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General Warm Up

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 13:26:04 +0000

When I was lucky to closely work together with John McEnroe, I asked him what kind of training regimen was back in a days when he was on pro tour as one of the best players. He told me “we were just playing tennis, almost without warming up, if you don’t count 3 minutes jogging before match or practice and maybe some stretching.” This is the BIGGEST REASON WHY CAREER OF PROFFESIONAL TENNIS PLAYERS...

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Positional strength training – part 2

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:20:52 +0000

In the first blog I was explaining the importance of fascia fitness, what fascia is, and her purpose in the human body. In the second part I will try to explain one aspect of fascial training, so-called positional strength training. But before that please check in the table below some main consideration for optimal fascial fitness in general. There are “The big four” properties of fascia: As you...

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Positional strength training – Part I

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 07:58:28 +0000

More than 20 years ago when I started to coach other people it was so difficult to find a good book about coaching. Usually, I borrowed and copied books and learned that way. Definitively was not easy to get exposed to new information and to learn from other, more knowledgeable, and more experienced coaches. Today, on the other hand, sometimes it seems to me that there is too much information...

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ATHLETICISM – What It Is and How to Improve It – Part 2

admin — Thu, 21 May 2020 08:12:33 +0000

In the first part of this blog series, I was focused on the physical aspect of athleticism and how we can improve it. In the second part, I want to share with you another, different view on athleticism. Let’s took an example of a marathon runner who starts the race with his full running speed, without calculating weather conditions, wind directions, terrain configuration – how far he can go like...

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ATHLETICISM – What It Is and How to Improve It – Part 1

admin — Wed, 06 May 2020 07:35:27 +0000

We typically define the best athlete as the one who can jump the highest or run the fastest. But this is only part of the answer because every sport needs a different kind of athleticism to be successful. Marathon runner needs a different type of athleticism than a football player, swimmer, or a tennis player. Usually, when we are talking about athleticism we are thinking about different fitness...

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic type of overtraining

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:42:36 +0000

Overtraining, in general, is excessive frequency, duration, volume, or intensity of training causing the body’s inability to recover and adapt. There are two types of chronic overtraining: sympathetic and parasympathetic. If we can better understand the differences between them, then we can select the most appropriate recovery modality. Sympathetic and parasympathetic is referring to autonomic...

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Tennis and Olympic lifts

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:25:16 +0000

Power expression is what makes the difference between players in every sport arena. No matter in which way is expressed, as a faster acceleration, more powerful punch or higher jump, to have higher power capacity is a huge advantage on the court! For years the best method “prescribed” to develop power were Olympic lifts and their accessory lifts. In my opinion, they still are one of the best...

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Arthrokinematics and Osteokinematics

admin — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 06:34:35 +0000

In today’s post, I want to talk about 2 terms that are not so common in the world of physical preparation coaches or recreational fitness professionals. Usually, arthro and osteokinematics are more present in the vocabulary of physiotherapist and medical personal. Maybe we as physical coaching staff don’t need to have so deep understanding of these terms but some basic knowledge is so important...

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Force absorption before force production

admin — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 09:26:18 +0000

Developing power speed, explosiveness must be the ultimate goal for every coach who is training athletes, simply because this is what makes difference on the court, regardless of the sport. If you watch athletes competing, for example basketball or soccer in division II, and you compare them to the players from the top teams, everything seems faster, quicker and more explosive.

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Over-specialization with under-development

admin — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:08:58 +0000

Early specialization by many sport scientists is today called the sickness of modern sport. In modern sport, young athletes need to spend so much time playing their sport because if they don’t do that, their opponents will! Let’s put it this way… imagine a 12-year old tennis player who is practicing at the court every day for 1.5 hours for 1 month. This means 45 hours/month.

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