Help & Advice Needed With Go Karting?

Junior USTA tennis player looking for helpful/needed advice: please help! (Any advice is welcomed!)?

• I am a tennis player who needs some..."advice(?)" on how I should work out and eat. My mom is my 'Dietary Coach/ Nutritionist' and my step-dad is my tennis coach. (I have an actual tennis coach though.) Anyways, I need some help figuring out an excercise routine and things to eat. I LOVE workingout, it's like eating a favorite food or getting $1,000,000 for me! So, I can do anything that doesn't involve a gym or a ton of money. I'm not old enough to go to a gym yet (get a membership or get in...i'm 15!) I currently do 60 situps a day at once, 15 pushups a day at once, and airplanes...I have 2 two pound weights (blech, my mom won't let me get new dumbbells) and we have a treadmill. I plan to go pro so a new exercise routing would be great, as would a new meal plan. I only eat things like broccoli, cauliflower, bananas, wholewheat anything, unfrosted poptarts and literally 'rice' cereal. (Healthy food like that are mostly my thing, I don't drink sodas or eat sweets and candy, and I don't like ice cream...or chocolate, etc.) So, if you have any advice i'd love to know!

• Answer:

  You can definately get a membership to a gym at 15... 1) Situps are worthless, don't waste your time. 2) 15 pushups are nothing- you should be able to do 50 easy. 3) There is nothing you can do with 2 pound weights that will be worth your time, same with the treadmill- as long distance running isn't good for tennis. It sounds like you either need to get a new set of dumbells so you can do something worthwhile, get a gym membership, or do some worthwhile body weight exercises. Looky looky- http://www.unique-bodyweight-exercises.com/ From what you said you eat, I'm worried you won't get enough calories to train very hard day-to-day. It's great to eat healthy but you still need to consume a BUNCH of calories as an athlete. You can really eat whatever, it's not that big of a deal- so long as you train hard and don't just sit around all day and let your body make it into fat. Oh, and since you said you want to go pro. You should read the book "Bounce" by Matthew Syed. It is life changing and should be a huge help.