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Table tennis, also known as ping-pong or whiff-huff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a light ball, also known as a ping-pong ball, back and forth on the table with a small, sturdy bat. The game is played on a hard table divided on the net. 


 Table tennis footwork 

 
  Footwork is one of the most important components of the game, and while everyone knows how to do it, certain steps optimized for table tennis are evolving. They allow you to quickly and accurately position yourself for a tight balance and controlled shots of most balls. With proper footwork, you can choose to use forehand or backhand, and it's just as easy to place anywhere on the table. 


   5 Reasons Why Footwork Is Important. 
   

    1. You can play different shots because you can reach the ball quickly and easily. 

    2. Good footwork allows you to play better shots, place returns more accurately and put time pressure on your opponents. 

    3. It's also important to remember that using footwork allows you to stay in balance while playing a shot. 

    4. With proper footwork, you can move more efficiently and perform better and more accurate returns. 

    5. Good footwork allows athletes to control their center of gravity in their favor. Although the stability, direction is changed, and one of the majority of the serious priority is very advantageous to the start of movement, it is also near the balance within the full range of movement.

 A method of improving various fitness parts used in table tennis. 


Table Tennis Fitness Program design is the same as the design of the fitness program for all other sports. Table tennis is a response / speed game that requires explosive anaerobic movement that makes up the most important type of training program required. 
 

here there are five tips or pathways that help you get your table tennis fitness training to our sports more relevant and more specific. 



 1. Short Sprint 

   Many gamers are unaware that recent studies have shown that short, intense sprints improve cardiovascular and endurance in about half the time of traditional cardiovascular exercises such as sprints. Hmm. B. Long-distance running and cycling. So even if you're just trying to improve your "overall fitness," sprints are probably the best way to do that. 

   

The Sprint improves the strength, power and speed of limbs that are essential for table tennis. It also helps build lean muscle mass while reducing body fat and training the anaerobic system. 

 

Table tennis is a high performance sport (like sprinting).

 Table tennis also requires explosive power (such as sprinting). Therefore, we can see that there are many similarities in the benefits of training.

 

    2. Side training 

  Table tennis is primarily a game of lateral movement (that is, the main direction of movement is lateral). As I said at the beginning


3. Use lots of jumping and bounding movements

Add jumping exercises to your fitness programme, such as tuck jumps. These are great for improving your dynamic power and agility. They also need no equipment and can be performed when you only have a limited amount of space. You can adapt them in many ways by using different leg positions such as a pike jump or split jump. You can also add sprints and sidestep movements on landing. These are probably the best types of exercises for developing explosive power.



4. Develop arm speed

Players need fast acceleration in the shoulder, elbow and wrist. Resistance training bands are great for training arm speed and acceleration because they allow the player to mimic the movements of a stroke and target the specific muscles required to execute the shot. The gradual increase in tension of the band makes the trainer increase the speed against the resistance and improve their acceleration of the stroke.



The use of heavy bats can also help with arm speed and increase the power of shots but the band gives a safer option as it offers a steady increase and decrease in resistance.



5. Train quick

General conditioning exercises; such as press ups, sit ups, lunges, squats etc. are all great for table tennis. However, the emphasis should be on speed, quickness and explosiveness, rather than simply good technique of exercise. Just have the player blast 6 quick press ups several times or add bounces to the press up or a jump to the squats. There are many ways to make these types of exercises more suited to developing explosive power.


Table tennis is the best sport in the world because of the combination of all mental and muscular structures combined with physics, which many other sports don’t have. It’s the second most complete after swimming, but the 1st that combines all the features, so that everybody could play it and be part of this magnificent sport; that as other sports, it is not only focused in physical or mental attributions, the proposal of all sports is to unify people and the world.

ALEXA B. SILVANO BPE2-A

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