Well, when it comes to my weight sessions, I have a full body static stretch regime and combine some dynamic strech movements as well. To be frank, it is the part of training I hate most because it could take upto 15-20 minutes or even more on a slow day. However, my flexibiliy has deffinitely improved. If I'm a bit lazy or short on time and I am only doing upper body movements, I only do the upper body stretches of my program.

For mens cricket at our club, the warm up consists of walking to the square and back to have a look at the wicket. They are the very laid back type that don't se a warm up helping them.
Juniors last year it would always be a case of hitting a few catches at each other and getting loose with some light jogging. The opening bowlers getting their arm over a few times mabe.
This year for my under 16s team I'm hoping to make it a bit more serious and break it down into three parts. Light jogging and genral warming up followed by streaching; fielding work, ground fielding, low and high catching, then for the team to split up. Bowlers to work on the edge of the square loosing up, ether the wicketkeeper (me) or the coach to take the ball, with the batsmen giving each other throwdowns.
Pre season nets, warm ups are non existant for the men as normal, juniors we just do some running, before getting some coaching points in the nets.

sweat sweat sweat!!! preparin myself for what i might encounter in practice and games.. startin with mobilisation stretchin and endin off with plyometrics and sprints. an if im bowling il bowl without a run up building up on intensity.

sweat sweat sweat!!! preparin myself for what i might encounter in practice and games.. startin with mobilisation stretchin and endin off with plyometrics and sprints. an if im bowling il bowl without a run up building up on intensity.

I would like to do a good dynamic warm up before my sessions, but unfortunately it usually dosent work out like that. Our coaches dont seem to know the latest research and are quite traditionalist. Therefore, they usually just make us run laps of the ground and then do static stretching.

@kevinp,

Kevin you may be taking a lot out of yourself with that type of warmup. I'm not sure if a plyometric type workout should be part of any warmup. Plyometrics takes a lot out of you on a normal day, let alone a warmup. You may run out of steam before the game starts.

What specific plyometrics movements do you incorporate?

Some simple stuff is OK as it gets the nervous system going, but I'm with you Alek. Multiple depth jumps are probably a mistake!

careful now guys.. its not a workout.. if im not taking the warm up i notice how easy others take it, never wantin to sweat at al unless its 1st team.. so being an aggressive fielder i wil do 2 or 3 squat jumps kick it out 4 30sec and repeat for 3sets.

After that i wil end off with short 10m sprints al just to wake up the fast twitch muscle fibres.. and i noticed the benefits after learning this.. i last much longer both at practice and matches when i push myself at the warm up

Kevin,

You mentioned how easy others take it. Remember, this is not a competition of who has the sweatiest warmup, it is about getting yourself prepared for the game. There is a difference between prepared and burning yourself out. You also mention yourself at the warmup. Ideally you would be pushing yourself at training, so this translates into game performance. You may be treating the warmup as an end itself, rather than a means to an end.

And since you mentioned you like to work up a sweat, this bring other issues into play. Things like dehydration, fluid replacement, nutrition, etc.

ok then.. Can you run at 70percent afta a ball ina warm up then go into the middle and sprint at 100percent between the wickets and say you were fully prepared? same with diving in the field.. imagine a high jumper didn jump in her warm up..

top conditioners do it.. biokineticists believe in it and so do i.. its somethin u can hear from them and myself bt gotta experience to understand.. great topic btw david

Well you mentioned high jumpers warming up, but cricketers aren't high jumpers. It would be perfectly normal for a high jumper to do some jumping in her warm up, that is sport specific. The equivalent of that in cricket would be batsmen having some throwdowns before the game and bowlers do some target bowling before the game starts.

The main point of what I am trying to convey is energy conservation. You can be out in the field for a long time, you need all the energy you can muster and you should not be expending a lot of energy in the warmup.

The warmup of the international teams consists of:

*Light jogging and conservative sprinting
*Stretching
*Fielding drills
*Batting (throwdowns)
*Bowling (target practice)

I think the above is perfectly reasonable. Anything beyond this is dipping into the energy reserves in my opinion.

I would add that you can finish a warm up with 5-6 all out sprints over 10-20m with 1-2m rest between sprints. This won't kill you but it will prepare you. Vern Gambetta advocates this and he's trained people for years without major issues.

haha, thats what i said david. iv also trained people for about 2years nw and encountered no problems. and yes aleksander throw downs and bowling are highly important

skills like hand eye co ordination r incorporated into fitness drills to make a warm up interesting 4the players. so when i don get to take warm ups i don get the chance 2 dive after a ball or sprint much so il go do it on my own.

A few short sprints are perfectly ok for a warm up. How hard you go depends on the weather. If it is a very hot day, you may want to do the sprints at 60-70%. On a cold day you may want to do them at 80-90% just to get the body temperature up. But it is the plyometrics type movements that I would question in a pre-game warmup.

Two every 30seconds? lol why are you guys so hard to convince?

Nice topic!