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As I mentioned on Monday, I was recently invited by Carolina Hurricanes long-time Strength and Conditioning Coach Pete Friesen to attend the Friesen Physio-Fitness Summit. While I thought all the presentations were informative, one that really stuck out to me was from Dr. Michael Peters, OD. Dr. Peters spoke about the importance of vision in […]

Over the weekend I had an opportunity to attend the Friesen Physio-Fitness Summit in Raleigh, NC. The summit was awesome; Pete Friesen (going on his 14th year as the Hurricanes Strength and Conditioning Coach) put together a fantastic line-up of speakers, including many of members of his sports medicine network. I’m in the process of […]

Great posts this week at Hockey Strength and Conditioning! Article: Strength Training Takes on Many Forms from Sean Skahan Awesome article from Sean. This is one of those “must-reads” for parents of young hockey players and any coach (or strength coach) that works with young players. Sean does a great job of explaining how we […]

On Monday, I have a post about the whole “Death of the Squat” controversy that has taken the strength and conditioning industry by storm. I decided to delay that post until Monday because I recently came across an awesome video from my friend, colleague, and mentor Eric Cressey. I’ve learned a lot from Eric’s approach […]

Every now and then I’ll walk through Endeavor and see one of our players doing extra core work on their own. At first, this really intrigued me. We do SO much core work during the off-season I was flabbergasted that they’d want to do more. The more I thought about it, the less surprised I […]

This week was a little slower over at Hockey Strength and Conditioning, but there was still some great content. Article: Interval Training Questions from Michael Boyle This is a great Q&A from Boyle that covers some of the more frequently asked questions regarding interval training. His response to “the best way to calculate max heart […]

I’ve had the opportunity to read/review most of the hockey training products out there and, to be honest, I’ve been largely unimpressed. Most are outdated, impractical, theoretical, or, well, minimally educated. When I’m reading through these hockey training products, I look for a balance of education and practicality. In other words, I look for detailed […]

Just about every athlete that I’ve worked with at Endeavor has asked me some sort of supplement question. Every individual has a different perception of supplements. I’m surprised about some of the stereotypes associated with certain supplements: “Protein supplements are only for people that want to build muscle or ‘bulk up’” “Creatine is like steroids” […]

Check out what you missed this week over at Hockey Strength and Conditioning! Article: Leadership Lessons from the NHL from meA recap of the most important lessons I learned from my 1st NHL training camp. From talking to Coach Potenza, this is stuff that we agree all coaches AND players should know. Article: How Should […]

Sometimes things don’t always go as planned. I always say that my “programs” are really just templates because we constantly have to adapt things based on a player’s needs and abilities. As much as I love (and all of our players loathe) Bunkie Side Planks (I talk about this in a previous post: Hockey Core […]