Main Event Tennis tennis league, Mixed doubles tennis league

Hello Fitness with Jeffe tennis and personal training, I found a new tennis leagure, Main Event offers several new features that Alta does not offer. Our league is committed to your success throughout your tennis experience.

Here is what we offer:
-Start date: Feb 13 for Men and Women doubles
-Start date: May 1 for Mixed Doubles
-Our price is $3 per season for a total of 4 seasons. If you play all 4 season you will have paid $12.
-We offer 31 different levels for Men and Women Doubles, Boys and Girls doubles and senior doubles and Mixed doubles
-Rating system: Tired of sandbagging. One you have completed a season with us, you establish a rating. We take your highest rating that you ever had in our league and that is you rating for the following season.
-We offer 18 different regions. Your playoffs matches will be shorter than Alta as well.
-We do not have line restrictions. You can play whatever line you want with any players.
-Championship will be held at higher seed courts, as a result your trophies will be hand delivered to you and will have your level engraves on it.
-Most importantly our price will never change. Each season will always be $3

E-mail us today at maineventtennis@aol.com today to ask further questions and to see what region you could be listed in

Group Cardio tennis instructional classes tonight and the weekend

Wednesday, April 9, 2009
Group Cardio tennis instructional classes tonight and the weekend

Saturday and Sunday noon and 4pm in Buckhead
Private or group session. Gift the gift of health for yourself or others this year.
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Group Cardio tennis instructional classes tonight and the weekend

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Grroup Cardio tennis instructional classes tonight and the weekend

Hello Atlanta Cardio Tennis Group & Tennis Strokes Clinic for week of March 23rd 2009, Tuesday, March 23rd 2009,doing a group class later Monday and Wednesday at 7:30pm in Brookhaven. Let's Play Some Tennis Atlanta!, for the weekend of March 27th noon and 4pm to Buckhead. Get in the swing and get in shape For the New Year and spring and Summer play. Spring here, Remember those Tennis or personal training gift certificates which are for either good for tennis lessons or personal training, Private or group session. Gift the gift of health for yourself or others this year.

all ages tennis lessons, all levels tennis drills, Grroup Cardio tennis instructional glasses tonight and the weekend, person

Cardio tennis schedule for Valentines weekedn

Hello Group, Saturday, Febuary 14th 2009, Happy Valentines Day to All, have a 4pm group and a Sunday at noon and 4pm, please call me if interested 404.451.8872, schedule is also on the web site at www.fitnesswithjeff.com

Group tennis class Sunday 11

Hello Tennis group, group class Sunday at 11am Peachtree hills area. Weather for tennis should be very good.

Lets get physcal, Cardio tennis, From the players perspective

Lets get physcal, Cardio tennis, From the players perspective, by Colleen Oakley, Freelance Writer, Public Relations, Contributor to the Marie Clare, Jezzebel, The Sunday Paper & more.
The only appeal that tennis has ever had for me is the thought that if I played enough,my body might start to look like that of Anna Kournikova. With that ill-conceived goal in mind, I signed up for lessons a few years ago.
My coach was good; a sweet, older gentleman who showed me how to correctly hold the racquet, the right way to hit the ball—forehand and
backhand—and how to volley. My skills weresurprisingly not that bad. But with all
the time we spent on fundamentals, I barely broke a sweat during the hour
of instruction.At this rate, I’d never be able to fit
one leg in Anna’s tiny pleated skirt. That’s why a few weeks ago,
when I saw a park bench on Monroe advertising Fitness with Jeff’s cardio
tennis class, I was intrigued. I like tennis, but I’d really like to get a goodworkout while I’m at it. I e-mailed Jeff Michaud AKA or Actually better known as Fitness with Jeff, on his Web site, and he
immediately responded, inviting me out for a
group lesson that weekend. I arrived early at the tennis
court in a Brookhaven condo (Jeff travels all over the city) as one of his
students, Peter, was warming up. I found out he was a longtime client
of Jeff’s and asked what kept him coming back for more. “It’s a great
workout,” he said. “And Jeff’s a really funny guy; always joking around.
Like today, he said he was going to....
Have to go out to read my Pearl of wisdom to: SUNDAYPAPER.COM | MARCH 30–APRIL 5

Tennis Hitting drill, hitting off a tennis wall

Hello Atlanta Tennis group, a great drill for working on your game when you don't have a partner, I love and even use with my tennis clients is simply hitting off a tennis wall, like I did with clients just hit off the retaining wall at the courts we were at. I find hitting Volley or half-volley is best the most useful drill, Simply either drop feed or air feed to yourself just keep the ball in play as long as possible. This is great for working on volley techique and tennis quickness. One thing to keep track of is to make sure that you keep your wrist and this will keep the the tennis ball in play. This is a great drill to work on your tennis volley swing and tennis quickness and tennis agility drill.

Tennis elbow, thoughts and solutions

My Client Kim was having problems with elbow from playing to much tennis, This was caused by over use and some techinque issues, i was able to assist her with better tennis swing mechanics and to a lesser extent on some exercises and some strenthing exercises to build up her arms. The other part is to go to specialists, She has gone to many different physcal therapist for Rehab in the past and she swears by these guys at Atlanta Body Mechanics, 550 Peachtree Street, Suite 1760 Atlanta, Georgia 30308 404.817.0734. In addition to her elbow she had some issues with shins, ankle and back, they were able to help on all these problems.

Tennis elbow, thoughts and solutions

My Client Kim was having problems with elbow from playing to much tennis, This was caused by over use and some techinque issues, i was able to assist her with better tennis swing mechanics and to a lesser extent on some exercises and some strenthing exercises to build up her arms. The other part is to go to specialists, She has gone to many different physcal therapist for Rehab in the past and she swears by these guys at Atlanta Body Mechanics, 550 Peachtree Street, Suite 1760 Atlanta, Georgia 30308 404.817.0734. In addition to her elbow she had some issues with shins, ankle and back, they were able to help on all these problems.

Tennis swing tip, hit with the other hand

Hello Atlanta tennis group, wanted to put out a usual tip for working on your game that many teaching pro's like myself use for both reenforcing good fundementals (really have to think how to do the swing correctly when trying to teach yourself how to do it from the other side) and also to avoid repetitvie motion insuries like tennis elbow and the alike: hit with our other hand, for right handers like myself hit with your left hand, for lefties hit with your right hand, this will help you to train your brain in a different way which i feels reinforces good fundementals and avoids injuries. Pro's do this because if you teach like me some days for 6 or 8 hours, giving your dominant side a break it probably needs, also gives my playes a different angle of attack for them to work on. This also works well with kids, kids break arms all the time, i just switch the kid around and he or she can learn to hit from the other side. This techinque can working with almost any sport or activity, give it a try, best to do it with less skilled player, I did it with my kid clients, they tend not to care as much.

Staying in Shape for tennis during the winter, it gets cold in Atlanta

Hello Atlanta Tennis group, my clients ask me all the time what they should do to stay ing shape during the off season from tennis. Alot of my clients main form of exercise is playing tennis matches, Alta tennis, round robin tennis and tennis drills, maybe even cardio tennis. My recommendations as a personal trainer are: 30-40 minutes of aerobic activity each day, ie treadmill, elipitical machine, bike riding, swimming,running, walking or Jogging are great to etc. As for wieght barring exercise, I recommend free wieghts and machine exercises every other day, Crunches and ab (abdominial work) 5-7 days a week. for exercise ideas please check out my personal training blog which has several different programs.

Tennis tip for forehand and backhand Nov 12, Swing track, important to the tennis swing

Hello Atlanta Tennis: My weekly tip is to find your swing track, this is the natural curve that you make during your swing, the idea is to be able to re-create over and over the same track of your arm. The idea is to move your feet into the track of your arm on your backhand and forehand tennis swing, most people adjust mostly using there swing to make adjustments, this does not work very well causing all kinds of errors. When you get a chance just swing the rackey in your hand over and over again using the same track. If you do this and find your track I'm sure you will improve your percentage of balls in and where you want them.

World top 12 tennis rankings for Men and Women

Hello Atlanta Tennis: Here's the top 12 tennis players in the world for Ladies http://www.fitnesswithjeff.com

Top 12 Pros (Women)
Justine Henin

Svetlana Kuznetsova

Jelena Jankovic

Ana Ivanovic

Serena Williams

Maria Sharapova

Anna Chakvetadze

Venus Williams

Daniela Hantuchova

Marion Bartoli

Elena Dementieva

Nicole Vaidisova
... more profiles

Top 12 Pros (Men)

Roger Federer

Rafael Nadal

Novak Djokovic

Nikolay Davydenko

Andy Roddick

David Ferrer

James Blake

Tommy Robredo

Fernando Gonzalez

Tommy Haas

Tomas Berdych

Andy Murray

Hitting tennis balls on the run

Hello Atlanta Tennis group and Friends, I was referred by a client to a very cool online tennis magazine that I thought my readers would enjoy, I have enclosed a short passage from an article that I thought you might be interested, seemed like a pretty cool article, I enclosed the tennis article and the link to tennis player.net below, please enjoy...Jeff

Pat Dougherty

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Nicole Vaidisova lunges and transfers her weight in a semi-open stance.
Hitting effortlessly and powerfully on the run is one of the hallmarks of tennis greatness. Slow reactions, sluggish recoveries, and moving with the center of gravity too high, can make the quickest athletes appear slow.

On the other hand, when your intensity and pulse rate is at performance levels and your movement is synced with the tempo of play, the strokes flow seamlessly with the movement.

In this article we will take a look at how you can develop this same ability for yourself. To do this we will explore several techniques for moving through the strokes and also building recovery footwork into the follow through of your strokes.
The rest of the article is out on: http://www.tennisplayer.net/


http://www.tennisone.com/

Group tennis lessons for Kids

Group tennis lessons for Kids
In my last article I discussed the pleasure I get from working with young tennis players, and things to think about as far as what to think about before you sign your child up for Tennis instruction. In this Article I would like to talk about group tennis and fitness for kids. In the last article I spoke about the right age for private sessions, and I think the age that seems to me to be the most appropriate is 7-8 is about as early as I recommend for the average child from the terms of maturity and physical and psychological development for private tennis instruction. That being said there are kids that will benefit and grasp the techniques at a very early age, even as young as 3 or 4. I have seen a lot of parents through away there money, having there 6 year old taking privates lesson. It turns into a very expensive baby sitting. For kids 4 and over group tennis and fitness classes makes the most sense to me. For real young children (3-5 yrs of age) a lot of the group tennis sessions are spent doing non tennis skills, doing exercises like jumping jacks, lunges, arm circles, stretching, throwing balls etc to work on motor skills. I then would move on to mock tennis swings and only then move onto hitting tennis balls to the kids, I also tend to use soft foam tennis balls, they come in slower and if they get hit or stepped on don’t cause any harm. For the groups I like to keep the kids separated by no more then 2 years within the same group, just too much variation based on age of the players. The smaller the group the better, I like to have groups of around 3-5 kids, allows me to give each player the attention they deserve. This keeps the cost reasonable for the parent and gives the child the good degree of attention. From there is the child seems to enjoy the group lessons, and hopefully shows promise, Private tennis sessions along with group classes make a lot of sense. Have fun!

Tennis serve technique

Tennis Serve: Tips and tricks of the proper serve
Stand side on to the court, hold the ball between thumb and first two finger tips and toss the ball a little higher then the high point that you can hold your racquet up to. On the toss I tell my clients to picture the your self as the Statue on Liberty and toss the ball at the highest point that you can hold up your toss hand up to and release the ball like you might let go of a small bird.
One thing to watch out for is not to stretch to far and simply toss the ball about 8-10 inches in front of your front foot. For the Right handed tennis player picture a giant clock in the sky and toss the ball at 1:00 or off the right post for both the Duce or the AD side of the court. For the lefty tennis player just the opposite, toss the ball at left post or at a giant clock, this time 11:00. I like to finish my tennis server like a Football quarterback where again for the Righty the right foot should follow the right arm over finishing into the tennis court.

Workout program for Cardio Tennis clinic

Cardio Tennis Check list:
This program was developed for my Cardio tennis program
****4 to 5 minutes of stretching and limbering start slowly and build up.******
Hitting stations hit 4 balls across to courts pickup 6-8 balls quick time and then jump back in line, on other side 2 people returning shots—volleys hitting away from players (Volliers would stay there for 5 minutes then return to the line) in line waiting to hit, run in place lunges also fine. This station 15 minutes

*50 lunges, can be done in 2 sets _____
*Arm circles, 20 forewords, 20 backwards_____
*50 Jumping Jacks,can be done in 2 sets total = 100_____
*20 close grip tricep wall/fence or regular pushups_____
*Leg lifts 30 reps, can be done in 2 sets______
*Jump rope, 100, advanced person 200 reps____
*20 wide grip wall/fence pushups or regular pushups____
*50 good low to high forehand swings, for 1 minute____
*Crunches 50 reps, can be done in to sets____
*Calf raises 40 reps, 2 sets, and 20-second break_____
*Reverse Kicks, 25 reps_____
*Volley station with foam balls, partner up anywhere there is space, no net required, 5 minutes_______
*Regular volleys again with partner______
*50 good low to high backhand swings, 1 minute_____
*50 overhead swings, about 1 minute_____
*Squats, squat is done by pretending to sit in a chair and looking at the sky 25 reps____
*50 basketball pass and catch with partner (partners stand 5 feet facing each other and while moving side to side keep the ball moving at all times) quickness and agility can either bounce ball or pass in the air______
*Juggling station, hand eye coordination_____
*Tricep dips on bench 10-20 reps______

Please keep this program and use for your workouts and find other info on my web site at www.fitnesswithjeff.com, 404.451.8872, thanks Jeff! Group Tennis Schedule: Sat’s 11:00, Sun’s noon, Tues’s 5:15 & 6:15pm