Last week I posted a fairly comprehensive article on the benefits of Earthing. If you missed it, check it out here: Earthing Products Shortly after writing that up I came across some video of an interview Dr. Mercola did with Dr. Ober that I thought some of you may be interested in. They broke it [...]
Recovery
Recovery Week: Monitoring Nutrient and Hormone Status
My last post covered what I think may be one of the most powerful and commonly overlooked recovery tools available today. If you missed it, check it out here: Recovery Week: Earthing Products Recovery Week continues with a personal story that illustrates the significant impact stress and nutrient deficiencies can have on one’s health and [...]
Recovery Week: Earthing Products
Several months ago, Mike Potenza wrote a great article for HockeySC.com titled “What’s New in Regeneration Training?” In the article, Mike outlined several interesting pieces of technology that can be used to facilitate or monitor recovery, one of which included “Earthing” products. Earthing, or “grounding”, is one of those naturalistic concepts that I think a [...]
Mobility Circuit for Hockey Players
Today’s post will cap off a 3-part series on creating on- and off-ice training and conditioning programs that compliment one another from an energy system standpoint to allow a stronger adaptation. If you missed the first two parts, check them out at the links below: Matching On- and Off-Ice Demands Off-Ice Hockey Conditioning Programs Short [...]
Matching On- and Off-Ice Demands
A while back I wrote a post outlining the physical qualities that can be trained at the same time without creating too large of a conflicting stimulus to the body. As I’ve mentioned in the past, attempting to train conflicting qualities at the same time (think powerlifting and marathon training) will result in the training [...]








