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[Bruce]

Would have thought by doing cardio 3-4 times a week would be sufficient to build enough muscle in your legs as glute training helps stabilise your core and hips. Training chest doesn't really have a massive cricket benefit. Just my 2pence worth

It all works together.
If you just train your shoulders, they will become bigger, placing strain on the tendons connecting your muscles. you need to try and grow in sync with the rest of the muscles so that there are no muscle imbalances or weak points.

[ProCricketer1982]

That said i know England, Surrey and I would imagine most other counties do a fair amount of gym work including heavy weight training.

And then wonder why players break down injured all the time. You only have too look at footballers to see that although fitness is important if you push your body to far it'll just keep breaking. Unfortunately for us we don't get the after care or treatment pros do so a massive hammy tear can be a massive weakness forever. Shoulders going can mean you just simply can't bowl properly again etcetc

Shame Watson used to gym it up, kept breaking so now doesn't do as much. Still breaks but not as much
 Hard to see now but pre knee I used to train 6 days a week and easily run well over 100k a week ( excluding footy matches etc). I'm not skinny guy either but I was stupidly fit and strong. (No Swearing Please) my knee up and now am what I am. Exercise in moderation the same as food/drink etc. unless your a pro there is no need to sprint sub 12 100m or throw the distance of the ground etc. if you are agile, reasonable pace and stamina wise and can hit the bad ball for 4 then you'll be able to play ecb prem easy enough

[Krs]

It all works together.
If you just train your shoulders, they will become bigger, placing strain on the tendons connecting your muscles. you need to try and grow in sync with the rest of the muscles so that there are no muscle imbalances or weak points.

SPOT ON!!

Everything is connected, if someone just trains shoulders and avoids, chest, upper back and traps, then you are looking for injury at some point. Weight lifting is what I am addicted to and when I started to play cricket this season I was so confident I would be KING KONG! However all it took was a quick sudden movement and my thigh went. My mistake was basically I got carried away with benching 140kg that I forgot my core.

Working on your core for sports is where you will notice changes. Resistance training will help you develop the tiny muscle around joints which will make you stronger and less prone to injury!

Anyways this is my outlook on training

[ijmorgan]

It all works together.
If you just train your shoulders, they will become bigger, placing strain on the tendons connecting your muscles. you need to try and grow in sync with the rest of the muscles so that there are no muscle imbalances or weak points.

I was just trying to break it down as to why he may train in a certain way, i have been training in the gym for sport specific stuff for for over 15 years but if you try and talk to technical it can get lost on people. You will see a lot of threads wether your on a golf,cricket or other sport forum that will poo poo weight training as having muscle is a bad thing, but if you train correctly for your sport and body type then it can only benefit you.

That being said it was my second session back in over a year today (had a little one plus started a new business) so feeling the aches and pains, looking forward to making massive improvements in my fitness and strength for the up and coming season, as i do feel my game suffered badly at the half way point of the season.

[iand123]

Went for the first time today with someone from work who is a trained personal trainer. He showed me some arm exercises with the weights which felt good although a bit stiff now. Did a mile or so run too to keep the cardio ticking over. Feel good for it, onwards and upwards!

[imran75]

Just to add my 2p..

I think the original question was to lose weight and get fitter/stronger at the same time. Most of the advice seems to be around the strength/fitness aspect. Diet is vitally important too, as gdb19 mentioned.

Your body works on a thermodynamic basis - for conservation of weight, energy in must equal energy out. If the equation is imbalanced in either direction you will either lose or gain weight.

If you want to adjust your weight then, as gdb19 says, download myfitnesspal, plug in your details and log your eating habits. The app works out your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) and then tells you how much you should eat to reach whatever weight you want to. So, for example, if you want to lose 1lb / 0.5kg per week, you should eat 500 calories under your TDEE per day. Most sources seem to agree that in order to lose 1lb of weight, you should eat 3500 calories under your weekly calorie requirement.

Obviously you don't have to use myfitnesspal, you can count calories yourself, but it does make it easier. There's also this: http://www.1percentedge.com/ifcalc/ which is a more detailed calculator used if you want to get involved with intermittent fasting (IF). It's useful as it shows your basal metabolic rate (BMR) - which is basically the amount of calories you need to stay alive - and tells you how much you should eat on workout days as well as non-workout days.

Losing weight in a practical sense is actually pretty simple. It's the mental side that's a little more complicated!

[iand123]

Thanks for this, its also something im looking to change (diet that is) to help in the weight loss

[imran75]

Good luck! once you get going with fitness it gets pretty addictive!!

The most important thing is consistency - doesn't matter how much (or little) you do, just as long as you keep doing it.

[mo_town]

For Cricket, Core is the Key. A strong core is a must if you want to be a good cricketer.

[iand123]

Apologies if this is a studious question but what exactly is the core? And how does one excercise it affectively?

[imran75]

The stomach and lower/mid back muscles.

and you exercise them carefully!

Planks are a good one for core stability -

How To Do A Plank Exercise

And Russian twists are good for rotational strength.

Seated Russian Twist With Medicine Ball, Ab Exercises, Fit How To

(sorry if that isn't a very macho video!!)

If you can, try and stay away from crunches as they put loads of strain on the lower back and neck.

The core is key in developing all round stability and it's where you generate power from when batting/bowling or throwing.

Squats and deadlifts also develop core strength but I'd really advise getting a qualified personal trainer to show you how to do these properly...

[mo_town]

The stomach and lower/mid back muscles.

and you exercise them carefully!

Planks are a good one for core stability - How To Do A Plank Exercise

And Russian twists are good for rotational strength. Seated Russian Twist With Medicine Ball, Ab Exercises, Fit How To (sorry if that isn't a very macho video!!)

If you can, try and stay away from crunches as they put loads of strain on the lower back and neck.

The core is key in developing all round stability and it's where you generate power from when batting/bowling or throwing.

Squats and deadlifts also develop core strength but I'd really advise getting a qualified personal trainer to show you how to do these properly...

Perfectly put Bro 

[Rowan]

Minor weight training will help both bowlers and batsman.

[Vitas Cricket]

I got much more into cricket after giving up a decent football career partly due to being able to let things slide a little bit, and enjoy the teas a bit more.

Now you chaps are telling me I have to do all this gym/fitness work?! Madness.

I'll stick to balancing loads of food on my plate at tea like a tasty game of buckaroo!

[Number 11]

I never really have much time for exercise, except for some physio strengthening work on my back and shoulder but a few planks would be easy to fit in. Might help control the beer gut a little, can do around 20-30 secs at the moment so not too bad for first tries.