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NANAIMO MINOR HOCKEY NHL JERSEY RAFFLE

Nanaimo Minor Hockey in conjunction with Reaction Sports and Spinal Cure Research are happy to announce the winners of the four autographed NHL jerseys:

• Alex Ovechkin NHL Jersey
  WINNER: MURRAY WALTERS
• Dion Phaneuf NHL Jersey
  WINNER: ANDREW HOOPER
• Roberto Loungo NHL Jersey
  WINNER: Mel McMinn
• Sidney Crosby NHL Jersey
  WINNER: Barry Rempel

Core Athletics - Developing the Injury-Free Athlete

Our goal in the Core Athletics is to develop the injury free athlete!

Core athletics is a breakthrough method that will raise the level of any athlete of any sport period!

To accomplish this, the athlete needs to understand and demonstrate our five stages of developing a sound athlete.  This includes: an Athletic Assessment, Athletic Essentials, General Strength Development, Athletic Power, and the Link cycle.

The Athletic Assessment will look at the biomechanical structure of the body to determine any structural misalignment, muscle imbalance, weakness, joint flexibility/stability, and spinal stability. In addition, the athletes will also be assessed on their current condition through a variety of fitness tests including: leg power, core strength, upper body strength, agility and lactate threshold.

Stage one: Athletic Essentials will focus on developing kinesthetic awareness. Movement is generally developed unconsciously by most athletes, which is generally incorrect and inadequate to meet the demands and rigors of sport. Core Athletics connects all the “kinetic” dots to ensure consistency in performance. In addition, an athlete must develop sufficient joint flexibility/stability before muscle strength and develop stabilizing muscles before larger muscles. No core strength, no strength at all! Attention to areas of weakness, based on Assessment results, will be priority. At the end of this stage, the athlete must demonstrate mastery of the exercises taught.

Stage two: General Strength Development focuses on continued kinesthetic awareness while incorporating strength components, both static and dynamic. The athlete will be educated on exercise sequencing, correct perception of movement and lever loading. By the end, the athlete will be able to demonstrate these concepts with biomechanical sound technique.

Stage three: Athletic Power. By this stage, the athlete will have the knowledge and structural framework to be able to demonstrate efficient body control, stability, core strength, and flexibility. Now athletic power can be incorporated. Using their newly mastered skills, the athletes will be challenged through a variety of drill sets including: acceleration drills, deceleration drills, lateral drills, agility drills, multidirectional drills, and power complexes.

Stage four: The link cycle. In this final stage we further refine their skills and incorporate the metabolic equivalent. This way, the athletes will have the opportunity to use what they have mastered in a sport specific approach.

Any athlete, any sport. Core athletics produce strong, dynamic and explosive athletes; displaying injury free, biomechanical sound performance. 

Darcy Johnston MES
Business 390-3160
Fax        390-3159
core-essentials.net

CORE ATHLETICS  DEVELOPMENT CAMP

What makes our camps different from others? Our camps are limited to 12 athletes per group (unless otherwise arranged for team camps) to provide the most one on one attention. Core Athletics offers male and female camps that are instructed by experienced athletes, certified medical exercise specialists and post rehabilitation conditioning specialists with a passion for developing athletes. We have developed a periodized program that spans 12 weeks beginning with essential core development, crucial for any long term successful athlete. Progressively, the athlete will reach our link cycle; where we will work their metabolic equivalent energy system to their specific sport. End result? All of our athletes will be able to easily transition into tryouts and the pre-season as injury free, strong and explosive athletes.

Our questions for you:

1. Are you planning on attending an athletic camp this summer? If not, what is the reason?
2. Would you be able to attend the full length of the program?
3. What dates would work best for you in the off season for an athletic camp?
4. What times would work best for your schedule?