Match Point

As a traditional top school of the NCAA, UCLA’s professional training facilities are also the top on the West Coast. The campus in the Westwood District of Los Angeles alone has six professional gyms—these are just places for professional sports teams to conduct daily training. Add in a gym for regular students, and that's even more.

Different gyms are used by different teams. Under special circumstances, they can also borrow from each other to ensure that players can train at any time.

Team sports like rugby have their own independent gym; while individual sports like tennis share the gym with other sports. The gym in front of you is the common space for the tennis team and the swimming team.

Tennis and swimming are both strength and skill sports. Practical practice and gym training go hand in hand. The daily gym is very busy. However, during the final exam period, everyone needs to return to their duties as students. The noise in the gym has calmed down, and it is even a little empty .

"Beep!"

Gao Wen and Macdonald arrived at the destination skillfully, swiped their cards to enter, and just after changing their clothes, they could see Geelong pushing the barbell at a glance.

Judging from the sweat seeping from his forehead and slightly flushed cheeks, Jiron should have been here for a while.

Seemingly aware of his gaze, after finishing the pushing movement, Jiron followed his gaze, nodded slightly to Gawain and MacDonald, and then devoted himself to his training again, with meticulous focus on his eyes Deep, sparkling.

Well…

Um…

ah…

With each exertion, Giron uncontrollably uttered a low macho moan, as if he could imagine the weight of the barbell from the sound.

However, it is very conspicuous in the slightly empty gym, but there is a sense of joy.

MacDonald lightly bumped Gawain's shoulder, and there was a hint of amusement in his eyes—

Obviously, not only Thompson, Geelong should also feel the pressure and train harder, all because of Gao Wen's high fighting spirit.

This is the case with young players, who are prone to impassionedness and turmoil, and the ups and downs of emotions are often difficult to control. It is precisely because of this that Martin is very satisfied with the start of this year's winter training. Gao Wen's good mental outlook is driving the training spirit of the entire team.

Gao Wen didn't say much, just smiled, "Where are you going to start training?"

Including Macdonald and Geelong, strength is also a relatively weak part of them. The training plan formulated by the coach for them includes strength training, which is also a common goal of this year's winter training.

Gao Wen's proactiveness stimulated the enthusiasm of Thompson and Geelong in training, and then, in turn, made Gao Wen more fully devoted. Healthy competition can always stimulate everyone's potential and ultimately bring more positive effects. Maybe, this year they can really create better results?

MacDonald is no exception. He already has a draft plan, "The strength of the lower body, every time I push the backhand hard, I can't step on the ground. The coach said it was caused by insufficient strength. I am going to strengthen the training in winter training. How about you? "

"Let's start with the core strength first. I need to train more than one item." Gawain joked in a self-deprecating tone, and then patted MacDonald on the shoulder, "Then let's push some iron."

The premise of strength training in tennis is to avoid increasing useless muscle mass as much as possible to affect the movement of the footsteps. This has already put forward strict requirements, but in-depth strength training will find that the complexity is far more than that.

In the tennis event, strength training should be subdivided into three parts: upper body strength, lower body strength and core strength. Each part needs to be trained separately, and then linked training is indispensable.

First, lower body strength.

As the name suggests, it means thigh strength, calf strength, and glute strength.

In the tennis hitting action, every hitting technique must make full use of the strength of the lower body, the first step is to stand firm, and the second step is to exert force.

What's the meaning?

You can simply look at the difference between hitting the ball standing still and hitting the ball while moving.

The footsteps of the former are to stand firm and fully exert force, so the ball will naturally be more solid and full; the footsteps of the latter will continue to shake, and you must find the best point of force in a swaying state, and the strength of your lower body cannot provide more support. Hitting power is also not perfect.

Therefore, standing firm and exerting strength are fundamental to tennis hitting. In a strong confrontation, tennis players try their best to mobilize their opponents, forcing their opponents to hit the ball in a running state, which will destroy the stability of the shot, which is the reason.

Serve, return, forehand, backhand, flat hit, spin, etc., every shot is like this, the power comes from the lower body, and the trilogy of standing firmly on the ground and exerting force runs through it all.

Even when cutting the ball with unloading force, the rooted stability of the lower limbs is also very important—only with sufficient support from the lower limbs can the rotation of the cutting be sufficient, the line of cutting can be deep, and the opponent will not be given the opportunity to attack.

Once the strength of the lower limbs declines and the ground cannot be kicked up, it will be like a big tree uprooted, and all subsequent power transmission will be cut off~www.wuxiahere.com~ In addition, the solid strength of the lower limbs also determines the flexibility of moving steps, Starting, braking, sudden turns and stops, etc., all come from the strength of the lower body.

Second, upper body strength.

The subdivision is much more complicated. The strength of the arms, forearms, and wrists, the strength of the shoulders, back, and chest all belong to the strength of the upper body.

Taking serving as an example, the body needs to mobilize a series of muscles in the back, shoulders, and arms, and finally create the effect of whipping to complete the serve.

In fact, many top professional players have relatively weak lower body strength, and basically rely entirely on upper body strength when serving. This is also feasible, especially female professional players, even the top ten top players are no exception. The problem is that the serve is unstable and prone to mistakes.

But the side also proves the importance of upper body strength. When entering the anxious stage of the game, facing the limit of physical strength, when the strength of the lower body can no longer kick the ground, the players can only rely on the strength of the upper body to complete the hitting action abruptly. Hands, backhands, etc. are the same.

In the final analysis, tennis is a sport of hitting the ball with a handheld racket, and the strength of the upper body is more direct and more prominent.

Just like football focuses on lower body strength and basketball focuses on confrontational strength, there are more or less emphasis. Of course, after the development of competitive sports to the top level, the test is all a comprehensive strength, and it is very difficult to open up the situation just by relying on one trick.

What's more, the particularity of tennis also determines that the training of upper body strength needs to be subdivided in very, very detailed, especially the training of small muscle groups, which is also destined to not be so easy for upper body strength training.

Arms and shoulders, that's just part of it; forearms and wrists, that's the hard part.