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’

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set iP, few vg dat oo should. king doi). king for will: ic to’ increase:

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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

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© SPORTS Transplant Brown a proud Panther -

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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:

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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. Heart and: Stroke Fou :

ue for $12,873.93 from Hollyburn Elementary students (left to right) telah James Leigh, Kristina Mikulic, Kevin Shopsowitz end Diane: ‘the top fundraisers during the school’s | recen dump. for. Hea cam

with a $2000 repair bill.

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