Training Log: It’s A Long Road
- Day 14
Filed Under (Training) by admin on 19-01-2010
Tagged Under : Alain Vigneault, It's A Long Road, Shoulder Workout, Vancouver Canucks
TODAY’S TRAINING INSPIRATION:
ALAIN VIGNEAULT
Today’s Colin Timberlake Training Inspiration is a man who has shown that hard work and study of your field, whatever your goals, can leader to greater fruits than simply being born with a high degree of innate talent.
Alain Vigneault was a man who was born with just barely enough talent to make it to the NHL if he studied the game and worked tirelessly at his craft.
The result was 42 NHL games over two seasons with St. Louis Blues, with one goal scored in each season. To a man like Wayne Gretzky, it would have been an embarrassing couple of seasons. To Alain Vigneault, it was the absolute maximization of his potential to skate on NHL ice.
He was a positionally sound defenseman, known for playing a physical and fearless brand of hockey. His style of play earned him the nickname “Bam Bam.”
Former players like Don Cherry, Marc Crawford and Pat Quinn made it to the big leagues by the same means – hard work, accumulated knowledge and intense play – and like them, Vigneault took the work ethic and leadership that had allowed him to become a solid hockey player, and used them to become an extraordinary hockey coach.
Vigneault went from playing to coaching at a remarkably young age – 25 – after five years of professional and junior hockey, during which he played in 327 games. He toiled as a coach in the junior ranks for several years before getting a shot as an assistant coach at the NHL level in 1992.
Since then, he has built upon each opportunity as it has been presented, culminating thus far in his twice being a finalist for the Jack Adams Award as the best coach in the NHL (2000 and 2007). Vigneault won the trophy in 2007 with the Vancouver Canucks, for a season in which he led the team to its best regular season record in its history (49-26-7).
As of the end of the 2008-09 season, Vigneault had coached 512 regular seasons games, sporting a record of 242-204-35-31, totals to which he continues to add.
TODAY: SHOULDERS (3-3-3 Tempo, 90 Second Rests)
and CARDIO
ARNOLD DUMBBELL PRESS (3 sets)
30 x 7
30 x 7
30 x 5
DUMBBELL LATERAL RAISE (3 sets)
15 x 5
15 x 5
15 x 4
DUMBBELL FORWARD RAISE (3 sets)
15 x 3
10 x 5
10 x 4
BENT OVER REAR DELT DUMBBELL FLYE (3 sets)
15 x 4
15 x 4
15 x 4
5K RUN
- 24:40
TRAINING NOTES
Total Sets (Shoulders): 12
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