Posts in Hockey Training

Skating Speed & Rotational Power Development

Skating Speed & Rotational Power Development

It’s been almost 10 months since I last sent out a newsletter. At the end of last Summer, I was fortunate to be offered a new position as the Head Performance Coach with the Boston Bruins. Between moving our family across the country and getting acclimated to a new position/organization, I haven’t had as much […]

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Strength Coach Podcast: Optimizing Adaptation and Performance

Strength Coach Podcast: Optimizing Adaptation and Performance

Last week I had an opportunity to join Anthony Renna on the Strength Coach Podcast to discuss our upcoming seminar Optimizing Adaptation and Performance. During the interview, we discussed: My assessment and performance profiling process and how it influences program design Specific examples of how to train around ankle mobility limitations Strategies to individualize training […]

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Hockey Training Interviews

Hockey Training Interviews

A couple weekends ago I was in Colorado Springs to present at the NSCA’s Training for Hockey Clinic. In advance of the conference, I did a quick interview with Brian Sipotz for the Hockey Strength Podcast that covered a few elements of my presentation “Performance Profiling.” In the interview, we cover: the purpose of the […]

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Top 3 Mistakes in Training Youth Athletes

Top 3 Mistakes in Training Youth Athletes

Today marks the release of Mike Boyle’s newest product: Complete Youth Training When I ran Endeavor Sports Performance, much of the way we designed our programs for youth athletes was guided by things I had learned from Coach Boyle. In short, he’s had a profound impact on how I view the training process. This is […]

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Elite Athletic Development: Mike Robertson Q&A

Today I’m excited to share a Q&A that I did with Mike Robertson, co-creator of the Elite Athletic Development series. Building off his guest post from the other day, one of the 4 jump training mistakes he mentioned was only training bilateral jumps. This is an important topic because the degree to which training transfers […]

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