Conditioning Exercises Quotes

A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.

It's always tough when you're off the ice for a while when you've got to come back because you can't replicate the type of cardio that you need to play hockey and you can't really replicate skating at all. You can run as many stairs, or bike as many whatever on your spin bike as you want, but you can't replicate it at all.

If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, 'Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?' That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.

You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.

That's my plan in the offseason: to work hard and to try to play as many games as I can and stay healthy.

I'm an explosive fighter so I've always got to have that strength, but you've got to mix it with endurance.

I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

When you first come back from a long-term injury, you're just trying to get your body in order and trying to get back into the training and match routine.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

It's called tactical periodisation because you push the physical and the psychological part together, but with organisation. So you run, but you run all the time with the ball. Always with the ball.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.