What Separates Us From “Them”
I bet it happens to Sidney Crosby, Jamie Benn and heck even Carey Price from time to time. We all fall off the wagon (the training wagon I mean).…
Heart Rate Monitors And How We Use Them
One of you asked me about getting a heart rate monitor and if it was worthwhile. The answer is ‘yes and no’. The heart rate monitor on its own…
Amp Up Your Training Heading Into Play-offs?
And this is why you need to keep up with your training year round and make sure you are doing the right things at the right time. This is…
EOTW: Quadruped Hip Abduction
Think of this as another ‘rotator cuff’ exercise for your hip. You can build some stamina in your lateral rotators and abductors very easily by adding this to your hockey…
Q&A: The one about why coaches make certain decisions and speed
So, I was cleaning out the vault the other day and came across a few questions that were in the corner under some boxes of hockey tape, so I pulled…
When to Use a Weight Vest for Off-ice Training.
Will the Leafs ever win another hockey game? You know when most teams fire their coach and they turn on the jets for at least a couple of games? Maybe…
Using the MB to Stabilize or Drive
A few weeks ago I wrote THIS article showing you goalies how to use the medicine ball to overload your off-ice agility drills. Do you remember that? If not,…
How To Enjoy Holiday Eating Without Sabotaging Your Hockey
Look, we are all going to eat foods over the holidays that we wouldn’t typically eat the other 11-months of the year. I will for sure ding-dong some shortbread cookies…
Lateral Speed Development
Close your eyes and picture a hockey player skating with speed. I bet you pictured a player streaking up the ice moving forward – winning a race to a…
Autopsy of an off-ice hockey workout
I know many of you have a program that looks very similar to this and you don’t even know that you could be using your time so much more…