Being a good player is a lot of hard work. Technical training takes enough time, but then there is the fitness training, not to mention the actual matches. What do you do when you don't have time to train?

Kevin tells us about another thrilling match this week. We also catch up with Gary Palmer and Menno Gazendam.

Your cricket questions this week include:

Absolutes are a rare thing. The phrase 'it depends' is always hanging close to the lips of good cricket coaches and fitness trainers. There are always exceptions to rules.

When I see people doing any of these exercises in the gym I just want to wince. Partly because they wasting their time. Sometimes because it's downright risky. Mainly because their heart is in the right place (they came to the gym after all) but their execution is all off.

Its well know that when you bowl fast you put your body under enormous strain: The front leg can take up to ten times your body weight on impact. It stands to reason that you need to be strong to prevent injury.

Playing and practicing cricket gets you better at cricket. But what if you play more than one sport? The answer is not to give up on other sports, but to learn the 4 simple training tricks of success.

There are so many ways to train the 'core' you could spend all day working those abs to destruction, but who has time?

When a coach with the reputation of Ian Pont comes up with a new training product you listen to what he has to say. In this case it's the Dura-band Cricket trainer. So is it any good?

As we are sport-loving types at my cricket club so there is normally a football being kicked around the outfield by a couple of players on the morning of a match. As we are competitive types too, this gentle kickabout tends to become a game with jumpers for goalposts, sliding tackles and elaborate diving in the box.

It might be fun, but is it a suitable way to warm up before a cricket game?

To celebrate the new new warm up video on the strength and conditioning for cricket course on PitchVision Academy, we are putting a portion of it on miCricketCoach.

The video, filmed at English Test venue the SWALEC Stadium, features Glamorgan CCC Strength Coach Rob Ahmun demonstrating the warm up he puts his professional fast bowlers through before play:

Strength and conditioning is the theme of the show this week. David has another win and Kevin tries to sort out a knee problem. We also catch up with Ian Pont and have another installment of our league cricket tips section with the LCA.

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