Posts in "Hockey Shooting"

What Muscles Do You Use to Shoot?

What Muscles Do You Use to Shoot?

Last week I received a question from a reader that I’ve gotten a few times in the past and thought I’d address here. If you have specific questions you’d like me to address in a future post, please post them in the comments section below! Question: If you could please tell me what muscles are… Read more

Improving Athletic Performance Beyond Peak Strength: Part 2

Improving Athletic Performance Beyond Peak Strength: Part 2

Part 1 discusses the role strength plays in maximizing other physical qualities like speed and power, and lays the foundation for how players can improve their performance when they reach their genetic strength limits. Part 2, below, follows up with specific strategies on how to improve an athletes rate of force development, the secret to… Read more

Improving Athletic Performance Beyond Peak Strength: Part 1

Improving Athletic Performance Beyond Peak Strength: Part 1

It is fairly well accepted that strength, or the ability to produce force, lays the foundation for improvements in other important physical qualities such as speed and power. In other words, for any given strength level, an athlete has a limited ability to further improve speed and power. Once this relative ceiling is reached, improvements… Read more

The Myth of Wrist Strength in Hockey

The Myth of Wrist Strength in Hockey

As long as I’ve been around the game, I’ve heard players and coaches preach about the importance of wrist strength. As a player, I bought in hard. I had an old skate lace wrapped around a broken stick, with a weight plate at the far end. I actually had a few, with different weights at… Read more