Resistance Bands Science

The following is a very useful exercise to improve the tennis serve. In order to perform the exercise is recommended to have a rubber at least at one end has a comfortable grip for the hand, although it can be done without meeting this requirement with another type of rubber, although it will be more uncomfortable. The objective of this exercise is to use the rubber to apply resistance to movement. To do this, the way to place our body in the initial position will be the position we have when taking a serve. The starting point begins with the shoulder of the dominant hand below the non-dominant line. Once there and start the movement in which we will perform all the movement of body and arm, trying to simulate the point of impact advanced and high that has to be in a good serve. Thanks to the elastic band we will obtain that the point of greater tension is in the highest point reason why the gain of power in the last phase of the hit will be greater and the transference to the ser...

With the growth that has experienced the paddle in recent years, the increase in professionalism has increased, ie there is a greater number of people who take a step further this sport and make it their profession, is also seeing lately an increase in amateur players who start in semi-professional and amateur competition. In the moment that the word competition appears there is always the intention to improve the performance for this, so every day there are more people interested in improving their level of paddle. Now comes the question, how can I improve my level of paddle? The solution is very broad, but we can face the question by saying that the performance can improve by increasing the level in the main components existing in this sport, this in my opinion are broad outlines: Hitting technique. Tactics when playing. Psychology of the subject with respect to the game. Physical abilities of the subject. Knowing this, I can tackle the problem of improving by attacking diff...

In this post we are going to perform an exercise to improve one of the key aspects when making a good right volley. we are going to work the hit keeping the elbow of the dominant arm near the body. In the paddle all strokes are made close to the body because, in this position is where we find greater control in our blows, in the volley the elbow of the dominant arm is very important because in amateur players is difficult to learn and mechanize the technical gesture, as the tendency is to hit with the arm separated from the body as this gesture can come to noticeare more comfortable than the other. It is important to be clear that in this exercise we will apply tension in the elbow to try to bring it closer to the body so it can be somewhat uncomfortable. It is important to place the elastic band over the elbow joint to allow slight freedom of movement. Next we can see an image of how it would be well placed and badly placed.

Continuing with the post "Tips to improve volleying using elastic band 1" we are going to work on other types of exercises to improve volleying. In this case we are going to focus on the transfer of weights at the time of voleaving. When we are going to hit a volley both right and reverse one of the most common errors in amateurs is to make the gesture only with the arm, take a step simulating the transfer of weight without getting it or make the step of the volley backwards. Next, we see a video of a correct execution of the transfer: Next, we present an exercise in which we anchor the elastic band to our waist by means of a belt and the other end to a fixed element or held by an assistant. The exercise consists of making volleys both right and reverse, applying the weight transfer forward, this movement will be hampered by the resistance band, which will make it necessary to make the gesture in an appropriate way to achieve speed with the body. As we ca...

In this post we are going to talk about both right and reverse volley, and how to improve some of the key aspects of it. As we all know volley is a stroke that is used being in the net, in which we hit the ball in the air in which it bounces. It is considered an attack hit, although some of its variants can be considered transition or continuity. When we are trying to improve our volley, one of the main points to improve is the speed of the movement, as this has to be technically performed properly, but with considerable speed for our volleys are aggressive. An error that often occurs is the lack or inability to accelerate the arm to meet the technical requirement that is to keep a short armed and in front of the line of the body. When this lack of speed occurs, a much wider movement is usually executed to benefit the speed. The problem lies in the loss of the correct technical execution of the volley (wide arming, turning of the body...). To solve this problem there is an exerci...