Archive: August, 2010

This Week at Hockey Strength and Conditioning

If you aren’t a member of Hockey Strength and Conditioning, you’re missing a lot of great stuff. Over the last two weeks we’ve added: Webinar: In-Season Assessment and Rehab of a Back and Groin Injury from Jaime Rodriguez (Worcester Sharks) Program: Off-Season Goalie Plyometric Progressions from Mike Potenza (San Jose Sharks) Video: Lateral MiniBand Walk [...]

August 20th, 2010 | Comments (0)

Athletic Development Stuff You Should Read

I’ve been on a huge continuing ed kick recently and have come across some great stuff I want to share with you. New Study Finds 70 Percent of Able-Bodied Hockey Players have Abnormal Hip and Pelvis MRIs This brief article was written in mid March so it isn’t “new” anymore, but it’s still worth the [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Comments (0)

Sport Specific Training vs. Sports-Specific Training

For the last decade or so, the words “sport specific training” have frequented the marketing of people with services claiming (sometimes accurately) to develop athletes. The “sport-specific” movement was initially characterized by people taking identical movement found in sports (e.g. a baseball swing, a hockey shot, etc.) and providing some sort of resistance to the [...]

August 16th, 2010 | Comments (1)

No One Conditions Alone

I’m in the process of writing an article for Hockey Strength and Conditioning on my experience helping with the San Jose Sharks prospect camp a few weeks back and I wanted to share a modified excerpt with you. Mike’s intern Marcello, after coaching for a few hours (aka not at all warmed up or training) [...]

August 13th, 2010 | Comments (3)

7 Habits of Highly Effective Interns

With another season of internships wrapping up at Endeavor, I thought it’d be appropriate to outline a few things that all interns should be aware of. 1&2) Show up early. Stay late. This is probably the easiest way for an intern in any industry to make an impression. One of our Summer interns regularly stuck [...]

August 11th, 2010 | Comments (0)