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My mother finally got a surgery date (ovarian cancer, tumor needs to be evicted). Worried, of course, but glad her doctors think she's healthy enough to give it a shot.

It doesn't make your legs any longer or stronger

Most non-hockey people don't get that hockey does nothing for endurance. It is basically hustle-rest-repeat.

a 9' radius has the same amount of steel on the ice, regardless of the size. The only thing is does is make it easier to maintain balance if you get your shoulders farther forward of your center of gravity.

To be honest, I think your trainer is doing you a disservice with that workout. Jumping into jogging those 3 minute intervals isn't easy for someone not accustomed to jogging. I was in decent shape when I did my cardiac rehab and even then it took me a while before I was jogging at 3 minute clips. When I started working jogging into my routine I was walking for 4 minutes and jogging for 1 the first outing. Then it was walking for 3.5 minutes and jogging 1.5 minutes and so on until I was finally jogging decent times and distances without having to take walking breaks. I would also recommend that you extend your warmup and cooldown. My warmup before jogging is 5 minutes. I start with a minute walking at 3.5 mph and add .4 mph every minute after for those 5 minutes. Then I am more ready for working up to the quicker jogging intervals that I'll be doing before ending with a 5 minute cooldown where the first minute is 4.5 mph slow jog and then subtracting .5 mph for each minute after until the 5 minutes are up. Obviously, you wouldn't be working with those speeds right away but the theory is the same.