Smiles all around in the change-room with the usual crude banter that goes on and a hope or glimmer in some of the players eyes of a cruising practice until head coach Ronni Wood arrives and pays us a little visit with a scope of what is to come when we step out on the ice, FITNESS :)
We may bitch and moan for a couple minutes but we are all pleased at the style of the practices as everyone can clearly see the benefits of our preparation so far, but in the heat of the moment, wow.... what a practice to come.
Starting off with a basic goalie warm up, full ice skating, passing the puck and progression from 1 on 0, to 2 on 0 and 3 on 0, ensuring the goalies were nice and warm. Beacons were then set out in 2 rows up the ice with variations of beacon to beacon skating, stopping and sprinting, step overs, pushups and situps, cross ice sprinting, backward skating through staggered beacons and finally a 5 puck relay before a 90 second rest and doing it again and again and again and again.... You get the idea :)
Then divided into 4 lines and sprinting laps of 30 seconds per lap with 90 seconds rest time (simulating a hockey game) alternation direction each time, Figure of 8 sprints for 45 seconds, Blue-line to blue-line sprints for 30 seconds and ending off with 6 man relays at full speed for approximately 4 minutes.
We ended off training with a 15 minutes abdominal workout on the ice which did the job and at the end of training everyone was breathing heavily and rather silent in the change-room apart from some moans and groans of exhaustion.
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