How Ashwin’s trainer Rajamani helped him get in shape

Before a series, Ashwin says he now works on mobility, strength, and running, in addition to skill. Previously, he didn’t emphasize speed and what Rajamani refers to as “smaller” exercises.

“In India, we believe that we must perform Olympic lifting, squats, and this or that exercise.” But the most important goal is to be available for all games and net sessions,” says AT Rajamani Prabhu. Who trains the Rajasthan Royals and the Karnataka teams. But has recently made headlines after R Ashwin credited him with reviving his flagging body.

So, what was Ashwin missing? “I am not opposed to Olympic lifting,” Rajamani says to The Indian Express. “It is an excellent tool for developing vertical force.” But if you’re not doing it correctly… it’s an entirely different sport. You will get better results if you do regular exercise, emphasizing explosiveness and safe movements.

That is one of the things I changed about him.”

Ashwin’s fitness had let him down most noticeably during the big tours to Australia and England in 2018 and 2019, where he couldn’t even come close to being available for all games. The injuries had become so chronic and debilitating that Ashwin considered retiring during that time. As he recently told The Cricket Monthly in an interview.

If Ashwin believed Rajamani took the loss of his most high-profile client “personally,” he was correct. “When big players leave, it has a big impact.” “Oh, Ashwin has left Rajamani,” people say.

Getting Ashwin back would become a mission for Rajamani. “I don’t think I slept more than five hours per night for three years. However, I continued studying and improving myself to prove that I was the best.

“I kept telling my team that Ashwin would call one day, and that day would be the day. We would have accomplished everything,” Ashwin called unexpectedly one evening. I was working out at the gym. Before answering the phone, I told my team, ‘You see, Ashwin will work with us.’ ‘Today is the big day for us.'”