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S80 PT #0: Survive Due: Sunday, December 15th @ 11:59 PM PST

CaptainCamel
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#61

12-11-2024, 11:11 AM

Option 2:

Paul Bondage takes training very seriously, both physical and mental. First things first, the offseason is a time for mental relaxation and retrospective. It is so difficult to find times to truly relax and get that mental refreshment that your body needs during the season, so he takes full advantage of the offseason to truly disconnect from reality and just basically turn into a cave man with exploring nature and meditation for the first few weeks. Once feeling refreshed, he returns to society and begins work on the physical training. It is important to keep the body balanced. The core is by far the number one most important thing, but legs and arms are also not far behind. As a defenseman, he needs all the strength he can get to keep up with the speediest skaters in the league, and then to body check them to hell and back.

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JR95
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#62

12-11-2024, 12:13 PM

option 1

Cormier may not be the most outdoorsy player in the league, but he's definitely among one of the bigger fitness freaks around. With that in mind, I think a lot of the challenges would end up being a mix bag of difficulty for him depending on what the core demand of the task is. For example, if Cormier had to build shelter, make a fire, catch and cook his own food and just generally try and not let the wilderness kill him, he may struggle with those challenges. He never did scouts or really spent extended periods in nature due to the constantly demanding hockey schedule growing up, so thats a bit outside his wheelhouse. If the challenges had more of a focus on physical capability though, he might stand a better chance. Things like climbing a mountain, getting accross a tight rope, or even endurance tests like holding onto a rope above water as long as humanly possible, would all be challenges better suited to Cormier's strengths.

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#63

12-11-2024, 12:52 PM

Option 1

I would try to be the last man standing! An opportunity like that doesn't happen often so you have to make sure you are giving your best.

We would do the old vs the young. So S68 and older in a team and S69 and beyond in the second group. Gotta show them that we are still capable of winning and be strong.

The activities are mostly team sports (volleyball, basketball, tennis, etc) and physical activities like building a safe spot to sleep outside, make a fire and other things you do in camping/survival experience.
Me and Dirty Boots were together in most of the activities and it shows that our experience give us an edge and we managed to get the win over the younglings. Was not easy since they are good players and they are physically in shape (a bit more than us old mens), but they lacked team working skills and communication.

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#64

12-11-2024, 03:54 PM

Option 1:

"This was a really stupid plan" Darby Reznor says to the camera as he lights a fire in the middle of the wilderness. the coaching staff of the Maine Timber had wanted to have a competition amoung the players that is like Survivor, so he and the rest of them had been escorted to the deep wilderness, split into two tribes, and told to survive through various challenges. One of the challenges has been figuring out how to start and keep a fire up for an hour, and it has been the one that Darby has struggled with for a few minutes, making his tribe annoyed with him.

It wasn't until he remembered something he watched when he used to watch survival shows, and he used the fiction of rubbing two sticks together and rubbing the prongs of a 9 volt battery he found amoung their supplies to finally light a fire. Unfortunately, the other tribe had already lit a fire way before that, and Darby was eliminated in the next tribal vote. Not that he honestly cared, he just wanted to get away from the cold.

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#65

12-11-2024, 03:57 PM

Since Dejana Kaptina doesn't focus much on the physical elements of play - rather, she relies on being smart positionally and active with her stick while keeping penalties to a minimum - she moreso tends to focus on lower body workouts during the offseason. This makes her burst of speed a bit more potent by giving her more push, and making it harder for bigger, more physical, but slower defenders to keep up with her. She doesn't neglect the upper body per se, since it's still important to be able to at least outmuscle some players if push comes to shove (no pun intended), but her priority is making sure that her feet are as quick as her mind and her hands. Stamina work is also very important to her, especially with the amount of tiring penalty kill minutes she plays (the most in the J last year by quite some distance.)

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#66

12-11-2024, 05:58 PM

Written option 2

Over this offseason, Oliver Cornwall has seized on the injection of free time in his schedule by becoming a certified gym rat. He has been working out all day every day as he has determined that when he gets to team training camp he is going to prove he is stronger than the pipsqueak Louis Belanger. Oliver knows that Louis fancies himself as a big tough forward, but apparently Louis isn’t aware that wingers are, by their very nature, weak and must be coddled in order to succeed. Oliver has focused on his tree trunk legs and iron core strength, ensuring that he will patrol the front of the net with huge success, moving weaker forwards aside with ease. This is readily apparent in Oliver’s astounding 17 strength coming into training camp. Louis will learn the role of the forward as he and his puny 16 strength embrace the dominance of the defenceman.
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#67

12-11-2024, 07:29 PM

I think my player could finish in the top 5 on Vancouver for sure! He would definitely excel at any challenges that involve physicality, and DEFINITELY during any challenges where he could utilize his size. He's absolutely going to struggle at challenges that require any speed or agility, as those are most certainly not his strong suit. He would also probably struggle at anything that required taking an item and throwing it into something (like a net perhaps).

As far as Vancouver players to team up with, the clear, definitive, and ONLY choice is our goalie, Trent. Trent has the stamina of a greek god, and their ability to take a lickin' and keep on kickin' can only serve as a MASSIVE benefit to any team up situations. Trent would be able to carry our team to victory, or at least carry us to the final 2? And my player would definitely be the voice of reason, able to diffuse any situations between fellow survivors.

Does all this make sense? I don't know, I've never watched Survivor. Hopefully these are stereotypical Survivor things, or this is about to get real awkward.

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#68

12-11-2024, 08:23 PM

Written Option 2: Only the strong will survive! Or do they? How important part does physical or mental strength training play in your players offseason and how they do it? Are they focusing mostly on lower body strength or do they take more balanced approach? Or is it all about the core strength that helps them stay in right position at the goal? Maybe they think that surviving is really more dependent on mental strength and finding it inside themselves, but is there even a way to train that?

Alexandros has touched on his training regimen several times in the past. He is very much someone who takes a more balanced approach to weight lifting and muscle training with an emphasis on getting stamina training in going for runs whenever possible. In order to compete on the ice, it is his belief that you should have complete physical fitness, nothing can be afforded to lag behind. You need to have a strong core and legs to make sure you don’t get bullied off the puck and you need strong arms and torso to make sure you can push others off the puck. As a first line player through most of his career stamina has been the biggest part of his training. He needs to be able to last long periods of time on the ice to give his team the best chance to win and it wouldn’t do for him to burnout mid game. His dedication to this training even means he rarely goes on holidays during offseasons because he wants to be ready as possible for when the season starts to be the best he can be.

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12-11-2024, 08:59 PM

Quote:Written Option 2: Only the strong will survive! Or do they? How important part does physical or mental strength training play in your players offseason and how they do it? Are they focusing mostly on lower body strength or do they take more balanced approach? Or is it all about the core strength that helps them stay in right position at the goal? Maybe they think that surviving is really more dependent on mental strength and finding it inside themselves, but is there even a way to train that?

Dash Jackson is one of the mentally and physically toughest player in the SHL and he is only getting stronger each and every day. It's super important to take a well balanced approach has a huge role in his defensive defenseman position and offseason training. Which starts at his home gym, focusing mainly on lower body leg presses, squats and box step up's after a vigorous lower body work out then we hit the swimming pool for some cardio to get the the blood pumping and build up stamina. After that we will hit the sauna for a good ol' fashioned cooking and some R&R. For the mental side of things so people might say there is no way to train for these things but i disagree and i follow a strict regime it's important to keep your mind sharp and self morale high. Brain games on the computer promotes good brain health, as does self talks and individual training tests.

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steveoiscool
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#70

12-11-2024, 09:15 PM

Robo Sven testing his strength on the streets of Hamilton

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#71

12-11-2024, 10:20 PM

Oh, please. Violet is a member of Gen Z and absolutely loves living in a society with technology, as well as all of the conveniences that come with being in an urban environment with infrastructure. She was born in the middle class, only truly knows many of the conveniences of technological advances from the last 50+ years, and likes the cultural freedom and choice that comes with not having to kill or reap and sow sources of food for her own. Now, COULD she do some degree of survival exercises (curated carefully by a game show company and host)? Sure, I think it's feasible she could do it in the short term and might even be decent at a game or two. But I think she would quickly identify participants that actually enjoy the experience of being in the game, and make every attempt to ally herself with them to get voted out "in their place" so-to-speak. I think she'd try to divert votes away from eliminating strong players to instead allowing her to return to society.

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#72

12-11-2024, 10:48 PM

Graphic Option 1:

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#73

12-12-2024, 02:52 AM

Option 2: Most of Nor Ge offseason training is focused on lower-body strength and cardio. Since Nor is a smaller player, he thinks it’s best for him to focus on his core strength. He doesn’t think he will beat people if he goes shoulder to shoulder, but in puck protections situation in a busy corner, core strength it will prevent you opponents from separating you from the puck. The leg strength will also help him be quicker than his opponents, which should help him put himself in a good position on the ice. When it comes to cardio, Nor try to push myself as much as he can which also help him improve in mental strength, because he learns to not give up even if his body is telling him he should. Every week during the offseason, Nor will go on a multi-hour hike up a mountain and the goal is always to be faster than the previous week. Nor focuses on his cardio, because he wants to be able to make the difference late in the games.

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Troy_McClure03
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#74

12-12-2024, 07:19 AM (This post was last modified: 12-12-2024, 07:20 AM by Troy_McClure03.)

Number 2: Offseason training is always a chore, and every season it gets harder and harder to take it serious. The plan was to rest for 2 weeks, then follow that up with balance and hot yoga for a week, until everything feels loose and relaxed. The focus is reconditioning the entire body before we get to the hardest muscle to work out, the mind. On seasons where NEW lost, it's hard to get my mindset back. Losing isn't fun, and while the logical side of my mind knows we can't win every year, the other side says why the hell not? We are in the mix every season. Sure other teams have a better chance sometimes, but better doesn't equal guaranteed. But alas, usually about 2 weeks before the season starts, luke sends over the team doctors who load us up with his secret blend of herbs, spices, and aerobic and nonaerobic steriods, and that usually helps round out the training. @Count Chocula usually injects it for me.

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#75

12-12-2024, 07:56 AM

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