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.
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
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
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
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