THE PRINCIPLES OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE
"It's highly demanding mentally, and not necessarily particularly enjoyable."
-- Anders Ericsson
-- Anders Ericsson
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An Overview
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To compete at their fullest levels, athletes are required to push their stamina and strength to the limit time and time again. These high-performance principles incorporate different aspects of fitness (including flexibility, cardiovascular, core and balance exercises), motor learning, and mental conditioning. Testing techniques not only help athletes perform specific goals faster and more effectively, but also helps to ensure that muscles have the training that they need to prevent accident and injury.
High-performance training principles apply for tennis uses all components of a fitness "foundation" to build form, techniques, and muscles specificity through response. This enables athletes to be flexible, strong, and agile. Coaches and trainers develop situations that push their charges to the limits, making them focus on executing highly precise moves with quickness and speed. Athletes are taught how to respond in specific situations—adaptability and variability—building what coaches call "training zones" to mimic demand for tennis. |
TALENT IS OVERRATED
Great performance is more valuable than ever
--but where does it really come from?
-Geoff Colvin - from "Talent is Overrated"
THE DETAILS ARE IN THE DESIGN
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The first stages of training focus on adjusting specific characteristics and needs to make sure that training procedures can be effective. Coaches and trainers need to align their tactics in line with an athlete's strengths and potential, while eliminating weaknesses. Usually, coaches use training systems that are divided up on a microcycle over a week, with annual macrocycle. In this principle, the athletes receive rigorous training that entails rapid skills acquisition exercises, strength and weakness exercises, visual, cardiovascular training and other approaches that prepare an athlete for training and competition, as well as peaking and transitioning to the next phases. These periodization phases can take over a year to complete, sometimes longer.
Athletes must be constantly pushed to the limits to be effective. Training and practice have to strain muscles, challenge the central nervous system and force growth—forcing the brain to learn as well. Because the body is so resilient and capable of great change, overloading gives the body what it needs to boost its growth. This also allows tennis athletes to be well-rounded reacting quicker, swing harder, run faster, and master other complex tennis techniques easier.
The ability to recover prevents injury (making it as important as any other phase). Athletes must rest tired joints and muscles to ensure that they're prepared and able for future workout requirements. In this, athletes may need to rest between intense workouts, cardiovascular training, or weight endurance. Many coaches and trainers also require mandatory recovery period to mentally prepare, reflect, and be at their peak before and after a match or tournament.
Reversibility training prevents the body from forgetting valuable training exercises. We've all heard the phrase "use it or lose it" before, but it's even more true when it comes to athletes. Rest periods are important to rebuild muscle, but your body forgets how to react just as fast. Coaches and trainers of tennis athletes need to balance physical training, technical training and core mental exercises regularly to maintain "competition condition." This means that athletes must train at least every few weeks to prevent reduction to abilities (which can occur in as little as 2 weeks).
Coaches and trainers focus on the potential ways to ensure peak competitive performance, and this means to correctly apply other physical sport principles that support competitive performance. When used correctly, coaches and trainers can accelerate the results of their procedures because athletes can use their experiences in other areas to learn different ways to approach a skill in a different way. While the effects of the action might be positive or negative (or there might be no response at all), it's most important to simply apply practice areas that utilize past skills to help athletes remember the basics when they're competing (and then applying them to the next level).
Athletes biomechanics and physiology respond specifically to various sport's skill stimuli, but not always in the ways that you would expect. Because of this, coaches and trainers have to find where principles are misinterpreted and make changes based on how the body responds to positive stimuli (like performing your activity to the best of your ability). In other words, completing a specific action so many times, and you truly want to be the best, your body and mind will prepare for those exact requirements over time. Eventually, an athlete's body and mind will adapt to training, and through years and years of training, you can clearly see how a tennis athlete's physique and psyche are different from any other athletes due to the specificity of the sport.
The most important aspect of these training principles is to be able to replicate the same techniques, form, and other important aspects of training and practice in different point/game/match situation. Most coaches or trainers teach athletes in phases (called conditioning) that teaches athletes how to perform their sport specifically. The body and mind therefore conditioned with in-season maintenance and off-season conditioning, keeping the athlete fresh and sharp year-round.
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
― Jordan Belfort
