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Five star England
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 11:32am CDT
ENGLAND: A five-star showing in the second half saw England complete a comprehensive victory over Kazakhstan. -
England 5-1 Kazakhstan
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 11:32am CDT
ENGLAND: It's full time at Wembley and you can see how all of the action unfolded with our minute-by-minute guide.
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FINA Swimming World Cup 2008 Brazil Day 2 Finals
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 11:13am CDT
South Africa's Katheryn Meaklim and Australia's Christian Sprenger each won two events to lead the overall point totals. Meaklim clocked 8:49.76 in the 800m freestyle ahead of Brazil's Isabelle Longo (8:55.34) and Amanda Macedo (9:02.12). She won the 200m IM battle with Brazil's Joanna Maranhao-Melo of Brazil, 2:12.50 to 2:12.78. South Africa's Mandy Loots was third in 2:14.78.
Christian Sprenger finished 0.27s outside Brenton Rickard's 50m breaststroke Australian record with 26.89. Felipe Silva broke Eduardo Fischer's 2002 home nation record with 27.17. Sprenger added a convincing 200m breaststroke win with 2:07.58.
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What cricket can learn from the Crossfit phenomenon
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 4:30am CDT by David.Hinchliffe
Mention the word Crossfit to 10 different people and you will get 11 opinions, but is this controversial training method something cricketers can benefit from?Initially popularised by the US military and rescue services, Crossfit has been adopted across the word as a simple, effective way to get fit and strong.
And if miCoach has one aim it's to help people get fitter and stronger for cricket.
Why Crossfit?It's hard to say exactly why Crossfit has become so popular recently. I think there are several reasons behind the rapid growth of the system:
- It uses well established techniques. The workouts provided use many techniques that fitness experts back as highly effective: Squats, Olympic lift variations, sprints and medicine ball throws for example. All methods cricketers can use to develop cricket specific fitness.
- It's performed in a group setting. Group coaching and workouts have been proven to have better compliance than training alone. You are less likely to drop out because of the social pressure. The environment is supportive and you feel you are not alone.
- It's competitive. Many workouts are designed around time so you can compare your results to the results of others. This ramps up the competitiveness and pushes you harder than if you were just training against yourself. It's a well known effect that men can lift more weight when there is an attractive woman in the room!
- It's simple to follow. The workouts are short and laid out before you so all you have to do is turn up and work out. This is attractive because you don't have to take time thinking and planning before you hit the gym.
- It scales to your fitness level. The workouts can be made harder or easier depending on your skill and fitness level. The instructors are all certified and can coach you in correct technique as well as pushing you without making you go too far. Something you would not get in the average Globo-gym.
Sounds perfect: Turn up three times a week, train hard, go home, get better at cricket.
Not quite.Why Crossfit is not ideal for cricketers
I want to say at this point that I going to deliberately ignore all the controversy around the Crossfit system. I'm looking at it purely from this point of view:
Does the fitness you develop in Crossfit crossover to the cricket pitch?
I would say it's not the best at that. The main reason is it only really develops one area of fitness: muscular endurance. The workouts are so varied it's difficult to develop areas like strength, speed, power and agility. All of which are critical to fitness for cricket.
That said, if you regularly attend Crossfit the chances are you will come out of the sessions better than you went in. You will have learned correct technique for important core lifts, especially Olympic lifting. You will also have less fat and more muscle and an adaptable body rather than an adapted one.
These benefits, combined with the ease of access make Crossfit very attractive for those with little time to workout or no desire to plan their own training.
If you were to come to me (or many other cricket fitness professionals) you would not get a Crossfit style programme. It's simply not specific enough to follow for more than general fitness purposes.
However, general conditioning in a supportive group is what you want, you can do a lot worse than go to a couple of Crossfit sessions a week.
Perhaps sportsmen and women could adapt the Crossfit, taking the good elements and making it more specific to their sport?
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FINA Swimming World Cup 2008 - Brazil
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 10:24pm CDT
10 to 12 October 2008 - Belo Horizonte (BRA)
Top swimmers around the world are bracing themselves for the upcoming FINA/ Arena Swimming World Cup 2008. Brazil is the first stop of a six-week, seven-city short-course circuit where swimmers hopscotch the world, racing in meets for the $100,000 overall prize and international competition.
Like the 2007 edition, seven cities on five continents host this major short course (25m) competitive circuit. You can access complete coverage of the Series via live streaming below from the FINA website.
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U19s qualify for Euro's
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 5:32pm CDT
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Tie still alive
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ENGLAND U21s: Stephen Taylor and Gabriel Agbonlahor know England can improve in the second leg against Wales. -
Pearce still wary
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ENGLAND U21s: Stuart Pearce insists his side still have it all to do to qualify for the 2009 Euros despite a 3-2 defeat of Wales. -
Final training highlights
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ENGLAND VIDEO: Fabio Capello oversaw one last training session ahead of the World Cup Qualifier against Kazakhstan. -
'Cherish the moment'
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ENGLAND: Rio Ferdinand speaks exclusively to TheFA.com about his joy at leading out the Three Lions on Saturday. -
Foxes meet Lionesses
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FAWPL CUP: Millwall Lionesses' manager Keith Boanas looks forward to his side's clash with Leicester City on Sunday.
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Giving our athletes the parade they deserve
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 8:43am CDT
Giving our athletes the parade they deserve
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England edge thriller
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 8:30am CDT
ENGLAND U21s: England came from a goal behind to edge the first part of their Euro 2009 Play-Off against Wales.
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Telling pupils about my job on the Environment and Sustainability team
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 8:18am CDT
I haven't been in a primary school since I left for secondary school, which now seems a very long time ago! As a result, it was with some trepidation that I stepped up on stage at an assembly at Jubilee Primary school in Hackney, to talk to them about the work of the Environment and team's work across the . Jubilee Primary School is one of eight schools taking part in the ODA . Coordinated by one of the teachers, two of their pupils, Khadijah and Hamzah, have been joining in workshops on site to learn about the Olympic Park and the construction programme. They then have the task of taking this information back to present to the rest of their classmates and the school.
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'Fans will help us'
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ENGLAND VIDEO: England Manager Fabio Capello believes the fans at Wembley Stadium will be key against Kazakhstan. -
Lyttle's Cup memories
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FA CUP VIDEO: Former Nottingham Forest defender Des Lyttle hopes to avoid a Cup upset with his current side, Tamworth. -
Tamworth block Rocks
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All square at Basingstoke
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FA CUP: Basingstoke and Bashley must do it all again after a 2-2 draw in their Third Round Qualifying tie on Saturday. -
Lions ready for Ulster test
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 5:11am CDT
ENGLAND U19s: The Young Lions know they have to be ready for a tough test against hosts Northern Ireland on Friday.
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$20m Twenty20 match gets go ahead
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 3:42am CDT by Miriam Sherlock
$20m Twenty20 match gets go ahead
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Town edge thriller
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 3:40am CDT
FA YOUTH CUP VIDEO: Thamesmead progress after a thrilling 120 minutes with eight goals, a hat-trick and a sending off.
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European Tour golf can withstand financial crisis
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The Homer Simpson guide to alcohol and cricket
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 3:16am CDT by David.Hinchliffe
Whether you are a Simpsons fan or not, Homer is one fine philosopher.Beer, he once said, is the solution to, and the cause of all life's problems. Which is a great way of summing up the relationship between cricketers and alcohol (in the West at least).
Most cricket clubs have a tradition of drinking after games. On tour the drinking can be before, during and after!
It's the grease that oils the social wheels.
On the other hand, we have all been told how damaging drinking is to our health.
Guilty pleasure or the ruin of cricket careers? Let's find out.
The costs of drinking- Beer makes you fat. You only have to take one look at Homer to realise that, they are called beer bellies after all. You see alcohol contains calories (100-150 calories per drink on average) so drinking it can lead to you piling on the pounds.
- Beer helps you stay fat. Alcohol messes with your body's ability to burn fat. This is because booze is a toxin. The body prioritises getting rid of it so stops metabolising fat.
- Beer makes you lose muscle. Heavy drinking can strip essential nutrients from your body, leaving you more vulnerable to muscle wasting. Even social drinking can lower testosterone levels.
- Beer reduces your skill. If you have ever played with a hangover you know what alcohol can do to your cricket performance. Add to that the dehydration that occurs while drinking and you could find yourself losing stamina too.
- Beer makes you stupid.Doing stupid things while drunk is not unusual. You can much more easily get injured after a few drinks in stupid ways: falling down, getting in fights and the like.
- Beer helps you lose fat. I know I just told you the opposite, but some research has show that beer increases insulin sensitivity and helps you burn more calories by speeding up your metabolism.
- Alcohol improves your health. When drunk in moderation beer and red wine have shown a number of health benefits. It can help reduce blood clots, reduce the risk of diabetes and improve immune response.
- Alcohol improves recovery. Amazingly, a study was recently done to see the effects of beer on recovery from sport performance. The booze did just as well as the scientifically designed post workout shake.
I have deliberately not mentioned the most serious side effects of drinking: That it can cause serious addiction and liver damage if abused long term. Let's put that aside and assume responsible drinking levels.
You will need to draw your own conclusions about your own drinking. If a cricketer came to me asking for advice on consumption I would certainly say that moderate drinking seems to do little harm and can have certain health benefits.
The conflicting issues of weight control seem to cancel each other out. Maybe it's more the doughnuts that are causing Homer the issue.
It's also very easy for moderate drinking to become excessive drinking and then the costs start to outweigh the benefits.
Perhaps I should leave the advice to nutrition consultant Alan Aragon: "If you drink so much that it interferes with your training, you need to cut back. If the amount you drink never interferes with anything important, let's get together for a beer sometime."
Homer may not agree, but he was never much of a sportsman anyway.
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FIFA and UEFA in media focused workshop at Soccerex 2008
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 3:15am CDT by Miriam Sherlock
FIFA and UEFA in media focused workshop at Soccerex 2008
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