Virender Sehwag gave his take on the cricketers suffering from recurring injuries. According to the previous India opener, the present-day players are going through injuries repeatedly due to heavy weightlifting within the health club. He additionally slammed the crew’s efficiency coach Basu Shanker for making the identical applications for all players of the squad.
“Basu Shanker was with the Indian team for a lot of years, and he made the same programs for all players. Why should there be the same program for Ravichandran Ashwin and Virat Kohli? When Ashwin was with the Kings XI Punjab, he told me he was doing clean-and-jerk workouts because it was in trend,” Sehwag stated on TRS Clips.
“Athletes train from childhood for clean and jerk and still get injured. Imagine a cricketer starting when he’s over 30 years old. Both Ashwin and Axar had problems with their knees because of this workout,” he added.
Sehwag recalled the health routine throughout his time.
“In our days, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni, or Yuvraj Singh, no person was dominated out resulting from again, hamstring, or quadricep injuries, Sehwag stated.
“We didn’t do any weight training in our days, but we were still able to play cricket all day. This could be Virat Kohli’s funda. But not everyone is Virat Kohli. You need to prepare a training program based on your own body,” he stated.
Sehwag additionally expressed that he does not really feel that there’s a want for weightlifting in cricket.
“There is no place for weightlifting in cricket. Instead, you should do the exercises that improve your game. Weightlifting will give you strength, but will also increase stiffness and soreness,” the previous star cricketer stated.
