 Hello and welcome. My name is Philipp Halfmann and I'm the Director of Exercise and Sport Science at the IAAPH and I'm also the author of Advanced Concepts of Strength and Conditioning for Tennis. We have received a lot of inquiries from you guys in the past, asking us to show a training session with a professional athlete. So in today's episode, you'll be able to take a look into a training session with Swiss National Junior Champion Alexander Richard. The training session will consist of dynamic stretching, on-court tennis drills will also show how to incorporate speed ladder drills into a tennis training and towards the end we'll have some surf and volley. So you're welcome to join in. I hope you like it. Every training session starts with a dynamic warm-up for the upper and lower body. You can see Alexander performing lunch with drunk rotation, followed by lunch with ceiling reach before we get to go into the court and start with on-court training. At the beginning of today's training session, we want to focus on lateral footwork and ground strokes. One great way to accomplish both in one exercise is by using an integrated speed ladder drill. Before you can do this drill with your athletes, make sure they're familiar with the lateral fast-feet speed ladder drill. So set up the speed ladder behind the baseline and have the athletes move through the speed ladder before hitting ground strokes. The focus is on perfect movement mechanics and stroke production. In the next drill, we want to focus on improving the footwork for the inside out forehand. This can be accomplished by combining two speed ladder drills. Lateral fast-feet and the posterior crossover before hitting the shot. Next, we hit some basic ballies with good rhythm and in good form before finishing the training session with some serves. That's it again for today's episode. As usual, opinions differ. What's your point of view? Let us know below in the comment section. A brand new episode will be available next Sunday. So make sure you don't miss it and subscribe. In the meantime, I recommend you watch some of the previous episodes. You should really watch them all. If you like what you saw, tell your friends. I'm sure they will appreciate it. I'm Philipp Halfmann. Thank you for watching and auf Wiedersehen! Tennis-conditioning TV episodes are licensed under Creative Commons. You are welcome to link or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know. Brought to you by Advanced Concepts of Strength and Conditioning for Tennis, available at Tennis-conditioningbook.com Music by Dan Oh at DanOhSongs.com