Having been in the health and fitness industry for over 15 years now, I have seen hundreds of people get to the stage where they are working out all the time but nothing seems to change. When they first started an exercise program the results were almost immediate as only a few relatively simple exercises was enough to force the body to adapt and make significant changes. We all remember that day after you did your first strength workout of lunges or squats and how you could barely sit on chair for the next few days as your muscles ached all over? However, after a few weeks of being consistent with your training it started to get easier and not hurt as much as before. You could even add some load to the exercise as you felt so much stronger. Everything seems fine until you changed the exercise program to something you had not tried before, and guess what? That's right you were sore again! Why does this happen even though you have become stronger with the previous workout? The answer has to do with several factors which I will explain in this article, but the critical thing to understand is that you were inefficient for that exercise. Your body had to make some changes in order to prepare for future occurrence where it is forced to do that workout again. This is the secret to constant improvement and how to avoid getting stuck in a rut.

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Across the globe, tennis is a game in which many people readily participate in. Whether at a recreational, social, competitive or professional level, the game involves various complex movement patterns, moving in all directions that include a great deal of strength, speed, power, balance and endurance. Just by watching a game of tennis at a professional level, one can really appreciate the great amount of strain that is put on the body, especially when games last upwards of 3 hours. Unfortunately, as with most sports where this is long standing time of physical strain, comes a high risk of injury. There are many factors that can predispose a player to wrist, ankle, knee, hip spine, shoulder and elbow injuries such as differences in bio-mechanics and poor physical condition, equipment, weather conditions, muscular and structural or postural imbalances and repetitive movement strains on joints. In the general population, there is approximately about five injuries per 1,000 hours of participation, and 33 injuries per 100,000 tennis players require hospitalization (http://physioworks.com.au/Injuries-Conditions/Activities/tennis-injuries). Thus, the importance of strength and conditioning for injury prevention is overwhelming. However it must be specific to you, the sport and your weaknesses otherwise the conditioning program will create your injury! And on top of that you are unlikely to play well without the best conditioning methods and techniques. This article we will look specifically at the role of conditioning to improve performance and why just using a random approach to strength and conditioning will set you up for injury and poor performance.