Daily Training Tip #572

Use a stability ball during your workout today.


You can use a stability ball for the majority of your exercises; you can sit on it, lay on it, lean against the wall on the ball and balance on it. Adding the ball helps create balance and incorporates/activates your core in an additional way.

Daily Training Tip #571

Keep your heals flat when squatting! Keeping your heals flat takes the stress away from your knees and forces your quads to do more work.

Daily Training Tip #570

Your training program needs to have different phases. Which really means change. Your body reacts well to change. Each phase needs to be built with a different goal in mind. Typically, a year around program will have four phases; hypertrophy, strength, strength & dynamic effort, and lastly maximal strength & power. Then there also needs to be change with in each phase. Talk with your strength coach or trainer and discuss some of your options. Stear away from doing the same things over and over again!

Daily Training Tip #569

The faster you sprint, the faster you skate. Assisted and resisted sprint training both lead to faster sprint times, but in different ways. Assisted sprint training produces gains in the initial phase of the sprint, while resisted training produces gains in the later phases of the sprint. Both are important to hockey players.


Try the below today. Using bungees to "assist" you in sprinting/skating faster by getting pulled by a partner and using bungees to "resist" you while you are pulling your partner. This is a great way to build speed both at the start and at the end of your sprint. It is also very fun!

Daily Training Tip #568

As a strength coach, it pains me to watch young hockey players have their parents take their hockey bag out of the car, extend the handle and hand it to the player so he/she can roll it into the rink. It pains me even more to see mom or dad roll the bag into the rink while the player walks along side.




Every little thing you do, both as a player and as a person, will have an affect on you. When you show up to the rink today; take your bag out of the car yourself, take the wheels off and carry your own gear into the locker room. You will become a better player for it!

Daily Training Tip #567

Body weight exercises are a great way for youth hockey players to start off-ice training. You can start body weight exercises at any age and continue them until any age! Push-Ups, Sit-Ups, Squats, Pull-Ups, etc are great exercises to do on a regular basis for any age, any ability player.

Daily Training Tip #566

Injuries happen. Unfortunately, they are part of the game and sometimes happen at the worst possible time. What you do, after you are injuried will determine how quickly you return to action. You can do a couple of things to speed up the process.


1) Follow your rehab, as perscribed.

2) Make sure you continue to stay in shape. If you have an upper body injury, ride the bike. If you have an lower body injury, ride an arm bike. If able, you can also swim. Depending on your injury, there are other things you can do as well.

3) Continue to eat and sleep proper through your injury process. Don't stay up late eating chips on the couch!

Doing the little things, when injuried, can help you return to action quicker!