Daily Training Tip #666

Reaction Time can be quickened! Just like everything else, to see the best results, work at it!

Daily Training Tip #665

Improvements need to be happening all year long!

If you Pre-Test directly before your season starts and then Post-Test directly after your season ends, your physical scores (at minimum) need to be the same. If not the same, should be better during your post-test at the end of the season.

Think about it this way; you train all year long to be in the best shape and perform your best during the playoffs. Then during the week after your last game, you post-test. If your scores improved, then you were playing at your best ability late in the season. If your scores declined, then you didn’t do everything you could have to win.

Training needs to happen on a regular basis, both in-season and off-season! Start your off-season training now, to assure you are in the best possible shape during next season’s playoffs!

Daily Training Tip #664

Dynamic Warm Up, Lift, Sprint, Jump, Skate and then Cool Down. That is as simple as it gets!

Daily Training Tip #663

The ‘story’ of training is always changing. New gyms with the latest gimmick are constantly opening up. They claim they have the greatest fad. Don’t fall into any training pitfalls.

Complete a training program that is time tested. Complete a training program that has the results to back it up. Complete a training program at Minnesota Hockey Camps!

Daily Training Tip #662

Pull Ups are a great body weight exercise that all hockey players should be doing on a regular basis.

Change your grip from pronated to supanated to hockey stick grip regularly. Use bars, ropes and rings to give your pull ups some varying degrees of difficulty.

Daily Training Tip #661

The only fear you should have in the gym is that you aren’t working hard enough and someone else is getting better than you.

Sometimes athletes have fears of getting injuried in the gym; pulling a muscle, messing up your knees, or some females fear turning into the ‘hulk.’ None of those fears are true if you are taught properly and are doing the proper movements when in the gym. Put your fears aside and get after it today!

Daily Training Tip #660

We all know your eyes are important inside the rink. Your eyes are also important inside the gym. Keeping your eyes looking in the proper direction/spot, helps assure the proper technique.

For example; when squatting keep your eyes looking straight ahead, about 20 degrees above parrallel. This helps keep your head up, which keeps your back flat.