Monthly Archives: April 2011

This Week at Hockey Strength and Conditioning

This Week at Hockey Strength and Conditioning

Wrapping up another busy week at Endeavor and at HockeyStrengthandConditioning.com. This week we added: Off-Season Phase 2 from Darryl Nelson Darryl posted a 4-day off-season training program for a relatively advanced lifter. This looks pretty similar to how I write programs for our hockey players, but it’s interesting to note a few differences in exercise… Read more

In-Season Training

In-Season Training

With the off-season here, this isn’t a very timely post. Nonetheless it’s an important message that I think more parents need to hear. Last week I got an email from a parent of a high school girl we train at Endeavor asking if I thought it would benefit her daughter to continue training twice per… Read more

Pre-Puberty Hockey Training

Pre-Puberty Hockey Training

Last week I had an opportunity to speak with the parents of two local teams with ’98 and ’97 birth-year players. After that talk, I got a great question from a well-read mom with regards to the effectiveness of training before the athlete has reached puberty. Her thought was that because the hormonal profile of… Read more

Concussions in Hockey

Concussions in Hockey

Last week, I got a message from Jim Cruver about a video on concussions in hockey that he thought I should check out (thanks Jim!). This actually aired on ESPN mid-last week; it’s definitely worth the 7-minutes to watch. Check it out: Great to see some of the teams from my home-town making the video… Read more