I know how much you love drills. So here are two more drills taken from the ECB 'Wings to Fly' coaching video:

Ball Bucket Shuffle

The idea of this drill is to develop fast footwork and mobility. Place a ball on each cone and the bucket in the middle. The aim is to get the balls into the bucket as quickly as possible then back onto the cones again.

Circuits are a method of training that are used by many cricketers. You can read more about the methods behind this popular variation here.

But is circuit training a better way to train than the 'set and rep' strength training method combined with running?

Benefits of cricket circuit training

• Efficiency. Circuits train your body in three ways at once (strength, conditioning and mobility) so it is very time efficient.

• Sourav Ganguly thinks that focussing on process rather than outcome doesn't work in India. I doubt that. Indian brains are no different to English, Australian or Pakistani brains in the way they react. It's the culture that is different.
• Top batsmen can read bowlers minds.
• Chris Broad says Stuart Broad's action should not be corrected to reduce the chance of injury. It's biomechanics vs opinion.

There are not many certainties in club cricket, especially when it comes to making runs and taking wickets. However, one thing you can be sure of is that the fitter you are, the better you will perform on the pitch at the weekend.

Cricket fitness, though, can a complicated and difficult subject. You just have to look at the hundreds of personal trainers, fitness books and strange looking equipment available to know it's a confusing world.

Magazine articles can be a right tease. A recent article in Spin magazine gave an insight into Liam Plunkett's training and preparation for the Ashes tour.

But being a short article means it's difficult to put the workouts into any kind of context so it becomes frustrating.

So here is some flesh on those bones.

If your life is like mine you always have more to do than there is time to do it. My own answer to that is the system called 'Getting Things Done' by productivity guru David Allen (more on the basics of GTD here).

How do you feel about training on matchdays?

For many club players the only warm up they do is smoking a cigarette and the only cool down is raising a pint to their lips.

But many others would like to make more of matchdays without dropping in performance. Here are 7 things you can do on the day of a match that will have a positive impact.

It takes, according to Bob Woolmer, 10,000 goes at something before you master it.

That's a lot of practice.

For me this underlines how important practice is for club cricket. As amateur players we are all limited for how much time we can give, but performance on the field is directly related to how much skills training you do. How motivated are you to improve?

As long as it is good quality skills training.

Not long ago I noticed pictures of the England side training in Australia just before the Ashes tour began. They were adopting some very odd and un-cricketlike poses in the gym: Core stability exercises.

England have access to some superb physiologists, so if they are doing it there must be a case for club cricketers to follow suit.