TRAINING ARTICLES
Stress begins in the mind and ends in the body. The accumulation of fatigue on the body and mind can come from many sources — physical, mental, emotional, environmental, nutritional, inflammatory, hormonal, thermal, among…
It’s been a little while since I have wrote about the nutrition aspect to hockey performance in my blog. Coming into the hockey performance industry, I spoke and wrote a lot about sports nutrition…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sleep is a topic I catch many hockey players off guard with, mainly because their coaches haven’t brought it up to them in any serious way yet so they have underestimated its role in…
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…
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…