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Tennis: Notes About Fitness and Getting Started

We all want to lead a healthy lifestyle; involve ourselves in sports and activities that help us get lean and fit. But life can be so busy. What we need is an activity that we can fit inside a spare hour, can do with a friend, family member or loved one, costs little to get started and that can dramatically improve our stamina, flexibility, core strength and agility. Are we asking for too much? Not if you consider the game of tennis.

As an athletic activity, tennis may be the perfect sport. From a fitness perspective, it challenges every major system and muscle group in the body:

    •   Cardio - The heart gets an interval-style workout with the varying intensities inherent in chasing a ball all over a court.

    •   Core - The core (abs and lower back) strengthen with tennis because the torso is the key to both balance and power in driving the ball with the racquet.

    •   Muscle tone - Swinging a racquet will surely tone the muscles of your arms, shoulders and back. And imagine the load you put on your legs when you’re exploding to chase the volleys and serves in an hour-long game.

    •   Flexibility - The reaches and stretches you’ll find yourself doing to keep a tennis ball alive will help you gain all-around flexibility.

So if tennis sounds like a way for you to add a fun fitness activity to your busy and healthful lifestyle, all you need to know to get started are a few basic things.


Gearing up for the Game

Tennis is an uncomplicated sport from an equipment perspective—at least when you’re playing recreationally. All you need is a couple of balls and a racquet (available at your neighborhood sporting-goods store for fifty dollars or less), a comfortable pair of shoes and light and freely-moving clothes. Wearing white is not a pre-requisite.


Finding a Tennis Game

Tennis is always played with either one other person (singles match) or two couples (pairs match) so it’s a social sport by nature. Putting a game together is a matter of inviting someone to play and finding an open court. In most communities, courts can be found at public and private tennis clubs, schools and neighborhood parks.



This is an update to a longer article about Tennis. Click here to go back to the full article, Tennis: How the Pros Play

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