While there is no real substitute for spending time on the ice, off-ice training can vastly improve players’ strength and skills, ensuring that they are doing everything possible to achieve success in ice hockey. Just like any sport, ice hockey requires countless, and often strange, hours on ice working on skills like skating, puck handling, […]

If you do this workout right, you’re going to have an immediate respect for what type of impact body weight training can have on your hockey performance Training with no equipment puts you in a unique position, you can either: 1 – Get an excellent workout in while still making it fit the demands of […]

It’s so important that we fuel our bodies right if we want to be the healthiest and best hockey players that we can be, and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Parents, I’m not telling you something you don’t already know. The game of hockey can get really expensive when you start adding everything […]

If you’re a hockey athlete it should go without saying that you should drink fluids regularly. After oxygen, water is the most important substance in the human body. It is a necessary component for nearly every single chemical reaction, acting as a solvent and transport medium. There’s a big reason why your body is about […]

“I hope other colleges and universities, regardless of the level, get involved and incorporate utilizing those players and working with the youth players. It makes the game better.” Junior RedHawks are a co-op of Miami and the Butler County Youth Hockey Association In the spring of 2016, the Miami (Ohio) University RedHawks hockey program formed […]

When all is said and done your legacy as a coach will determined by who your players become not just on the ice but off it. “Trust Men and they will be true to you. Trust them greatly and they will show themselves great” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Coaching can be a very stressful experience. […]

If you can make that connection between where you think the puck is on your blade, and where it really is, then you’ll be a lot more confident and ready to make an adjustment mid-stride. This week’s video is coming at you from the Toronto Maple Leafs practice facility, featuring the Buffalo Regals. I caught […]

Youth athletes can and should be doing off-ice work throughout the year in order to develop their bodies, minds and performance to become the best hockey players they can be. Youth hockey training has quickly become one of the most popular topics here at HockeyTraining.com. Parents, coaches, and hundreds of youth players have been all […]

Today I want to talk about how hockey athletes should be approaching their nutrition in regards to their in-season body composition management and recovery from injury. Why these two topics? Well, body composition (the ratio of lean muscle mass to fat mass) is something a lot of hockey athletes actually regress with quite a bit […]

Take yourself from an externally, heavy loaded movement and then follow suit with a totally unloaded, body weight movement. I better bring some heavy hitting material today if I’m going to open with a headline like that, shouldn’t I? Well, don’t worry about it. I got you covered. Today, I want to discuss the findings […]