Swim to Tennis Considerations

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Obviously Swimming and Tennis are dramatically different sports.

• Tennis is a ball sport requiring agility and with no clock
• Swim is an aquatic sport requiring endurance and is timed.
• Swim practice and swim competition are highly aerobic,
• Tennis practice and competition is naturally anaerobic.

A similarity of both sports is that they take a lot of physical, mental, and emotional energy to participate at your player’s best.  Additionally, swimmers bodies are working a little harder in the cool pool, and may process urine faster, and therefore reducing body hydration levels faster.

Swimmers transitioning to be tennis players will need to recover from swimming.

To recover, swim-to-tennis players need:

• Time – time to rest and relax
• Hydration – swimmers may lose from a third to a full liter of water per hour of swimming, which needs to be replenished. Tennis players need to be well-hydrated at the start of practice and replenish during and after play.
• Nutrition – swimming will burn a lot of calories and can deplete your young athlete of their stored energy.  Performance foods, summarizing as complex carbohydrates, are needed to fuel athletic performance and players need to begin practice properly fueled.

Recommended process:

Kids need to:

1. Get their water bottle, and drink
2. Put on shoes, socks, and shirt,
3. Replenish sunscreen,
4. Get their hat, and sunglasses.
5. Get a complex carb, low or no-protein snack
   • Fruits, vegetables, whole grains

Players need to take that time to be deliberate in these steps.

• Kids can drink some water and have a whole grain, fruit, or vegetable snack while they are changing.

Finally, kids will need to get their focus on and Lock-In to track that bouncing ball

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