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Originally Posted by wesrman  No he doesnt really have a "good workout plan". there is a lot of improvement that can be made that will bring about much better results.
For example. You shouldnt do the same muscles every day and leg extensions by themselves pretty much suck.
Read the stickies i posted earlier in the thread. |
Wesrman's right on this one. You need to expand your resistance training regiment. It's great that you are so involved in sports (hockey is pretty much the best and all that)... but you should be hitting every major muscle group around 2-3 times a week.
That means chest, back, shoulders, core, and legs. So do what Wesrman said and read the stickies... there is a wealth of information in there.
One more thing, and this is important. Leg extensions are a useful exercise, but you are promoting a severe muscular imbalance in your legs if that's the only thing that you are doing, and this will most likely lead to weakened posture and stability and even injury down the road. Extensions are going to work the quadriceps muscles, but you are ignoring your hamstrings. If you are going to stick to leg extensions as a major part of your leg workout, you should add leg curls to strengthen your hamstrings as well and promote muscle balance in your thighs. A better idea though would be to adopt squats or lunges as your primary leg exercise as it's a better exercise at working out the entire leg and using leg extensions and curls as supplementary leg exercises.
As you are a hockey player, I also recommend some explosive leg exercises in plyometrics. This link has some great plyometric exercises here:
ExRx.net Power Training Exercises: Olympic Syle Weightlifts and Plyometrics. Also, if you are serious about training for ice hockey, I'd check out the book "52-Week Hockey Training," published by Human Kinetics. It's a great read with terrific workout models for hockey-specific conditioning.
Good luck!
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