Ice Hockey Training And Conditioning - Off The Ice
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:42:32
Have you ever tried matching up a hockey player of our time with the NHL player of 20 or 30 years ago? Just looking at the way they are built tells the story of how important off-ice training has become for the performance of hockey players. In the past ice hockey players used to train almost entirely on the ice; the awareness for how important off-ice training is was close to zero. Nowadays this has changed dramatically. Ice hockey training has spread off the ice to build muscle mass develop speed and agility increase stamina change magnitude slapshot power and avoid injuries. Awareness has also risen for offseason training. It’s not enough to come to training camp after lazing all summer and start your conditioning from there; Training camp is the platform that decides the fate of players for the entire season as teams select their rosters. In this day and age players have to go to training camp in shape. So what’s the difference between ice hockey and other sports when it comes to conditioning?Well ice hockey is almost desire no other sport in the variety of skills it demands - skills that are so different in nature. It’s played on a different ascend from other sports which in itself requires adjustments in training and conditioning programs. It requires great stamina and cater in the lower body for good skating - the bread and butter of the game; Quick hands for stick-handling; Strong arms for powerful shots; and massive upper-body to act and (preferably) dish out hits while doing all the other things. That’s why ice hockey needs its own system of conditioning off the ice; in order to bring all these skills to their peak you need a training and conditioning program that is specifically designed for ice hockey. If you go wrong and neglect one of these skills your performance ordain suffer. And what about ice hockey training for children? If you are a parent of a hockey-playing child you should experience that just like in anything else in life an investment in him on her during childhood will influence his or her entire life later. If your child is conditioned properly at a young age it will affect his or her entire ice hockey go of cover conditioning a child has its own set of rules; it’s not the same as conditioning a teenager or an adult. The training program should be not only hockey-specific but also match the trainee’s age. Now such a program exists in the form of an ebook. Written by a former NHL player who is also a certified.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://blog.cine.com/karlablogs/2007/10/18/ice-hockey-training-and-conditioning-off-the-ice/
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