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Watch Maria Sakkari’s Crunch Tennis Workout HERE
Each Wednesday the WPH features the WPH Wednesday Workout, designed to help you become a stronger, fitter, faster, and better handball player. From leg and shoulder strengthening exercises to HIT Training, biking, balance, footwork, agility, coordination, first-step explosiveness, hydration, cooling down, upper body strengthening, circuit training, altitude training, swimming, jogging, and much more, the WPH Wednesday Workouts focus on the areas that every handball player needs to reach their peak form.
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On this WPH Wednesday Workout, we’ll examine the incredibly grueling and difficult Tennis Crunch Workout of the Greek Olympian Maria Sakkari.
Greece’s Maria Sakkari has transformed herself from the 168th ranked player on the WTA Tour in 2016 to the #19 ranked player on the WTA in 2021 by becoming one of the fittest tennis players in the game. Sakkari’s impossible-to-most Tennis Crunch Workout incorporates agility, dexterity, strength, conditioning, and willpower. Unlike most WPH Wednesday Workouts that are designed for you, do not try most of Sakkari’s exercises – they are too difficult!
Let’s breakdown Sakkari’s Tennis Crunch Workout:
- Medicine ball twist throws while moving side to side
- Jump lunges, alternating sides
- Medicine ball overhand twist throws into a wall
- Decline pushups on one leg
- One leg squats on the bosu ball
- Hanging knees to elbows on the pull up bar
- Reverse burpees
- Balance/dexterity exercise with bar on back
- Alternating twists with cables
- In and out hurdles
- Hurdle variations
- Shoulder strengthening with bands
- Forehand practice – always on the balls of her feet
- Backhand practice – always on the balls of her feet
- Deadlifts with jumping
- Alternating forehands and backhands – always on the balls of her feet
- Squats
- Broad jumps over hurdles with variations
- Tire lifting in the sand
- Squats with weighted bench press bar on bosu ball
- Bicycle kicks while hanging from pull up bar
- Serve return and serve practice
Watch Maria Sakkari’s Crunch Tennis Workout HERE
David Fink
WPH Fitness Director