Yoga For Hockey Players
Practicing yoga has become incredibly popular over the past couple of decades and shows no signs of slowing down – especially with athletes. Yoga is a term originally derived from the Sanskrit word “yuji”…
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How To Schedule Your Off-Season Hockey Training
The term “periodization” simply represents the process of organizing your training into phases. These phases are placed in a logical order for the purpose of optimizing your long-term hockey performance, avoiding psychological burnout, and…
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Hockey Hill Sprints Workout
Plenty of trainers and athletes have been running hills since the dawn of sports training, and for a good reason too – it works. Running on an incline demands that you use your own…
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Best Exercises For a Harder Hockey Shot
When it comes to hockey performance, you need to have the ability to express maximal force in the shortest timeframe possible. The faster you can express force into the hockey specific planes of motion,…
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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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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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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…