The Pauly P Lateral Shuffle with Jr. White Shadow

For the past few days I have had the opportunity to train Greg Labanowski from Houston, TX.
Here is a clip from the end of practice. The repetitive change of direction, and the bending of the knees to touch each target, will strengthen the legs and build endurance.
We did [...]

Junior Training Camp - Hot Florida Style!

I just completed an 8 day training camp with junior John Woodard. John is heading to LSU this upcoming fall and will be competing on the Men’s Tennis team. John needed to train all facets of his conditioning in order to compete in the upcoming Summer tournament’s.
Here is a [...]

On Court Tennis Movement Training

Here is a clip taken a couple years back when Amer was up in Amelia Island training.
I love doing this drill for tennis movement purposes. It really does cover all the bases when it comes to moving on the tennis court. You have to shuffle, move up and back linearly, and cover [...]

Exercise of the Week - The Swiss Ball Rollout

Well, I haven’t been blogging too much, but I decided to show you a great exercise today.
The Swiss Ball Rollout is a safe and very effective exercise that trains core stability. The object is to try and sustain a stable plank position on a swiss ball or an ab [...]

Exercise of the Week - Plank Leg Raise with Dr. Mark Frisk

The Plank exercise by itself is one of my favorites. It is very safe, and it works so many important muscles.
Mark does a great job of keeping his hips up as he raises and lowers his legs. His glutes are firing as he lifts the leg and his abdominal cavity is bracing [...]

Tennis Drill - The Aussie 2 on 1

An oldie but a goodie, the Old Aussie 2 on 1 drill can get the heart rate up and provide a great physical workout for solo hitter. Watch Ashley here work out with Chucky Adams and Aaron Webster at the beautiful Riviera Country Club in Santa Monica, CA.
This is a typical morning workout [...]

Interval Exercise of the Week - Out of Seat Bike Interval

Here is Ashley Harkleroad performing an out of the seat bike interval. As you can see, you don’t have to make the interval so hard that it becomes a death march.
I have Ash going at about 70 percent of Max. The idea was to have her stretch out her leg, work [...]

Swiss Ball Elevated Split Squat

Here is Macy Van Alstyne, NASM CPT, demonstrating one of my favorite exercises for developing leg strength and endurance.
As you can see in the video, Macy really has to be balanced in order to execute the movement pattern and gets a nice range of motion because of the swiss ball.
This exercise targets your glutes, [...]

What is “The Core”

Everyone has heard of “the core”. But what exactly does that mean? Pisanitraining’s Kritopher Shumway wrote in and gave his definition of “the core”. Enjoy this scientific description that really breaks down each element and its purpose. ENJOY!
The core consists of both intra-abdominal and external abdominal [...]

Swiss Ball One Arm Press

In a previous blog, I showed White Shadow performing the one arm press on the Bosu ball.
Here I show Rob on the Swiss Ball. Either one is fine to use, but to be honest, I like mixing it up. The hip extension differs from one another, with the Bosu [...]