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Doing shadow strokes with footwork patterns helps you get better at the same movements when you are at a table. Doing the same thing on both sides, if you do them righty and lefty, it will actually help your right side get better at it. But it will also help you start playing lefty better. Sometimes you hit with someone that you are way better than. To challenge yourself you may play with your left hand. When you are not at a table, doing shadow strokes left handed would help you if you wound up in that situation where you were trying to play left handed.
But the fact is, if you are righty and you practice a little left handed too, it will help your playing right handed improve. And if you are doing shadow strokes and footwork with the strokes, from both sides, your strength will develop in a more balanced way.
Other things to do to help, the jumps are good because you need short bursts of strength in table tennis. Sprints are good. Like say you sprint 50 feet and then bend down to touch the ground, and then run backwards to where you started and do that 5 more times. And then you do 10 pushups and do it again.
Or skipping sideways like a lot of the footwork movements you do in table tennis. You stay in a low stance with your knees bent and your legs wide and you shuffle to one side taking side steps for about 50 feet, touch the ground with one hand and then shuffle the other way taking side steps and touch the ground with the other hand. And you keep repeating until you are too out of breath to go any more. Then you give yourself 30 seconds to recover and repeat.
Of course jumping rope is good.
If you have access to boxing equipment like a heavy bag and gloves, punching a heavy bag is great cross training to help you improve your explosiveness for your strokes, transferring weight from your legs and hips into your stroke and strengthening your whole body. Something like boxing training exercises (not hitting a person, but hitting the bags and doing the footwork and shadow boxing, or, with a trainer, with they have those gloves for hitting and give you targets and move you around and you have to keep hitting the target gloves as they move you, that would be really good cross training. Because you are developing both sides but you need to use pretty much the same muscles and actions in boxing as in table tennis.
The version of a Burpee that has the jump at the top and a pushup when you go back is good too.
Side plank exercises to strengthen the sides are really useful. Those help you get the power from your sides for your looping.
