I'm clearly late to the conversation, but reading through the comments here and in the article that's being talked about made me want to give a very general broad commentary and summary.
1) Comparing the U.S sport system/ culture to the Australian and U.K systems is difficult. S&C is viewed as an inseparable from achievement in the U.S but is seen as the 'cherry on top' in Australia (and I assume the U.K). You outlined that, but it's hard to stress enough.
1a) Cricket constantly struggles with a culture where people don't want to be seen as 'doing too much other work'. Wanting to achieve at cricket and doing non-Cricket specific things to fulfill that is seen as odd. This has been consistent with every level of cricket that I've been involved with to this point (grassroots through to district). Hours of batting or bowling is fine. Long distance running is fine. Weightlifting is... weird? Even at the lowest levels, individuals that play sport in the United States view themselves as 'athletes'. In Australia we are 'sports players' or 'exercisers'. I imagine it is the same in the U.K. This cultural difference is enough to explain a lot, I think.
2) 'Strong enough' for sport is whatever point where the non-sport specific training cost outweighs sport specific performance benefits. The cost-benefit relationship is unique for each individual. I think this is self explanatory really. A person will benefit a lot and not need to invest that much time into achieving a 400lb/ 180kg deadlift. The athletic benefit that a person derives from developing that 400lb/180kg deadlift into a 500lb/ 230kg deadlift likely isn't enough to justify the training economy that will need to be devoted to it (in terms of training time and recovery). Maintaining the original deadlift and focusing on other requirements (single leg work, developing a 125kg powerclean, etc) will be a better use of training time.
3) Related to 1a) and 2); cricketers (as with most sports) suffer far too much from appeals to authority rather than logic and rationality. Many elite athletes excel despite of their training regimes. Again, many elite athletes achieve despite of what they actually do. People want to know what the best are doing in order to be like the best and what they miss is everything that the best did to get to that point or what the best could have done to be even better.
Wow. They couldn't be three more generalized points buttttt they were just general feelings that I thought ought to be added. Not necessarily linked to this topic, but that stemmed out of my reading here and on that deadlifting article.
1) Comparing the U.S sport system/ culture to the Australian and U.K systems is difficult. S&C is viewed as an inseparable from achievement in the U.S but is seen as the 'cherry on top' in Australia (and I assume the U.K). You outlined that, but it's hard to stress enough.
1a) Cricket constantly struggles with a culture where people don't want to be seen as 'doing too much other work'. Wanting to achieve at cricket and doing non-Cricket specific things to fulfill that is seen as odd. This has been consistent with every level of cricket that I've been involved with to this point (grassroots through to district). Hours of batting or bowling is fine. Long distance running is fine. Weightlifting is... weird? Even at the lowest levels, individuals that play sport in the United States view themselves as 'athletes'. In Australia we are 'sports players' or 'exercisers'. I imagine it is the same in the U.K. This cultural difference is enough to explain a lot, I think.
2) 'Strong enough' for sport is whatever point where the non-sport specific training cost outweighs sport specific performance benefits. The cost-benefit relationship is unique for each individual. I think this is self explanatory really. A person will benefit a lot and not need to invest that much time into achieving a 400lb/ 180kg deadlift. The athletic benefit that a person derives from developing that 400lb/180kg deadlift into a 500lb/ 230kg deadlift likely isn't enough to justify the training economy that will need to be devoted to it (in terms of training time and recovery). Maintaining the original deadlift and focusing on other requirements (single leg work, developing a 125kg powerclean, etc) will be a better use of training time.
3) Related to 1a) and 2); cricketers (as with most sports) suffer far too much from appeals to authority rather than logic and rationality. Many elite athletes excel despite of their training regimes. Again, many elite athletes achieve despite of what they actually do. People want to know what the best are doing in order to be like the best and what they miss is everything that the best did to get to that point or what the best could have done to be even better.
Wow. They couldn't be three more generalized points buttttt they were just general feelings that I thought ought to be added. Not necessarily linked to this topic, but that stemmed out of my reading here and on that deadlifting article.
