Training Log: It’s A Long Road
- Day 8
Filed Under (Training) by admin on 13-01-2010
Tagged Under : Biceps Workout, Chest Workout, Orland Kurtenbach, Vancouver Canucks
TODAY’S TRAINING INSPIRATION:
ORLAND KURTENBACH
Today’s Colin Timberlake Training Inspiration is a man who toiled on the third and fourth lines in the NHL for years, developing a responsible and positionally sound game as a defensive forward, before being written off in the expansion draft and finding the perfect place for his hard work and leadership qualities with the expansion Vancouver Canucks.
Orland Kurtenbach was a solid but journeyman forward when the NHL expanded to include Vancouver for the 1970-71 season.
Kurtenbach had scored 37 points in his first full season season with the Boston Bruins (1963-64) but had seen his production trail off over the subsequent seasons. He had studied the game and drilled a strong defensive work ethic into his play, but he was left unprotected by the New York Rangers in the 1970 expansion draft.
Vancouver selected Kurtenbach and he was named the first team captain in Canucks history.
It was in this new environment, one that required a leader to rise, that Kurtenbach took his game to an entirely new level. In his eleventh season, at a time when most players are slowing down, Kurtenbach set career highs with 21 goals and 53 points. The next year, at age 35, he improved upon that with 24 goals and 61 points.
For his final four seasons in the NHL, he served as the Canucks’ captain and leader, retiring when cumulative injuries from a hard-driving style of play wore down his body.
However, he didn’t leave the game before he had set a tone of excellence for a franchise in need of a standard to follow. He was named the Canucks’ MVP in each of his first three seasons with the team and finished his NHL career with 119 goals and 332 points in 639 games.
TODAY: CHEST (3-3-3 Tempo, 90 Second Rests
and BICEPS (3-3-3 Tempo, 90 Second Rests)
and CARDIO
FLAT DUMBBELL PRESS (5 sets)
30 x 10
40 x 7
40 x 5
40 x 5
40 x 4
FLAT DUMBBELL FLYES (5 sets)
30 x 6
40 x 3
30 x 5
30 x 5
30 x 5
INCLINE DUMBBELL PRESS (3 sets)
30 x 5
40 x 5
40 x 4
DECLINE DUMBBELL PRESS (3 sets)
30 x 6
40 x 5
40 x 5
BARBELL PREACHER CURLS (3 sets)
50 x 5
50 x 4
50 x 3
DUMBBELL PREACHER HAMMER CURLS (1 set)
20 x 2
STATIONARY BIKE
- Resistance 15/25
15 Minutes / 5.53 Miles / 221 Cal
TRAINING NOTES
Total Sets (Chest): 16
Total Sets (Biceps): 4
Well, it was time to test out the arm and I may have jumped the gun ever so slightly. I had to pull the plug very early into biceps but I got through chest reasonably well. The results were mixed, even with keeping the weights light, but it is the start of good things to come.
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