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Strength and Conditioning Internships

Over the past several months, we’ve had more internship applications flood in for this Summer than we’ve had for any term in the 4 years that I’ve been at Endeavor. This, I believe, is a result of some of the networking we’ve done with local universities/colleges and the fact that Endeavor has become increasingly visible […]

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This Week in Hockey Strength and Conditioning

This Week in Hockey Strength and Conditioning

We’re wrapping up another busy week at Endeavor. I’m really excited for the weekend. Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading up to Boston with David Lasnier, Matt Siniscalchi, Anthony Vittese (a local PT that we’ve worked with a bit), and Ryan Podell (the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Flyers) for the Boston Sports Medicine […]

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The Illusion of Invincibility

The Illusion of Invincibility

What percentage of performance is mental? I was first posed this question while taking a class at the University of Delaware on the mental aspects of peak performance. Every one of my classmates responded somewhere between 50-90%. Since that time, I’ve asked dozens of people the same question, and the responses almost invariably fall within […]

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Limitations to Optimal Skating Performance

Limitations to Optimal Skating Performance

I wanted to kick this week off by following up on an article from last week on a few tips to help hockey players improve their skating technique. If you missed it, you can check it out here: 3 Keys to Developing Optimal Skating Technique In that article, I alluded to the fact that players […]

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This Week in Hockey Strength and Conditioning

This Week in Hockey Strength and Conditioning

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 […]

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Understanding USA Hockey’s American Development Model (ADM)

Understanding USA Hockey’s American Development Model (ADM)

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 […]

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This Week in Hockey Strength and Conditioning

This Week in Hockey Strength and Conditioning

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 […]

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Hockey Nutrition: Grocery Shopping

Hockey Nutrition: Grocery Shopping

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 […]

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A 4-Step Plan for Off-Season Weight Gain

A 4-Step Plan for Off-Season Weight Gain

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. […]

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Unconventional Approaches to First Step Quickness

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 […]

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