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Welcome back to Sports Academy podcast about the sometimes invisible impact of sport in our daily lives and bodies.

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Today's episode focuses on tennis, one of the most complete and beautiful sports ever created by humanity.

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However, we tend to underrate the astonishing impact that this fantastic activity has not only in our bodies, but also in our minds.

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So in today's episodes, we have invited two special guests.

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The first one is Hector Sanchez, a brilliant psychologist who graduates from Stanford University.

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How are you?

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How are you doing, Mike?

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I'm good, thank you.

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We also got Nikolas Vlaskis, a notorious personal trainer known for his brutal routines.

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How are you?

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I'm very good and glad to be here, mate.

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These two specialists will clarify every technical aspect of tennis.

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So please, Hector, can you tell us about the mental benefits of tennis?

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well there is no doubt that every sport has an immense impact on our psychology but tennis is

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by far one of the sport that is more mentally demanding first of all it shows you how to deal

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correctly with frustration and failure as tennis is a sport where you can make and will eventually

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make a lot of mistakes so the difference between a good player and a professional player is how

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they manage this feeling of rage on a daily basis this control over your frustration will help you

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a lot as obviously not everything in life will go as planned so what makes the difference is what

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you do about it if you want to be successful you will need to fail a lot of time until you reach

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success. That's very interesting isn't it? Well but there is more Mike. This sport built a strong

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personality for its player. The players are used to play in moments with maximum pressure as a

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simple point in tennis can make the difference to the whole match. So we could say that tennis

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players do not feel nervous anymore every day everyone experience more than one situation of

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stress we all know that when humans are under pressure they act awkwardly and imperfectly

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however for tennis player is just another simple decision that all sounds amazing i guess we all

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need to take up tennis now nicholas can you please talk about the physical aspects yeah sure so as a

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personal trainer, I must say that tennis will not muscle up you a lot. However, on a cardiovascular

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level, there is nothing that compares to this sport. We are talking about short intervals of

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explosive speed. However, we need to bear in mind that in this sport, a player must be active at all

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times. There are just some small breaks on the odd games and between sets. And what is more,

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tennis matches can last even for more than three hours which is brutal even for me

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wow so if you need to choose the most useful sport physically for your daily life what will it be

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well in my experience as a personal trainer i will have to say that tennis could easily be

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one of those sports it has a lot of impact in your daily life first of all it helps you to

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improve your coordination and furthermore it can help you to prevent any back injury wow you guys

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are gonna make me start playing tennis after this anyways thank you guys for being with me today

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i've learned a lot with you and for our audience i hope to see you next episode