Posts in Hockey Training

Hockey Hips, Early Specialization, and Work Capacity

Hockey Hips, Early Specialization, and Work Capacity

After having Eric Cressey as a guest on the Evolving Performance Podcast, he invited me to do a “home and home” and be a guest on his Elite Baseball Development Podcast. Check out the episode here: Hockey Hips, Early Specialization and Work Capacity In the episode, we talk through a lot of hockey-related topics and […]

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NHL Combine feature in The Athletic

NHL Combine feature in The Athletic

I was recently featured as a source in a new article on The Athletic about the NHL combine, including: ✅ The goal of the combine and how NHL staffs are viewing testing data ✅ Why players should be well-prepared for the tests, even if they aren’t gifted in a specific area ✅ The most “important” […]

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Elite Minds Podcast: Athlete Development & Optimization

Elite Minds Podcast: Athlete Development & Optimization

Here’s another episode of Metabolic Elite‘s “Elite Minds Podcast” where Cal Dietz (Associate Director of Athletic Performance at the University of Minnesota, and Author of Triphasic Training), and I sat down to talk about: How training evolves as athletes progress from youth to college to professional levels How to maximize an athletes return to play […]

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Bruins Academy Feature: Lower Body Strength Training

Bruins Academy Feature: Lower Body Strength Training

In this clip from “Bruins Academy” Tim and Lebbossiere and I outline lower body strength training exercises youth hockey players can do with no equipment to help them get into and maintain deep skating positions and more powerful strides. If you’re interested, you can check out the full episode here: Bruins Academy (Season 9, Episode […]

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Bruins Academy Feature: Off-Ice Speed Training for Hockey

Bruins Academy Feature: Off-Ice Speed Training for Hockey

Speed training is critical for hockey players. While it’s important to emphasize traditional acceleration drills in an off-ice training program, speed is expressed in sport through a variety of transitional patterns. In this quick segment Tim Lebbossiere and I filmed for “Bruins Academy”, we go over 3 speed training drills youth hockey players can do […]

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