Posts in Hockey Training

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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Bruins Academy Feature: Upper Body Strength for Hockey Players

Bruins Academy Feature: Upper Body Strength for Hockey Players

Check out this short clip from “Bruins Academy” where  Tim Lebbossiere and I discuss two exercise variations hockey players at all ages can do to improve their upper body strength. If you’re interested, you can check out the full episode here: Bruins Academy (Season 9, Episode 7) Feel free to post any comments/questions below. If […]

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Ultimate Hockey Training: Bilateral Deficit

Ultimate Hockey Training: Bilateral Deficit

Short excerpt from my book Ultimate Hockey Training on the “bilateral deficit”. There are structural, biomechanical and neurological reasons for why single-leg training is essential for sport performance, and advantageous for general population folks. Of particular interest – fatigue is pattern specific, so a focus on single-leg training leads to fatigue resistance in single-leg patterns, […]

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