis movement and movement patterns can be done almost together, but as a question was speed, that is also a factor of force. So just make sure in the posture is really lined up and the athlete can control the joints. Before I put forced to it, and try and improve speed."

Beet juice is high in dietary nitrates which convert to nitric oxide which can help with muscle contraction and oxygen consumption. Endurance athletes may see some benefits from drinking beet juice, as well as high intensity athletes who may not fatigue as quickly. To get the juice, one can juice beets themselves or purchase a commercial product.
 
Transcript: "What are the potential benefits of consuming beet juice? So beet juice is high in nitrates, dietary nitrates, which then the body converts to nitric oxide, which has been shown to actually help with muscle and muscle contraction and with oxygen consumption. So some research has shown endurance athletes find some benefits, but also some high intensity athletes. So doing a little bit better in terms of performance and maybe not fatiguing quite as quickly. So how do you get this beet juice? Well, you can juice some beets, of course, you can do it naturally. And I wanna say probably 30 to 60 minutes ahead of time, up to two hours ahead of time is gonna be good to do this. But there's lots of different commercial products out there that you can add powders to some water or to a smoothie or just take it to juice or something like that. So there are lots of ways to get this beetroot juice without having to go out and buy the beets."

Hydration plays an important role in pre-workout nutrition as it helps to regulate our temperature while exercising. To rehydrate before exercise, one should preload with electrolytes and fluids the night before and morning of, preferably with a sports drink high in electrolytes like sodium to help the body retain extracellular fluid.
 
Transcript: "Okay, how does hydration play a role in pre-workout nutrition? So when you go into exercise you want to be as hydrated as possible, especially if you're going to be working on the heat, especially if you're going to be doing endurance for more than 60 minutes. And the reason is because it helps to regulate our temperature. Whenever we exercise our temperature is elevated, we sweat in order to cool our body to keep our core temperature, prevent heat stroke, prevent heat exhaustion. So it's absolutely critical to keeping us safe. Now how do we rehydrate before exercise? You can drink water, but really what you want to do, especially for someone who's an endurance athlete going to be out there for a long time, is to preload with electrolytes and with fluid. So I'm a big fan for my endurance athletes or a lot of my tennis athletes who are going to be out there for two, three, four hours on the court and maybe playing twice on a tournament day, is to definitely preload night before and morning of. So start with sports drinks, start with high electrolyte sports drinks in order to start getting some of that sodium on board. Sodium helps your body to retain some of that extracellular fluid so you actually can hydrate even better than just drinking water. Of course water will hydrate, but if you have some electrolytes, if you have some sodium on board, it will just help you to retain a little bit more of that fluid before you go out and exercise."

Strength training has been proven to reduce the risk of diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, and osteoporosis. It helps with weight control, lowers blood pressure, manages diabetes by impacting insulin and glucose levels, strengthens bones, and helps with posture and preventing falls.
 
Transcript: "Alright, the role of strength training and preventing or managing chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. Yeah, absolutely. There's a plethora of studies out there on how muscle mass and strength training can actually reduce risk of diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, osteoporosis. So if you think about the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn at rest, so it helps your metabolism, it can help with weight control, but it also has been shown to help lower blood pressure, which of course is related to heart attack and stroke risk. It helps to manage diabetes because of the insulin, the impact on insulin and glucose levels. And think about osteoporosis, it strengthens your bones. You're not just strengthening your muscle when you're doing strength training, but you're also strengthening the bones that are underneath all of that muscle. It helps with posture, so it can help with preventing falls and breaking hips and knees and things like that. So there are just so many benefits, whether it is with reducing falls and balance and some of those chronic diseases as well, that strength training really can help to prevent."