how experienced were you when you started? was it very hard? i wanna know what exercises i can do to improve my tennis skills. i have a good backhand but im a little rusty. and im afraid that my soon-to-be tennis coach wont be that good. is it okay to do simple exercises by myself, like running with weights?
i mean wrist weights.

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Right now, I don’t think my tennis coach is working us that hard: suicides (touch every line)-about 5 reps, 3 sets (10 sec breaks in between reps)
crab walks-across court up and down-1 rep, 2 sets
squat jumps-10 reps, 1 set
run up to the net, then run backwards-5 reps, 3 sets
Are there any other good tennis conditioning drills that anyone knows?

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My high school tennis coach has us do an exercise for conditioning called "Iron-man" and basically what it is, is we hold a push-up in down position except we get to keep our elbows on the ground. We have to hold it that way for a minute, sometimes a minute and a half, keeping our backs straight. My coach says this is good for the abdominals, and that may be true, but I am also wondering if it is bad for the back because I KNOW that lunges (another thing that we do) is bad for your knees, and there may be a strong possibility that the Iron-man is bad for your back, because I feel tension when I do it. Any thoughts?
Is this exercise bad** for the back. Sorry I didn’t realize I spelled back twice. My bad

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