A hurt wrist is not a reason to sit down for six weeks. It is a reason to train everything else.

Most players get this backwards. They ask “what can I still do with a bad wrist?” and end up on a bike for twenty minutes, bored. The better question is the one a professional’s physical coach asks:

How do we keep the legs, the explosiveness, the movement and the competitive intensity, while the wrist is protected?

Because when the wrist is ready, you want to walk back on court as the same athlete — not a slower, softer version of yourself who now has to spend two months getting fit again.

The Whole Session in One Picture

Screenshot this. Send it to a team-mate. Take it to the court.

AllONDECK wrist-injury conditioning card: 1. Movement and footwork, 15 min. 2. Tennis-specific work, 20 min, 20 seconds all-out and 40 seconds recovery, 10 to 12 reps, 2 to 3 sets. 3. Lower-body power, 15 min. 4. Finisher, 10 min, 10 seconds all-out and 50 seconds easy, ten rounds. The wrist stays out of every movement.
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The Four Blocks

1

Movement + footwork

15 MIN
⚠️Arm stays quiet. No racket in the injured hand, and no catching or bracing with it if you stumble.
2

Tennis-specific conditioning

20 MIN

Four cones: a baseline and two sidelines. Move like you are defending and recovering in a real point — explosive first step, change of direction, back to the middle.

20 secAll out
40 secRecovery
10–12Reps
2–3Sets

Three minutes between sets. This block is the one that keeps your match fitness.

3

Lower-body power

15 MIN
⚠️Keep the injured wrist completely out of the movement. Nothing that loads the hand, nothing you would land on.
4

Conditioning finisher

10 MIN

Bike or curved treadmill.

10 secAll out
50 secEasy
× 10Rounds
⚠️Hands off the bars, or grip with the good hand only.

Read This Before You Start

This is a general conditioning session, not medical advice, and it is not a diagnosis. “Wrist injury” covers very different problems — a TFCC tear, a tendon, a stress fracture — and they do not all allow the same movement. A fracture in particular can rule out impact work that a tendon problem would not.

Get it looked at first

Get a proper diagnosis before you follow any plan, including this one. Once you know what the injury actually is, the exercise choices can be far more precise — and a physio can tell you which of the four blocks above to change. If anything here causes wrist pain, stop that movement. Pain is information, not weakness.

The Point of All This

An injury takes away one thing. Most players let it take away five: their speed, their legs, their conditioning, their sharpness, and their habit of training hard. Those four blocks exist so that the wrist is the only thing you have to rebuild.

Six weeks off, done well, is six weeks of leg strength you did not have before. Done badly, it is three months lost.

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