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.
Lower body training is very popular in the hockey strength and conditioning world, and for a good reason too. Your lower body is largely responsible for your: Explosive speed Conditioning Strength during puck battles Agility Reducing your risk for a lower-body injury …among many other factors. In this article today, I want to show you … Read more
In this article, I want to lay out the multiple reasons why having a strong neck is important for hockey athletes and then also include a neck workout for you to follow so you can start receiving all of the benefits of neck training for hockey. Why Alignment is Crucial If progress in your off-ice … Read more
In today’s article, I want to teach you how you can fast-track your “winding down” process after hockey games so that it doesn’t disrupt your sleep length or your sleep quality. To set the stage, I will not be providing you cool-down methods because I discussed those extensively here. Instead, this article will be centered … Read more
In this article, I want to lay out some of the science behind why hockey athletes get sore (and how that can negatively impact both their short-term and long-term performance) after physical activity and then lay out some strategies you can use to speed up your recovery. Why Do Hockey Players Get Sore? Although it’s … Read more
In this article, I want to answer the question of: Should hockey players take ice baths for recovery? The truth is that recovery is a wildly important component towards hockey performance, I have been an advocate of that since Day 1 at HockeyTraining.com and will always be. You can’t be your best if you aren’t … Read more
In this article, I want to show you some of the most effective dryland training drills and workouts that you can do in order to start becoming a faster, more conditioned, and agile hockey player. Here’s what we are going to cover (click on any to jump to that section of the page): At-Home Hockey … Read more
In this article, I am going to be running you through the two absolute “musts” surrounding your off-season hockey training that you need to have in place if you want to become a better hockey player. If you’re new here, you’re going to want to bookmark How To Schedule Your Off-season Training and The Off-season … Read more
We recently had the pleasure of interviewing a sports scientist, Ian Mack, who works with many NHL players and was recently featured on ESPN for his work with Patrick Kane this past off-season. Below you can read the interview (with our questions in the bolded text) and get some insight into how Patrick Kane and … Read more
When you are finishing up a hockey workout or intense practice, it’s important to engage in some form of cool down activity. The cool down is primarily in place to act as a bridge between your active self and your non-active self, both mentally and physiologically. This bridge between intense exercise and rest is important … Read more
In this article, I interview my good friend Rich Molin from Florida who works with every level of hockey player that you can think of, including NHL players. We get a lot of questions here at Hockey Training about what the NHL players are really doing with their training, so I wanted to take the … Read more