Remember deer antler spray? The spray that supposedly gives athletes more strength? Well, compared to the training regimen of Chicago Blackhawks forward Artemi Panarin, deer antler spray is nothing. Panarin, in an attempt to gain strength, bathed in, wait for it… deer blood.
This is Russia, so the weird and wacky to us is certainly normal there, but bathing in deer blood is not quite the training regimen Panarin would be using in the United States. So what’s his reasoning for this unusual training method?
Panarin, in a Russian interview, says he bathes in blood from the antlers of Red Deer. A common practice over there. pic.twitter.com/7AfhtnBLsN
— Hoop Informatics (@HoopInformatics) August 18, 2016
I don’t know if this is going to help Panarin out that much, considering how good his past season was (he won the Calder Trophy for NHL’s top rookie), but in the quest for gaining a competitive edge by any means necessary, I guess anything goes?
Maybe this will assist Panarin in being ready for the extra game load brought on by the World Cup of Hockey in September, but I think we should all chalk this one down to Russian weirdness.
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