When it comes to building muscle mass for hockey athletes, you need to have an adequate intake of protein in your diet. Technically, water makes up roughly 75% of your muscles weight, it is the protein component of your muscle that is responsible for carrying out your skating, shooting, hitting, and general athletic movement. How … Read more
Any hockey player or coach understands that what we eat is important, but how about when you eat it? Especially for a hockey game? In this blog post, let’s review the different areas of nutritional sports science we can take advantage of and give you some practical recommendations for what you should be drinking during … Read more
Alex is a personal client of mine who plays hockey in the WHL currently and is kicking all kinds of ass. He’s super ambitious, is excited to learn the why behind hockey training and nutrition and not just the how, and also keeps in close contact with me throughout the entire year so that he … Read more
There’s a difference between exercising and training. And when it comes to at-home hockey workouts, that difference is everything. Exercising is doing push-ups, squats, and burpees because it feels productive. Training is building a structured workout around the specific physical demands of hockey and executing it with purpose. Both will make you tired. Only one … Read more
The science of strength and conditioning has come a long way from the early days where mostly everything was being derived from bodybuilding anecdote. It’s really only 30 years or so that strength and conditioning has become its own separate entity from skill development within hockey athletes. Every year, hockey athletes are becoming more aware … Read more
I’m sure you have all heard of this before or perhaps done it yourself. The typical scenario rolls out normally in the form of something like this: “Hey man, what’s up? What are you training today?” “You know what bro, I just go by feel based on the day. I don’t even know what I’m … Read more
After oxygen, water is the most important substance in the human body. It is a necessary component for nearly every single chemical reaction, acting as a solvent and transport medium. There’s a big reason why your body is about 70% water, both performance-based and essential health processes require it. Zooming out from the cellular level, … Read more
A battle I have been fighting for a few years now is the idea that the most important exercises for hockey players are the exercises that are performed on an unstable surface. This type of approach demonstrates a severe lack of understanding in the training principles that are most deeply rooted within the sports science … Read more
“If you’re training for longer than 45mins, you’re making friends and not gains” “If you train longer than one hour, your cortisol goes up and your testosterone goes down and you’ll lose muscle” “You only need one hard set per muscle group, the rest is just junk volume” If you have been into training for … Read more
One of the most popular topics in sports science nutrition is without a doubt, protein intake. Athletes from all walks of life understand the importance of protein in the diet, but in most cases, they don’t know exactly why protein is important and how exactly they should be consuming it on a day-to-day basis. In … Read more