From Massimo Caruana - father of jr. tennis player
Posted January 3, 2010 – 1:46 pm in: Pegasus Internet Training Program, TestimonialsMy name is Max and I am the father of an 11 year old tennis player, Liam, who lives and trians in San Diego, California. I would like to share my story of how Paul Pisani has positively affected Liam’s tennis development in the last few weeks.
I contacted Paul a few months back when I felt that Liam’s tennis training was in need of some additional push on the fitness/strenght side. Paul suggested we could work through his online program and a local trainer he knew. Although I was initially skeptical about the online approach, I liked Paul’ tennis specific approach and I went for it. For the first few weeks Paul worked on Liam mainly through a local trainer based in San Diego, but when it came our time to head to Miami for Liam’s first Jr Orange Bowl, Paul wasted no time to get things in his own hands and drove down to meet us and spend time with Liam and me…training . Well, that turned out to be a week none of us will ever forget….
I will focus on the tennis/training side of the story because Paul was able to get Liam and myself completely aware of the role fitness and strenght can play in today’s game of tennis. His energy, his workouts and his approach, although designed for professioanl athletes, can transform the way a junior player approaches his matches, both mentally and phisically.
Liam ended up making the qurters of the Jr Orange Bowl’ back draw after qualifying through some very hard matches……and best of all, ended up winning the very next national tournnament, Copper Bowl in Tucson, Arizona, to start the new year. I truly believe Liam owes this win to the hard work put on the track and the gym and Pauly’s new strenght approach !
Thanks Paul.
Max
Healthy Lady Fitness with The Beauty Bean
Posted December 31, 2009 – 1:10 pm in: Pegasus Internet Training ProgramI teamed up with www.thebeautybean.com over the weekend for a photo/video shoot in New York City.
The Beauty Bean is an online Women’s magazine that main focus is beauty, wellness, and fitness. I believe this will be an excellent site for ladies all over the world.
Alexis Wolfer has put her passion into her new business and she will surely deliver high level information from beauty secrets, to everyday wellness issues that are specific to today’s healthy lady. Make up, health, fashion, and fitness will be featured in her articles and blogs.
The Beauty Bean is set to launch tomorrow, January 1st, 2010! www.thebeautybean.com
Testimonials of the Week
Posted December 31, 2009 – 7:35 am in: Pegasus Internet Training Program, TestimonialsHello everybody,
More often than not, I get some nice letters that come in from clients all over the world. Here are a couple letters from this week. Although I have never met Ruby Tuesday, and have only met Harry once, they both are on my training program where I interact with them on the internet daily. I train them using a multi million dollar online application called www.pegasustrainer.com . It works really well, and the results have been great. Here ya go!
Hi - Harry is at the winter nationals in Phoenix. He is with his Tulsa coach, Trent Tucker and OU, coach Roddick. He is doing great. He probably didn’t mention it to you. He is having his best national tournament ever, he has become so strong with your help. Thank you.
I will have him contact you when he gets back to Tulsa. Then on Jan 5th, he is off to England to play. He is playing 3 matches a day now, but I think he will not have as many in England so maybe you could work out something for him to do on the road for 2 weeks?
Thanks for your help.
Dianne Warden (harry’s mom)
Pauly!!!
I freakin crushed it today!! I am absolutely loving this shit! hahah I want you to kill me these next 2 weeks because Im going to be home and it is a good opportunity to turn into an absolute animal! hahah By the way, I am going to play Davis Cup for the Philippines this year and I really need to get my body ready to play 3 out of 5 sets ya know. Any advice with this would be awesome. Also, any diet tips you can give me? Im trying to cut up and maybe lose a little weight. I am 6′1 and 180 lbs but I want to get leaner. Alright man keep hurtin me!! I love it!!! hahahh Talk to you soon
Ruby Tuesday
Rotational Core Strength
Posted December 11, 2009 – 8:49 am in: Tennis, Tennis Fitness, Tennis Instruction For golfers and tennis players, rotational core power is a must. The stronger you are in this department, the harder, farther, and more consistent you can hit the ball. If you are looking to lose weight and burn fat, this one can raise your metabolism because you are working so many muscles. In other words, this is one of my favorites. 
Here is Ashley Harkleroad performing this cable pull in Santa Monica, CA. Ashley is a great athlete and a fantastic tennis player. You can tell she really engages her obliques by moving her shoulders and hips to move the cable horizontally across and parallel to the ground.
Ashley has a rock solid backhand and this exercise helps strengthen her left side. The left side is important for the double handed backhand because for most players, this is the area that hits the ball.
Be sure to keep your spine nice and straight and rotate around it.
Interval Exercise of the Week - Out of Seat Bike Interval
Posted December 11, 2009 – 1:16 am in: Cycling, Endurance Training, Tennis FitnessHere 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 her calves, and get her heart rate in a zone that would burn some calories.
When performing an interval like this, it is best to keep the bottom of your foot above your toes, kind of like a sprinter in running. This will work your legs differently than when you are riding seated.
Play around with the interval intensity and how many you perform. Personally, for myself, I plan on riding the bike for 20 mins, and then doing 5 of these @ 60 sec per rep. My heart rate goes between 150 to 165 and provides me with a good sweat.
As always, check with a physician before performing this drill.
2 CommentsPost Thanksgiving Day Workout
Posted November 27, 2009 – 8:13 am in: Pegasus Internet Training Program, Personal Training
With many of us taking in thousands of calories yesterday, I thought it would be cool to offer a fun workout that will boost your metabolism , burn off some of those calories, and get you ready for rounds two , three, and four over the weekend.
To access your workout, simply go to www.pegasustrainer.com and enter in “gobble” for both user name and password. Once you have entered the site, scroll down to “My Workouts”, and you will see today’s date, Nov 26th. Click on the date and up will come your workout!
You will have to adjust the weights according to your current fitness level.
Use this workout as a “blue print” and tailor it to your needs. It covers all the body parts with an introductory warm up.
No CommentsRotational Shoulder Press with Neps
Posted November 25, 2009 – 8:02 am in: Personal Training, Tennis FitnessHere is a small clip from one of my workouts. I like this variation of the shoulder press. I was introduced to this exercise many years ago from one of my clients in Los Angeles, Rick Selby.
Rick would call these shoulder presses, “Arnolds”, coined after Arnold Schwenegger…apparently Ahhhnold liked these quite a bit.
This exercise will target your lats, delts, and rotator cuff muscles. The added twist at the end works the forearms and wrists.
A comparison to this exercise would be the pull up where your palms face you. This type of pullup targets the lats and biceps more, while a pullup with your palms away from you would target your shoulders more.
Gimel’s Corner - A Tortured Genius Finally Rests
Posted November 24, 2009 – 6:57 am in: Gimel's Corner 
Tennis is a sport that challenges its participants with two competing extremes. In order to be successful, a player needs to simultaneously maintain both heightened intensity and detached calm. It is an elusive balance that ironically lures perfectionists to a game that cannot be perfected. Marat Safin embodies that dichotomy. There has never been a player who has made the game look so easy externally while internally being at such odds with his emotions and mind.
When Safin burst onto the ATP World Tour in 1997, it was with both an explosive game and temperament. Neither subsided throughout his career. Safin was in a lot of ways a pioneer of playing styles, a hybrid between physical dominance and technical efficiency. 
In 1997, Safin played his first Kremlin Cup and lost a third-set tie-break to savvy veteran Kenneth Carlsen. Talent dripped from his body more profusely than sweat from the rigorous match. He was a combination of speed and natural power, the type of power that came with fluidity, not brute force. Safin’s red Head tennis racquet looked small in his hand, like a twig he was flinging through the air. He strutted around the court with his now customary swagger, torpedoing balls with complete disregard to the score and occasion that underlined his high expectations.
“I am not perfect and neither was my career. In the end tennis is like life, messy.”
A few weeks ago, after Safin played his 12th and final Kremlin Cup – a typical Safin tournament with highs and lows – the former World No. 1 readily admitted that he had not achieved tennis perfection. Of more relevance is the question of whether Safin maximised his talent, which many fans think should have yielded far more than two Grand Slam championship titles. read more »
2 CommentsTRX Suspension Pushup with Weight Vest/Perfect Pushup
Posted November 19, 2009 – 6:54 am in: Amelia Island Personal Training, Coach's Corner, Personal Training, Strength Training, Tennis FitnessAs you can see from my latest blogs, I’ve been using my TRX Suspension Trainer quite a bit. Bob Dykes, my client from last night, called me, “Q”, from the James Bond movie. “Q” was the person in charge of giving 007 all of his latest and greatest gadgets. I kind of like that comparison!
For the past week, Tyler was in town and he got a pretty good taste of what I am capable of doing with this bad boy. One of the many exercises that we did with the TRX Trainer was the Suspension Pushup. As with most of my pushup exercises, I choose to have my clients use the Perfect Pushup because of the way the wrist functions in the neutral position.
There are few things that are happening here that you want to pay attention to. By adding the weight vest and suspending one foot in the air, increases not only the difficulty of the exercise, but ultimately helps increase Tyler’s pushing and core strength.
Roger Federer Interview
Posted November 18, 2009 – 7:19 am in: Gimel's Corner, TennisAt this years USOpen, Gimel and I had the opportunity to actually get paid to interview all the top stars of the tennis world.
While I was looking for new footage to put up on my site, I came across this rare clip of Roger getting interviewed for the Tennis Channel. Roger is incredibly classy, and comes across very genuine in his answers and perspective on life.
In this interview segment, Justin and Roger talk about the recent birth of his twin daughters, and what the future may hold for them. Roger also touches upon his goals for the future and what inspires him to keep playing.
The 2009 USOpen will be an Open that I will never forget….
