Help for tennis and training????

Question

I want to increase my endurance and occasionally run but will jumping rope help me with my endurance?

And also, are 2.5 lbs ankle weights safe for training. I may not use them for running but for other things. What do you suggest I do with them.

Answer 1

run with ur weights man, its the best thing you can do if you want to increase your endurance, jump ropes with them. it will help ur jump and thats more power.  

Answer 2

yes any type of exersize (jumping rope) will make you stronger and increase endurence. the ankle weights are also good but if they feel to heavy attach lighter ones. This will increase your speed and stamina. good luck! :)

Answer 3

Jumping rope helps alot... I do it b4 all my tournaments. Ankle weights are also good.

Answer 4

Running is the best and simplest thing for Circulo-Respiratory fitness. And you don't need to run a marathon to get fit. Those who can run a few miles safely have no real gains in CR fitness over someone who can run a full marathon. The best thing to do is build up your running distance over a period of two months until you can run a mile. Intersperse middle distance running with sprints. Because Tennis is about endurance, *but* also about finding explosive power, as when the need arises to get into the net- maybe to pick up on a drop volley the opposition has given you.

Jumping rope can help your rhythm and sense of balance a little bitsy, and endurance to some degree. But running is the king of all endurance building exercises.

There are lots of exercises that you can use with or without the weights for conditioning your torso and legs to the demands of tennis. Holding a bent legged stance for increasingly longer periods (you can aim to better times you record) is an easy one.

Squat-kicks is also another easy one that is effective without the need of equipment and gyms. Keep your back in a natural position (as if walking with your chin up). Then bend at the knee until you are on your haunches. Then rise up, lifting one knee to waist height- and from here extend the foot of that leg until knee is straight (do not hyperextend- protect your knees). Then retract the leg, and return to the squat position. Then do it with the opposite leg. Start with 20-40 reps (for each leg). This will add tone and endurance to thighs, hamstrings and to some extent will improve the stabilizing muscles of the back and abdomen.

Ankle-weights can be useful at that weight. You can practise any stepping drills using those weights. Drills such as the following side-stepping drill can only stand to benefit from the addition of ankle weights:

Standing with feet shoulder width apart, (or in your normal receiving stance), practise pulling left to right- stepping to feet together position,  and then stepping out right to open legged stance again. Step right five times, then come back to the left. Very basic, and good for ingraining a sense of lateral mobility.

Lunge drills, back stepping drills and so on can employ the ankle weights.