Working with hockey 🏒 players this off-season?

Here is a quick core/hip training thought 💭 

Hockey is a sport played in a constant hip flexed position with the hip flexors continuously under a long duration isometric and concentric load. If the hip flexors are constantly “on” then there is a strong probability that the pelvis will be pulled into an anteriorly tipped position, a position that can cause dysfunctions like impingement and probably plays a large role in the hip/groin injury epidemic in hockey.

How do we counteract that position? We start by thinking of the weight room as a way to continuously try to counteract and balance the demands that hockey puts on the athlete. We program a heavy year round dose of anti-extension core exercises like rollouts, body saws, and suspension fallouts to help create stiffness throughout the anterior core.

🗣 Long story short; strive create balance

👉 overworked/tight hip flexors can pull the pelvis into an anteriorly tipped position

👉 creating stiffness through the anterior core with anti-extension core work does the opposite, pulling the pelvis into a more superior position

If you are looking for additional information about what the entire off-season looks like with our hockey athletes, take a look at my Ultimate Off-Season Training Guide for Hockey.

In it you will find EVERYTHING that we do throughout the off-season, with an entire off-season training program done for you.

You can find out more about it HERE.