Calgary Stampede rodeo athletes turn to new workout routines to avoid injuries on the circuit
Coy Robbins once thought running long distances was good training for riding a bull.
Robbins, who is among the 180 competitors in the Calgary Stampede rodeo starting Friday, emerged from the first spring training camp held in 2021 with a new workout program. Getting out of a vehicle following an eight-hour drive from the last rodeo and immediately boarding a bull or bronc while nursing an injury was standard.
“If we didn’t teach them anything else except for corrective exercises to correct some of their muscles imbalances, and a dynamic warm-up, if everybody learned that, I think that’s a massive thing in rodeo.” “You’ve got a young bull rider or bareback kid that’s coming up and saying ‘I don’t really like the gym’, but you show them these numbers and the guys that are getting paid to do this for a living have the highest adductor and core strength out of everybody here, it’s not an accident that’s happening,” said Acumen strength and conditioning specialist Mike Kicia.
“When you go into a locker room, you see way more resistance bands, foam rollers, guys in different areas with their phone timers set up doing dynamic warm-ups,” Robbins said.
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