How Playing Professional Tennis Changes your Body | Secrets of the Human Body | BBC Earth Science
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- Due to repeated, high-impact use, the bones in a tennis players racket arms are 20% thicker and contain more bone mineral than their other arm! This dramatic growth helps them cope with intense workouts and reduces the risk of breaking.
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can we see how pickleball gives you a beer gut?
Diet tennis
You just don‘t exercise while doing it yk not a sport
@@keremkc I play tennis but pickle ball is still a ton of fun tbh
@@David-qi8iw pickleball isnt a sport, its a pass time though
I don't understand.
This was pretty cool, perhaps a long term tracking of a player's physiological changes over a longer period of time would be a fun video.
When examining Middle Ages archers we can see that their skeletons are similarly adapted to drawing a bow.
Nadal is probably the best example. His forehand arm is insanely huge in comparison to his backhand arm. I wonder why the differences aren’t as pronounced in other pro tennis players?
it's very obvious with Roger
They do a ton of full body workout. Thats why
Look up Denis Shapovalov
they are
Perhaps in men are more pronounced because they have more muscle mass than women.
love this video!
Thank your dad for making you hit open stance lol😂
I actually give my left arm twice the reps in the gym as my right for the past two years (one handed backhand, UTR 6) and they're pretty symmetrical visually...but I'm pretty sure I can control my right arm more precisely for specific motor tasks and I'm pretty sure my right arm's muscles are probably denser as well.
I've played tennis for the last 35 years, once at the D1 college level in the USA. I've also lifted weights pretty consistently and been a competitive runner for the last 16 years. When I use a climber's strength measurer, my right arm is MUCH stronger than my left. I also play tennis with my right arm and have a one handed backhand.
I don't see a big difference between his arms really, but he is probably working out both in the gym.
Dude only wrote this comment to flex his one-handed backhand
@@benparsons4979 Yes because I need approval from strangers on the internet to feel validated in my life...
@@sylvainbauge not you mate
That was a very interesting / informative piece. I just wish you could have gone into more detail. The CGI made it incredible. Thank you.
This is the coolest most interesting documentary I've seen in a long time. I wish more people would see the similarity between the tennis training routine and the idea of health through functional movement.
The real question is which blade is she using, strings, and tension.
the most overrated racket in the world
To shave? Only kidding. She's a sweetie.
That doesn't change anything. String tension doesn't alter the energy that's going to be created on contact. It does how ever change the amount of shock going through her arm
This must have been filmed quite a while ago as this blade is 2 generations old.
the graphic team nailed this 👏🏻
was hoping this would be a more in-depth study with a more detailed analysis and conclusion.
Excelente video
Damn, I play college tennis and I have a one handed backhand I bet my body is really asymmetrical lol
Same 😢
I mean, Federer too
@@theacestriker6240 I think at some point he referred to his left arm as decorative
You still sound like a well balanced individual nonetheless ☺️
Used to be a UTR 10. When I had a one hand backhand, I developed scoliosis. I have a two handed backhand now and I’m more aligned now, but I don’t think I’ll ever be the same again
Of course this all makes sense. I played competitively for many years when I was younger and it's not just my right arm and shoulder that is bigger than my left, the right side of my back is also clearly bigger than my left side.
Same! ☺️😬 however, I started to learn to play left/other-handed, to about 75/80% of right-hand play. Along with squash, table tennis, drawing, writing, brushing teeth, other.
Became a better doer of right-hand activities thanks to that, as its shifting between right brain (whole picture considered) and left brain (parts, categories-focused). A very nice shift of appreciation towards moving and control 🙂
I practice tennis for almost 6 years since i was 7, and i had vaccumed playing tennis until now (13 years). But the impact of the training still affects. My muscle at the right shoulder to the right neck is bigger than my left ones when i stare at the mirror (i play right handed). even when driving, the right hand grip just feels different. i always wonder this asymetrical feeling and now this video kinda explained it. Thanks
Nice video.
that arm, bone and muscle animation was insanely good
Does anyone know what racket model is Freya using? I might upgrade mine in a few months.
Tennis is a sport of a lifetime. This video will help keep the interest in a great sport of a lifetime.
As a tennis player, I can now understand why my elbow is now in pain after taking a break from tennis for a year when I use to play 2-3 times a week. Now my elbow is unfortunately not the same and I may not be able to play competitively as I once did =(
There are quite a few ways to build up that strength again, Im sure youtube has some vids. I recovered from it using a variety of exercises every day. I would explain the exercises but its a pain to do in text :(. Essentially take exercises that are typically done for forearms and triceps but do them in negatives with high reps-low weight
Been playing tennis since 11 years old. Can attest to the dominance of my right arm!
I would think the effect is more pronounced for badminton, since even backhands are done with the racquet arm alone
Federer's left arm would like to disagree 1:50 LOL
Interesting. Now I know why my right side is so powerful and pricise.
Its true, i play tennis and when ever i hit a stick again something theres less vibration i feel on my right hand then my left hand
Andrea Petkovic had incredible power in her prime and is still pretty impressive.
This is not surprising to me. I don’t pretend to understand all of the dynamics of this but I can tell you just like carpal tunnel, things like this have been happening to men for an long time and I can assure you at least 75 years in my friends case. Simply during the second world war a friend of mine‘s father worked at a Steel Mill. Because many men were in the service he did the work of two men at a forge. He was required to hold a piece of steel with certain implements called tongs and they were rested against his side. The impact from the forge was minimal with respect to him, moved his stomach. In later years he had an x-ray because of a malady he suffered not associated with the above job. They discovered that his stomach had moved and it moved away from the side of the impacts. Just to be clear two men would normally do this job and not rest of the tool against their side. I can tell you want additional thing, he was a man’s man.
I played for 15 years 2-3 times a week (one-handed BH)and my right shoulder, arm, neck and upper back are bigger than my left even though I try to balance it out in the gym.
Might I add that when hitting a tennis ball properly you don't experience much of a shock in your arm, at all. Pros will actually experience less shock because they hit the ball with the most elastic part of the stringbed (the sweet spot) almost every time and they have a very relaxed grip.
Well damn
My physio immediately noticed the left right imbalance but any tennis player knows that, though I had no idea they were that big. What I wonder: are the mental changes and which are they?
I happen to think tennis players have the best looking legs.
Same with badminton and tabletennis athletes ngl theyre stacked
I agree with you!
skeleetal
Why does the video refer to it as "skeletal muscle"?
What other type of muscle is there?
"Experience" and "Power" are not contradictory. Case in point: Rafal Nadal and his powerful forehand.
spanish version?
This is why I practice with both hands, so I won’t be lopsided.
Unless you just play for laugh and giggles, you can't be competitive without a good forehand
@@williamhyma tell Monica Seles
We’re talking about tennis, right?
@@AndrewTheAceMan Back in her days yes
In Modern game, you just can't do without a massive forehand. If you are dwelling on history then you might as well ask why all the players in the early 1950s only used conteniental grip?! Why do people now switch to Eastern and Western grip. Don't know when was the last time you watched an ATP game. Forehand is where the damages are done.
@@williamhyma Search CHEONG-EUI KIM 296 atp, plays forehand both sides
I don't think I hit 1000 forehands in a year... 🙄
That is why you suck. Lol. Practice makes perfect.
Her right arm is a lot stronger than her left arm ;)
My poor forehand technique led to tennis elbow. It took me a year to re-learn a proper forehand. Last week I hit three days in a row with just a twinge of pain after. A couple of years ago I would not have been able to use the arm without excruciating pain.
Oh yeah, I have a one-handed back hand. So, my tennis arm is so much stronger than my other arm that I feel like the Winter Soldier.
But you have only one life.....
If you want to do something why worry about symetry
I played handball in School my right arm was fat then my left arm and it's still now but only little difference.
'When you specialise you pay a price' - Ido Portal
My left oblique is might larger than my right from decades of serving. It's actually kind of unflattering because it kinda looks like fat but it's ro k solid.
From the stretch it gets from the serving motion.
Yup, originally left handed, then thru injury (+ school 'enforced') became RT handed age 11? So mostly ambidextrous. Later as tennis Pro on tour w 2 handed b.g., so the balance remained pretty true. Injury free. My lefty doubles partner not so much... tried to serve RT handed once... Wrenched his actual Arse bone!! Collapsed writhing. a horror film;-)
Then injuries.
Players with one handed backhands are great examples of this.
Note also that Freya’s BAD technique led to her bad result at the end. Freyas forehand is flawed. The elbow is too close to her and she drops her left arm. So not only did a lack of experience do her in but a lack of technique as well. Freya’s lower body is also too soft. She needs much more leg weight work to develop more explosiveness on movement. Period is too tough to not be in top condition.
I’m an older guy and almost all my tennis playing peers have had knee surgery.
No offense bro but that’s usually due to being overweight or playing at an unsustainable level (professional) for a long period of time.
Stay very lean, do strength training regularly to keep the body strong. And watch knee surgeries plummet.
@@princesyntheticgut16g21 no they are not overweight. They are club players who just have been playing on hard courts for 40 years. Even if they didn’t play older people get a lot of knee replacement surgeries
@@romcallis I believe you, maybe your peers are an exception. But I have to add that I work at a club, in California (the less obese state) and even here, very very few people are actually lean. Almost everyone is carrying extra weight, it only takes a little. And almost nobody is sticking to a stringent strength training regimen to keep the muscles and joints healthy.
Everyone I’ve seen getting knee work is overweight, and doesn’t workout properly. I can’t think of anyone who’s been lifetime lean and done good strength who’s had knee work.
Is that it ? Come on BBC more ... this was interesting. Put that huge budget you got into something beneficial and interesting for the nation.
in the other hand look at Daniil Medvedev. His body is way less pumped
Bone smashing
"Recent studies"???
Come on... any nitwit knows that tennis players , especially those who have a one handed backend, have dramatic size differences between their arms...and the hands also look different
Yall couldve gotten someone better for the video:/
when you replace her real arms and hands with that CGI bone and muscle overlay - it looks very disturbing.
What was this song called in the beginning?
That was really bad, clearly done by people who know very little about tennis lol. And what tournament was that vs petkovic lol with the strange scoring board from the 70 is
Ilkley in 2017 - pretty old footage..
just become left handed? duh...
That's why I stopped fencing, no asymmetrical sports any more
So then you play…running?
@@AinSoph73 currently Judo and Salsa, sometimes hiking and bouldering. There are many active things you can do that don't strain your body asymmetrically.
@@easternwind4435 activities yes, sports not really
@@AinSoph73 how is judo or bouldering not a sport? There are even team sports that don't put asymmetrical strain on your body, like volleyball
@@easternwind4435 just stop, you’re putting words in my mouth and volleyball causes strength imbalances
Ah yes, all men of science and class gather and study this fantastic specimen 🧐🥴
During November Bro?
Who the F is Freya when she’s at home? You would have been off analysing Kim Clijsters , Serena or Venus Williams as they have a better tennis player body then this Freya!
Such players won't charge for showing up in your documentary, plus the general public can't tell the difference between things like good / bad technique.
This just looks so unatural
Tennis is terrible
LOL. First let's make women play 5 set matches. Then let's talk about dedication. And money are the key factor in tennis. Otherwise top 100 would consist mostly of asians and africans.
👻 She hits more than 1k fh per practice and still can't hit without chicken wing. Poor girl. Need someone to help her to learn how to play properly.