STOP ANKLE SPRAINS (In Just 3 Quick Exercises!!)

Ankle sprains and twisted ankles are by far one of the most common injuries suffered by both men and women. The critical importance of the ankle joint, as well as it's roll as one of the first links in the kinetic chain, make it vulnerable to being sprained and injured.

In this video, I show you how to stop sprained ankle injuries before they happen with 3 quick exercises or drills. The biggest problem with ankle injuries is that once you incur them, you often times wind up having it happen again. Once the ligaments are compromised in the ankle joint, the muscles are often simply not strong enough to take over. That is, unless you were training your ankles with the right exercises and focus all along.

I show you in this video how most people focus on mobilizing their ankle and calf muscles while stabilizing their ankle joints. What they should be doing is exactly the opposite! If you want to fortify your ankle joints you need to start mobilizing them and building up stability in your lower leg muscles.

The leg swing exercises shown here will do just that. Most people think that these are not ankle exercises since they focus on the moving leg. However, if you look at the stresses being applied to the ankle on the ground you'll see just how effective these can be for getting the mobility you need to prevent injury to this vulnerable joint.

Grade II and III ankle sprains (as well as high ankle sprains) can be serious injuries that are tough to truly come back 100 percent from. It's better to learn the right things you can do either before you hurt them or even after just the first few times, to prevent you from having this happen over and over again.

For a complete plan for bullet proofing your body (beyond just your ankles) and getting the perfect balance of mobility and stability in your muscles and joints.

Forehand Lesson: How to Return Fast Deep Balls

Forehand Lesson: How to Return Fast Deep Balls

Today's tennis lesson on the forehand goes a little beyond basic tennis technique.

It shows you how to handle one of the toughest shots in tennis!

The shots that come blazing at you near the baseline.

These shots are SO SO hard to handle!

I have 3 expert tennis tips for you that will help you hit an amazing forehand even though the ball is coming at you like a rocket.

I call it the rainbow forehand!

Progression for a Consistent, Controlled Toss

Today on Natural Tennis Solutions, Coach Gene Molina covers the multiple steps towards replicating a consistent toss.

Most Unorthodox Tennis Match Ever (50FPS)

Dustin Brown won against Nadal at Wimbledon 2015 in the most strangest ways possible! His unorthodox play style was just too much for Nadal. Enjoy the 50fps highlights!

Watch The Ball?

Should we watch the ball when executing a stroke? It is of the utmost importance to watch the ball when playing tennis, but can we see the ball touch our strings when performing a stroke? Is it necessary to keep our head on the ball well after it has left the strings like the great Roger Federer? In this video, you will find answers to these questions and more...

Federer/Wawrinka: Moving back hitting through

What how Federer and other turn a defensive shot into an offensive one.

Slice Serve Return | RETURNING DIFFERENT SERVES

Returning a spinning, slice serve requires good recognition on the returner. Learn how to anticipate this serve and how to effectively play the ball as it's slicing away from you.

Prepping like a Pro: Building Tennis Stability

This empowering exercise will get you fit and ready to deliver punishing shots. Take on the Prepping like a Pro challenge and rule the competition with your fitness, strength and endurance.

How To Crush Your Forehand With The Windshield Wiper Tennis Forehand

The windshield wiper tennis forehand is a bit of a mystery to some people. The intention of this tennis video is to clearly show you how to hit the windshield wiper forehand. It's really not that difficult. If you have a classical tennis forehand, get ready to increase your topspin. A lot of people are afraid to swing all out on the ball because their balls usually sail long. So they stop abruptly or do weird things on their forehand. But if you learn the windshield wiper correctly, you'll be able to generate massive topspin your tennis forehand without much effort. Instead of balls sailing long, they'll be falling in and your opponents will be on the defensive. So if you have been wondering how to hit with topspin on your forehand, look no further than this video. I am going to show you how to get more topspin, hit a stronger forehand and have more fun when you play tennis. This quick tennis video give you all you need to start practicing the windshield wiper tennis forehand

How To Hit A Kick Serve?

In this video, you will learn how to hit a kick serve?

1. Grips

2. Swing path and body position

3. Contact

4. Finish

and much more!!

The Best Match Ever In Tennis History (HD)

The Best Match Ever In Tennis History.

Footwork Fundamental #1 Body Weight Transfer

Fight for position! Please watch this video to the last second! This is what makes your positioning in tennis great. If you have spacing issues, this may be your answer. Transfer your body weight into the shot is the first footwork fundamental that we all need to revisit and master. Putting yourself in a balanced position to feel confident that you can transfer into the shot is what needs to be the plan. With nothing else in your mind, transfer. You may have trouble with it at first but that's normal with everything. Number one priority, fight for position to get behind the ball so you can transfer your weight fluidly. Good luck and stay loose!

Ending the Wrist Debate?

The wrist is arguably the most important element of the kinetic chain. Before we discuss the nitty gritty, we must address the goal of the wrist - to increase racquet speed and focus that energy at a single point. Most players aren't able to do this for one key reason. Look forward to your comments below! Thank you and good luck on the courts!

How To Deal With Slice Shots In Tennis | Tennis Lessons

How To Deal With slice shots in tennis.

Tennis tactics and tennis strategy by Top Tennis Training's Simon and Alex. In this video we will teach you how to handle low balls in tennis and how to defeat players who use the slice a lot in matches.

Low slice shots are some of the hardest types of balls to handle in tennis, however there are a few ways to overcome the low ball.

1. Hit the low ball with heavy topspin and overcome the slice on the ball with your own topspin which will allow you to hit aggressive but maintain the consistency. If you simply tap the ball back, the slice on the incoming ball will make the ball move on your strings which will result in your shot being erratic and you losing control of the shot.

But by brushing up the back of the ball aggressively, you will be able to overcome the slice with your own topspin.

2. Slice the ball back. As the ball is low most of the time when you receive that slice shot, it makes sense to slice the ball back to keep yourself in the rally in a neutral position.

After you hit that low ball, you will have a few options, depending on the position you hit that shot from you will have to decide whether you move in towards the net, typically you would do that if the ball is shorter, or if you will hit that ball and return to the baseline, normally on deeper slices.

How to Stretch BEFORE Working Out (QUADS and LEGS)

Stretching is always one of those things that either gets overlooked before your workouts or is done the wrong way.  Not sure which one is worse.  If you do the wrong stretch before working out you can actually decrease your strength during the workout.  If you don't warmup at all, you could injure yourself and pull a muscle.

In this video, I show you the best way to stretch your quads and legs before working out or before a game.  You'll see that it is very different from the static stretch that you should do when you are trying to increase the length of the muscle.

When learning how to stretch before working out you have to consider a few issues.  The first is that you are primarily trying to increase blood flow to the muscle and mobilize the joints the muscles cross to feel more loose and ready for your workout.  You are not trying to increase the length of the muscle.  That said, a pre workout stretching routine would consist of movements that are dynamic and keep the limb in motion throughout the stretch.

You only want to statically hold a stretch for 30-60 seconds if you are trying to increase tissue length.  Even then, doing it once per week and thinking that you are actually going to have an impact on that is a mistake.  Static stretches need to be done very regularly (almost daily) if you want to reverse the muscle tightnesses that you have accumulated after years of neglecting stretching.

Dynamic stretches need to be done through constant motion, as I demonstrate here with the combination quad and hamstring stretch.  Dynamic stretches without an attention to passive stretches will limit their effectiveness.  The best stretching routine will have a balance between both passive and dynamic stretches for each muscle group.

The common threads of the forehand. Nadal federer Djockovic

Watch how Federer Nadal and others use the same common threads to hit a Top spin Forehand.

Serve Stretch Video #3, Toes

In this video we learn about the toes and what they can do for your serve. While getting on your toes, you stretch your quads. The stretching of the quads will increase the speed of your upward momentum on the serve. Upward momentum is what we want to achieve on the serve as well as some forward momentum. This video will get you on your way to feeling the up part of the serve. Good luck and stay loose!

Exclusive tennis match: Noah & Bahrami vs McEnroe & Leconte @ Optima Open

Mansour Bahrami, Yannick Noah, Henri Leconte and John McEnroe have showed off their tricks while playing/entertaining the final game of Optima Open. The crowd went crazy when the four magicians showed the "imaginary point" (copyright Mansour Bahrami), where Mansour and the other three members of the doubles match played an imaginary, slow-motion point without a ball.

How To Aim In Tennis?

How to aim in tennis?

How do we achieve directional control when playing tennis? Is this a mechanical process? In other words, are we manufacturing the angle of the racquet head consciously at contact? Or is this possibly an intuitive process? In this video, you will find out the answers to these questions and much more on the topic of directional control.

The Art of Reading Your Opponent

Frank Giampaolo demonstrates the art of reading the opponents passing shots and lobs with his famous Triangle drill.

Effective Return Of Serve Footwork

Effective Return Of Serve Footwork

4 Stretches You Should Be Doing EVERY Morning!

Waking up feeling stiff is extremely common, especially if you work out the day before.  In this video, I’m going to show you the 4 best stretches to do every morning to help loosen up and increase your flexibility for the rest of the day.  Much of what you are trying to overcome are the tightnesses that develop from our sleeping posture.  Each of these stretches is going to help hit these key areas and allow you to do it quickly so as not to take up much time.

The first move is actually not a static stretch but rather a dynamic movement.  The goal is to groove the hip hinge while at the same time stretch out the hamstrings a bit since many of us have chronically tight hamstring muscles from sitting all day.  The reason we do this RDL movement however is not to statically stretch the hamstring but simply to warm them up.  In the case of an anterior pelvic tilt you would not want to perform long stretches of the hamstrings, as they tend to be taut from pelvic positioning not actually muscle tightness.

From here you want to drop down into a deep squat position with your hands between your legs and flat on the floor.  The goal is to turn your hands away from you with your fingers pointed backwards.  This will stretch out the forearms and finger flexors while at the same time providing a nice stretch for the biceps.  Believe it or not, the biceps do tend to get tight when sleeping because we sleep with our arms in some variation of a bent elbow position for hours on end.

The goal of this deep stretch however is to loosen up the hips and groin.  If you are a side sleeper you will have your legs likely pulled up into your chest and your knees pressed against each other.  This will tighten both the hip flexors and the hip adductors or groin muscles.  There is nothing more important in the morning than trying to re-establish a looseness to these muscles since asymmetrical pulling on the pelvis can cause lots of postural low back pain and stiffness throughout the day.

Use your elbows to drive your knees apart and deepen the stretch while at the same time let your thighs help to reinforce the straightness of your arms for that good biceps and forearm stretch.

Next you want to really get at those hip flexors and stretch them out.  The best way to do that is with an overhead leaning lunge stretch.  Here you want to grab a wooden dowel, broomstick, etc that you can plant into the ground in front of you outside of your forward leg.  Drop the opposite leg behind you until you feel a deep stretch on the upper front side of your thigh.  From here, reach up to the top of the stick with both hands and twist/lean towards that side to enhance the stretch.  If you do this right, you will be extending through the thoracic spine to regain any lost mobility from sleeping with a rounded upper back supported by the pillow.

Finally, you perform the standing shoulder stretch with the dowel or stick as well.  This is an incredible stretch that will help to externally rotate your shoulders and work on loosening up the posterior deltoids as well.  When laying on your side or on your stomach, your shoulders are often positioned into internal rotation.  Again, the problem here is that you aren’t just staying like this for a few minutes but rather hours!  If you want to loosen up the tightnesses that you cause by sleeping this way you have to devote just a few minutes each morning to doing that.

Each of these stretches can have a profound impact by just being held for 45 seconds or so, every morning.  It won’t take you long to start to see and feel the benefits of adopting these four into your morning routine.

If you’re looking for a complete program that helps you to not just feel loose but get strong, ripped and athletic at the same time, be sure to head to the link below and get the ATHLEAN-X Training System.  Start looking like an athlete by training like an athlete beginning today.

High Short Ball Tip for Control

In this video we go over a high short ball tip for control. There are many videos out there on this topic and I know it's a major shot to have in your arsenal.

You set up a great point and you finally get your opponent to give up a short high ball and bam. You miss it. It's ok to miss the shot but there may be a way to increase your control on it when going for it. Instead of hitting through the ball, which is mostly the consensus on the internet, I encourage you to hit around the ball. This will give you more grip on the ball and will impart topspin on it as well. The control should be increased when doing this and so should your confidence in hitting it.

Get out there and rip those high short balls with confidence!

Good luck and stay loose!

How To Hit A Flat Serve?

How to hit a flat serve?

1. Flat serve grip

2. Flat serve optimal body position

3. Flat serve swing path

4. Two types of flat serves

5. Does a flat serve have spin

6. Flat serve slow-motion footage

Tennis - Top UNIQUE Styles That Only They Have

This is the special video I want to show you. In the tennis world, there are a lot of strange styles, with my limited knowledge. These are things I know.

Hope you enjoy!