If you are not working on strength and conditioning with the players you coach you are missing a chance to improve their cricket.

Yet it's common to not bother. At club, representative and school level coaches avoid the world of fitness. They stick to what they know; skills work with a few high intensity fielding drills thrown in to gas everyone.

That's simply not enough. Not if you want results as a coach.

How about with the Strength Coach at Glamorgan CCC, Rob Ahmun?

As part of coach development in Wales, Rob has been doing a presentation to local coaches on how they can best add strength and conditioning training to the young players they coach from 6-16 years old.

Rob agreed to let me have the presentation notes and I turned it into an interactive guide to strength and conditioning training for coaches of young cricketers.

It's low on fitness mumbo jumbo and high on the facts that real coaches can use to help real players.

Click here to view the presentation and see if it can help your young players.

The presentation also mentions a pdf version of the training charts. You can download that pdf for free by clicking here.

If you want a more comprehensive guide to reducing injury risk and increasing cricket specific fitness, check out county strength coach Rob Ahmun's guide on PitchVision Academy.