Blogs

A few great additions to the site this week: Anaheim Ducks Strength and Conditioning Coach Sean Skahan wrote an article called Reap the Benefits of Proper Stretching. If you’ve stayed current with the scientific research behind stretching, you know that it’s been a controversial topic for the last decade or so. As with any debate, […]

Happy Groundhog Day! Hopefully Bill Murray won’t see his shadow so we stop getting dumped on with all this snow! For whatever reason, my ’99 Saturn is pretty good in the snow. Although, if you looked at it, you’d probably be wondering what is holding it all together. Last week on my drive back home […]

As I promised last week, we’ve gotten the new “youth hockey training program” addition of Hockey Strength and Conditioning underway by adding a team dynamic warm-up that players can use before every practice, off-ice training session, and game. Each exercise specifies the exact distance or repetitions to use and has a video. I thought adding […]

With the increased attention paid to “soft-tissue work” and “myofascial release” techniques, I think it’s important that everyone understands the basics that provide the underlying foundation for why these methods are effective and necessary. I went into this at a very superficial level here: Foam Rolling Science Made Simple but I want to dive a […]

A few random thoughts/resources for you today: Things You Should Read Over the last couple weeks I’ve written quite a bit for our Endeavor site. It’s not always easy to come up with content for this site, Endeavor’s site, and Hockey Strength and Conditioning every week, but I do not best not to recycle too […]

This is the first Hockey Strength and Conditioning update of 2011! As I mentioned in a previous post (2011 Hockey Strength and Conditioning), we have a few exciting things in store for our members this year. If you didn’t read about it yet, click the link above to check it out. The overall intention was […]

Last week, I received an email from a newsletter subscriber letting me know that one of my articles had been featured on Fox News’ website (Exercises for Guys Over 40). The article was a reprint from an article I had written for AskMen.com (who I believe is owned by Fox) several months back. The day […]

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m a huge fan of videos. Not only do they give my eyes and brain a rest from reading, but it also provides a more effective model to present new exercises. Because most of my videos go directly up to Hockey Strength and Conditioning, I’ve been slacking a bit […]

To wrap up our week-long series on Charlie Weingroff’s brilliant new DVD set Training = Rehab, Rehab = Training, let’s jump right into some more content and how I’ve integrated some of Charlie’s teachings into our training programs at Endeavor. Own the Movement You’ll recall from Monday that there is an important distinction between movements […]