Propuesta metodológica para cuantificar el entrena-miento de tenis en pista mediante la frecuencia cardiaca

: Nowadays, tennis is a sport with a long-term competition period of approximately nine to ten months a year, which entails the player to be fit over a long period of time. Occasionally, physical trainers and coaches do not work together, which does not mean that the former do not know what the latter have done in order to plan his physical work, but that coaches do not usually measure players' work on the tennis court. In other words, when a tennis player trains for three or four hours, facing a demanding physical preparation later, we believe that measuring the physical effort during the training session in terms of quantity and intensity is both necessary and beneficial. Does not a player make a high number of moves on the tennis court? Then, is it necessary to work on abilities and potentials out of the tennis court again, or do we need to measure this work to avoid possible injuries or overtraining? What is more, do these training features really meet the actual requirements of a competition? Therefore, we intend to analyze the importance of group work and the knowledge of internal and external effort in a tennis match as the basis to plan the training session. in this sense, we present a work methodology which measures the exercise done on the tennis court by taking the player's heart rate as a point of reference.