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Date: December 6, 2006
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Topic: Fitness 101 - Part 1:   Our fitness program MUST be specific to improving our ability to visually track a moving ball...

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Hi, Brent Abel here WebTennis.net and this week I want to talk about the oldest clichés in terms of teaching tennis, and that is "Watch the Ball". 

Please don't click off the video yet, because I know that the saying, "Watch the Ball" is as old as it could possibly be. 

It's as boring as it could possibly be, but I want you to think about the relationship between watching a moving tennis ball as you are moving yourself, on the tennis court, and your current fitness program, your current fitness level, whatever that is.

I guess, the point I'm trying to make here is that there is a major, major relationship between the type of fitness program that you have right now and how that relates to your ability to watch a moving tennis ball as you move.

I've made this mistake before in the past.  I'd go out and I'd do a bunch of long distance running and I got good and strong, but the problem was, when I moved on the tennis court, I had sort of broken down those muscles that allowed me to move smoothly to be able to visually lock on a moving tennis ball. 

If you see the ball better, I guarantee that you'll be able to hit the shot that you want to hit to your intended target with the type of spin that you want and all those good things.

So, what I want you do to this week is I want you to evaluate the fitness program that you have right now, and if you don't have a fitness program, that's fine, because I want you to get on one where you start thinking about the exercises; the drills, on the court and off the court, that you ought to be going through that will help improve your ability to watch and to track a moving tennis ball; not only when you're stationary but also when you're moving on the court.

Next week, we can kind of kick this around a little bit more in terms of where are going to be a couple of ideas for you of some things to do and some things not to do that will help you improve your fitness, but will also help you improve your ability to track a moving ball.

I hope this has helped.  Any questions – Brent@webtennis.net.   Thanks very much.