Girl's Tennis Try-out help!?

Question

My friend and I are going into the 11th grade and she wants to try out for the girl's tennis team. She is pretty overweight and i don't want to tell her she has no chance. Anybody have an exercizing tips or drills for me to help her practice with? Also what kinds of motivations should I use for her because she doesn't understand how hard Highschool sports tryouts can be and isn't very serious.

Answer 1

laps; endurance is the most important thing

Answer 2

Go to the gym.

Lift weights

practice hard every day with good people... keep trying! i would suggest going to http://www.tennis.com/yourgame/instructi... for strokes and technique. Go to tennis.com to learn about it and usta.com get urself fit so u can move around the court. U need good stamina and endurance. Do suicides (run from one side of the court to farthest line, touch it, run back to first line, then go to 2nd farthest line, and so forth....) just in case u don't understand what a suicide is click this http://youtube.com/watch?v=sCyctudDQGE for an example. Hope this helps! good luck!

Answer 3

Since u said that your friend is a bit of a chub chub then I recommend inviting yourself over to her house to clean out her fridge and take out all the unhealthy things and add raw vegetables, fish, energy drinks, maybe (slim fast), and FRUIT!! Then you need to make her excercise, run, and list weights, and of course practice tennis!! =]=]

Answer 4

I remember tennis tryouts for me. You just have to be calm and let no one push you around and play your best.

DONT PRACTICE DAY BEFORE TRY-OUTS!!!

It just makes you more pressured and nervous, just calm down and relax, and more importantly, have fun and enjoy it!!!

Answer 5

Sorry for the long answer but I feel it may help.

My school has a very successful tennis team, league champs 4 years in a row in an area where the tennis is very competitive and very high level of play. (We have a couple kids, three I believe that are in the top ten of the whole west coast)

Sorry about my tangent but as I was saying, there is a girl on our team who is actually very overweight, but is our number 1 junior varsity singles player. And although she does not move very fast her shots are very very consistent, which is one way to be a good player. So don't really focus everything on her "overweightness", if you two go out and hit tennis balls, you will run and move around enough to get in better shape. The actual strokes are at the high school level much more important than fitness level.

However if you STILL want exercises to enhance both her fitness and tennis skills, try running around with a soccer ball, the shuffling of the ball trains your footwork, while having you run around. And also swimming is a great way to have a "no resistance" exercise which burns many calories and is a great cardiovascular exercise. Run as much as you can. However try not to bulk up too much (lifting weights and such) for this can make muscles, to a point stiff, which may make the fluid motion needed to actually swinging the racquet well, harder to do.

As for motivations, I don't know really, maybe show her pictures of maria sharapova and be like "dont you want to be like her? all the guys like her (a lie hence some don't) but it may work, I'm not a girl so I don't know what inspires them.