Cricket
Training and Conditioning for Cricket
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2016
176 pages
978-1-4729-3935-7 (ISBN)
Description
Cricket is a physically and mentally demanding sport - requiring multi-directional speed, coordination and agility, not to mention excellent fitness levels.
This book provides a complete conditioning programme that will help cricketers and coaches at all levels develop these skills and reach optimum performance.
Featuring techniques that are tried and tested by leading coaches and players, this essential resource contains a wide range of easy-to-follow, clearly illustrated drills that will develop skills in all areas of the game.
This book provides a complete conditioning programme that will help cricketers and coaches at all levels develop these skills and reach optimum performance.
Featuring techniques that are tried and tested by leading coaches and players, this essential resource contains a wide range of easy-to-follow, clearly illustrated drills that will develop skills in all areas of the game.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-3935-7 (9781472939357)
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08/2004
A & C Black Publishers Ltd
€38.59
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Person
Alan Pearson is Managing Director of SAQ® International, one of the world's most respected sports training consultancies, and has worked with elite clubs and athletes throughout the world of sport.
Content
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1 Dynamic Flex: Warm-up on the move
2 Running form for cricket: the mechanics of movement
3 Innervation fast feet: agility, co-ordination, balance and control for cricket
4 Accumulation of potential this SAQ cricket circuit
5 Explosion three-step multi-directional acceleration for cricket
6 Expression of potential team games in preparation for the next level
7 Position-specific drills
8 Vision and reaction
9 Cricket specific weights programme
10 Warm-down and recovery
11 SAQ cricket programmes
Glossary
References
Index of drills
Foreword
Introduction
1 Dynamic Flex: Warm-up on the move
2 Running form for cricket: the mechanics of movement
3 Innervation fast feet: agility, co-ordination, balance and control for cricket
4 Accumulation of potential this SAQ cricket circuit
5 Explosion three-step multi-directional acceleration for cricket
6 Expression of potential team games in preparation for the next level
7 Position-specific drills
8 Vision and reaction
9 Cricket specific weights programme
10 Warm-down and recovery
11 SAQ cricket programmes
Glossary
References
Index of drills
