Here’s another episode of Metabolic Elite‘s “Elite Minds Podcast” where Cal Dietz (Associate Director of Athletic Performance at the University of Minnesota, and Author of Triphasic Training), and I sat down to talk about: How training evolves as athletes progress from youth to college to professional levels How to maximize an athletes return to play […]
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Comprehensive Speed Development for Athletes
Speed is the most highly sought after physical quality in sports. It’s a key quality that separates athletes competing at different levels (i.e. higher levels of competitions have faster players), and a major determinant of what makes an elite athlete at a given level. As athletes and coaches attempt to improve speed, it’s important to […]
POSTED BY KEVIN NEELD Jan 31, 2025

Evolving Performance Podcast (Ep2): Goalie-Specific Training for Hockey w/ Maria Mountain
In this episode, Maria Mountain, who specializes in goalie-specific training for hockey, shares her insights on: What makes the goalie position unique from forwards and defensemen and the implications this has for off-ice training Why certain methods lead to goalies “over pushing” and getting out of position, and specific strategies to fix the issue The […]
POSTED BY KEVIN NEELD Jan 27, 2025

Whiteboard Session: Speed Optimization Tips
In this Metabolic Elite “whiteboard session”, I run through my model for speed development in ice hockey players, and provide a few examples of why hockey players need to do more than JUST run (or skate) sprints to get faster. Check out the video below: To your success, Kevin Neeld P.S. If you’re interested in […]
POSTED BY KEVIN NEELD Jan 20, 2025

Bruins Academy Feature: Lower Body Strength Training
In this clip from “Bruins Academy” Tim and Lebbossiere and I outline lower body strength training exercises youth hockey players can do with no equipment to help them get into and maintain deep skating positions and more powerful strides. If you’re interested, you can check out the full episode here: Bruins Academy (Season 9, Episode […]
POSTED BY KEVIN NEELD Jan 15, 2025

Elite Minds Podcast: Optimizing Performance through Nutrition, Sleep, & Supplementation
A couple months back, I flew out to Texas for a Metabolic Elite board meeting. While we were there, we recorded several podcasts that are now available. In this episode, Mike Potenza (back in the NHL as Director of High Performance with the San Jose Sharks after spending two seasons as the Director of Performance […]
POSTED BY KEVIN NEELD Jan 13, 2025

Bruins Academy Feature: Off-Ice Speed Training for Hockey
Speed training is critical for hockey players. While it’s important to emphasize traditional acceleration drills in an off-ice training program, speed is expressed in sport through a variety of transitional patterns. In this quick segment Tim Lebbossiere and I filmed for “Bruins Academy”, we go over 3 speed training drills youth hockey players can do […]
POSTED BY KEVIN NEELD Jan 10, 2025

Evolving Performance Podcast (Ep1): Speed Training for Hockey w/ Vicki Bendus
In this episode, Vicki Bendus shares incredible insights into speed training for hockey, including: Key findings from her research on identifying the most impactful physical factors and related off-ice tests for on-ice speed Speed profiling strategies to identify where a player ranks relative to their peers and what qualities they need to improve to maximize […]
POSTED BY KEVIN NEELD Jan 8, 2025

Maximizing Adaptation while Minimizing Recovery with Isometric Exercises
Isometric exercises are one of the more powerful and under-utilized training strategies available to athletes, especially in-season. I recently wrote an article for Metabolic Elite discussing three isometric training methods, how they benefit performance, and how to appropriately perform them. Check it out at the link below: Click here to read: Maximizing Adaptation while Minimizing […]
POSTED BY KEVIN NEELD Jan 6, 2025

Introducing the Evolving Performance Podcast
Over the last few years, balancing my work and family schedules has led to me consuming a lot more audio books and podcasts than I did earlier in my career. While there are a lot of great podcasts out there, I find that that many are (WAY) too long and/or fall short on practical application. […]
POSTED BY KEVIN NEELD Jan 3, 2025