EP looking for every opportunity to get better — Moodley

Eastern Province strength and conditioning specialist Runeshan Moodley believes the squad’s work at the Madibaz High Performance Centre will add another dimension to their preseason cricket preparations.

Moodley, who also held a similar position for the defunct Warriors, feels the addition of scientific elements is allowing them to further home in on all areas of their game.

Moodley said visual skills testing was one aspect that was new to their training.

“We are constantly looking to improve on certain areas of our game, whether it be just one or two percent; big thanks to the Madibaz HPC for welcoming us.

“We have made our training just a little bit more scientific to provide our players with that base that we need to perform,” he said.

Moodley said the visual skills element would take their game to a new level.

“In terms of the visual skills we are doing a lot of FitLight training, which has a lot to do with the visual aspects of the game.

“We have also added isokinetic testing in terms of shoulder strength.

“We are just trying to get some scientific data from which to base our approach to training on,” Moodley said.

He said they had adapted well to the new stimulus.

“The HPC brings that extra edge in terms of high performance by being in that kind of environment, surrounded by other professional athletes.

“They have also constantly looked at ways of improving their own game.

“We are trying to make the training and conditioning a little bit more individualised this season than in previous seasons.

“I think that the players enjoy that attention to detail and being able to sort individual concerns when it comes to rehab and strength and conditioning,” Moodley said of the centre at Nelson Mandela University.

He said the team had been largely unaffected by the twoweek move to level 4 of the national lockdown earlier in July, as they had put in some extra work only weeks before the announcement.

“Luckily for us, we had been going at it for three weeks prior, so we were due for an off week, so theoretically we were only about a week behind.

“Luckily, we were able to get in that three-week phase before the president’s announcement,” Moodley said.