“During most activities, the primary role of the abdominal muscles is to provide isometric support and limit the degree of rotation of the trunk.” - Shirley Sahrmann in Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes . Sport and life are clearly about core stabilization. Because of that, all our core work revolves around the ability … Continue reading New Age Core Training

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, it was a solid week, I highly recommend listening to them all if and when you have time. Vernon Griffith is a great young up and coming … Continue reading Weekend Week in Review

Dr. Janda’s Upper-Crossed Syndrome, classified as weak/inhibited deep neck flexors, lower traps and serratus along with tight/facilitated pectorals, upper traps and levator scapulae, is commonly seen in hockey populations. As a result of this you’ll find many athletes have malpositioned cervical spine/thorax leading to ‘neck breathing’ and not allowing the diaphragm to work effectively, which … Continue reading Maintaining Shoulder Health in Ice Hockey

With UNH Volleyball we try to utilize the bottoms up position in as many ways as we can, whether it be get ups, overhead presses, carries, or anything else, are undeniable. • Better overall shoulder health • Greater rotator cuff activation • Increased core stability • Improved grip strength A lot of times some of … Continue reading Kettlebell Bottoms Up Position

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, Devan McConnell on the True Strength Podcast was great. The things that Devan is doing at UMass-Lowell with their Men's Hockey teams is incredible to listen to. … Continue reading Weekend Week in Review

Early in the off-season our major focus is fixing the athlete as they come out of a long in-season period. We look to facilitate the inbibited/weak muscles or patterns due to a long season and fix sport related issues so that we don’t hurt them in training. As a result, we started programming Nordic Hamstring … Continue reading Early Off-Season Nordic Hamstring Curl with Ice Hockey

One of the biggest changes we’ve made to programming in the last year or so is programming more loaded jumps to develop power, more specifically trap bar jumps squats. pure triple extension very easy to learn extremely hard to mess up safe Lots to like, not much to dislike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccl_vfZWKT4

A handful of times a year, 2-3 ideally, we program a block that primarily focuses on eccentric strength training, like we did here in our last block before finals started, for a couple reasons; Injury Prevention Increased Power Increased Strength Increased Sport Performance Over the course of the calendar year we perform primarily concentric work … Continue reading Post-Season Eccentric Block

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 Joe Maher's talk on building an annual plan in ice hockey. Though it was a somewhat old podcast, all the info in it is … Continue reading Weekend Week in Review

Spring lifts in 60 seconds... Linear Speed/Acceleration Lateral Speed/Acceleration Bodyweight Power Light Implement Power (med balls) Heavy Implement Power Strength Core Conditioning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLz4xm2gfsQ