In regard to most sports, being fitter is better than being fatter (except for sumo wrestling maybe!). In the course of this article, I'm going to give a few tips on how table tennis players can use their spare time to improve their fitness and their table tennis.
How Important is Fitness in Table Tennis?
Before I launch into how to improve your conditioning, I want to briefly discuss just how important physical fitness is in ping-pong. The importance of being fit rises as your table tennis level goes up. So the amount of fitness needed for a beginner is less than that of an intermediate player, which in also different to that of an advanced player. Let's look in each in turn.
Fitness for Table Tennis Beginners
At the beginner level, your amount of physical fitness is unlikely to be an important factor in improving your table tennis, provided you have the ability to walk around for a few hours without getting tired. The biggest limiting factor at this level is your technique and consistency. Due to the number of mistakes you and your opponents make, most of the rallies that you play while you are learning the sport will not be long enough or vigorous enough to tax your physical limits all that much, unless you are playing for several hours in a row.
Being very fit will not affect the level of your play all that much as a beginner. It certainly won't hurt, but it won't be a great advantage either.
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