Kevin 
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
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
In the area of sports science, fatigue is a very complex and important topic. It is tough to discuss fatigue without first defining the principle of overload. I will first explain the principle of overload and then we will take a look at some major contributors to fatigue for hockey players and how hockey players can … Read more
The world of supplementation is an industry that is constantly under fire from both experts and consumers, and most of the time for good reason. The big problem with supplementation is the lack of quality research, overall lack of regulation in the business, and some majorly biased research being conducted in-house by the supplement companies … Read more
Today’s article is going to cover how to increase your on-ice performance with a proper stretching routine and provide you with some of the best stretches for hockey players. I’ll break it down in the following categories: Static Stretching For Hockey Dynamic Stretching For Hockey Hockey Mobility Training Best Hockey Stretches Let’s dive into things… … Read more
When hockey players are looking to lean down (lose unwanted fat) I think it’s important to take a look at the following 3 topics… I recommend reading this article in order, but we’ve broken down into three sections if you want to skip ahead or come back to reference this article: Why Hockey Players Need … Read more