On this page you will find all of our Hockey Nutrition articles that will help you perform at top levels all game long and recover for your next game or practice.
Hockey players and parents – I’m not telling you something you don’t already know. The game of hockey can get really expensive when you start adding everything up! Traveling, skate sharpening, always buying new equipment/sticks, registration fees, tournament fees, and everything else you can think of. Although this is the greatest game in the world, … Read more
What does nutrition look like for young hockey players? In this article, I want to go over how good nutrition habits can improve hockey performance and recovery for young athletes, and briefly touch upon the health factors it’s going to provide as well. Let’s get into it… As I outline in the many youth hockey … Read more
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 nutritional sports science we can take advantage of and give you some practical recommendations for what you should be drinking during … Read more
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 why your body is about 70% water, both performance-based and essential health processes require it. Zooming out from the cellular level, … Read more
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, they don’t know exactly why protein is important and how exactly they should be consuming it on a day-to-day basis. In … Read more
In my most recent blog, I busted a whole lot of myths and provided a lot of detail on how females should be approaching their hockey training and the “why” behind all of the recommendations that articulate the real differences between male and female programming. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I would highly … 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
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