Daily Training Tip #897

Your hips are an important part of your skating stride and are often an overlooked area. Make sure to work your hips often on either the hip sled, multi-hip machine, with bands, with bosu's, with swiss balls etc. There are many beneficial exercises out there, use them!

Daily Training Tip #896

You don't skate inside a box, so don't train inside a box!

Daily Training Tip #895

Fatigue causes improper technique. Use your off-ice training time to improve your performance during a fatigued state.

Daily Training Tip #894

Hockey is a game that is played on one leg (as with most sports), so let's make today a one-legged training day. Complete your normal workout, except stand on one leg for all of your upright exercises. Make sure you alternate legs!

Daily Training Tip #893

If you live in MN today, grab a shovel, it's just as good as workout!

Daily Training Tip #892

It is really hard to "overtrain." If you are feeling fatigued or injuried or too tired, chances are there are other factors that are out of place, not overtraining.

Take a long hard look at your diet, make sure it works. Make sure you are getting enough sleep at night. Make sure your training program is structured. These are just three examples that are easily fixed and ARE NOT due to overtraining.

Most cases of overtraining are in the mind.

Daily Training Tip #891

An easy way to improve your sprinting speed (which is directly related to your skating speed) is to (after you are warmed up) sprint everywhere. Don't 'jog' anymore. If you are running a mile, sprint it. Or at least as long as you can, slow down for a bit and then sprint again. Keep your body used to sprinting, no jogging.