Pushups: Why, How to do more pushups, benchmarks

 Why - because you don't need equipment and it is a simple but great way to increase your shoulder, chest, and core strength.

How to do More

Benchmarks - I know an 80-year-old man who does twenty pushups per day in addition to planks, situps, and squats.   He is stronger than most men in their 60's.

Start where you have to start even if it's half pushups from your knees and get to where you can do one or more real pushups.  Then work on increasing the number daily until you can do thirty or even twenty and do multiple sets of twenty.  Once you reach twenty you can always finish it with ten more half pushups.

Novak - the unexpected hero of Tennis and Icon

This is a great article on how Novak Djokovic has become the likely all-time grand slam winner in tennis.  He is well on the way.

Novak Djokovic miscast villain becomes an icon

Simple Yet Effective Serve - Felix Auger Aliassime

I love the clean simplicity of it. His serve is probably super reliable thanks to no-wasted-motion, an ideal toss height for full extension, and fast delivery that allows him to strike the toss near the apex. An added benefit is that it rushes an opponent used to facing many drawn-out serves. It likely holds up extremely well when he's tired or facing bad wind conditions. I teach this approach.



Check it out in Slo-Mo.

Novak Traiing Regimen off court

How Novak Trains   - off the court

Seles

Monica Seles Wiki

She was an Epic Champion! And what a sad way to bring her down. It had Shakespearean tones to it when only an assassin could remove the Queen of the Court from her rightful place. What could have been?

Focus: How to use it to improve your life and your tennis game

The ability to focus most of your efforts toward one goal usually predicts some level of success.  To become extremely good at something it usually means removing many other things from your daily activities.

So it is with tennis.  If you want to become a superior player you need to eat, read, sleep, exercise, and practice tennis.  It should all be focused on that objective and each item on that list and whatever others you can find must move you toward that goal.

Here is the Warren Buffet 20 slot rule for investments that you can find a way to repurpose as you invest your time and energy into tennis.