Saturday, October 18, 2008

Enhanced energy levels goes far deeper than just increasing your fitness.

We've all experienced that overwhelming tiredness towards the end of a days play right; and some enhanced energy-levels would come in very handy at that time. You've probably put it down to just one of those days or you working extra hard for that day. And that may well be the case. How would you react if I told you energy was leaking from your body?

Like most people do. Say oh yeah and don't give it another thought. Reality is it is quite easily fixed. Energy leaks are caused initially by postural deficiencies. Think about it. You stand in the field for 3, 4 or 5 hours in a day. You may run 12.5 kilometres in a day or you may run 500m. Or you may do 300 - 500 squats in a day. It all depends on your job on the day.

If your pelvic positioning isn't correct, all muscles and ligaments connected with the pelvis will either be lengthened or shortened or tightened to compensate. Hopefully you now get an idea of how all of your body is affected if a region is not in correct alignment. You can now appreciate where your energy goes.

You lose it compensating for your bodies inefficiencies. Not to mention the increased injury chances. If you are utilising the correct stabiliser muscles only a fraction of the energy will be used during the day. You can then have those enhanced-energy levels you so desire. The problem is when our posture is incorrect we recruit the stronger more forceful skeletal muscles to do the deep stabilisers work. Unfortunately these more forceful muscles use double the energy of the stabilisers. The upside is you can increase energy levels tenfold by addressing the issue head on.

It is also quicker and simpler than you may think. If you are consistent and disciplined within a matter of weeks you will notice a big difference. Then all aspects of strengthening your body in these new found postural positions can be carried out in a well balanced preseason and in season training regime. Posture training will be the X factor of performance enhancement in future cricket training. Why not get in now and be ahead of the pack. Gaining enhanced-energy levels will put you ahead of the pack in more ways than one.

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