The specified speed in tennis is not only the player’s ability to perform motor actions in minimum time and with maximum efficiency but also the ability to automate decision-making correctly and quickly while allowing a motor response to a given stimulus.
Being fast is a very complex ability that consists of performing actions or movements in the shortest possible time, whether scrolling, decision-making, reactions …, at a maximum pace of execution and for a short period of time, which does not cause fatigue. It is conditioned by the muscular system as executor of movements and by the nervous system as a receptor and transmitter of stimuli.
Speed manifests itself in three fundamental ways: reaction speed, contractile speed, and travel speed.
- Reaction speed; is the ability to produce a motor response to a stimulus in the shortest possible time, of which there are two types: simple reaction time and reaction time of choice (when the response to be produced should be chosen).
- The con retractable speed; is the ability of muscles to contract and relax in the shortest time possible.
- The speed of travel; is the ability to travel the distance needed to reach the maximum speed in the shortest possible time.
The selection of methods and means to train speed is determined by the objectives that are desired, and among the most frequent are:
- Decrease the reaction time to external signals.
- Increase maximum speed.
- Increase the time the maximum speed can be maintained
- Increase the periods of time that the maximum speed can be maintained in interval work.
- Increase the speed with which coordinated motor actions can be performed with maximum precision.
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