by Sarah stone | Dec 12, 2016 | Sports Performance
Motivation can be defined as the direction and intensity of one’s efforts. Direction refers to why a person is involved in certain situations and why a person avoids other situations. Intensity is concerned with how much effort a person gives toward reaching a...
by Dr Michelle Cleere | Dec 12, 2016 | Sports Performance
It is important that your tennis players learn how to shift mental and physical gears because there are numerous gears to shift and things to think about during a tennis match. Some of those gears include shifting from: offense to defense, from serve to receive,...
by Dr Michelle Cleere | Dec 12, 2016 | Sports Performance
Coaches, have you felt those feelings of regret that come along with making a mistake? It’s common to feel a sense of frustration and anger after making a mistake particularly in a sport like tennis where you are responsible for every shot and there is no one...
by erinboynton | Dec 12, 2016 | Sports Medicine
It’s impossible to live life without developing wear and tear in our musculoskeletal system. And while rest is crucial in resolving microinjuries and remodelling our bones and soft tissue, rest alone isn’t always enough. Sometimes, like when there’s too much...
by Sarah stone | Dec 10, 2016 | Tennis Talk
“Confidence breeds success and success certainly breeds confidence” In sport, self-confidence is one of the most frequently cited psychological factors though to affect athletic achievements. So how do we get confidence? The fact is we live in a...
by WTCA coach | Oct 30, 2016 | Tennis Talk
Choosing the perfect college is the first major and possibly life-altering decision a student athlete ever faces. This decision not only determines the player’s home for 4 years, but also involves social pressure, academic needs, and tennis opportunity....
by erinboynton | Feb 7, 2016 | Sports Medicine
If you’ve ever hit the gym really hard or played a particularly excruciating game of tennis, you’ve probably suffered through this nasty workout hangover. Delayed onset muscle soreness, or DOMS if you want to impress your meathead friends, is the muscular pain,...
