Archive: January, 2009

The Truth About Deep Squatting!

About a month ago, my article “Battling Anatomy: Implications for Effective Squatting“, was published at SBCoachesCollege.com, a website I couldn’t ‘say enough good things about. The other day I received an excellent question from Jason Price, Founder and CEO of Athletes Equation. “Hello Kevin, I read you article on SB Coaches College today and really [...]

January 23rd, 2009 | Comments (5)

Your Legs Are NOT Strong Enough!

“Why don’t you lift legs?” “My legs are already big enough.  I don’t want them to get any bigger.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a conversation with hockey players that started just like this.   First off, in probably 97% of cases, their legs aren’t big enough.  B: Something tells me [...]

January 22nd, 2009 | Comments (0)

Life Lesson from Obama

I’ll be the first one to admit that I don’t follow politics as closely as I probably should.  Yesterday I made it a point to take an hour to watch some of the Inauguration festivities, including President Obama’s speech.  One of the recurring themes I noticed throughout his speech was that we need to start [...]

January 21st, 2009 | Comments (0)

4 Hockey-Specific Mobility Exercises

I played hockey for 15 years before I made the transition into coaching.  Throughout that time I rarely played other sports.  Soccer for a few years when I was very young.  Baseball for a season.  But that was about it.  Last night I went bowling for the first time in a while.  A huge fan [...]

January 20th, 2009 | Comments (1)

Hockey Dynamic Warm-Ups Continued

After 18 hours of weeping following an embarrassing Eagles performance, I’m ready to get back to talking hockey. Last week I started talking about the importance of setting up a well-designed dynamic warm-up before every training session, practice, and game. Let’s take a deeper look into that area. When I put together a warm-up, I [...]

January 19th, 2009 | Comments (0)