Oxygen uptake and heart rate response of 6 standardized tennis drills

摘要

The purpose of this study was to compare the oxygen uptake of various on-court tennis drills. Eleven tennis playersnwere monitored with a portable metabolic device to measure oxygen uptake of 6 different tennis drills at low and highnspeeds. The 6 drills were done with or without striking the ball, over half or full-width of the court, in attack or defensenmode, using forehand or backhand strokes. Oxygen uptake values (mean ± SD) ranged from 33.8 ± 4.2 to 42.3 ±n5.1 mL·kg–1·min–1 when running at low speed on the full-width court in defense mode without striking the ball and whennrunning at high speed on the full-width court in attack mode while striking the ball, respectively. Specific differences werenobserved. Attacking mode requires 6.5% more energy than defensive playing mode. Backhand strokes demand 7% more energynat low speed than forehand ones. Running and striking the ball costs 10% more energy than running without strikingnthe ball. While striking the ball, shuttle running on half-width court costs 14% more energy than running on full-widthncourts. The specificity of the oxygen uptake responses obtained for these various tennis drills gives an improved representationnof their energy cost and could be used to optimize training loads.