Strength Training for Cricket

Are you following a cricket specific training program?
Instantly get ahead of the rest with the only detailed cricket-specific complete program!

Are you making these common mistakes?

  • No linkage between your specific goals and exercise selection
  • Performing bodybuilding-focused training
  • Using programs and exercises designed for other sports (like football or hockey)
  • Isolation exercises like bicep curls and triceps pulldowns
  • Performing with the same set and rep schemes every session
  • Not changing your program throughout pre-season and as the season progresses
  • Training primarily in 1 plane of movement
  • Spending wasted time on machine training like leg press and chest press
  • Implementing strength work and running based conditioning work as separate goals
  • Or worst of all – Not performing strength work out of the mistaken belief that it will slow you down.
If you are making these common training mistakes, even just a couple of them, then you are not maximizing the effectiveness of the time you are investing in your athletic conditioning for Cricket.

This is the only place where you will get the complete and detailed picture

Detailed cricket information

Detailed exercise demonstrations

Specific programs depending on whether you are a batter bowler or all-rounder, and how to build you own.

If you are reading this, you likely:

  • Work full time
  • Are a student
  • Play local/development league level
  • Are a junior player
  • Can only dedicate time for a couple extra sessions a week

And in short, cricket is just another part of your life to fit in around work/study and other commitments, rather than the central focus of your life that you are paid to do.

As a result, most of the information that you may read from the elite level in terms of their programs and methodologies will be unusable to you or others who cant dedicate 30 hours a week to training and recovery anyway.

Or even worse basic short articles or websites with ‘cricket programs’ with no detail or context. Guys, please understand, these are useless!

So why do the majority of cricket players still train like bodybuilders, train following a program from another sport, or simply not train at all?

Being a bodybuilder is no where near as tough as being a good athlete, let alone a good cricket athlete. Or more specifically, the training required to be a bodybuilder is nothing compared to the type of strength and power training required to be a more athletic and effective cricket player.

This is why there are so many people out there who are bodybuilders now. It doesn’t require much in terms of your training program. It can be very basic and generic, and largely dependent on your diet. Basically, it doesn’t matter what exercises you are doing, as long as you blast the hell out of the major muscle groups and eat a very strict diet you will see the results sooner rather than later.

To improve your rotation power and coordination, or your first 3-5 metres in an acceleration, or your ability to throw with power and accuracy, requires a lot of work, and more importantly a lot of the correct type of work, before you notice any improvements. Because after all, only your performance in matches or competitive match simulations will tell you whether you are improving. Simply looking in the mirror and seeing bigger quads and biceps won’t give much indication (although it may look good.)

So what physical improvements does being a better cricket player require?

  • Powerful single leg landing
  • Very effective and explosive rotation
  • Stable shoulders and functionally strong rotator cuff
  • Explosive first 2-3 steps
  • Decelerating quickly and efficiently
  • Changing directions with power and control
  • Full body strength for powerful batting and speed bowling
  • Core strength linking the legs to the torso and arms
  • Core and lower back strength
  • Stabilising every joint in your body when producing force (particularly when bowling at speed)
  • The ability to do these things over and over – not just once
  • Or any number of variances or combinations of the above
  • As well as the ability to be able to do these things over and over
  • And most importantly all these things with cricket-specific approach and application

So, which of these is most important to you?

Powerful torso rotation in batting

More powerful acceleration off the mark

Quicker direction change running between the wickets

Strong and stable shoulders when bowling

Powerful & accurate throwing

Controlling powerful landings (pace bowling)

As well as the ability to perform these tasks consistently to a high level over and over again!

Whatever the answer, the reality is, these expressions of power will not improve, without first improving the underlying platform of functional strength.

In the athletic development process, strength training is possibly the most important area because it is the underlying quality of so many other components.

Vern Gambetta

This is because before you are able to express force quickly, you first must be able to express greater levels of force.

A cricket-specific information and training program.
The first and only of its kind!

So what EXACTLY does Strength & Power Training for Cricket include?

In-depth discussion of what exactly functional means in terms of preparation for cricket – made up largely of discussion points rarely discussed anywhere else.

A thorough physical needs analysis of cricket

A more detailed discussion on physical specifics and biomechanical analysis of  batting, bowling and fielding.

Detailed outline and description of the key exercises to build every training program for cricket around:

Upper Body – double arm AND even more importantly single arm strength AND power

Lower Body - double-leg and more importantly single leg strength and power

Rotational power and shoulder stability

So what were those benefits again?

  • Powerful single leg landing
  • Very effective and explosive rotation
  • Stable shoulders and functionally strong rotator cuff
  • Explosive first 2-3 steps
  • Decelerating quickly and efficiently
  • Changing directions with power and control
  • Full body strength for powerful batting and speed bowling
  • Core strength linking the legs to the torso and arms
  • Core and lower back strength
  • Stabilising every joint in your body when producing force (particularly when bowling at speed)
  • The ability to do these things over and over – not just once
  • Or any number of variances or combinations of the above
  • As well as the ability to be able to do these things over and over
  • And most importantly all these things with cricket-specific approach and application

SO....detailed information, exercise description and demos, detailed and specific programming - in one complete and comprehensive resource.

All of this and for less than half the price of 1 hour with a quality Athletic Performance coach.

Additionally, with a money back guarantee if you aren't impressed, there is a whole heap of upside and literally no potential downside.

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