Balancing Interfering Training Adaptations within Hockey Training Periodization Interference effect defined: When concurrently training both capacities of endurance and strength, interference may occur when the development of one capacity hinders the development of another capacity compared to training either capacity independently and in isolation. Hockey separates itself from many sports in the sense that it … Read more
Stress begins in the mind and ends in the body. The accumulation of fatigue on the body and mind can come from many sources — physical, mental, emotional, environmental, nutritional, inflammatory, hormonal, thermal, among many others and even more when you consider the unique combinations of all that have been mentioned. Fatigue accumulation cannot viewed … Read more
It’s been a little while since I have wrote about the nutrition aspect to hockey performance in my blog. Coming into the hockey performance industry, I spoke and wrote a lot about sports nutrition as I felt it was an area that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough in this sport. Going online or talking … Read more
In this article, I’m going to discuss how the core plays a role in hockey performance and what you can do to increase your total body stability and power to become a better hockey player. What’s Involved In Core Training How The Core Impacts Hockey Performance Where To Start With Your Hockey Core Training Everybody … Read more
Why Training on Unstable Surfaces Isn’t Optimal for Hockey Players As the subtitle above completely gives away, this week I’ll be breaking down my personal opinions on unstable surface training and why I believe hockey players would be better spent using their off-ice gym time using other training methods. As an introduction, we’ll first need … Read more
I’m going to switch gears here this week from sports science theory and talk a bit about one of the most important concepts any REAL athlete or coach will tell you that you need in order to reach your potential. That is consistency and remaining consistent with everything that you do. 1. Your meal plan. … Read more
We all know somebody who has some really strong lifts in the weight room, but just can’t seem to put it together athletically out on the ice. That strength just doesn’t seem to be transferring to their speed, agility, quickness, or even shot power. One the other hand, we also all know somebody who moves … Read more
There are many varying opinions in the strength and conditioning world, but when it comes to off-season training program design, the coaches with the highest levels of experience can agree on most main things. Outside of the obvious things such as the training principles we should all be aware of, which are deeply rooted in the … Read more
Sleep is a topic I catch many hockey players off guard with, mainly because their coaches haven’t brought it up to them in any serious way yet so they have underestimated its role in athletic development and physique enhancement. When discussions come up involving athletic performance enhancement, the two main topics are training and nutrition, … Read more
In my last blog post titled “How Hockey Players Can Manage Fatigue” I went over some of the primary sources of fatigue most relevant to hockey players, their individual implications on performance and some of the best strategies in which to manage them for optimal recovery and adaptation. Over the course of this blog post I … Read more