Daily Training Tip #721

Having a routine is a good thing, if the routine you follow is a good one. If you are sprinting, lifting, skating and jumping on a daily basis all year around, continue and keep going. If that is not your routine, you better change your routine!

Daily Training Tip #720

As we progress closer to the start of the hockey season, you should soon be switching to a new phase of your off-season program. Your weights should be increasing as your reps should be decreasing. Its also a good idea to switch up some of your lifts as well as your body reacts well to change.

Daily Training Tip #719

I’ve said this numerous times before, hockey is a 1 Legged sport. A good portion of your training needs to be on one leg. One leg activities should be strength, explosive, power, quickness and balance activities, same as your two legged activities.

Train on 1 Leg!

Daily Training Tip #718

There are a lot of different exercises you can complete using Nothing But You. Body weight exercises are very good for your development. For instance, you can add to your leg strength by completing Body Squats (a squat with no resistance) on a daily basis. Pull Ups are another good exercise that uses no resistance.

Body weight exercises let you use perferct form and are less taxing so they can be performed them all the time.

Daily Training T ip #717

Be creative when designing your own ‘home gym’ or home training center. Most hockey players have an area at or around their house that is used for stickhandling and shooting pucks. Well, use that same area to get some extra strength training done as well.

Strength equipment is usually big, bulky and expensive. Be creative in your design of your home gym. Take a trip to your local hardware store and pick up some PVC piping and make some hurdles to jump over. Use your hockey bag to complete lateral jumps over. Fill your school backpack with your school books and complete squats with it. There are so many creative ways to build your home gym so you are able to train at at home and get in some extra work after everyone else is in bed.

Daily Training Tip #715

I skipped DTT #715 yesterday, so I’ll make it up today.

There are no rest days! Your body has a habit of being active and working hard. It doesn’t react well to “rest days.” Your program needs more intense days and less intense days, but no rest days. Your less intense days can be active rest days, which are being active on your own. Your career is way to short for you to be having days completely off from training.

Daily Training Tip #716

In a world where people seem to be handing off their work loads to others to complete, this can’t happen in the gym. ONLY YOU can complete your work in the gym. There are no excuses, no one else included, only you. You either work hard and work smart or you don’t. It is really that simple.