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[Turn Of Pace]

Does anyone know any workouts specifically for fast bowlers? What kind of workout would a professional county bowler do?

[cesare_in]

Has anyone incorporated yoga or some similar form of flexibility increasing routine? If yes, does this help with your cricketing prowess?

[Stuey]

I use mobility drills daily, look up 'Original Strength', the presets in there work really well for me.
Turn of pace - my brother is an opening bowler uses KB swings and TGUs as 90% of his training and has noticed improved fitness, less injuries and picked up some pace. It's a good GPP workout.

[Turn Of Pace]

Cheers mate, I'll give it a go.

[Stuey]

Cool, check out simple and sinister by Pavel Tsatsouline its a program focusing on the swing and tgu. I'm following it. This guy is the real deal when it comes to strength training be wary of other advice on the web re kettlebells. Technique is all important!

[T-Rapta]

This is Ian Fisher's youtube page. Was Strength and Conditioning coach at Essex and now at Yorkshire.

http://www.youtube.com/user/idfisher1?feature=watch

[Stuey]

Just be careful if following anything off you tube. The players in the clips are training to a set program with Ian with on hand. There are some technical lifts in their which if you have no experience or training could do you some damage. Club players generally will be better sticking to a gpp program purely down the time they have to train. The pros have more time to train so can focus on assisted drills specific to what they do in a match. I favour kb's over barbells for a number of reasons (I'm a club cricketer not a power lifter),  they are easier to learn and allow more movement in the wrists, a barbell remains set in one place. I'm not a trainer, just a club cricketer who has trained and read a lot over the years. However you train make sure you get the right technical advise and are adding to your conditioning, not taking away.

[gdb19]

Just had a biannual medical with BUPA paid for by my work and after dieting, walking a lot more and taking up kettle bells workouts the results are a big improvement over the last one. Since I started trying to be healthier about 11 months ago I've lost over two stone in weight, dropped my body fat from 23% to 14% and my waist has gone from 99cm to 83cm. Nets start tomorrow night so I'm really hoping to see an improvement in my bowling as I used to be a decent bowler when I was younger but have been rubbish since I started playing again a few years ago.

For anyone wanting to get fitter I'd definitely recommend kettle bells workouts, the one I have is kettlercise.

[tbarnfield99]

Those are some very impressive figures. You've lost the weight healthily as well so I'm sure you'll keep it off. I hope you find an extra 5mph now!

[gdb19]

Sadly I reckon I could do with an extra 10 or 15 mph as I'm very much military medium.

[fasteddie]

I've recently been able to use the Concept rower again after a very long lay off. It's amazing an all round work-out.

Also try the 'functionality' machine. All cables and handles. Amazing! You can mimic the movements you make when playing to strengthen everything. Also, because you are always under tension and not sitting, you constantly use your core to stabilize yourself.

Also, if your gym has a 'weight assisted' chin up and dips machine, get on it!

I've lost 28lbs in 12 weeks and am rediscovering muscles I forgot I had from when I was a soldier.

I've got serious back problems, and would wholeheartedly recommend these to anyone.

[DiscoStu]

Does anyone get the CricketStrength emails? The one today has 3 cricket workout myths.

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Time to banish a few BS theories that we see banded around the place

 

Here's a beauty- To strengthen your bowling muscles copy your action in the gym!

Hell no!! Stay away from your action. S&C sessions & technical session should in the main be separate, apart from a few occasions. Setting the cable machine up to mimic your action is a fast way to nowhere

 

Another oldie that fails to go- You must run long distances to get up the endurance to bowl.

Now this little beauty generally gets trotted out by coaches who used to play in the 70's & 80's who's whole training regime consisted of long slow running and bowling. Maybe some sit ups to! And when you challenge them on it they say it never hurt them. Then you look at their body and it tells a completely different story!

 

And one more- don't go the gym, you will get bulky and not be able to bowl!

If I had a pound for every coach that said this id be living next to KP now! This is just 100% utter rubbish. If you are training in the right way then it will only add to your game. We are all about improvement, and if things we put in programs didn't work they would not be in there. Of course the most important thing is to improve your game, we are not into making gym monkeys who can't bowl or think for themselves

 

So these are 3 things to avoid if you are looking to put on pace

[Stuey]

Most people over complicate training. Go in any gym and you'll see people doing a million and one different isolated exercises. If you are training to be the next body building champ or doing a particular isolated movement to recover from a specific injury that's fair enough. If you are a club cricketer you should be looking to strengthen you entire body to aid performance, reduce injury and also condition to enable you to continue to perform over the course of a match. This is a lot simpler than you think, cheque out Dan John or Pavel Tsatsouline for strength and conditioning, they are world renowned coaches and talk a lot off sense. Following their advice has changed my game over the last 5 years (I'm 38) in terms of being stronger, fitter and quicker. Before that I was hindering my performance with isolated training, crossfit, etc etc and 'insanity' don't do it , the clue us in the name!

[Stuey]

Should have checked my spelling, don't you hate auto correct! 

[tbarnfield99]

Have a search for 'Tentigers Full Body Workout'. A great starting point, and great for beginners.