Leg Exercises
The next exercises are for developing the leg muscles.
Strength and Conditioning Videos
Nathan Knights national team player and strength and conditioning coach will be providing strength and conditioning videos to help players maintain their fitness at home. The first is a video highlighting the importance of strength and conditioning.
The first exercise is a core catching challenge. Cricket is an intermittently explosive game that requires explosive strength, twisting, bending and holding of certain positions. Core strength will develop these qualities. Developing core stability can help keep you free from injury and able to produce power throughout the varying cricketing movements. The core is not just abdominal muscles. The core consists of 29 muscles including abdominals, hip region, musculature, back and gluteal muscles.
IOMCA Fitness Benchmarking
To ensure players are fit for purpose and can physically cope with the demands of a long season playing and a longer winter preparing the IOMCA have introduced minimum standards for players to achieve to access the squad training.
At present these are only applicable to EPP and National team levels however we will be looking at the feasibility of using these across all age groups.
The four simple tests give an indication of a players speed, stamina, core strength, upper and lower body strength.
Click to view the tests and the expected results.
At present these are only applicable to EPP and National team levels however we will be looking at the feasibility of using these across all age groups.
The four simple tests give an indication of a players speed, stamina, core strength, upper and lower body strength.
Click to view the tests and the expected results.
| expected_standards.pdf |
Clean Hitting Cricket
As part of the ICC the IOMCA commit to all of their representative teams adhering to the anti doping policies implemented by them.
Full details of all these policies can be found here:
https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/integrity/anti-doping/code
ALL PLAYERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ AND ADHERE TO THESE AT ALL TIMES.
Full details of all these policies can be found here:
https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/integrity/anti-doping/code
ALL PLAYERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ AND ADHERE TO THESE AT ALL TIMES.
Fit 4 Cricket
The Isle of Man cricket association places a large emphasis on the athletic capabilities of their players. In partnership with IOM sport we have created a resource to assist all players focus on some of the core strength exercises required to be successful.
Download and print the resource below
| isle_of_man_cricket_fit4cricket_resource.pdf |
Cricket Nutrition
.The below document gives an outline of what to eat and drink to become the best cricketer you can be!
Useful for players of all ages and levels.
Useful for players of all ages and levels.
| iomca_cricket_nutrition.pdf |