How Hockey Players Can Build Muscle
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…
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What To Drink During Your Hockey Game
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…
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Doing Less Makes You Great
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…
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At-Home Hockey Workouts
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…
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Don’t Make These In-Season Hockey Training Mistakes
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…
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Why Hockey Players Shouldn’t Always Listen To Their Body
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…
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The Complete Hockey Hydration Guide
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…
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Don’t Make This Hockey Training Mistake
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…
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How Long Should Hockey Players Train For?
“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…
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How Much Protein Should Hockey Players Be Having?
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,…