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Simas
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Drop here! I think that's a very good and very relevant advice. I had (and I am still in the risk zone) tennis elbow repeatedly and I also have an intuitive feeling that properly relaxing your arm could be a big part of solution to it. My FH technique is pretty good (it's EU - Timo Boll'ish style ) and it's pretty relaxed except the times when I wan't to make an all powerful all spinny topspin kill shot. At those moments my arm get's all locked to transmit maximum power from my upper body and I think that at these moment some damage to my tendon maybe added. I am trying to relax my arm at those particular moments when chasing the killshot... but that's sort of counterintuitive or smth and I am not that successful at those instances
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Lower back problems are often caused by lower body front and back muscle group imbalances. Soreness should indicate, that these muscle groups are weaker compared to other groups. More usually the case with the lower back soreness is that it is the outcome of some other muscle groups being weaker. And as you mentioned glutes are a very common cause. Try stretching lower back and strengthen glutes. Also it is a common case, that the problem is not with gluteus maximus (the big outer most muscle), but with gluteus medius (smaller muscle behind gluteus maximus), so look for exercises specifically for different gluteus muscle groups and see if your back is getting better in time. There are a lot of exercises and stretches on internet. But just wanted to state the obvious, first of all, go to the doctor
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The issue is usually the twisting and turning at the lumbar region which should really be braced properly. I find that if I actively brace the lumbar region I don't have any lower back soreness at all.
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hi makalele unfortunately its quite difficult to pin down exactly why i finally managed to relax wih with grip and strokes. I respected my coach and he was able to demonstrate his very relaxed style. He would say loosen up and I did! I just focused on it every time I practised, and in matches I tried to think about relaxed technique rathe than winning and losing. really the pain was so bad with the elbow that it was clear to me that I had to change or stop playing. It would have been far better if i had learnt better relaxed technique from the start moreover now that I coach beginners i have become aware that its very difficult to teach youngsters to loosen up as the cause is often psychological. i once taught a kid with really awful tense uncoordinated strokes who couldnt combine backhand and forehand at all in spite of his strong motiivation. One day just for a change I asked him to try trad penhold bh instead of his normal shakehand style, and to my surprise he started executing a good trad ph block Immediately- and he looked relaxed ! so i asked him to try ph fh and again he performed correct and relaxed. He told me he had never even thought about ph before my conclusion ? not that he was a born ph player but that asking him to do a completely foreign stroke released him from all the subconscious inhibitions that mentally blocked him from learning at first. After a few ph sessions i tried him on shakehands again and he started to stroke much better. however a year later when he started competition, started to stiffen and show bad coordination under pressure for instance even though his strokes now seemed ok, his error rate with 3rd ball was terrible. so perhaps if you have an inborn tendency towards tension its difficult to overcome sorry this is a long way of saying "its all in the mind" Edited by pingpongpaddy - 12/23/2019 at 10:04am |
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Many time muscle soreness comes from bad shoes! Make sure that the shoes you play with have proper support, etc for you size, and are designed for table tennis. This will definitely improve muscle soreness. Always make sure before you go all out at practice etc, to have a quick 5 min stretch/warm up session! Drink plenty of water!
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@pingpongaddy:
Relaxing while playing is not a bad suggestion, but it is easier said than done!!! You see, there are folks like me who picked up bad habits and it took a long time to undo the damage. You see I used to use my wrist too much. So in order to use my forearm rather than my wrist I do have to maintain my wrist more stiff by keeping some tension. It is very hard to relax and not revert to "wristy" shots. FdT
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