by Meike Babel | Nov 16, 2019 | Sports Performance
I know, I know…many roll their eyes when they hear the word self-kindness or self-compassion in the context of sports. After all, when talking about sports we’re inundated with terms that conjure up feelings quite the opposite of kindness–we’re going to war, fighting...
by WTCA coach | May 15, 2019 | Sports Performance
By Laura Legoupil – WTA tour physiotherapist and strength and conditioning coach As coaches, we should remind ourselves that the players we train, are athletes before being tennis players. It’s especially true when it comes to young athletes. It is well known...
by Shameema Yousuf | Feb 2, 2019 | Sports Performance
In divine scriptures it is revealed ‘power is made perfect in weakness’ and ‘for when I am weak, then I am strong.’1 Apostle Saint Paul’s motto may be adapted to the sports context, for it is fear of ‘weakness’ that may deprive an athlete from reaching his/her full...
by WTCA coach | Jan 6, 2019 | Healthy Referral, Sports Performance
Among the more serious types of athletic and performance injuriesare those involving the hamstring group. This part of the musculo-skeletal system is vital in large part, for a great amount of stability, form, function, and power. Its...
by WTCA coach | Jan 6, 2019 | Healthy Referral, Sports Performance
I had the opportunity to meet Torben Ulrich, the great Danish Davis Cup player years ago in NY for a workshop on Ballplaying and the Buddhist Approach to Tennis. His philosophy is wrapped up in his response when he played the great Pancho Gonzalez and the reporter...
by WTCA coach | Jan 6, 2019 | Healthy Referral, Sports Performance
Learning who we are is one of the most precious Gifts we can give ourselves! A Gift that only we can open! In a world that has many mixed messages to Be, Think and Look like someone else there is no doubt why many children, women & men think so lowly of...
