Episode 5: Essential Information for Training Your Tennis Athletes (With Justin Russ)
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What a great show! Coach Justin Russ shares a ton of golden information about how he approaches change of direction and how he looks at the players weight shift. Justin dives into why aerobic capacity is important to maintain speed at the end of matches, and how strength training is a crucial part of speed for his players and how to use it as an assessment. 
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