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"Discover The Different Forms of Physical Fitness Training That Will Boost Your Cricket Fitness"

By David Virgo

To allow your fitness sustainability in-season and dramatically increase your performances these tips will provide you with some ammunition to make your own informed decisions. Now that you have transformed your physical fitness training for cricket to be of a more anaerobic nature.

This article will give you an insight into how some other fitness energy system training will compliment your current fitness regime if used appropriately. These methods can also be used to achieve goals and benefits outside of the game of cricket. A very important factor in everyones life is health (if not it should be) and by achieving desirable results in these other forms of fitness training you will also be improving your wellbeing.

Your cricket's fitness will also reap the benefits so you will be achieving in more ways than one. The first type of training I am going to mention is Posture fitness training. This incorporates flexibility as well as addressing muscle imbalances.

By completing this type of training succesfully you will be setting solid foundations that will serve you for the rest of your cricketing life. I will go as far as to say it will prolong your cricket life. Your chances of injury decrease and your movements become more efficient.

Your technique and skills work will also benefit from this training. Another major fitness focus that will increase not only your fitness for cricket but also your health in general is fat loss dominant training. For cricket you immediately benefit from body fat reduction through increasing reaction times and speed. Not to mention the strain it will be taking off your joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles.

The beauty of this type of training is that you will be able to achieve your goal by training naerobically which is the same energy system you should be training to increase specific cricket fitness To achieve a fat loss result you no longer need to train at certain fat burning intensities for extended periods of time as you are all conditioned to believe. Interval training is scientifically proven to be the best way to reduce body fat levels.

Let's now discuss aerobic fitness training. Aerobic utilizing oxygen to create energy for muscle contraction)fitness training is important because it initially enables the body to set an aerobic base in which all other fitness work can be built on. There is no need to run long distances at slow pace to develop this aerobic base.

Longer interval type of training progressed over a period of time will set you a good fitness base that will allow recovery from all of your anaerobic work in future weeks and in season. Aerobic fitness work can also be used in a manner that allows your body to recover from game or training situations. Even just to give the body a break from the intensity of anaerobic training. Aerobic training in this way assists in the removal of waste products produced from anaerobic training aiding the recovery process.

By completing a low intensity longer lasting exercise session sometimes called an active recovery session sparks up the immune system to speed up the regeneration process. Athletes underestimate the importance of this training point. In wrapping up this article please remember that your anaerobic system is going to be your dominant fitness training focus.

However if you don't factor in other forms of physical fitness training you could be setting yourself up for a range of negative outcomes. Things such as injury, sickness, lethargy and a lack of motivation. All of these factors will affect your fitness negatively and in turn your cricket performances. So have an open mind with your fitness work for cricket and take a hollistic approach rather than just the all or nothing approach.

About the Author:

David Virgo is a Certified Master Trainer who is registered with Fitness Australia as a Fitness Professional. David has also played cricket with distinction at a high level. His website is www.cricketfitness.com