December is the time of the year in which professional tennis players intensely work to improve technical, physical, psychological, and tactical aspects in which during the year it is difficult to deepen due to the demands of the competition calendar. The player must try to arrive in the best conditions at the beginning of the tournament season to deal with travel, competitions, fatigue, and even possible injuries.
This period usually lasts from 4 to 6 weeks and in it, the physical exercise that becomes the protagonist intensifies in a very noticeable way. The sessions in the gym increase and intensify, passing over the technical work.

All this workload also requires close monitoring by the physiotherapist during this period since he must ensure the recovery of the player at the end of the day.
MBA Tennis Academy students and players also carry out their preseason and learn to internalize the work discipline that this entails, the workloads, the intensity and the dedication required. Although it is true that the intensity varies according to the group and the level in which each one of them is, since in addition, in their case, they continue to compete in the national tournaments that are still active on these dates.

David de Miguel, Technical Director of the Academy explains in this video how he carried out the pre-seasons as a coach with players such as Marcel Granollers or Arancha Sanchez Vicario.

Physical work is also done on the track: accelerations, springs, changes of rhythms, displacements. All of them are part of the daily training.

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