Toning up for Tennis – Tennis Benefits Part 1

Now that spring is in full swing and summer is just around the corner, it is the perfect time to tone up for tennis! According to fitness and health experts, tennis benefits your entire body – from enhancing muscular strength, boosting stamina, optimizing balance to increasing cardiovascular health.

Tennis is considered to be a fast-paced, exciting, and highly entertaining sport that requires a large assortment of fitness aspects.

It does not matter if you want to improve your strength, increase your speed, optimize your range of motion, expand your level of coordination, or sculpt your muscle tone, you will discover that it is fully possible with tennis!

In this series, we will expound on the health advantages of tennis and provide you with comprehensive information on how to successfully tone your body for the sport.

Tennis Benefits – The Ultimate Workout

There are large varieties of sporting activities that test various aspects of the body; however, there are very few that test the entire body.

Tennis does that and more!

To effectively play the sport, you must be quick and have a high level of agility. In order to put the right amount of power behind your shots, you must have a strong level of core strength. Stamina is an absolute must when it comes to game completion.

Cognitive abilities – such as mental focus, problem-solving skills, and the ability to overcome challenges – will allow you the competitive edge and drive that is needed to succeed. Tennis provides the ultimate workout. To improve your game, you must improve your body. The best strategy for succeeding in this endeavor is toning the body for tennis.

The Health Benefits of Tennis

According to studies, the average tennis player will run anywhere from 3 miles to 5 miles per match.

An average of 600 or more calories are burned each hour.

Due to the nature of the game, a lot of movement repetition occurs. These continuous movements aid in toning and sculpting certain regions of the body. The arms, legs, and stomach reap the highest level of rewards during tennis play.

Tennis helps to optimize the cardiovascular system, develop the upper body strength, optimize the power of the lower body, improves the stability of the body’s core, tones the midsection of the body, and helps you to work at high levels of intensity for short periods of time.

Time to Tone

Now that you know that tennis is the ultimate workout and the numerous health benefits that it provides to the body, it is time to start toning your body to play!

Back to Motion Physical Therapy can assist you in your pursuit of the physical-based tune ups that are required to achieve the highest level of success in the sport.

We offer TRX courses that teach you how to use your own body weight and a few simple pieces of equipment in order to optimize your strength and increase your stamina.

We offer Pilates classes that will improve your movement control and build core strength. We even have the AlterG anti-gravity treadmill that will help you shed unwanted pounds before hitting the court!