Former Indian batter Virender Sehwag has come out onerous on the present coaching practices within the Indian cricket crew the place cricketers spend extra time than required within the gymnasium. Sehwag feels that a number of the exercises that are a part of a cricketer’s gymnasium periods are the actual motive behind the frequent accidents occuring to them. India pacer Jasprit Bumrah has been absent for final 8 months attributable to a again damage. Shreyas Iyer has been out and in of the crew courtesy his again bother too. In the previous, cricketers have complained about knee accidents. Sehwag believes that it’s largely attributable to Indian crew trainers’ making use of one fit-for-all regimes for cricketers, not figuring out who’s comfy doing which train.
“In our days, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni, or Yuvraj Singh, nobody was ruled out due to back, hamstring, or quadricep injuries,” Sehwag mentioned on TRS Clips.
Sehwag added that in his days, no cricketer did weight taining and have been nonetheless capable of carry out effectively and retain match-fitness in all situations.Â
“….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 mentioned.
Citing an instance of R Ashwin, Sehwag mentioned that he was made to do clean-and-jerk exercises as a result of it was in development. Sehwad mentioned that even these athletes who begin doing clear and jerk from childhood endure accidents. Someone who begins doing it after 30 years of age is definitely going to endure much more. He added that each Ashwin and Axar Patel had issues with their knees attributable to this very exercise.
Sehwag concluded talking about this level by saying that weightlifting and different such workouts will not be for cricketers as they could enhance one’s power however additionally they enhance the stiffness and soreness within the physique.
