Comment les joueurs ont-ils eu de l’endurance en fumant des cigarettes ?
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info-warz
@Ligue nationale de hockey
Comment les joueurs ont-ils eu de l’endurance en fumant des cigarettes ?
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info-warz
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Blow. They where doing blow. That’s where the party is.
Lafleur smoked, Bossy smoked… many, many players did – from the 80s back to the beginnings of the NHL.
If you were a kid in the 80’s or 90’s though you were definitely trying the spin-o-rama move
https://youtu.be/T60mjoa5Wow
I smoke cigarettes and I run marathons. It’s not good for me, and I’m sure it’ll catch up eventually, but there ya go. I had asthma as a kid, and still nothing coming back. I’m not proud of it, I wish I could quit, just saying that the effects are different with different athletes.
Cigarettes are healthy short term
I had a few friends who were Army Rangers and also Marines and they smoked heavily. Grew up playing and one of the best players I’d ever seen, ended up in the AHL I think, smoked heavily. Idk. Some people can just handle it. Also, I doubt their conditioning and levels of athleticism was as much of a focus as it is today. Just a different era where they knew relatively nothing about anything.
When I was in the Army I used to smoke before any time based runs. The vasoconstricting effect of the nicotine helped with my performance.
Newsflash, lots of athletes still smoke
Everyone smoked, so it was even
They were certainly wilder in that time. Now when players are on the bench, they watch an Ipad and drink koolaid.
In junior we used to light up darts in the dressing room washroom between periods. This was like 7 years ago
Never seemed to bother Sergei Zubov either.
My friend’s great uncle played for the Habs in the 60s-70s and from what I heard, they also chugged beers in-between periods! 😂
There’s still players that smoke nowadays as well.
Different time. Even Lemieux was smoking. If I recall correctly also was fond of junk food.
There are players that still smoke cigs between periods. Michael Russo did a poll with the athletic
Pretty common
Cigarettes. Watch *Playing with Fire*. 😂 and 😢.
I smoke and ran two half marathons last year. Roughly 400km total all together from may to August.
DANG.😳 Steve Larmer was one of the fastest skaters to ever lace up.
I feel like smoking really only affects people who don’t stress their lungs ever and then try to do something physical.
Years of bag skating increased their lung capacity. I’m sure it affected their stamina but they were still elite.
A regular Joe, pack a day smoker on the other hand will feel breathless going up a flight of stairs.
Mmm Marloro Relds
Marloro ? Is this the wish version (native imitation)of Marlboro
I think even in todays league some players sneak a dart between periods
A few reasons: smoking doesn’t really tear up your lungs until after a long time, and the damage is limited by conditioning and exacerbated by stagnation.
Further nicotine is a hell of a stimulant.
Have you watched any hockey games from that era recently…they didn’t have stamina. Slow.
As a 40 y/o smoker of 25 years who still plays(beer league), I’ll weigh in. You do notice it but it’s your legs that go first on a shift if you’re doing honest 45 second shifts. If you have more than two lines or more, smoking doesn’t affect you that much but if you’re super short, you’ll hate life by the 3rd period.
Usually hack up a lung halfway through the first period to clear out the lung-butter then you’re good to go.
Having said all that, don’t smoke. It’s a delicious crutch that will kill you and is damn hard to quit.
There’s nothing that quenches your lung thirst like hackin’ a dart after a long game.
I used to play semi pro soccer and for another amateur team and smoke half a pack a day. Didnt affect me one bit. Guess when you’re in top physical shape it doesn’t matter
The league was COMPLETELY different than it is nowadays. Most players in the 80s and before prolly wouldn’t even make today’s NHL rosters.
The game and sports in general have evolved into something that you literally have to train from a very young to be a pro. It’s almost a lifelong process these days.
Two different worlds.
When everyone smokes that equalizes the stamina 😉
You ever wonder why they say « the games faster than its ever been? »
Guy Lafleur also smoked
Lemieux smoked. A LOT.
I’ve smoked weed before playing (beer league)… it reduces my intensity/speed but my hands and shot get way better.
I don’t do this anymore because I’m old and need my “speed” just to keep up… but it’s nice to do on the golf course.
It’s not as though when you smoke you suddenly can’t move. Just like lazy people have an issue with stamina because they’re lazy, athletes have good stamina because they work out.
What cigarettes will do is diminish your lung’s ability to absorb oxygen. If you’re already in the 5% of all people as an athlete, smoking might prevent you from being in the 1%; but you’re still professional quality.
Also, it will likely diminish your longevity. You might have no issues with stamina at 20 or 23, but you’ll likely feel much older and slower at 40 than a non-smoker.
Everyone’s different but like a smoker told me, “you will eventually get emphysema. It’s just a matter of when and if you live long enough to get it.”
When you are young ,smoking causes intracellular hypoxemia and stimulates the body to increase production of hemoglobin. The increase actually increases oxygen carrying capacity as long as lung function remains normal. The old videos of the Tour De France everyone was smoking cigars for a competitive advantage, blood doping before blood doling was a thing.