How To Keep Strength and Muscle During Time Off
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…
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Optimizing Flexibility For Peak Hockey Performance
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…
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Training With Bands + Chains For Explosive On-Ice Performance
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…
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Optimizing Cross-Training Methods For Hockey
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…
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Tips for Optimal Hockey Performance
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…
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Recovery Tips For Tryouts, Camps, Twice-a-Day Training
Multiple training sessions (which can include hockey tryouts or camps) within the same day can be a great way to make progress, but this is only true if your recovery is being given the…
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Hockey In-Season Nutrition Guidelines
Today I want to talk about how hockey athletes should be approaching their nutrition in regards to their in-season body composition management and recovery from injury. Why these two topics? Well, body composition (the…
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3 Rules of Success For On The Road In-Season Eating
The in-season is a tough battlefield for hockey players. You’re expected to show up at every practice, every game, every strength training workout, and every conditioning workout all the while staying on track with…
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3 In-Season Hockey Training Mistakes
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…
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Creating The Perfect Hockey Training Schedule
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…