Imbalance
Some may know already, but in February I had corrective surgery on my shoulder after an injury caused a year ago. This was my left side, and for over a year I had been favouring my right side.
My main sports are (in order of time spent) cricket, baseball and volleyball. As you can see these are all very dominant on my right hand side, especially with the way I play coupled in.
In the last month my body has felt very good and I've gone almost full steam ahead with my normal training. Next year I am picking up baseball again after a few years off and, if they clash, giving cricket a rest for that year. The baseball club I used to play has closed down now so I have to do some research, and I might be able to find a winter season or some other alternative to clashing with my cricket matches, but I just want a season of baseball. Since I've spent some years off I have to get back in practice again. Volleyball over the winter as well should it not clash with anything.
In all sports my strength is power. The fitness testing I just did shows this as well, very high in all areas of power and speed, but below average aerobic capacity and muscular endurance to even things out. This is fine with me as these three sports are primarily power based, even more so for me.
I just came back from Brisbane today after having a baseball coaching session. I'm a right handed pitcher and on the speed gun today I was clocking up 135-140 km/h fastballs, 120 km/h sliders, and I can clear the fence batting quite easily (if I get the right pitch anyway). This is the same with cricket. I'm only an off spin bowler, but I'm able to hit hard and I can flat throw to either stumps from anywhere on the ground thanks to three years of baseball training (that's all it's about - throwing and hitting hard!). I usually surprise even myself with my arm, of all the things in the world it is the one thing I'm most likely to brag about. In volleyball I have a pretty decent spike to say the least as well.
Now after that attempt at bragging I do actually have a question
. I know how hard baseball and cricket are on the body with rotations and such, especially when you bring above average power into it. Since my sports are very right side dominant, and my gym training is fairly minimal since my time is taken up with skills training, should I be worried about overloading my right side and not giving my left side much to do, especially after a year of restrictive movement? My physio is over now, I might also add.
Some may know already, but in February I had corrective surgery on my shoulder after an injury caused a year ago. This was my left side, and for over a year I had been favouring my right side.
My main sports are (in order of time spent) cricket, baseball and volleyball. As you can see these are all very dominant on my right hand side, especially with the way I play coupled in.
In the last month my body has felt very good and I've gone almost full steam ahead with my normal training. Next year I am picking up baseball again after a few years off and, if they clash, giving cricket a rest for that year. The baseball club I used to play has closed down now so I have to do some research, and I might be able to find a winter season or some other alternative to clashing with my cricket matches, but I just want a season of baseball. Since I've spent some years off I have to get back in practice again. Volleyball over the winter as well should it not clash with anything.
In all sports my strength is power. The fitness testing I just did shows this as well, very high in all areas of power and speed, but below average aerobic capacity and muscular endurance to even things out. This is fine with me as these three sports are primarily power based, even more so for me.
I just came back from Brisbane today after having a baseball coaching session. I'm a right handed pitcher and on the speed gun today I was clocking up 135-140 km/h fastballs, 120 km/h sliders, and I can clear the fence batting quite easily (if I get the right pitch anyway). This is the same with cricket. I'm only an off spin bowler, but I'm able to hit hard and I can flat throw to either stumps from anywhere on the ground thanks to three years of baseball training (that's all it's about - throwing and hitting hard!). I usually surprise even myself with my arm, of all the things in the world it is the one thing I'm most likely to brag about. In volleyball I have a pretty decent spike to say the least as well.
Now after that attempt at bragging I do actually have a question
. I know how hard baseball and cricket are on the body with rotations and such, especially when you bring above average power into it. Since my sports are very right side dominant, and my gym training is fairly minimal since my time is taken up with skills training, should I be worried about overloading my right side and not giving my left side much to do, especially after a year of restrictive movement? My physio is over now, I might also add.
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