Ice Hockey Warm Up: Increasing Blood Circulation

Series Summary

Hockey exists in many different forms from Ice Hockey and Field Hockey to Roller Hockey and Road Hockey and has been enjoyed by thousands of players and millions of fans for a few millennia. Four thousand year old Egyptian drawings depict a sport similar to hockey. Although we cannot be sure of the rules of that game, the sport where players try to shoot an object into a type of goal using a stick has been around for thousands of years. Field hockey, as we know it today, was invented by the British in the mid 1700's, while students of McGill University Montreal, Canada began playing modern ice hockey in 1875. Since then the game has gained world fame and enthusiasm as well as an organized set of rules and an elaborate array of necessary protective equipment. In this free video series a professional hockey player, Eniko Erdos, will teach you how to properly warm up before playing a hockey game. Eniko will begin by showing you how to increase blood flow and circulation to various joints and muscles in your body. You'll a wrist exercise, back exercise, upper body exercise and several leg exercises to help energize your body. Eniko will also show you several related stretches to help loosen up your muscles. You'll learn to stretch your arms, shoulders, quadriceps, hamstring and waist. These stretches and exercises will help you prepare yourself for the rigorous game or the intense practice. Watch these few short videos and learn the right way to prepare you for the fastest game on ice, hockey.

Video Transcript

"So we will start with the warming up, focus specific warming up for advanced. It's important to avoid injuries, and to prepare ourselves for the training, mentally, and physically too. So we can start to increase the circulation by skating rounds in the ice rink, and we can have different variations. So you can skate around, and holding the stick. And again, do some variation is to lift leg off the off the ice like that, or lift heels up like that. It helps us to gain impetus, and there they have, and children have to hold their feet with the with the front of the skate outwards, just like that. So when we when we finished with almost ten rounds of skating we can start to warm up the joints."