The secrets of physical preparation for players and coaches for a long and healthy career with LTA's Physical Performance Manager, Alex Cockram

Do you spend time preparing your players for tennis or padel practice or competitive games from a physical point of view? Or do you ever take time preparing yourself physically for the delivery of your coaching sessions? In this podcast we discuss the importance of physical preparation, not only for your players in regard to training sessions and competitions, but also for ourselves as coaches to make sure we have long and healthy coaching careers. Alex competed at a professional level, which allowed him to experience firsthand the demands of the game, and specifically how much stress our bodies need to endure during the practice of the sport. This ultimately helped him make the move to the S&C world and become an accredited S&C coach with the UKSCA. During his career as S&C coach, Alex has collaborated with different NGBs, such as British Bob Skeleton, England Netball and GB Badminton, before joining the LTA as National Physical Performance Coach for the GB Wheelchair Tennis Pathway. Under his current role, he has supported performance wheelchair players in the Grand slams, the GB Team for 2 Paralympic Games (Rio & Tokyo, plus preparing for Paris 2024), and has also held the Captaincy for GB in the Women's Wheelchair World Team Cup in 2023 & Quads in 2022. If you want to discover some top tips used by the best in the world to help minimise the risk of injury and also make sure you and your players have a long career, this is your podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.