A strength and conditioning program for table tennis is a specially designed system of knowledge and activities that requires meticulous monitoring of the table tennis game, takes into account the specificity, as well as many other specifics of table tennis as an individual sport. Such a program requires the identification, assessment, analysis and treatment of all those relevant and specific factors of physical conditioning that contribute most to the success of this sport.
Strength and Conditioning training in table tennis tennis is special and specific because a strength and conditioning coach for table tennis players, based on a thorough knowledge of current issues, must demonstrate his multifaceted ability to create in the design of the current training program.
For these reasons, he must have a thorough and analytical knowledge of the table tennis game, and above all: all its general and specific methodological, motor, physiological, functional and psychological requirements, adequate periodization of sports training (characteristics and dynamics of the methods of preparation, competitive and transitional period in table tennis, especially block periodization, structure and different types of individual training, microcycles and mesocycles, as well as ways of establishing and maintaining sports form), Then supercompensation, recovery, rehabilitation methods, monitoring methods, diagnostics and prognosis of growth progression, development and raising the level of motor skills, all in relation to the specificity of the organization and system of table tennis competitions.
In relation to the above, a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the intensity and capacity of the realization of general and specific motor skills in table tennis is of decisive importance for success, in relation to the crucial factors that are the basis for the creation and condition of the practical implementation of the fitness training of table tennis players.