Not-So Ninja Tactics To Become Your Team’s MVP THIS Season.

Okay – here are your Ninja/Jedi Strategies… For those of you who are dating (or have dated in the past) have you ever gone out with someone who seemed really…

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Building Bigger Shoulders For Hockey

I think you know by now that I don’t really care about how you look, so I am not going to sell you on building powerful, sexy shoulders that will…

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How To Get In Shape Before Tryouts

Get In Shape For Hockey Tryouts For most of you the hockey season or training camp starts in about three weeks.  This is when I start getting a flood of…

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Should hockey players push heavy sh#t?

When and how to use overload – should you push cars? There is a tendency to believe harder is better.  There is a tendency to take a perfectly good agility…

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Mistakes, Upper Body, Mobility, Essentials and Core…oh my!

I think it would be an overstatement to say I have been ‘cheating’.  That word has such a negative connotation. Have I been writing some hockey training articles for another…

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Sin #2: The One That Kills Your Speed

If there was on off-ice hockey training sin that I see committed by most youth hockey coaches and trainers it is Sin #2.  Heck, I used to be guilty of…

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Your ONE Thing…

I am reading a book right now called The One Thing and it asks the question, “What is the one thing you could do, such that by doing it everything…

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GRIT Is The Key Ingredient

Persistence And Art Of Motorcycle Riding Our coach suggested that she may want to quit the course and move down to a lower level. What did she do? She came…

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What’s your pull up score (and how to make it higher)

Pull Up Score = 0 You have no doubt heard the story already – Sam Bennett, one of the top prospects for this year’s NHL entry draft failed to get…

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EOTW: Depth Jump + First Step

Hockey Exercise For Explosive Leg Power ‘First step quickness’ is a term you hear in a lot of sports, but the speed and contained spaces of hockey make it even…

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