If you are not working on strength and conditioning with the players you coach you are missing a chance to improve their cricket.

Yet it's common to not bother. At club, representative and school level coaches avoid the world of fitness. They stick to what they know; skills work with a few high intensity fielding drills thrown in to gas everyone.

That's simply not enough. Not if you want results as a coach.

In part 1 of this 2 part series we looked at the best lower body exercises for cricket. This article focuses on the upper body.

I'm not talking about going to bars and chatting up lovelies here. Pulling exercises improve your cricket.

I'm not interested in exercises.

I'm interested in how to run faster, throw further, stay injury free, score runs and take wickets.

Because that's all exercises are; a means to an end.

As a cricketer, the best exercise in the world is useless if it doesn't help you play better cricket.

One of the fastest ways to gain an edge over the opposition is to improve your fitness because so few sides work on it.

But you don't want to waste your valuable time on fitness work that's useless on the pitch on matchday.

Judging by the number of questions we get here at PitchVision Academy, a lot of players and coaches have a cricketing problem they need solving. Everyone has something; a technical flaw in the cover drive, not quick enough bowling, getting gassed with low fitness levels and a hundred other things.

We also know that there is a frustrating gap for most of us.

The coaches and experts with the answers to your problems are expensive or inaccessible, or both.

At least they were.

Rob Ahmun is the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Glamorgan CCC. Part of his job is to stay up to date with the latest research into cricket.

In this exclusive article Rob shows us what he has found, and explains how you can use the information as a coach or player.

The talented all-rounder can't stay on the park so because he has a burly frame and a lantern jaw, his critics have blamed his bulky muscles.

No wonder everyone is terrified of following the Shane Watson (or Shoaib Akhtar) example of having too many muscles and constant injuries.

I hope England wicketkeeper Matt Prior has been misquoted. Because if he hasn't, he doesn't listen to his strength coach and, worse, is perpetuating myths about fitness and cricket.

Here's a line from an article about the Sussex gloveman:

Kevin returns to the show after his trip to India and gives us a full report. Gary Palmer gives us all some batting advice and we answer more cricket coaching questions from the mailbag.

This is part two of a series on how to lose weight for cricket.

In part one of the series we found out weight loss was nothing but a simple bit of maths. Less in and more out equals weight loss.