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[tommo256]

Morning Chaps,

So yesterday during the game, we had already won and so most of our 2nd team stayed to watch the 3rd team play.
There is a fella play for our 3's who is an under 15, and a seriously talented cricketer, unbelieveable eye to hit a ball and a good swing bowler.
His issue is his fitness, and I want to try help him but don't know how to go about it, as he has so much potential but his fitness lets him down in the field and such like...
I help coach his age group, but don't want to single him out in doing fitness but then don't want to bore them by doing fitness as a team....
Any advice would be excellent

Cheers

[uknsaunders]

A little bit of crafty interval training. Short sprints turned into a competitive race - batsman v bowlers etc. Good thing about interval training is the stop start nature means 10-20 mins of fitness work can be enough if they work hard enough

[InternalTraining]

Morning Chaps,

So yesterday during the game, we had already won and so most of our 2nd team stayed to watch the 3rd team play.
There is a fella play for our 3's who is an under 15, and a seriously talented cricketer, unbelieveable eye to hit a ball and a good swing bowler.
His issue is his fitness, and I want to try help him but don't know how to go about it, as he has so much potential but his fitness lets him down in the field and such like...
I help coach his age group, but don't want to single him out in doing fitness but then don't want to bore them by doing fitness as a team....
Any advice would be excellent

Cheers

It's not just fitness, it is diet as well. I started using kettlebells based on a forumite's recommendation and it is one of the best fitness advice I every got! Having said that, you also want to watch what you eat.

[addidasf55]

He's 15, let him develop his game.
He'll grow taller? Fitness will come to him.

[dougydee]

You can always incorporate some fitness in your general training. Running between the wickets when batting in pairs or by yourself, such as run a 3 every 4 balls. This will test out the batsman's fitness and concentration pretty quick, it's hard work batting when you're fatigued. Fielding drills with elements of fitness is a way to sneak in additional short sharp bursts of running as well.
Like uknsaunders says interval training is easier to incorporate into training given its short intense nature.

At the end of the day if the kid isn't interested in getting fitter or improving his cricket there is not much you can do to help him. Have you let him know that he has potential and if he's interested you can help him improve?