Question about training equipment

[Xtra 0]

This thread is to serve as education for me and/or anyone else that may have seen this and wondered the same question.

At my stick and puck time ( AKA Gretzky hour for you SJ locals ) There is a player that rarely goes with some unusual equipment. I'll describe it...

His stick has two lead weights on both sides of the stick. He also uses a heavy puck. I'm going to assume this is to help his shot speed. I've been playing for quite some time now. My slap shots and wrist shots and ONE-Timers are bombs. But my snap shots aren't so snappy... This guy has a BLISTERING snap shot. It's insane. I know a lot has to do with your energy transfer also and how IN - SHAPE you are. This guy is smaller with about the same amount of muscle as I have and uhm... I'm just shocked as to what the hell he's been doing to get his snap shot so damn fast. Other than the heavy puck and the weights... Any other tips as to how to improve my snap shot? I find it mind boggling how I have my other shots down so perfectly but my energy transfer for a snapper is just horrible. stick - flex isn't the problem.. I've tried 77-85 and 100

Secondly -- This is weird. I've never seen any other player use this. Instead of putting on a chest protector; He put's on a vest. It looks like a fishing vest. It has pockets up and down the back side and all up and down the front side of it. This vest is filled with weights. Anyone ever seen this??? and what is the purpose for it?

I wouldn't be posting the question on this board but it's really annoying because the guy seems to have EGO issues. I tried going up to him and complimenting his shot and asked what the vest was for and he just skated away and said "nothing" ;-x sigh...gota hate that type of player.

[weaver2469 0]

Don't know about the weighted stick, but I played a casual league game with a guy that was getting in shape for college hockey season. After the session, we were in the dressing room and he peeled off his jersey, a golf windshirt and the same kind of vest you were talking about. He was pouring sweat even more than normal. I asked him about it. His coach gave it to him to help get in shape. The pockets contained weights and you could really load it up. I think he had about 30 lbs in it. We had just skated a really hard 1 hour session and he almost never got off the ice. (shift hog). He said that it got his cardio up and increased leg strength. When he skated without it, he felt much faster. I am getting too old. That would have killed me....

[flyers10 57]

I'd assume the stick weight is to help improve strength especially forearm and wrist for more shot power and quicker stickhandling. The vest for leg and overall body strength. hockeyshot.com sells stick weights and skate weights and maybe they have vest type weights. I saw a 30 or 40 lb vest for sale at my local sporting goods store.

[furlanitalia 1]

Theres a video on Brooks Laich choosing a stick floating around - he talks about how before a game he has one stick with about four pucks taped to the blade. Said he mock stickhandles with that so that when he uses his normal stick and gets out there with a single puck, it all seems lighter and his hands move faster. Same thing with the vest.

It's ultimately the same as any sort of weight training. By forcing your body to work through greater resistance (weight) then it would normally experience, it allows us to be stronger in a game when less resistance is present. The biggest problem is most guys don't factor in training their muscles to react faster, so while they may be stronger, they aren't necessarily better.

[Cove 39]

Where could one find a vest like this?

[furlanitalia 1]

I know fitness town carries them, but they're bc only.

weighted vests

[CTK30 0]

I wonder what a good weight is, probably 10 or 20, I couldn't imagine much heavier.

I may try and see what they have at sports authority.

They seem to be around 50-80 bucks though :o

I wonder what a good weight is, probably 10 or 20, I couldn't imagine much heavier.

I may try and see what they have at sports authority.

They seem to be around 50-80 bucks though :o

I did just find these though, I may try one of them out

http://cgi.ebay.com/Reduced-20-lb-Weighted...id=p3286.c0.m14

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-20-LB-Weighted-Tra...id=p3286.c0.m14

[Aussie Joe 0]

Preseason training, I will get into a scrim with weighted sandbags around my ankles and/or occasionally a weight vest. Moreso I use the weight vest in summer and run up some of the hills around my house.

38.C and weight vests = hardcore training and sometimes vomit. ;)

Allot of the old school coaches here who left Canada in the 50-60's used to talk about taping coins onto their sticks for weight.

[furlanitalia 1]

I've worn the 20 pound without gear and trained with it. Weighs a lot more then you think, and I found shooting/skating bizarre as your balance is thrown to due greater upper body weight. Be careful with back injuries.