Kevin 
Strength training for sport performance is something that will benefit every single athlete out there, irrespective of what sport they compete in or what strength training experience they currently have. Why? Because strength is undoubtedly the mother of all qualities when it comes to athletic development. An athlete can never be too strong. This isn’t … Read more
Cross training has been used in sports for decades as a means of improving performance, increasing the rate of recovery, and maintaining conditioning during an injury in athlete’s who are not able to participate in regular hockey training or ice time. Old school coaches and athletes will simply just tell the common hockey player to … Read more
For any athlete in any sport, the ability to perform at your absolute best during the times of the year where it is most consequential is a critical aspect towards how you set up your training and nutritional periodization. The entire years training plan is critical to everything, but when performance at your absolute best … Read more
Multiple training sessions (which can include hockey tryouts or camps) within the same day can be a great way to make progress, but this is only true if your recovery is being given the required attention it will need during this time. Otherwise, you can burn out pretty quick. Trying to maintain performance and make … Read more
Today I want to talk about how hockey athletes should be approaching their nutrition in regards to their in-season body composition management and recovery from injury. Why these two topics? Well, body composition (the ratio of lean muscle mass to fat mass) is something a lot of hockey athletes actually regress with quite a bit … Read more
The in-season is a tough battlefield for hockey players. You’re expected to show up at every practice, every game, every strength training workout, and every conditioning workout all the while staying on track with your eating and training. Whether you’re beat up from last night’s game or not. Many of you reading this may still … Read more
With the season upcoming I thought it would be a good idea to follow up our off-season hockey training mistakes blog post with a post about the consistent in-season training mistakes that hockey players are making. You don’t want to be one of the hockey players who trains hard in the off-season only to lose it … Read more
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