One of my favorite books from 2017 was without a doubt Game Changer by Fergus Connolly. The other day I picked it up again and was looking through all the things that I highlighted. Here are a few of those highlighted quotes; The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you … Continue reading 16 Quotes From Game Changer

It’s Sunday which means I review some of the podcasts I listened to and articles that I read throughout the last week. When it comes to the podcasts, I really enjoyed the newest episode of the Strength Coach Podcast. Cam Josse is an extremely smart guy is quickly becoming a very well-known name in the … Continue reading Weekend Week in Review

Currently in the first week of an eccentric based block with UNH Men's Soccer and we started off the week with some band resisted eccentric chin ups, trying to overload and really challenge them through the eccentric portion of the lift - plus they are kind of fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSzXqVXRpRM We aimed for ~5 seconds down … Continue reading Band Resisted Eccentric Chin Up

A quick glance at our current Wednesday lift with UNH Women's hockey. Our goal is to perform movements with the intent of doing everything fast in order to prime the nervous system for the weekend of games as well as trying to ‘peak’ as we are in the late stages of the season and/or playoffs. … Continue reading Power/Dynamic In-Season Lift

Yielding and Long Duration Isometrics with UNH Volleyball and UNH Men's Soccer. One change we’ve made in the first phase of our off-season training this year is adding both yielding and long duration isometrics, which simply asks an athlete to hold a certain position at a sub-maximal level for an extended period of time while … Continue reading Yielding Isometrics

It’s Sunday which means I review some of the podcasts I listened to and articles that I read throughout the last week. When it comes to the podcasts, I really enjoyed Mike Robertson's Physical Preparation Podcast with John Kiely. John is quickly becoming a go-to resource when it comes to all things periodization and has … Continue reading Weekend Week in Review

Overcoming Isometrics with UNH Men's Soccer & UNH Volleyball in the first block of their off-season training. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAWAi7IOcQ Easy to reach proper positions Greater motor unit recruitment Taxes movement patterns at specific joint angles Potential increase in rate of force development This is the first time we’ve used these in this phase of our off-season … Continue reading Overcoming Isometrics

Our in-season off-ice training with women’s hockey is essentially broken up into three phases; Strength-Speed (October - December) Speed-Strength (January - February) Power (March/playoffs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5bACo3pUaY Ultimately, our goal from January on is to do everything we can to develop faster and more powerful hockey players. In trying to accomplish this one of the small changes … Continue reading Clusters for Power

It’s Sunday which means I review some of the podcasts I listened to and articles that I read throughout the last week. When it comes to the podcasts, I really enjoyed the Just Fly Performance Podcast with Michael Zweifel. Lots of talk on speed development, agility and things along those lines. For articles, I enjoyed … Continue reading Weekend Week in Review

Though the internet/instagram/Twitter continue to try to complicate the training process, I firmly believe simplicity is key in any sport performance program. Case in point, one of our staple med ball exercises with UNH Volleyball is a simple overhead throw that’s effective for a handful of reasons; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI0ua_Uo_Hw It improves/trains the anterior core for power … Continue reading Why the Overhead Throw is a Staple in Our Program