Daily Training Tip #983

There is a way, some way, to make each of your favorite exercises or routines explosive. As an explosive athlete, you need to be training explosively. Work hard and work smart!

Daily Training Tip #982

Train for a purpose. Don't just show up and go through the motions. Make sure you have a plan in mind and strive to achieve that plan.

Daily Training Tip #981

You are the only person that knows if you are paying a price or not! Some people work hard, others come across that they work hard. However, you are the only one that truly knows.

Make sure you are working as hard and as smart as you possibly can!

Daily Training Tip #980

If you are a fast twitch athlete make sure you are working/training your fast twitch muscle fibers properly. If you are a slow twitch athlete make sure you are working/training both slow twitch and fast twitch muscle fibers properly!

Daily Training Tip #979

Athletes are made when no one is watching them. Most everyone works hard when being watched by a coach, teammate, mentor or parent, however, it is the athletes that pay a price when no one is watching them that succeed the most!

Daily Training Tip #978

Train the way you want to perform. If you want to be an All-Star and perform better than everyone else, train harder and smarter than everyone else!

Daily Training Tip #977

Make sure your workout's follow a sequence. Your most difficult, complex lifts should be completed first. Then work your way to the most basic of your lifts for that day.

Daily Training Tip #976

Sometimes it is tough to get to the gym. If that is the case, make your own implements and get a workout in at home. Find an old tire to flip, use a towel for resisted rows, use your hockey bag for log jumps, use the stairs up to your bedroom for jumps and skips. You get the picture. No excuse to not workout on a regular basis.

Daily Training Tip #975

Keep focused on the final outcome and keep improving at a steady pace. Your successes are not going to come over night. Continue down the proper path and keep on a steady pace, work hard and work smart and good things will continue to happen!

Daily Training Tip #974

As you continue to move through your off-season workouts, keep in mind, the work you are putting in today will affect the outcome of your success come playoff time and the end of the season.

Daily Training Tip #973

Completing interval sprints will help improve your sprinting speed and your aerobic capacity. Repeated 40 yard dashes with a quick walk back recovery are a great addition to your off-season training program.

Daily Training Tip #972

If you have an injury or are rehabbing an injury, pool workouts (or lake) are a great low impact way to still develop your explosive power.

Daily Training Tip #971

Become a better athlete first by completing ATHLETE SPECIFIC workouts. Improving on your strength, speed, explosiveness will make you a better athlete, which makes you a better hockey player. Make those same workouts hockey specific by holding a stick in your hand or stickhandling while completing those same exercises. That's hockey specific!

Daily Training Tip #970

Towels can be used in the gym for more than just wiping your sweat off. Use a towel during your workout today to make yourself a better athlete!

Daily Training Tip #969

You put yourself in position for success by the work you put in. Position yourself in front of everyone else!

Daily Training Tip #968

Make sure the design of your workout program has both push and pull exercises. As an athlete, you use push and pull movements all the time during your sport. You training needs to include both and you need to improve on both movements.

Daily Training Tip #967

Athletes that get more sleep at night are less likely to have injuries occur. Most athletes need 8+ hours of sleep each night. Work hard all day, get to bed on time!

Daily Training Tip #966

Active Rest days are not spent on the couch!

Daily Training Tip #965

If you are a coach and you are training athletes or you are an athlete and you are working with a coach, communication is the key. A coach is unable to know what is going through your head without open lines of communication. In today's world, where communication has moved to phones, texting, and online, make sure you are communicating with your coaches and your athletes.

Daily Training Tip #964

Improve on your weaknesses. Spend some specific time improving your weakest area so you improve as an entire athlete. During the time you are developing that area, continue developing your best areas!

Daily Training Tip #963

A weight vest is a piece of equipment that can be used in multiple ways. Try completing an entire workout today using a weight vest!

Daily Training Tip #962

Different types of training and different types of exercises need different work to rest ratios. Resting is important, but also needs to be the proper length or can hinder your performance. Make sure your work to rest ratios are where they belong.

Daily Training Tip #961

When completing a physical test and someone else has a better score than you, spend the time improving on your physical abilities so you can score better than them the next time. It is all about improvement!

Daily Training Tip #960

Lunges are another great one-legged exercise that athletes should be completing on a regular basis. Alternate between Front/Skater/Side/Reverse lunges. Remember to stop your knee directly above your ankle (not over your toes), sink your hips down and keep your head and chest up.

Daily Training Tip #959

When doing any sort of box jumps, make sure your entire foot lands on top of the box. If you leave your heal hanging off or your toe hanging off, negative affects can occur. If you heal doesn't make it onto the box, it could cause your toe to slip off causing your shin to back on the edge of the box.

Land flat on all boxes or benches.

Daily Training Tip #958

Your career is too short to be making mistakes in your training. Eliminate the mistakes, work hard and work smart and you are well on you way.

Daily Training Tip #957

I've said before to 'think outside of the box' (squat rack) when training. However, you still need to improve your lower body strength. Squatting is one of the best ways to accomplish this. In some way, shape or form, squat on a regular basis!

Daily Training Tip #956

Having your hips down does not mean putting your head and chest down. Sink your hips down, while keeping your head and chest up. If unable to, you need to improve on your lower body strength.

Daily Training Tip #955

When doing resistance training with weights, make sure you control the weight, do not let the weight control you. You move the weight at the proper speed, direction, depth, angle and bring it back to the proper spot.

Daily Training Tip #954

Your body is like a high performance race car. It wants to work hard, be explosive, be powerful and go fast. You just have to lead it in the proper direction.

Daily Training Tip #953

When doing Pull Ups, try using an alternate grip or a 'Hockey Stick Grip.'