Saturday 10 March 2012

Yoga and Tennis

By Judy Phan


You have to as fast as a cat if you want to play tennis and be able to enhance your skills. Every movement you do in tennis is critical. If your muscles aren't stretched enough, your muscles would pay the price. A muscle can lose its elasticity if it's overworked and the person did not stretch the muscle enough. Without enough elasticity, the person's body would be jeopardized. But yoga can prevent this problem since this exercise can improve one's range of motion.

With proper yoga methods, muscles can be trained and intensified. Tennis players cannot avoid their muscles experiencing tension when playing. That's why many of them do yoga to relieve this tension. By being relaxed at the start of the game, it can be advantageous until the game ends.

When in a ready position muscles are contracted and ready for action. To move, muscles must be relaxed and then contracted again to spring in any direction. By retraining the muscles you begin from a relaxed position, giving a quickened reaction time.

To improve your stamina and endurance, you must learn to perform those various yoga breathing techniques. Holding our breath is a way for us to get more strength. Yoga will help us on how to have more strength with breathing alone. Once this goal is attained, you can have more endurance and long matches won't be a problem for you.

Doing a yoga pose is easy. Make sure that you exhale as you execute a pose while stretching your muscles until you reach your limit. Don't hold your breath. Just breathe normally and stay in that pose for half a minute before going back to your original stance. It may be uncomfortable at first. But with more attempts to breathe normally while doing different poses, you'll get the hang of it sooner than you think.

The spinal twist is vital for players engaged on rotational sports. This move can maximize the resilience of the shoulders, hips and back. Of course, proper breathing technique should be done when performing the pose. First, sit on the floor with your legs and your spine straightened properly. Then, bend your left leg and place your left foot on the outer side of your right knee. Afterward, place your left hand behind you while your arm's straightness is maintained and your right elbow is bent. Next, put your right hand on the left hip.

After doing the steps mentioned above, exhale slowly as you turn your upper body and your head on the left. With your right arm's pressure, it should keep your left leg still while your body and your left arm's pressure would allow you to twist. The twist would depend on how strong your arms are. Be in that pose for 30 seconds and repeat the same steps on the opposite side. This kind of routine is perfect for tennis players.




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