weak core muscles

Jogging, eating meat should help do a trick or two and my favourite, push ups!!

I'll tell you something, the core is the single most misunderstood part of the body in cricket.

My first question would be this: How do you know weak core muscles are to blame for your back injury?

Second, if you have tight muscles in your hips, core training is not going to help too much. You need to stretch and work on your mobility.

Anyway, you can't go far wrong with training your core but it should be part of a proper balanced training plan that trains all your muscles and energy systems you need for playing better cricket.

Don't fall for gimmicks, learn what your core does and replicate it in your training.

Originally posted by harrowdrive Oh yeah and jogging is rubbish .....

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A qualified physio can tell you about this better than any internet stranger

You won't catch me jogging.

Exactly.

As far as i can see its important to build a decent aerobic base (jogging), expecially as a bowler to repay your oxygen debt quicker due to larger left ventricle and all that ho hah. But the likes of shuttles (interval training?) is just as important for bowlers to specifically train as you were bowling, assuming your a pace bowler that is. Nothing beats running in and bowling at the nets though.

More to the question, in the first post, id talk to a qualified cricket coach, he/she should know better than anyone on here. But i solved my slight back issues with good old fashioned crunches.


Edited by NZ_Fast - 21 June 2007 at 7:57am

Hummmm, a lot you seen to take jogging as a nothing exercise. Ask Andrew Symonds why he is pretty fit then. I saw Symonds make about 15 laps around the international stadium back here and at a great pace too. If it wasn't important to cricket, why was he doing it then. Jogging builds the heart, lungs, thighs, calf, helps you lose weight. Come on, be realistic fellas, it's very important!

Hummmmmm, then I guess all long distance runners knees are no good!

Being a keeper, I'd be surprised if Nixon didn't have dodgy knees anyway... But it is a fact that jogging is very tough on the knees, especially when you run on hard surfaces.

Its not really that difficult as far as i can see. Their is a place for jogging in training for cricket, but that alone is by no means sufficient in itself, and should not be the major compenent of training you do.

Jogging makes you good at jogging. If you want to jog go for it, but the crossover onto the cricket pitch is minimal.

One of the principles of fitness is specific adaption to demand. The demands of cricket are different to the demands of jogging.

interval sprints improve cardiovascular measures and are far more reflective of what happens on the pitch.

Originally posted by NZ_Fast Its not really that difficult as far as i can see. Their is a place for jogging in training for cricket, but that alone is by no means sufficient in itself, and should not be the major compenent of training you do.

There is a place for cardiovascular conditioning yes. But conditioning for cricket is more about the work capacity (vv02Max) than the total Oxygen uptake.

Remember research has shown that slow steady distance running detracts from speed and explosiveness.

I'd rather  be able to run faster and hit the ball harder.

And then not be able to carry on to make the ton.

Chess and Meditation. Chess because it's very challenging mentally so it will increase your mental strength.

Meditation is good because it's like sleep, it reinvigorates the mind.