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I hope you had a great week. It was a busy one for us at Endeavor. David and I spent the week coaching from around 8am through 9pm. Long days, but it’s been great having so many of our off-season hockey players come back from their junior and college teams. It’s funny to hear comments […]

While I was in Burlington, VT watching one of Team USA’s games during the Women’s World Hockey Championship, I was sitting in the stands behind two coaches talking about USA Hockey’s American Development Model (ADM). If you aren’t familiar with the ADM, I highly encourage you to check out the ADM website here: USA Hockey’s […]

What a week! This week we kicked off our off-season training for some of the Team Comcast youth hockey organization at our mini-facility in their rink in Pennsauken and we had several more players trickle back in to Endeavor to start preparing for next year. On top of that, yesterday I threw the gear on […]

A couple days ago, I provided a 4-step plan to help hockey players put on muscle mass and gain weight over the off-season. If you missed it, you can check it out here: A 4-Step Plan for Off-Season Weight Gain Eating effectively starts with shopping effectively. Quite simply, if you don’t have the right ingredients […]

Over the past several Summers, one of the most common questions I get from the high school, junior, and college hockey players that train at our facility Endeavor Sports Performance is: “What should I take to help me put on X pounds of muscle?” In reality, this question is as misguided as it is well-intentioned. […]

Over the last few years, we’ve trained, and (more importantly) developed some RIDICULOUSLY fast skaters at Endeavor Sports Performance. Hockey has always been dominated by fast, or maybe more appropriately, explosive skaters, but this is especially true in today’s game. Not lost on the majority of players, parents, and coaches, by far the most common […]

Over the last week, I’ve mentioned that the release of Mike Boyle’s Functional Strength Coach 4 was in our near future. Well, today is the day. The first three DVD sets in Boyle’s “Functional Strength Coach” series have been outstanding, and present complimentary pieces to the foundation of a successful training program and strength and […]

If you missed the previous five articles in this series, check them out here: 25 Years, 25 Mistakes by Mike Boyle The Tao of Mike Boyle by Nate Green Assessing Credibility in the Internet Age by Mike Boyle Evolution of a Strength Coach by Mike Boyle A Day in the Life by Mike Boyle Tomorrow […]

If you missed the previous four articles in this series, check them out here: 25 Years, 25 Mistakes by Mike Boyle The Tao of Mike Boyle by Nate Green Assessing Credibility in the Internet Age by Mike Boyle Evolution of a Strength Coach by Mike Boyle Today’s article gives an inside look at a “Day […]

If you missed the previous three articles in this series, check them out here: 25 Years, 25 Mistakes by Mike Boyle The Tao of Mike Boyle by Nate Green Assessing Credibility in the Internet Age Today’s article presents an interesting view on the evolution that most “functional training” specialists undergo as they develop as professionals […]