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Performance/Training

A modern hockey warm-up

Ditch the soccer ball and think muscle fiber activation to get ready for action

By Joe CaligiuriJanuary 1, 2018

It was October 2006 outside the Kings locker room at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Anze Kopitar was kicking a soccer ball around with Lubomir Visnovsky two hours before a hockey game and I looked at them and thought to myself, "This is another old-school hockey culture that just doesn’t work."

Tags: Joe Caligiuri, muscles, Performance/training, warm-up

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