Boy, my wife, who is an RN, was really pissed at me when I told her I lost that much weight in one game.
And I wasn’t skating like the guys playing out...those guys really DO get gassed. My thing was having to pick myself up of the ice with all that waterlogged goalie gear on, over and over and over again...I recall I was a bit shell shocked there.
My best friend used to play on my team years ago, and he said of all the things he has done, nothing gets him as gassed as playing an intense shift of ice hockey. Heh, he used to get pissed hearing people shooting the breeze on the bench after coming off the ice-I guess SOME people skate harder than others...
I used to give people stress tests years ago, and some people couldn’t walk on a treadmill. Before they had drugs to make their heart think it was under stress, you had to exercise them with an arm-ergometer (a bicycle pedal setup they “pedaled” with their arms) or you could have them step up and down off of a step made for that purpose.
It doesn’t sound like much, but you can actually get people’s heart rate up just by having them step up and back down repeatedly!
Hockey is so kinetic and nonstop I can imagine it really taking it out of you. I used to play soccer which I suppose is similar and had a few episodes of either dehydration or mild heat exhaustion where I had tunnel vision, ringing ears, and an overwhelming need to just sit the heck down. Of course I was young then and bounced back pretty quick. A banana and some water and a few minutes on the bench and I was ready to go again!
I’m an old man and never played through a full game in my life, then I got my son going in pee wee’s. I’d go on the ice for pickup games on the weekends. This lasted through high school, people say 2 minutes ain’t that much. Bullshitz! Go hard that long you’re gassed. The freakin’ goalies are working their butts off, especially if your defense sucks. This story has some holes in it, too Me.