Defining Sports Performance with Altis Performance

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So, the cricket coach is supposed to—and we expect them to—stay on the technical path. They are the ones who would teach how to hold the bat, how to strike the ball, how to bowl the ball, and how to field the ball; that is their role—improving the technical aspect of the game. The Strength and Conditioning coach focuses on load management; when do we run, when do we fall back from running, how much running to do, when do we do gym, how much gym to do, when do we go from high-volume sets to low-volume sets, when do we lift heavy, when do we lift light. That is what the Strength and Conditioning coach does. So those are two of the separations: one manages load, basically looking at the strength, and the other one looks at the technical [aspect]. When it comes down to the Sports Performance coach, he basically binds the two; so, he looks at the athlete pulling on the leg-side [and thinks] ‘these are the implications in the technique, how do we fix that? What exercises do we need to do so that the athlete does not get injured, or can he increase the power of that shot?’ That’s where the Sports Performance coach now differs from the strength coach, who now differs from the technical (cricket) coach. But they all have one thing in common: which is to make sure that the athlete can perform at an optimum level.