How to Reach Your Hockey Potential
To me, reaching your hockey potential has nothing to do with being an NHL All-Star. It’s not about how many goals you get, or even what team you play for. I believe reaching your…
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Six Rules for Men’s League Domination
In men’s leagues, your body handles training differently than it did when you were a young buck. This is especially true if you have been playing hockey for a long time. A hockey player…
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Bullet-Proof Hockey Mindset
The word bullet-proof is used in sports to describe an athlete with a physical structure that is impossible to budge, break, or stop from accomplishing their task. To become the best hockey player you…
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The 500-Rep Hockey Workout
Hockey players are tough, both mentally and physically. They train many hours every single week—and do so for years on end. When you do this for long enough, at some point you’re going to…
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Dominate Your Hockey Games
It’s game day. You want nothing more than to step onto the ice and perform at your absolute best. You’ve dreamed about scoring. You’ve visualized blowing by the competition. The idea of becoming the…
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Unstoppable Hockey Mindset
The real truth of hockey performance is that we are now living in an age where the abundance of accessible information is so great that we are in a strange cultural state of facts/alternative…
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10 Steps to Better Hockey Performance
Within my videos, podcasts, and articles, I’ve tried to present hockey players with something new, logical, hockey-specific, well-researched, and actionable on a weekly basis for many years now. However, it dawned on me recently…
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3 Missing Links That Are Killing Your Hockey Potential
The Garners, when not in the gym attacking the iron, drive modest and dependable vehicles, both SUVs—one’s a Honda and the other is a Jeep. They do the job, look presentable after a washing…
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The Ultimate One Dumbbell Hockey Workout
Can a hockey player get an awesome hockey-specific workout that improves their speed and functional strength on the ice—with only one dumbbell? You bet you can. In this article, I’m going to discuss the…
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Skating Mechanics To Improve Your Speed
When it comes to assessing a hockey player’s skating, we typically just label them as a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ skater. We note how a player is fast or slow, quick or lumbering, or how…