Entries by dazdrake

Todd Ellenbecker- Injury Prevention and Recovery for Tennis

This blog is a review of the Tennis Files Podcast Episode 39 – Injury Prevention and Recovery Todd Ellenbecker   Website Background:  Todd Ellenbecker– Todd is the Vice President of Medical Services for the ATP Tour and a Director of Physiotherapy Associates Scottsdale Sports Clinic in Arizona.  He is a certified sports clinical specialist, and orthopaedic […]

Dr. Mark Kovacs- Strength & Conditioning for Tennis

This blog is a review of the Tennis Files Podcast Episode 33 – S&C For Tennis  Dr. Mark Kovacs Website Background:  Dr. Mark Kovacs– Dr. Kovacs is a renowned performance physiologist, researcher, author, speaker and coach with an extensive background training and researching athletes and elite performers. His unique skillset has made him one of the […]

Joel Jamieson: Recovery-Driven Conditioning

Joel Jamieson– online educator who taches coaches how to write science based conditioning programmes that deliver real world results Website Related Ultimate MMA conditioning book Bioforce HRV Morpheus Bioforce conditioning certification What is Conditioning? The overall mental and physical preparation in order for someone to compete or perform in whatever environment they are trying to […]

APA are Recruiting!!

I have a few important announcements today!!! APA Are Recruiting! If you would like to be considered for a role with APA then please send a covering letter and CV to APA Owner, Daz Drake at [email protected] with email title APA.01 Gosling Tennis Academy Full-Time strength & conditioning coach We are looking for a full-time […]

Pacey Performance Podcast REVIEW- Episode 266 Hamstring Injuries- Part 2 of 2

This blog is a review of the Pacey Performance Podcast Episode 266 – Hamstring Injury  Jurdan Mendiguchia Research Gate Background:  Jurdan Mendiguchia– Physiotherapist, Researcher and Injury Consultant.  Jurdan is a World expert when it comes to injury prevention and rehabilitation, particularly in hamstrings and ACL.  He has 40+ research papers to his name (see link above […]

Pacey Performance Podcast REVIEW- Episode 248 Hamstring Injuries- Part 1 of 2

This blog is a review of the Pacey Performance Podcast Episode 248 – Hamstring Injury  Australian Catholic University Website Background:  Josh  Ruddy– Running loads and hamstring injury risk.  Two years into PhD embedded with one of the AFL teams.  Looking at hamstring injury prediction. Ryan Timmins– completed PhD, now supervising Josh- and working with elite soccer […]

Can Boxing Training Help You Hit Harder on the Tennis Court?

A month or so ago I asked one of my coaches Ayo Shodimu to lead an in-service session on boxing, to see what we could learn about it.  Unfortunately the video quality isn’t great as we were in a very noisy tennis Academy but I’ve included a few videos from the session. Some of the […]

APA are Recruiting!!

I have a few important announcements today!!! APA Are Recruiting! APA have a number of vacancies within the APA network.  If you would like to be considered for a role with APA then please send a covering letter and CV to APA Owner, Daz Drake at [email protected] with email title APA.01 WimX Tennis Academy Full-Time […]

BOOK REVIEW- Methodology of Training in the 22nd Century

Hi Everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve done a book review but I have recently been reading a book that has been really interesting and I wanted to share it with you.  It is called ”Methodology of Training in the 22nd Century” written by Henk Kraaijenhof. I actually have a few chapters to finish […]

How To Stay Motivated

If you’re anything like me November feels like one of the more difficult months to stay motivated and productive.  It’s dark and wet and we are all kind of waiting for Christmas to kick. Many of us will get off track with our nutrition and training goals too. ”Movember” is an annual event involving the growing […]