Tennis
Exercise of the Week: 50-Yard Shuttle
Every Wednesday, STACK features an Exercise of the Week to help you improve your overall sports performance—including strength, speed, conditioning and flexibility. This week we highlight the 50-Yard Shuttle, an [...]
Three Upper Back Exercises to Strengthen Your Shoulders
The shoulder lets you perform a myriad of sports skills, such as throwing a football and serving in tennis, because it has a greater range of motion than any other [...]
STACKletes Speak Up: Your Biggest Inspiration
STACK wants to hear your thoughts, so we've been posing questions to our Facebook page. Last week, we asked what loyalty is, highlighting the response from STACKlete Patrick McCauley, who [...]
Single-Limb Training Yields Impressive Results
Think of a tennis player who lacks the ability to stop or push off both legs equally; or a soccer player who makes great plays, but only off his right [...]
Envisioning Better On-Court Performance
Tennis is a sport in which exceptional visual skills are critical. Strong vision improves split-second on-court movement—reacting to shots, setting up in the proper position and tracking the ball to [...]
Enhance Soccer Speed, Strength and Quickness With Real Salt Lake
Soccer requires endurance, strength and short bursts of speed throughout a match. Just ask Real Salt Lake, winners of the 2009 MLS Cup. Their lower-body stability series, created by head [...]
Cross-Training Prepared Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki For Basketball
Don’t look now, but the Dallas Mavericks are turning heads after sweeping the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers in the second round of the NBA Playoffs. The Mavs will compete [...]
Four Ways to Boost Your Tennis Serve
Every tennis player wants an untouchable serve. It’s a massive weapon that either wins the point outright or sets you up for an easy second shot. Many young tennis players [...]
Top Spin 4 US Open Challenge
Top Spin 4 has become the gold standard for tennis video games on the Xbox 360 and PS3. Every serve, forehand and backhand of each pro player—Nadal, Federer, Roddick, Agassi, [...]
Reaction Training for Quickness
Sports training often centers on improving explosive strength and speed, since they help an athlete beat out an opponent or win a race to a ball. Quickness, however, is not [...]