All of our machines can isolate certain muscles that are used in the specific motions of skating and shooting. The skating stride in hockey involves many muscles of the body but relies heavily on the legs. To train our legs we typically think of squats, leg curls and other exercises to develop our gluts, quadriceps and hamstrings. However, we often neglect our Adductor muscles of the inner thigh.
We see a lot of injuries in this area to hockey players such as groin pulls. This is very common in players especially when starting to skate more often, like at the beginning of the season. By using the A4 machine we can isolate the Adductors and strengthen a crucial muscle involved in the stride. This can help reduce injuries and improve our stride.
Here is an example of a workout using our machines that would be geared towards strengthening the muscles involved in hockey.
The first part of the workout focuses on the lower body. We start with one of the largest muscle chains in the body, the gluts, quads, and calves, by doing B6. Next, our hips and the inner and outer thigh muscles are targeted with the A group exercises. All these will help develop the strength required to improve your stride and make you faster. F1 and F2 will strengthen our core and improve our balance on the ice and during the stride. Upper body strength is important as well to hockey players. The last 4 exercises will improve our back, chest and shoulders which will help improve our shot and overall play.
Off ice training for your sport does not require hours in the gym every day. There is a safe, efficient way to train that leaves plenty of time to practice. The answer is New Element Training.
