At 43 Years Old, the Sedins were Faster Than All the Canucks Prospects During the Famous “Grouse Grind” – A 3km (1.9 mile) Torturous Hike Up the Side of a Mountain. Mind Blown!
July 8, 2024
At 43 Years Old, the Sedins were Faster Than All the Canucks Prospects During the Famous “Grouse Grind” – A 3km (1.9 mile) Torturous Hike Up the Side of a Mountain. Mind Blown!
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They don’t have to maintain muscle mass anymore so they have a distinct advantage.
Someone must’ve told them that Brad Marchand was chasing them down.
These guys are just freaks of nature.
Daniel did the Grouse Grind ELEVEN TIMES in one day last year.
Not that blown. They should’ve had them in the playoffs last year. Would’ve gone farther.
is that one of the prospects behind them in the pic
Runners beat non-runners at a running race, woah!
No one but no one could convince me that they couldn’t still be productive 4th line players. Just hog the puck for a minute and a half, tire down the opposition and then let the young fresh legs run amok
It’s not a “hike” they expect you to run up the torture hill.
They were inspired by all those Cups they won. Wait . . .
I don’t know if it’s that surprising. A lot of endurance athletes peak later on. I think Kipchoge set his world records over the age of 30.
I remember doing the grouse grind. It’ll kick your ass!
Yea doesn’t surprise me that professional players that have been doing it for 20 years have more of a gas tank than kids that are only starting to learn how to use their adult bodies.
Almost as if hockey is a repeat sprint effort sport where speed and power are key and not a 2 mile cross country race
The grind is a real surprise to most the prospects, it is really tough. But the sedins were kicking everyone’s ass on the grind even when they were players going with their peers
They walk among us
That prospect looks pretty old but he seems to be keeping up pretty well.
They have lower body mass after they retired. They are running more nowadays and definitely don’t need to carry as much muscle as during their NHL days.
Obviously, they were and still are monster athletes. Just want to make sure that everybody understands that this is a specific event, extremely aerobic intense, that favors great vo2max and that goes hand in hand with lower body weight;)
Also, if they continued to exercise, after retiring from hockey, just running, cycling, swimming (any of these three) and lifting light weights a couple times a week their aerobic capacity and endurance performance declines only very little well into their 40s.
18 comments
They don’t have to maintain muscle mass anymore so they have a distinct advantage.
Someone must’ve told them that Brad Marchand was chasing them down.
These guys are just freaks of nature.
Daniel did the Grouse Grind ELEVEN TIMES in one day last year.
Not that blown. They should’ve had them in the playoffs last year. Would’ve gone farther.
is that one of the prospects behind them in the pic
Runners beat non-runners at a running race, woah!
No one but no one could convince me that they couldn’t still be productive 4th line players. Just hog the puck for a minute and a half, tire down the opposition and then let the young fresh legs run amok
It’s not a “hike” they expect you to run up the torture hill.
They were inspired by all those Cups they won. Wait . . .
I don’t know if it’s that surprising. A lot of endurance athletes peak later on. I think Kipchoge set his world records over the age of 30.
I remember doing the grouse grind. It’ll kick your ass!
Yea doesn’t surprise me that professional players that have been doing it for 20 years have more of a gas tank than kids that are only starting to learn how to use their adult bodies.
Almost as if hockey is a repeat sprint effort sport where speed and power are key and not a 2 mile cross country race
The grind is a real surprise to most the prospects, it is really tough. But the sedins were kicking everyone’s ass on the grind even when they were players going with their peers
They walk among us
That prospect looks pretty old but he seems to be keeping up pretty well.
They have lower body mass after they retired. They are running more nowadays and definitely don’t need to carry as much muscle as during their NHL days.
Obviously, they were and still are monster athletes. Just want to make sure that everybody understands that this is a specific event, extremely aerobic intense, that favors great vo2max and that goes hand in hand with lower body weight;)
Also, if they continued to exercise, after retiring from hockey, just running, cycling, swimming (any of these three) and lifting light weights a couple times a week their aerobic capacity and endurance performance declines only very little well into their 40s.
It’s something else