weak core muscles

Then it's no strange reason why Ntini is one of the fittest around!! Add symonds and McGrath too - he played a lot for an old man of late!!

Edited by spin wizard - 26 June 2007 at 10:49pm

When Ntini was in the Caribbean in 2005, he jogged everyday from the hotel to the ground and from the ground to the hotel; well I guess except the Antigua test match when he got carnaged by Gayle! 

just going back to the jogging stuff, sorry I thought we were talking about club level cricket. International and national level players generaly jog a lot because of the length of the game and also in most cases there is much more ground to cover when fielding. You also aim to get the overs in quickly so you'll be jogging from one end of the field to the other between overs.
In limited overs matches also you are expected to keep moving for the whole length of the game.
But all of this is NOT necessary on the village green. You are more likely to improve your performance by doing shuttle runs, press-ups, sit-ups, and curls as well as the extra time spent in nets instead of jogging (don't forget that jogging consumes quite some time to have any effect on your body, about 40minutes if i remember rightly).

Edited by The CCC - 26 June 2007 at 11:32am

anyone got any ideas how to stay more mentally fit?

Originally posted by spin wizard Originally posted by harrowdrive Oh yeah and jogging is rubbish for the core and cricket ;)   Yeah, then your agility must be real low then!! Jogging is important in every sport to get fit!

Agility has nothing to do with jogging. Agility is how fast you can change direction at speed. Jogging has neither.

I don't know of any research into steady state cardio activity that shows a transfer to sport performance.

Oh and jogging is not good for the core whichever way you look at it.

The knee is a joint. Cartiledge damage to the knees, and damage to the ligaments, is entirely different to deliberately overloading the muscles. The idea is to damage the muscle so that it repairs itself stronger. Damage to joints and ligaments is not desirable. Permanent injury may well result, and cumulative damage to the joint can cause chronic problems later.

Well that's true but it's just like saying that lifting weights is tough on the biceps/triceps.

Edited by The Tyke - 21 June 2007 at 8:01pm

Originally posted by Rambo_123UK Jogging is for masochists who want to ruin their knees.

Thighs? Squat, lunges, leg presses, extensions... I never train my calves, but I do a lot of walking.

Jogging is for masochists who want to ruin their knees.

But I have now lowered my resting heart rate to 50bpm - and I don't jog, jut do resistance (weights) training.

Jogging increases the Volume capacity of the lungs and improves cardiac output which lowers your resting heart rate.

jogging is pretty useless for cricket as cricket is one sport you don't have to run about all the time.
short and medium distance sprints as well as the shuttle run thingy suits cricket much better (cricket is a stop-start sport).

Originally posted by harrowdrive Oh yeah and jogging is rubbish for the core and cricket ;)

Deadlifts will fix your lower back muscles. I didn't deadlift for fear of injuring my bad back again for a long time, but that made things worse (muscle imbalance). The muscles cramped like hell the first few times after deadlifting but now I have virtually no back problems anymore.