Recent content by Andy Perkins

I agree with everything that has been said above. Even though most sports aren't aerobic in nature aerobic endurance is stressed because people believe an efficient aerobic system promotes faster recovery. Whilst this is true what we need to consider is are we just making the aerobic...

In terms of fitness I posted on thread a few months back on how to improve fitness with sample programs for each area of fitness essential to physical development for cricket. This is the same approach that I'm using with Guernsey's national team are using to prepare for world cricket league for...

Thank you micoach, it's what I'm finding works really well with the players at this moment in time. It could all change though in the next 2 weeks. Fitness assessment time next weekend, time to see how far off the standards we set they are!

I've just written a post on all the areas we work on with the Guernsey national squad including sample programs for each area and also some video demonstrations of some particularly useful exercises. These are all things that we are using at the moment with a variety of age groups from 17 up to...

You are still very young so one of the most important things you can do to help your development is restrict the amount of "endurance training" you do. At your age, muscle fibres are still developing and if you wish to specialise in cricket as your sport you must consider what type of sport...