Athletic-dev-2025

10 INTEGRATED CONDITIONING We strongly encourage that you/your child plays as many different sports as possible outside of cricket.These will provide you with a range of physical, psychosocial and cognitive skills, which are crucial for long term athletic development. A number of current Nottinghamshire cricketers participated in various sports when they were younger: Alex Hales – Tennis, Ben Duckett – Hockey, Freddie McCann – Football.This is known as ‘integrated conditioning’ as the sports themselves allowed them to develop fitness qualities such as agility, speed, endurance, core strength, power, coordination and flexibility. If you are interested in doing weights training or any other sort of physical training in your own time, then speak to a member of the SSM team so that you are doing this in a safe and effective way. Our aim is to improve your athleticism without causing any unnecessary stress on your body. Certain things you should avoid include road running and axial loading in the gym.We would also recommend that you have two days of complete rest from physical activity per week to provide adequate time for rest and recovery.