yeah i was told because i feel like it's going to hold that muscle yeah this is good now here's the
super important thing i got to got you this racket babolat pure drive it's a light so it's 270 grams
i believe let me check i think it's 270. so the racket you had before was yeah 270. the racket
before was maybe around the same same weight but this one is a little bit stiffer it's going to
give you more power and i strung it super loose with a really elastic polyester string i think
what's gonna happen is you are feel more power and you're gonna have to exert less effort it's
gonna be easier on your arm i haven't played for like two the last time we played was that
lesson when you have that bad pain and it's been how long two and a half months ago right
forehand is looking good
i want to show you some exercises that can help your tennis elbow
no i did i did a lot of research i contacted some doctor students of mine and a couple of
chiropractors that i teach we're gonna do the best treatment available for tennis elbow okay
can't wait put this on your lap like this put your arm here and just start massaging your arm
with a piece of ice like this take a piece of ice and just rub it on the spot where it hurts
you can do it like before you play and you can do it at night you're gonna put your arm like this
okay you're gonna take your and i would take the sweat band off
take your sweat yeah take the right sweat band off and now see the muscles and the fibers go this in
this direction so you're gonna go against you're gonna start massaging in this direction just start
massaging with your fingers this way and do it hard like you can go deep it's massaging
on the spot where it hurts like really hard but going across the arm like that yeah i feel like
you feel that strings oh yeah exactly exactly this is going to help you a lot again this is
something that you can do every single day okay so there's the first stage you're gonna
massage the arm now the second stage you're gonna you're gonna stretch it a little bit stretch yeah
and the first thing you're gonna do is i have a board here and you can do this on a table or
you get a cutting board like this and you're going to pull on the hand like this so put this board
on your lap place your forearm there and just put the hand backwards like this and just do
it a few times and hold it now you you flex the arm like this and you pull it this way you help
you help push against your hand backwards like this there you go you feel that yeah that's it
perfect okay so you do that now the third step is you're going to do some strength
exercises and the first one again you're going to put your arm on a cutting board
you're going to go down like this and you're simply going to go up like that like this
down and up make sure you go down slowly like that do that about 10 times perfect
okay that's something you can do and now we're gonna you do like to
like do like two sets of ten three sets of ten and now we're gonna put this under your foot put
your foot through here the other way put your hand the other way and i'll do the same thing
go down with the wrist and up also a little bit yeah but make sure you go down slowly
okay down slowly there you go and then do the same fibers i feel like working
absolutely 100 you do that you want to massage them and release them and also work out at the
same time well i think you should start you should start with a massage and you should loosen it up
a little bit warm it up a little bit and then do some strength exercises how does that feel
just i think i can do it with a free weight too maybe you could
you could but this is good because it gives you the resistance the whole way with the weight you
have to be careful when you go down not to go down to don't go down too fast with the weights
like that here's what you're gonna do you're gonna you can do this against the door or anything make
sure the arm goes on the inside of this okay so that you can push this way you want to push your
arm on the inside with your left hand inwards this way okay and now you're going to start
making a few push on here you start making a fist like this okay you do this 10 times you can even
do different angles you can go down you go like this you push on it and it's going to feel like
a big time relief it's going to feel really good put your arm put your arms in here and i'll push
here like this push it with your left arm stand a little bit more this way there you go push against
here and i start making a fist make a fist you go a little bit more forward like this and i'll
push against the arm you feel that yeah okay and i'll change the angle you go down a little bit
okay perfect there you go nice job trouble yes you are in trouble you know what from
delray beach people were like yeah uh coach jeff texted me like anna i saw your videos
about serving about serve oh yeah oh wow you're so good you know we i i don't think jeff ever
saw me on this video he saw you for the first time without you telling him yeah that's cool
i started being aware i started carrying things in my left hand more oh yeah and stopped holding
my phone like this and it helped you well i'm more aware of what might potentially hurt me
you know yes and i think it's important to bring up to people you know of course tennis players
how many hours do you spend a day on the phone i don't know not much
not that much yeah but i'm afraid like my bones here
just uh talk to me and just ignore what i'm doing are you hungry by any means you want to
have a can of beans no no you don't like beans no what are you doing just don't worry about it
no don't worry about it the most ridiculous things in the world this is the best tennis elbow
exercise in the world this is one are you gonna give this to me to go no no no it's too dangerous
to make myself you have to make it yourself no okay this is perfect of course i am here
right here maybe the best exercise of all time for tennis elbow because a lot of the
things that we did for strength was just kind of extending the hand and working on these muscles
to protect the tennis elbow so here watch this here's the can of beans of course for me it
should be a little bit longer and now we're going to turn it like this until the can is
all the way up to the top okay and then once you reach the top you turn it back the other way
so you're working both ways you're working on wrist flexion and extension and make sure you
don't go like this and let it roll down make sure you're you're going like that
all right go ahead and try it keep your arms extended and i'll start rolling there you go
okay all the way all the way to the top anna all the way to the top and now back down
keep the arms more straight
more straight
music for this i know this is hard right yeah and i go all the way down you feel it burning in
your arms but it's a good but it's a good burn come on all the way down on it go keep going
oh my god oh my god is it hard right yeah if you do this every day your tennis elbow is going to
go away oh i'm doing it all right quick disclaimer i am not a medical professional if you have tennis
elbow the first thing you got to do is go see your chiropractor or your doctor the things
that we're demonstrating in this video are things that i learned from doctors that i teach on the
court so do not take this as medical advice if you have tennis elbow go see your doctor is when
you start reading the comments about this racket people are going to tell you this racket is going
to give you tennis elbow but you just have to yeah because it's a little bit stiffer racket but
in my experience i think that with this racket with this combination this weight and the lightness of
it the grip size most importantly and the type of strings are on here and the tension of the strings
is going to be the tennis elbow healer this racket but what they're going to tell you i'm telling you
right now in the comments they're going to tell you anna don't play with this racket it's going
to give you tennis elbow so you just got to listen to me okay yes and of course if you play with this
racket and your arm is absolutely killing you then we change it again okay i'll buy you another one
good job nice on top elbows go up good yes
anna beautiful good work
nice shot anna
nice job and you know what the great thing is like you haven't played tennis for two
and a half months but all this stuff is still there all the muscle all the work that you did
in the last like year and a half it's also there it didn't go anywhere you know so it's
not like you completely forget how to play tennis everything's fine so in other words it's okay to
take breaks to make sure you heal properly okay very nice good yes wow i love that backhand oh
beautiful backhand maybe you got tennis elbow from dancing look
at this i'm just kidding no you want to play more
strong come you overhit a little too hard you have to be a little more careful there
because you hit it way below your hip so it's like from there from that close position to
the net if the ball drops below the level of your waist if you hit hard like that
it's going to fly out you're very close to the baseline there you have to be a little bit more
cautious take like half 50 off the shot and get it in match point beautiful forehand very nice
nothing hurts are you kidding me nothing hurts nothing hurts you have no pain no are you serious
yeah yeah okay we're doing the right things anna we made unbelievable changes today we changed
the grip we changed the racket we changed the tension we still got the same strings but you know
what else now you got to plan to make the pain go away with these exercises okay yeah this is great