In-Season Hockey Training Thought 💭➡️ Give them more of what they need not what they already get.
A mistake I made time and time again earlier in my career was programming qualities in the weight room that were seen in sport. A perfect example of this would be performing a lot of rotational med ball tosses in-season with hockey.
Because the sport has such a large rotational component to it, we keep our med ball work more sagittal (or just non-rotational) during the in-season period. It goes back to the “filling buckets idea”➖ the rotational bucket is probably overflowing and the non-rotational bucket could use some filling to balance things out.
As you can see, training hockey players isn’t a simple as grabbing the football strength and conditioning program, getting under a barbell, and getting after it.
It takes a well thought-out training program.
It takes a coach that has been around the game for a while, had some successes and had some mistakes to learn from.
Which is why I created this Off-Season training book.