Cricketers Can Learn How To Throw Harder With Relative Ease

By Lucille Lamb


The sport of cricket demands that players have excellent fielding skills, in both catching and throwing. Learning how to throw harder is not difficult, in terms of time and effort, but it can have a huge effect on your fielding effectiveness. A powerful throwing arm can send a really strong message to batting teams, making it less likely that they will try and pinch cheeky runs when the ball is in your area of the outfield.

One of the more obvious things which you can do to improve your throwing is to throw a cricket ball as often as is practicable. Only throwing itself will really help to strengthen your arm, and to improve its flexibility and responsiveness, in the areas which are needed. To help with your training, you should throw a cricket ball to a partner or at some kind of target.

When practicing like this though, it is a good idea not to over train, as this can lead to injury. Practice should lead to some minimal tiredness in your arm, as this is needed for it to strengthen. Practicing for longer than half an hour or so is not a good idea though, as this can over strain the muscles in the arm and lead to injury.

Practicing regularly for short periods is therefore the best way to train your arm to throw better. Adding 15 minutes a day of throwing to your training routine can have a huge effect. Practicing the skill for this long will not strain your arm too much.

However, it is also essential to your progress that you do not neglect fitness and strengthening work. Without this component to your training, you will eventually hit a ceiling in your development. Using an arm cycle at a fitness center can help strengthen the muscles that are used for throwing, as can doing press ups, along with some kinds of weight training.

It is also important to have a strong lower body, as this provides the base for the power which eventually comes through the arm. Having an all-round, generally strong body will also reduce the chance of injury from throwing, and squats are excellent for strengthening the lower body. 'Planking' and other core strength training will also help with this all-round fitness and conditioning.

It is also important that stretching is not neglected, and any practice must be accompanied by stretching out your muscles both before and after the session. This will help keep you injury free, as well as helping increase the movement of which your arm is capable. Sports massage is also to be recommended, if it is available, as this also helps with flexibility and preventing injury.

Finding ways on how to throw harder is therefore not too difficult, and any cricketer can improve by adding a few simple things to his or her routine. Pay attention to all the details of your training, however slight they may seem, and maintain fitness and condition. By combining drill type throwing routines with advanced fitness work, you should soon see your throwing improve.




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