Weights integral to Relay training By Doug McLeod Contributing Writer AS you prepare for the Lions Gate. Hospital 9-1-1 Relay, “you should’‘not over- look the importance | ol weight training. Working out ‘with weights should” be an “important. ‘part. of. your traning’ program : whether ‘you plan,to walk or jog the Sept: 21 1 ay. Weight train- ing, Will give your body the trength and endurance to. sh. the: event,- and, will’ jown with 4 qualified fitness lana. pr set iP, few vg dat oo should. king doi). king for will: ic to’ increase: ig: them es help muscles ing your body | for rhe ae '- Exercises that you should be: doing include leg extensions front of. .your’ thighs), ‘leg curls (back cag gis), fatigue vou ite rience around’ your cn and | a ‘help your, tower back mus- ‘cles carry. your upper body in proper alignment.” | For move information, ‘about the 5th annual Lions “Gate Hospital, 911 ‘Relay om Sept. 21- call the Relay Hotline at 984: 3782, JUST in case you were wondering, while Mike Brown’s new home is North Vancouver, he's not a product of the North Shore minor hockey setup. Credit for his early devel- optnent goes to minor hock ey in Penticton and Summerland, This may clear up some misunderstanding | in these here parts following his pick in the first round (20th overall) by Florida Panthers in the NAL entry draft a few - days back, When the old - ‘home town is‘listed as North .. Van, the natural assumption is that the chosen lad g grew up heres He didn’t, so that clears _ dtp that point, North Van has been his summer home for ‘ ., just over a-year, ever since the RCMP transferred his father, -_._ Bill, here. Mike played two: “years of major junior for the Red Deer. Rebels and, it’ ing unlikely the Panthers will turn: him pro in the fall, will spend next season playing entre.or right wing for the Kamloops Blazers, ' He asked for the'transfer after the kindly ‘coach at’ Red ’: Deer sat-him down in the lat ter part of the scason for re .}-- sons, he says; still not. . ‘|. ...explained to‘him. Kamloops - i; swas happy to get the 13- “year old for.the same reason - *; Florida ‘made. him their first He's big’ and “You may have: nc ced that’ almost all the NHL teams: :. were drafting for size this: around, Only two of the. are under Brown might | be of all — six-four- 7 gg i + and-a-half and, following din ner fast:night;-2 207 pounds. ° And he’s still growing. hinges off his mother’s fridge oor before the summer is out, it will be only because he has 1 to'spend a couple of. weeks‘later this month at” «. ‘Thunder Bay, attending as : f fy : round ¢ north shore news © SPORTS Transplant Brown a proud Panther - || Panthers rookie camp, There are many ways a pro club can get in financial trouble, but “the size the young idea is © growing to these days, going up against a knife and fork may be just one more way, Until your agent learned the facts, today’s prose’ piece was to be about North, Van having produced three first): draft choices, So now we're back to two. Pauls 7 Kariya, destined to be-the next Wayne Gretzky (no, not Eric Lindros, He’s the next Mark Messier), obvicusly is is one of the two, So TF you weren "t pitting up: and taking notice'a'couple of decades back, you may nots. know about Robin Sadler; He made history of sorts for being invited to'the ball, but choosing not to dance: As - foot-three, 190-peund .. defenceman, he got the ulti-, mate call an opportunity to:join Montreal Canadiens, ° tho made him their firat pick, ninth overall, in the: : 1975 draft. He could have been part of hockey’s s biggest «dynasty of the''70s, aiteam > “that won four straight Stanle » He truly was a prospéct _ The previous season he had 32 goals and 61 assis _the major junior Edmontos "Oil Kings. Not exactly chopped liver, especially fer a: ‘defenceman, He'wasn't going to beat out, Larry. Robinson,” Serge Savard or Guy Lapointe, but he had the'tal:? sy centto be.right behind them. . He didn’t, however, have’ + the urge. Two weeks into the pre-season schedules he thanked the: nepal is the opportunity, packed his ~ bags and’ headed home. ~The 7th Annual PGI Got Tournament for xieracy | B. Cc. Founded by Peter Gzowski Thursday, July 10 ~ 7:30 - 9:00 am Now 42 and a salesman for Sutton Rett in North Van, he says he has no "regrets, He loved hockey, but hated the lifestyle, “It was a contiquation of my juror hockey. life,” he says, “aid it Was a life [wasn't cry about. Constant travel, constant packing and unpacking, In Edmonton | ie was uneler pres: sure to ‘stick | it out, So T stuck it Oty Just to prove that | could, * *E thought Pd be dtafied ina later round, but when _ Montreal made me their first, pick, I decided to give it a try, “But ia pwe.weeks all my junior , feelings resurfaced. 1 said to i myself, ‘What's the point? I'm te” only ‘here for the dollars, ‘Phis : de “ Brown. might be the biggest i of all — six four-and-a-half. “and, following dinner. last night, 207 7 pounds, And. he Ss: ¢ Wednesday, July 2, 1897 - North Shore News ~3 is strictly a business and Pm not enjoying It’. || For a dozen years he | found the lifestyle he wanted in Europe, ‘Two games a week, time to stop and sinell the flowers. He didn’t make Ol apis in 1988, ; ‘Me goes-to the occasional ame at GM Place, Is sad thar ~ Fockey has followed basket- ballin becoming just a part.” iof the overall show and | believes, given the size of today’s players and the unchang- NHL nioney,, but he found: huckey: enjoyment in ©: Gothenberg, Amsterdam and!" Vienna. Played seven se in Austria; met his bride, out? thadler, ‘different MARCIA Bergen (cantra) of. the B.C. 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