Tennis is one of the most popular exercises participated in by the amateur athlete. One of the primary reasons so many people like to play tennis is that it is an excellent form of exercise, and requires very little in the way of financial outlay to play. There are many benefits which can be derived from playing tennis. Tennis is an excellent sport to work into your fitness regime. Most people can learn to play the game and it can be played at any age, with incredible physical benefits for all players.

Aerobic - Tennis is an aerobic exercise. But unlike running, you are not running constantly. So if you are not up to running a few miles, you can still get the benefits of aerobic exercise, such as improving cardiovascular fitness and burning fat, by playing tennis.

Interval Training – If you workout with a trainer, you are familiar with the concept of interval training. Many people believe that interval training, changing your level of energy expenditure, results in burning more calories than training at a constant level. Tennis forces interval training as your level of exertion is constantly fluctuating.

Improves Muscular Endurance – In addition to aerobic exercise, tennis provides of strength training as well. This helps to increase bone density and improves overall muscle tone at all stages of life.

Improves Cognitive Function – Since tennis is also a game of strategy, it requires people to be alert and thinking during the game. This promotes continuous brain development over the lifetime.

By: Harold Throope

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Tennis Exercise and Conditioning

If you were once like me you are completely baffled why you have to use tennis elbow exercises to help you heal your injury (I thought it would make the injury worse). Many websites you go on will tell you that you should do some wrist and forearm exercises but not many of them actually respond to your question of why you actually need them. The good thing is that these exercises aren’t going to waste your time and are actually useful and do contribute to healing and prevent any further injury.

What do the exercises do?

Exercising your wrists and forearms will help you to cure your injury by strengthening the affected area (in this case the forearm region). Tennis elbow is usually an injury that causes pain mainly in the forearm. By exercising this area you would think that you would cause more pain but instead you are strengthening this area up and what happens is you break the muscle fibres in this region and they heal back and become stronger and better (this is the same method bodybuilders use to build muscle)

Why does this help?

This process causes you to gain more strength and thus healing your injury, however don’t think that pain is good when you use the exercises. When you start to feel any pain stop otherwise you can cause more injury and more injury would lead to a longer healing period.

How does this prevent injury?

If you haven’t got the injury yet then you want to use some of the tennis elbow exercises, this way what you do is you build up the muscle in that area and thus helping you avoid getting the injury through tennis, golf or whatever activity you do (yes you can get it in other activities other than tennis) otherwise you will find yourself in a very frustrating place.

By: James Pswarai

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Tennis Exercise and Conditioning