Long, busy days means having a lot of time to train isn’t always in the cards. Quicker and more time efficient workouts have become the norm 2-3 times a week. ➡️ 45 minute Circuit ⬅️ 🔶 Rest to 130 beats per minute after each exercise 🔶 🔷 Kettlebell Swing x10 🔷 Ring Row x10 🔷 … Continue reading 45 minute Aerobic Circuit

Saw this one a while back from Joe Aratari, started playing around with it a bit myself, and kind of like it. ✔️ People need to row more ✔️ Greater core demand then the traditional DB Row ✔️ Uni-Lateral to help balance out any potential strength imbalances By no means is this replacing the DB … Continue reading 2-Point 1-Arm Dumbbell Row

Another simple way to develop better, more explosive skaters➖add isometric work. Generally speaking, getting into a deeper/lower is going to be a better skating position, but some skaters can’t consistently skate from a deep position because they don’t have the strength (or more specifically endurance) to keep themselves their. This is where various Yielding Isometric … Continue reading Isometric Work for On-Ice Speed Development

Yesterday I touched on how adopting a deeper skating position will lead to a more powerful stride and ultimately lead to improving skating speed. Another obvious way to improving skating stride power ➡️ get strong on one leg. Developing incredibly strong legs/hips in a single leg stance is a no-brainer if the goal is more … Continue reading Developing Faster Skaters

One of the most common muscular deficiencies found in ice hockey players is a lack of strength and/or lack of activation of the deep hip flexors (psoas). The psoas, a hip flexor that is active when the hip is flexed greater than 90 degrees, is generally weak. Players will typically an incredibly hard time isolating … Continue reading 1/2 Kneeling Wall Hip Flexor Holds

One of the bigger things that we’ve tried to do more of over the last 12-18 months is to perform more horizontal speed/power/strength work through sprints, linear bounding, band resisted broad jumps, sled work, and even some kettlebell swings, with the hope that more horizontal work will be more beneficial for sprinting/acceleration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxeldHz8jPo

A simple change I’ve made for most every athlete I work with is to elevate their heels when squatting, which gives us more ankle mobility along with an anterior weight shift that helps counter balance during squatting. I think, almost without fail, people end up squatting in a better position and their ankle mobility (or … Continue reading Heels Elevated Squatting

Name an easier and more effective way to train power❓ ✅ Triple extension/full hip extension on every rep ✅ Extremely easy to learn ✅ Extremely hard to mess up ✅ Extremely shoulder and wrist friendly for a population of athletes like hockey that tend to have shoulder and wrist issues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7AgLI08fFw

Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI) is a condition where there is too much friction in the hip joint from bony irregularities that cause a decreased hip range of motion and is a common hip abnormality in hockey populations. Studies have shown that by Midget age (16-19 years old) 93% of hockey players show signs and symptoms of … Continue reading Training Around FAI in Ice Hockey

I typically don’t perform a lot of Glute-Ham Raises as I tend to pull more with my low back then hamstrings and glutes, causing some discomfort in my low back the following days. Recently I’ve been playing around with this Glute-Ham variation that I stole from both Eric Cressey and Luka Hocevar which has you … Continue reading Banded Glut-Ham Raise