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.
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
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
Why Training on Unstable Surfaces Isn’t Optimal for Hockey Players As the subtitle above completely gives away, this week I’ll be breaking down my personal opinions on unstable surface training and why I believe hockey players would be better spent using their off-ice gym time using other training methods. As an introduction, we’ll first need … 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