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General Cricket => Cricket Training, Fitness and Injuries => Topic started by: HallamKeeper on June 28, 2017, 01:18:26 PM
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I need to jog and stretch before I do anything on a cricket pitch or in nets. Partly my 33 year old body and partly a habit from playing hockey since I was a kid. What surprises me is that I rarely see anyone even stretch let alone do a moderate warm up.
Why don't people warm up? I'm just curious.
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Part laziness part incredibly unfit and knackered after an embarrassing amount of time
I know there's only one person who can fix that but it comes back to the lazy, I've started and stopped trying to get fit and warming up for that matter more times than I can count!
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I'm pretty unfit but I just worry I'll pull something if I don't stretch. Probably more mental than physical for me.
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We always throw an American football around or kick a football, little light jogging involved in both and stretching if you feel needed.
Gets rhe muscles warm at least
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Carrying my bag into the changing rooms is about as much warm up as I get
Used to knock up a bit before games oop north, but no one seems too fussed down sarf
I'm sure the prem teams etc do the usual warm ups
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i've always done fielding warmups for 15-20 mins before games, but that always seems a bit pointless when you end up batting first
this season my club doesn't really warm up as much and i've noticed that i've had more aches and strains so maybe there's a correlation!
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We usually warm up for 10 mins as a team and then some players do an extra bit based on their needs. I keep stretching even during our fielding as it helps after the game.
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Does smoking a fag and kicking a football about count?
my excuse is that stretching and warm ups actually increase the risk of pulled muscles. Think about it, young kids at the park never pull muscles and never stretch/warm up. The only time I have pulled muscles playing sport is when, as a youngster, I have stretched beforehand.
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^ probably because you are stretching cold.
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Warm up should be gradual - starting with mild/low intensity activity to more vigorous. Once you feel your body has warmed up, only then you stretch.
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We would get dropped if we didn't participate in stretching /warmups .
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What is a warm up? ???
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What is a warm up? ???
Turning up late because of mcdonals breakfast traffic.
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Turning up late because of mcdonals breakfast traffic.
How early are you meeting?
They aren't even serving the breakfast menu when I get "stuck in traffic" (there is normally a slow moving queue going round the drive-thru)
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Quick jog, stretch, football (old vs young), catching drills, ground field job done. 45mins from start to finish.
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I tend to do a lap of the ground (if it isn't too big) then I do about 5 minutes of stretching, mainly legs and back. I then join the rest of my team for some football and fielding drills. If we bowl second I will usually do the run and stretch again before we go out to field. If we are batting second I try to keep my hamstrings, quads and groin loose as they tend to tighten up quickly, I don't want to pull anything on a quick single.
Does anyone play another organised sport which they don't warm up for?
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Does anyone play another organised sport which they don't warm up for?
I still play hockey and I don't warm up for that either.
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"I seem to try and jog around a bit between overs and have the odd stretch between balls."
Quick! The innuendo alarm! @FattusCattus
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Just to prove how bad warming up is for you!
We used to kick a football about as a warmup and i was heading out onto the pitch playing keepy up. Wasnt really paying attention to where i was planting my foot and i managed to go over on my ankle. I actually thought i'd broken it as the pain was immense. Severe sprain on my ankle. i didnt play again that season(this was early july), was off work for a week and on crutches for 3 weeks and was still limping 3 months later.
warming up is bad for you!!
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Just to prove how bad warming up is for you!
We used to kick a football about as a warmup and i was heading out onto the pitch playing keepy up. Wasnt really paying attention to where i was planting my foot and i managed to go over on my ankle. I actually thought i'd broken it as the pain was immense. Severe sprain on my ankle. i didnt play again that season(this was early july), was off work for a week and on crutches for 3 weeks and was still limping 3 months later.
warming up is bad for you!!
Ha, that is unlucky. I'm more talking about a cardio warm up with either static or dynamic stretches to ready muscles. I don't really like playing football before our game but I join in a little for the team. One thing my body does not like; multiple sports at once.
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hate warming up worst thing about i level i play at is pretty much made to warm up.
we tend to kick a football about for 10 mins and then do catches and bowling batting etc
pretty simple compared to other teams etc who have team coaches running the warms up before the games flexi stumps and all that jaz
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There's usually complaints if I expose my "Flexi stump" on the outfield before a game