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I love video.  I’d rather watch a movie then read a book. I’d rather watch an exercise video than read a description and I’d rather watch a presentation than listen to it.  Video is already beginning to dominate the athletic development industry as coaches see its value in teaching exercises.   Brijesh Patel took it […]

On Tuesday I had the pleasure of visiting Brijesh Patel, the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Quinnipiac.  Brijesh primarily works with the mens and womens hockey and basketball teams there.  We spent about 7 hours picking each others’ brains about everything from groin and hip flexor injuries to speed training to program design. I […]

Yesterday I mentioned that, on the ice during a game, top speed isn’t reached or maintained for long.  Having said that, it is still important to understand that many of the direction changes in hockey occur at near-top speeds.  Also, many all out sprints start from a glide or light skate, and involve varying foot/leg […]

Is this hard to believe? World records in under 100m events continue to be broken regularly by, literally, the fastest people in the history of the world.  It would only be logical then, to think: If the fastest people in the world are training one way, I should also train that way to become fast. […]

What a week!  My schedule was a little more sporadic so my structured program got broken up a bit, but I still got everything in.  I moved my “refeed day” from Monday to Thursday.  It felt like my birthday.  Pizza, ice cream, huge steak dinner.  Despite breaking my scale at home (it still insists that […]

“Why don’t you lift legs?” “My legs are already big enough.  I don’t want them to get any bigger.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a conversation with hockey players that started just like this.   First off, in probably 97% of cases, their legs aren’t big enough.  B: Something tells me […]

I’ll be the first one to admit that I don’t follow politics as closely as I probably should.  Yesterday I made it a point to take an hour to watch some of the Inauguration festivities, including President Obama’s speech.  One of the recurring themes I noticed throughout his speech was that we need to start […]

I played hockey for 15 years before I made the transition into coaching.  Throughout that time I rarely played other sports.  Soccer for a few years when I was very young.  Baseball for a season.  But that was about it.  Last night I went bowling for the first time in a while.  A huge fan […]

After 18 hours of weeping following an embarrassing Eagles performance, I’m ready to get back to talking hockey. Last week I started talking about the importance of setting up a well-designed dynamic warm-up before every training session, practice, and game. Let’s take a deeper look into that area. When I put together a warm-up, I […]

Another week down.  Here’s a copy of my training program.  As always, feel free to send any questions my way at kn@kevinneeld.com. Jan 12, 2009 A1) Hang Clean: 135 x 5; 175 x 1; 185 x 1; 195 x 1 A2) Med. Handle Low-Pulley Row: 140 x 5; 210 x 3 sets of 2 B1) […]