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Hockey is one of the few team sports played on ice. Its fast-paced gameplay is filled with precise passes, blistering slapshots, and hard collisions—making hockey one of the best spectator sports. Two teams faceoff with a total of twelve players on the ice at a time, including two goalies. 

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What Hockey Training Program Is Best For Me?
June 2, 2023
Goalies need to be incredibly mobile, they have a different conditioning need, they need to be very explosive, and their reaction time needs to be at an elite level every time they step on the ice. In the beginning of the HockeyTraining.com days, it was really simple – all that was available was an off-season training […]
There’s a Place You Can Go
June 2, 2023
For me, hockey has always been much more than a game. It’s a place you can go to forget about everything in the world for a while, where there’s no pain and no problems. Everything is just pure fun. The stuff I want to talk about isn’t easy. So I’m going to start with a […]
How to Schedule Your Off-Season Hockey Training
June 2, 2023
It’s the athlete who is able to put that hard work into the most intelligent areas in the most intelligent periodization structure who is going to get the best results. The term “periodization” simply represents the process of organizing your training into phases. These phases are placed in a logical order for the purpose of optimizing your […]
Where Is the Fun in Life if There Is No Challenge?
June 2, 2023
To access their skills within that sport that they can no longer play competitively and use them in other aspects of life to succeed. “Where is the fun in life if there is no challenge?”  Those words ring true more Division I hockey player Andrew Mayer. The Ferris State University senior’s middle name should be GRIT! His […]
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Designing an Off-Season Hockey Speed Workout
June 2, 2023
You should always include some form of high power output movements such as jumps or medicine ball throws The answer to this is quite complex, as speed is a physical quality an athlete gains through a variety of proxy measurements, the most relevant for hockey players including: – Genetics – Training age – Warm up […]
What To Drink During Your Hockey Game
June 2, 2023
When all is said and done, hockey athletes should be consuming during-the-game nutrition every single time in one form or another. Any hockey player or coach understands that what we eat is important, but how about when you eat it? Especially for a hockey game? In this blog post, let’s review the different areas of nutritional sports […]
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Off-Ice Hockey Training: Puck Handling is Important Skill to Develop
June 2, 2023
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, […]
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No Equipment Needed Hockey Training
June 2, 2023
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 […]
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Ten Tips For Hockey Grocery Shopping on a Budget
June 2, 2023
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 […]
The Complete Hockey Hydration Guide
June 2, 2023
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 […]
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