Perform better at tennis and golf
Strength, rotational power and durability built for the sports you actually play at the weekend, so you finish the match or the round as well as you started it.
Overview
What is strength and conditioning for tennis and golf?
Leigh named this goal himself, and it is drawn from his own client picture: the professional who plays tennis or golf at weekends and wants to still be playing it well in twenty years. Almost none of them want to train for sport as an end in itself. They want the sport to feel better.
Both sports ask for the same qualities. The ability to produce force quickly, rotate under control, decelerate without paying for it, and repeat all of that for two or three hours. What limits most amateurs is not skill: it is that the underlying physical base has not been trained, so technique degrades as fatigue arrives and the same shoulder or lower back complains every season.
The programme addresses that directly through 1-to-1 coaching: a strength base first, then rotational power and deceleration work, then enough conditioning that the last hour looks like the first. Where an old injury is part of the picture, returning to training is the place to start.
The benefits of training for tennis and golf
More power from the same technique
A stronger, better-sequenced body produces force faster. For most amateurs it is the fastest available route to a heavier serve or more distance, and it does not require changing anything about the swing.
The last hour looks like the first
Technique degrades when conditioning runs out, and that is when both performance and injury risk turn. Conditioning built for the real duration keeps the quality of play where it was at the start.
Fewer of the same recurring niggles
Training the rotational range, deceleration and strength that the sport demands but never develops tends to reduce the seasonal complaints in the same shoulder, hip or lower back.
Still playing in twenty years
This is usually the real goal. A durable base and sensible loading are what keep a weekend sport available into later decades instead of being given up in stages.
What gets in the way
What limits weekend sport performance
- No strength base underneath the sport, so power has nothing to come from
- Rotational work never trained, in sports that are almost entirely rotational
- Deceleration and change of direction untrained, which is where amateur injuries happen
- Conditioning that runs out before the match or the round does
- Recurring niggles in the same shoulder, hip or lower back, managed rather than addressed
- Playing as the only training, so every weekend is both the test and the practice
How it works
How Leigh trains for tennis and golf
1-to-1 Personal Coaching
From £1,200 per monthCoached strength, rotational power and deceleration work sequenced around your playing schedule, so training supports the sport rather than competing with it.
See treatment detail →Baseline Health & Performance Assessment
Included in every programmeMovement quality, rotational range and old injuries mapped first, which is what identifies why the same joint keeps complaining every season.
See treatment detail →Recovery, Sleep & Stress Coaching
Included in every programmeRecovery placed deliberately around competitive weekends, so a demanding week and a hard match do not accumulate into an injury.
See treatment detail →FAQ
Frequently asked
questions
Will training in the gym actually improve my golf or tennis?
For most amateurs, yes, because the limiting factor is rarely technique alone. Producing force faster, rotating under control and lasting the full duration are trainable qualities, and improving them tends to show up in the sport without any change to the swing or stroke.
Will lifting weights make me less mobile?
Not when it is coached through a full range, which is how strength work is programmed here. Training loaded movement through range typically maintains or improves usable mobility. The problem arises from partial-range work and from not training the ranges the sport demands.
How do I fit this around playing at weekends?
The training week is sequenced around your playing days, with harder sessions placed where they will not compromise a match or a round and recovery work placed where it helps. That scheduling is agreed at the assessment rather than left for you to work out.
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