Squat And Overhead Reach For Tennis | Exercise 5.26
Dynamic Stretching · Book exercise 5.26
Bilateral squat combined with a wide overhead arm reach.
Exercise Video
Technique Photograph
Execution
Stand with the feet around shoulder-width apart. Lower into a squat to approximately 90 degrees while raising both arms wide overhead. Return to an upright stance and repeat.
Targeted Musculature
Hip extensors · Hip adductors · Hip abductors · Piriformis · Glutes · Deltoids · Latissimus dorsi
Purpose
Prepare lower-body movement together with controlled trunk rotation or shoulder motion before tennis practice or conditioning.
Book Technique And Related Exercises
Book difficulty: 2. This is the book’s exercise difficulty scale, not a promise that every athlete at a named experience level should perform it.
Squat from an athletic stance while reaching both arms overhead, then stand and lower the arms. The book lists the basic squat as the prerequisite for this combined movement.
Continue with: Squat Dynamic Stretch and Overhead Squat. These are related movements and progressions; choose them according to your training goal and ability. See the tennis conditioning book for the complete exercise guidance, and browse all dynamic stretches.
From the book: 5.26 Squat & Overhead Reach