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Teaching Lower Extremity Progressions for Injury Reduction - Ryan Stevens & Essential Tennis
We're going way back in this throwback episode. Back when I had hair :-). A little while after I moved to New Jersey, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Ian Westermann, founder of EssentialTennis.com, to create a series of videos on injury prevention and performance enhancement for tennis players. In this podcast episode, we are going to get clinical with some tips you can use both with injury rehab and injury reduction programs, as I share the audio from three of these video segments. In my session with Ian, we review jumping and landing mechanics as a precursor to beginning plyometric training, base deceleration and change of direction skill drills as a precursor for advanced speed, and lower extremity sequence progressions that I have used in the "Performance" realm, with the purpose of injury reduction and performance enhancement. agility, and quickness drills, and complementary lower extremity strengthening exercises such as the single leg squat, single leg RDL, and mini band walking.
Essential Tennis was an idea born of enthusiasm and frustration. Ten years ago, Ian was a teaching pro, feeding balls to club players who didn’t really want to work much on their games. They just wanted an instant fix. Ian, however, wanted to teach students truly motivated to improve their skills. So where did he find them? In his basement. Or, on his computer in his basement, to be more precise. The Internet is where he discovered a growing community of players who simply couldn’t get enough tennis instruction. His kind of people. From the get-go, Essential Tennis has been pioneer in the digital instruction space. It adopted YouTube early on. Now it’s the top tennis instruction channel with more than 102,000 subscribers. It currently offers some of the web’s most comprehensive digital courses. And its distinctive teaching methodology employs a system of progressions designed to improve student play, step by step. The results are undeniable.
Video Links to match podcast audio:
Jump / landing techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khKmLE6_NGQ&list=PLd3pNx1_T0wiMLxAEdjeSLIgmp0okgFGx&index=9
Deceleration & Agility Skills progression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcx6ngxdkc8&t=5s
Hip and lower extremity strength progression to complement deceleration and agility training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWtThtD4sR0&t=3s
*audio from videos posted with permission of Ian Westermann and EssentialTennis.com*
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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting
Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!
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By Ryan Stevens, MPS, ATC, CSCS (cATalyzing Coaching and Consulting)
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We're going way back in this throwback episode. Back when I had hair :-). A little while after I moved to New Jersey, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Ian Westermann, founder of EssentialTennis.com, to create a series of videos on injury prevention and performance enhancement for tennis players. In this podcast episode, we are going to get clinical with some tips you can use both with injury rehab and injury reduction programs, as I share the audio from three of these video segments. In my session with Ian, we review jumping and landing mechanics as a precursor to beginning plyometric training, base deceleration and change of direction skill drills as a precursor for advanced speed, and lower extremity sequence progressions that I have used in the "Performance" realm, with the purpose of injury reduction and performance enhancement. agility, and quickness drills, and complementary lower extremity strengthening exercises such as the single leg squat, single leg RDL, and mini band walking.
Essential Tennis was an idea born of enthusiasm and frustration. Ten years ago, Ian was a teaching pro, feeding balls to club players who didn’t really want to work much on their games. They just wanted an instant fix. Ian, however, wanted to teach students truly motivated to improve their skills. So where did he find them? In his basement. Or, on his computer in his basement, to be more precise. The Internet is where he discovered a growing community of players who simply couldn’t get enough tennis instruction. His kind of people. From the get-go, Essential Tennis has been pioneer in the digital instruction space. It adopted YouTube early on. Now it’s the top tennis instruction channel with more than 102,000 subscribers. It currently offers some of the web’s most comprehensive digital courses. And its distinctive teaching methodology employs a system of progressions designed to improve student play, step by step. The results are undeniable.
Video Links to match podcast audio:
Jump / landing techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khKmLE6_NGQ&list=PLd3pNx1_T0wiMLxAEdjeSLIgmp0okgFGx&index=9
Deceleration & Agility Skills progression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcx6ngxdkc8&t=5s
Hip and lower extremity strength progression to complement deceleration and agility training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWtThtD4sR0&t=3s
*audio from videos posted with permission of Ian Westermann and EssentialTennis.com*
_____________________________________________________________________
cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting
Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!
Ignite your potential. Fuel your fire within. Let's talk! Contact me here to set up your free discovery session!
Subscribe to the cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting YouTube / @catalyzingats. Be sure to hit that notification button!
Connect with lead cATalyst / Podcast host Ryan Stevens on LinkedIn!
@cATalyzingATs → follow on Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter!
Discount education to pursue mastery! cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is a proud partner with MedBridge, an all-in-one online platform that makes it easy for busy Athletic Trainers, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech Language Pathologists to access leading-edge education and patient resources with just a few clicks. They offer a library of over 1500 CEU courses. Get $150 off with this limited time promo code: "catalyzingats" when you sign up at medbridge.com!