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Physical preparation of the athlete:
for ever increasing performance
In order to achieve the performance and skills required for a career, continuous tournaments, and matches with top-ranked opponents, it is necessary to combine technical training with accurate preparation, both on a psychological and physical level. Our athletic trainers follow tennis players through all stages of their competitive career, from school age to adulthood, with programmes, exercises, and activities tailored to the athlete’s life stage, his type of play, and his characteristic strengths, to bring him to peak physical performance in every match.
What is athletic training
Athletic preparation is that series of activities and exercises whose purpose is to prepare the athlete’s body first to acquire, then to develop, and always to maintain those performance characteristics that are beyond normal physical fitness, and that are necessary to be able to compete in tennis at a competitive level with opponents of equal fitness. It is therefore an ongoing activity, which acquires more and more weight as the subject’s age and career progresses, constituting a true pathway along which he develops his strengths and resolves his physical deficiencies, building himself up as a professional athlete.
THE ATHLETIC TRAINING COURSE
The performance the athlete is currently able to express in all areas (from speed to strength and endurance) relevant to the game of tennis. The results of these tests go towards drawing up a true profile of the athlete himself, which allows the coach to frame his characteristics, weaknesses, and particular talents.
The purpose of these exercises is to progressively help the athlete achieve the type of physical performance his game requires. This involves, of course, continuous collaboration both with the coach, for the analysis of the technical gesture, and with the psychologist trainer, in order to synchronise with the work carried out at the same time in this field.
The cadences and intensity are obviously commensurate with his/her age and his/her needs as a person (and not just as a competitive tennis player), but in any case, to the achievement of a peak physical condition that leads to the required performance on the court.
THE AREAS OF ATHLETIC PREPARATION
ORGANIC-MUSCULAR CAPACITIES
these are those characteristics that are more purely linked to the
condition of the athlete’s muscles, such as strength, speed, endurance, acceleration. They represent an essential element of athletic performance, and their development requires specific training when the body is ready to support them, and therefore from adolescence onwards. On the other hand, these trainings should not be delayed too much, because they go to develop characteristics that are preponderant in the youngest phase of the athlete’s life, and because it is only in this phase that the maximum results of physical conditioning can be obtained with the preparation exercises.
COORDINATION SKILLS
These are the skills most closely linked to the central nervous system of the athlete, such as reactivity, the ability to transform the athletic gesture, creativity of movement, force regulation. In this case we are dealing with characteristics directly linked to a receptive capacity that in the human being peaks at school age, and it is essential to train them precisely at that time, because their improvement at a later age is extremely more difficult and less efficient.
THE ATHLETIC PREPARATION IN A-RETE
At our facility, tennis players will be able to enjoy a space entirely dedicated to them within our gym, they will be able to play their matches on our courts in all seasons and at all times, and they will have at their disposal special equipment designed to maximise the performance of each training session.
