Plenty of trainers and athletes have been running hills since the dawn of sports training, and for a good reason too – it works. Running on an incline demands that you use your own body weight as a form of resistance while trying to travel upwards. This is excellent because adding unnatural resistance (weighted vests, … Read more
When it comes to hockey performance, you need to have the ability to express maximal force in the shortest timeframe possible. The faster you can express force into the hockey specific planes of motion, the more explosive and powerful you’re going to be on the ice. The shot is no exception here. Here’s what we’re … Read more
What does nutrition look like for young hockey players? In this article, I want to go over how good nutrition habits can improve hockey performance and recovery for young athletes, and briefly touch upon the health factors it’s going to provide as well. Let’s get into it… As I outline in the many youth hockey … Read more
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
In this article, I will talk about how you can effectively train at home without any equipment to become a better hockey player and show you some examples of my favorite at home hockey workouts. **If you want a full hockey program that can be done at home, check out our new Off-Season Hockey Training … 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