Because of the nature of tennis, a player must learn to recover quickly, adapting to the stress that each point presents.
Fitness, both physical and mental, has always been measured by how quickly you recover from a bout of stress. Everything about the human system oscillates. Brain activity, heart rhythms and sleep cycles are just a few of the body’s systems that constantly go up and down.
By the very nature of how it’s played, tennis virtually duplicates this natural oscillation. Loehr very clearly demonstrated this in his DVD, The 16-second cure! Stress, or heart rate, goes up during a point, and then you recover for very short periods of time in between points.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could learn to recover from any bout of stress in life within only a few seconds? Tennis can be your instructor!