On this page you will find Hockey Training articles that will help you become a faster skater, increase your explosiveness, give you better conditioning levels, and make you an all-around better hockey player.
“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 only need one hard set per muscle group, the rest is just junk volume” If you have been into training for … Read more
If there’s one thing that confuses me more than anything else in the hockey training industry, it’s the fact that the large majority of players drop their off-ice training once the season begins. On my end, as a coach, I’m thinking… “Ok, we’ve done all this work throughout the offseason to become a better version … Read more
If you’re here reading this blog, there’s a good chance you are very interested in things such as training and nutrition optimization for hockey performance. And in order to be confident in what you’re doing, I’m going to go ahead and assume you likely follow plenty of Facebook and Instagram pages, maybe subscribe to a … Read more
In a world where most people associate agility training by dancing the hokey-pokey with a ladder, it’s always a fun topic to discuss what agility truly is and how hockey athletes can train it off the ice. Agility is the combination of several physical qualities, but also several mental qualities. It’s easy to become consumed … Read more
Hockey speed has always been a popular topic here at hockeytraining.com. We get asked on a weekly, and sometimes daily basis what is the best thing an athlete can do for speed development. The answer to this is quite complex, as speed is a physical quality an athlete gains through a variety of proxy measurements, … Read more
In part 1 of this “Training Around Hockey Injuries” series we discussed some very important components towards injury, inflammation, and the cost/benefit analysis between various methods hockey players utilize to enhance their injury recovery process. Within this article, I want to stay inside the injury perspective but shed some light on active recovery and training … Read more
In this article, I’m going to show you the best ways you can work around the most common hockey injuries so that no matter what happens you’re always going to become a better hockey player! The idea for this article was suggested to me quite a while back but it can be a tough one … Read more
A lot of guys freak out when they need to take some time off, expecting unstoppable decreases in strength and muscle mass. The fact of the matter is that your body will not let go of muscle mass or strength training adaptations that easily, unless of course you let it with either bad habits or … Read more
I’ve discussed both flexibility and mobility a lot in the past within my agility, dynamic vs. static stretching, fix muscle tightness and how to skate faster blog posts as well as in a few of my training programs. So, lots of material to be discussed here including that of which has already been covered! Naturally, … Read more
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