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Learn Why Anaerobic-Fitness Training is Vital for You To Show Your True Cricket Potential

If you're not training your anaerobic-fitness your true potential may never be realised. Big statement I know. Hopefully at the end of this article you will be more receptive to the idea of this form of fitness training.

Anaerobic is defined as living in the absence of or free of oxygen. The term anaerobic-fitness means that exercise is carried out at high intensity and oxygen is not present in the process of providing energy for that particular burst of muscle contractions. This is why repetitions in this form of fitness training is short in duration.

Your fitness training for cricket needs to be predominately carried out in this manner. Shorter in duration and much higher in intensity. The only room for aerobic fitness training in cricket is to develop a fitness base to allow recovery from anaerobic-fitness training.

Also aerobic fitness can be utilised in-season to aid in the recovery process between games and training.

Club or group cricket training generally should be predominately anaerobic in nature.

If you want to reduce body fat that can even be done via the anaerobic energy system.

You are made up of fast and slow twitch muscle fibres. Don't panic I won't get all scientific with you in this article (I like simplicity).

Fast twitch fibres are the ones that make fast, strong muscle contractions which are short in duration.

Slow twitch fibres do the opposite. Making slower weaker muscle contractions that can be sustained for longer periods.

We need quick reactive movements for cricket so these fast twitch fibres are the ones we must target in our fitness training.

The short duration, high intensity training I am advocating for cricket targets these fast twitch muscle fibres.

By training fast you become fast in your movements. Because all of your movements in a game are fast reactive movements it makes sense to train this way.

Sprinters train to be fast obviously and they only train in a manner that enhances their fast twitch muscle fibres. They train to be fast and boy does it work.

Too much of the fitness training for cricket that I am seeing today is not condusive to allowing your body to be fast.

I would encourage you as individuals to question your fitness preparation for cricket. Challenge your beliefs, ideas and even coaches (politely of course).

Just because everyone trains that way doesn't make it right. The masses don't like change. Break away from the herd mentality. Meaning don't be a follower and do what is right for you.

By training your anaerobic-fitness energy system you will be way ahead of your opposition as they will still be training in a way that isn't allowing them to display their full cricketing potential.

By adopting this new attitude toward your fitness training your options increase in terms of variation in your training. For instance a typical club or squad (organised) training session will also be an anaerobic-fitness training session. Provided you train as you would play.

Your batting, bowling and fielding training will be completed at high intensity as is in a game. 1 1/2 - 2 hours would be more than enough time to train in this manner provided you schedule in enough recovery periods.

Your variation in your fitness training can be unlimited by simply completing different cricket specific drills. Remember quality not quantity ok.

All the more reason why your cricket fitness preparation must condition your anaerobic-fitness energy system. Because once you are in-season there will be unlimited ways to train your anaerobic fitness as well as your skills and technique together.

Sounds easy doesn't it.

Get in and just do it as a huge multi national sports brand would say.

For more anaerobic-fitness training options check out this article on weights-training.

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