Metabolic Rope Training
Metabolic rope training with Belle Tire 97s. Good work boys!!!
WHY HOCKEY PLAYERS SUFFER GROIN INJURIES
Hockey players using Pilates to fight injury
From Hockey players using Pilates to fight injury at CBC sports.
Cassie Campbell gets Stephanie Davis’ thoughts on the benefit Pilates for Hockey Players. Stephanie Davis has worked with Calgary-based hockey players such Martin Gelinas, Rhett Warrener, Braydon Coburn, Devan Dubnyk and Jason LaBarbera. Most recently she helped Theoren Fleury attempt his comeback to the NHL.
Here are some of Davis’ theories on why hockey players suffer groin injuries:
We have weak feet:
Due to the stiff hockey skates we wear, there is no need for our feet to be strong. However, without strong feet we do not have a proper balance point. This in turn makes everything unbalanced from the bottom up. I found this evident when I first tried speed skates. With no support I really felt that I was going to break my ankles! I did one loop and that was that!
We have a weaker lower core:
We have weak stabilizing muscles near the pelvis area. This is almost like comparing our body to a car that has a loose wheel. If one wheel is loose then the others can’t do their job. If the core is not doing its job, other parts will over work, like our hip flexors, or groin.
We lack flexibility:
The reason why more players have started taking up Pilates and yoga is because they realize the need to have more balance when it comes to overall strength and flexibility. Stretching the myofascial (which is painful to me) is like giving the joints WD40 so they are free to move. One side might not have the same range as the other, but balancing this out is the key. When the leg goes out in a hockey stride, it might not move as freely as it should or it will with strain due to lack of flexibility. Over time, this general hockey movement becomes strenuous because the leg doesn’t come back to the centre of the body. This causes an imbalance just from skating and adds more load to different areas, like the groin. In order to optimize power, an athlete not only needs to build strength by lifting weights, but they need to have a better balance between strength and flexibility
Our quads are too strong:
Every motion we do is based on quad strength. However, there needs to be a balance. All the anterior leg muscles (i.e. quad, hip flexors) tend to be stronger then the posterior muscles (hamstring, glutes) causing a very big imbalance.
More at: Hockey players using Pilates to fight injury at CBC sports.
GEORGE GROMOV
George is a 19 year old from Moscow, Russia. He has been training at 2SP for his upcoming tryouts for the NAHL. His hopes are to play hockey at Michigan State University.
ON LOCATION TO WORK OUT BELLE TIRE 97′s HOCKEY
2SP trains Bell Tire 97′s twice a week for the Powertech Hockey Camp, on location at Viking Ice Arena in Hazel Park, MI.
RUSSIA
Pictured from left: (Joe Neal, Igor Larionov, Daryl Belfrey, Kirill Chikin.
A SPECIAL THANKS
I want to say thank you to Igor Larionov for allowing me the
opportunity to work with some of the best minds in hockey during the “Igor
Larionovs Road to Success” camp. Being
able to work with some of the best upcoming talent from the NHL, KHL, AHL, and
OHL was a very eye opening experience for myself and learned a lot from it.
Your hospitality was very much appreciated and I look forward to the next one.
I also wanted to say thanks to the following for making these past 10 days such a great time and experience: Daryl Belfrey (L.A Kings), Jim Bedard
(Red Wings), Mark Packwood (Goalie Coach), Mike Hamilton (Ice Haws and Honey baked Hockey), Andy Paquette (Power Tech Hockey), Kirill Chikin(on ice hockey coach), and Philip Arzamazov (My Training Assistant). Thanks Guys and look forward to next year!
DAILY CUP OF JOE: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
So far the experience in Russia has been good. We have
gotten great responses from the kids we have been training, so the program we
are doing with them is working. The trip started off a bit rough. It was if I
had landed on another planet. From
having no way of charging my electronic equipment to having to buy a phone so I
could call my wife and employees back home. I have had to go to McDonalds every
day because that is the only place we can get a Wi-Fi connection. But, the
training is going really well, an Igor Larionov is happy….which makes me happy.
I stepped in a situation here where a guy (Igor) wants to
put on a great camp and that believes in everything I believe in as far as training
athletes the way that they should be trained. Athletes need to be more mobile
and athletic and all of the guys we have been training have seen their
weaknesses and are working hard to make those weaknesses strengths. We are
training guys from the OHL, KHL, and NHL who are some of the best in their perspective
leagues.
It’s good to know that there are guys out there that want to
get better and will work hard in doing so. It makes my job a lot easier.