Royal Challengers Bangalore ramp up preparation with their first gym session for the Indian Premier League. RCB have started their preparations for the second leg of IPL 2021. After the second phase of arriving in September. The team started training with a football session. It was yesterday after completing their mandatory quarantine period.
Royal Challengers Bangalore have now taken things up. Also, a notch with a fully-fledged gym session. It was a strength and conditioning coach Shanker Basu.
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Shanker Basu had an urgent hand in patching up. Also, Virat Kohli’s wellness and physique. Also, similar with Navdeep Saini, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, and Shahbaz Ahmed. They’re among the others hard work within the gym.
“These guys are proper athletes now, it’s not like yesteryears. It is unique in nature and each athlete has different requirements and based on that, we design the program and take everything into consideration, all factors like current fitness status, injury status, niggles, training load everything. Always when we come to Dubai, the weather is the first focus and load monitoring is the key feature here. It’s not only the weather, but it’s also the electrolyte imbalance,” Shanker Basu said.
Shanker Basu
Shanker Basu is also popular in the T20 series. It requires a completely different gym routine due to its fast-paced nature.
“T20 is very very different from Test cricket. It’s explosive, fast, and the guys. They have to use fast-twitch fibers and anaerobic energy. Also, they need to train to get to that,” Shanker Basu also added.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will resume their campaign. It is against the Kolkata Knight Riders in Abu Dhabi on September 20.
Lastly, the players revealed their highest treadmill speed. Also, Saini led the way with 23kmph. Patidar came a close second at 20kmph while opening batsmen Padikkal and Azharudeen were tied at 18kmph.
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