Daily Training Tip #904

Just like on the ice, keep your head up while you are training in the gym. Keeping your head up helps keep you chest up, which in turn, keeps your back in the proper position. It all starts with your head!

Daily Training Tip #903

Show up ready to work. Without hard work, you are not going to accomplish as much as you want to.

Daily Training Tip #902

During force production, everything goes through your feet. They are the final piece of the puzzle. Take care of your feet!

Daily Training Tip #901

Hard work always pays off. Maybe not today or next week or next year, but you will ALWAYS be paid back for your hard work. The journey is long, with obstacles and detours in the way. Continue to outwork everyone and climb to the top! Hard work pays off!

Daily Training Tip #900

We've said it many times, play as many different sports as you possibly can. Yes, there is a time to specialize and make a greater commitment to one sport, however, growing up through the youth ranks play multiple sports.

This helps build you into a better athlete. Generally the best athletes are the best hockey players.

Daily Training Tip #899

If you are an athlete, stay off of weight machines and switch to free weights. Machines focus on one specific muscle group. As an athlete, you never use just one muscle group during an athletic event. Free weights are 'sport specific' as they work/develop multi-muscle groups at the same time, some without you even knowing it.

Working Hard and Working Smart!

Daily Training Tip #898

Complete workouts/exercises that engage multiple muscle groups, on different muscle planes, at the same time. This helps build better athleticism.

Daily Training Tip #897

If you train slow, guess what, you'll become slow. Train Fast, Be Fast!

Daily Training Tip #896

You need to be working hard and working smart for a chance. A chance to win the big game, a chance to take that next step, a chance to be the best.

You will have no chance if you don't work hard and work smart!

Daily Training Tip #895

Don't make excuses. Hold Yourself Accountable. Do what is best for your own career. Put your hard hat on, grab your lunch pail and get after it today!

Daily Training Tip #894

You play games filled with Pride and Passion. You need to have that same Pride and Passion when training off of the ice. If not, your career will be shorter than you want it to be.

Daily Training Tip #893

When coming up with new ways to train your core, don't forget about your lower back. Your core (or Million $ Muscles) is from your nipple line down to your knees, both front and back. Add in some Back Extensions and Hypers today to focus a little more on that area!

Daily Training Tip #892

If you (or your gym) has a Multi-Hip or a 4-Way Hip machine, use it and use it often. This great piece of equipment easily focuses on 4 ranges of motion that your hip performs often.

If you do not have access to one of these machines, you still need to work your hips in these 4 ranges, just use rubber lifting bands.

Daily Training Tip #891

Build strength, speed and explosiveness in the same movement patterns and at the same speed as you would in a game.

Daily Training Tip #890

Tires are a great piece of equipment that you can incorporate into most of your workouts. One reason tires are great are because they come in all shapes and sizes, so they can be used by everyone. Tires can be used inside or outside and can really increase the intensity level of your workouts.

Stop by a junkyard today and pick one up!

Daily Training Tip #899

If you are an athlete and you have a distaste for training, you better find something else to do. In today's world, training/development/workouts/gym time, whatever the word is, is part of everyday life. It is something that all athletes do. If you don't, you will get caught up to and by passed.

Make training your lifestyle!

Daily Training Tip #898

Active Rest means exactly what it says. Take a rest day, but be active. Play pick up basketball, go rollerblading with your friends, go for a bike ride with your parents, play tennis or racquetball.

You get a 'rest' day from your training schedule, but you need to stay active and get off of the couch!

Daily Training Tip #897

When off-ice training, keeping your 'Chest Up' puts your back in the proper position for most lifts/exercises. Stick it out! Be Proud!

Daily Training Tip #896

Most times you 'Don't Like' an exercise in the gym because it is too intense or to hard or too confusing. Spend a little time today on the exercises that you don't like. There are intense and hard for a reason, they are confusing because they are complicated. Don't shy away from great exercises because of the above. Some exercises that you Don't Like, might just be the most beneficial for you!

Daily Training Tip #895

Yesterday was Heels, today is Toes. While jumping, focus on your Big Toe leaving the ground last during take off and hitting the ground first during landing. During sprinting, your big toe is the last to leave the ground, push through it, and last to strike the ground during landing. Always know where your Toes (and Heels) are! Your foot placement is crucial to your training success.

Daily Training Tip #894

Your heels are an important part of your performance in the gym. When squatting, your heels need to be flat on the ground and you need to 'push' through your heels. When jumping, your heels tap the ground lightly or even not at all. When running, only the outside of your heels strikes the ground. So always be thinking about what your heels are doing when you are training off of the ice.