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The following 12week program is a 4-day off-season conditioning program. The conditioning days that are prescribed are days 1,2,3 and 5. Day 4 is off from conditioning....Keep Reading ›

This program is a general physical preparation workout that focuses on movement re-education, progressive resistance and strength endurance. The following prescription is recommended to those who have a well established training age and who are free from injury entering the off-season....Keep Reading ›

Your career will be a rollercoaster. Justin opens up about getting let go by the Anaheim Ducks....Keep Reading ›

The 1/2 Kneeling Shoulder Controlled Articulation is a mobility drill inspired by the Functional Range Conditioning program. This mobility exercise is designed to have the shoulder complex move through and control rotational movement, while developing dynamic strength at end range. The goal of this exercise is to remain as square as possible while rotating through a full range of sagital plane motion about the shoulder. The athlete should maintain a strong squeeze on the tennis ball to increase rotator cuff activation, and apply pressure into the wall to create a unique iso-dynamic stress to the supporting musculature. We will place this in a tri or quad set just prior to an upper body pressing exercise, such as bench press or db overhead press....Keep Reading ›

Here are some hip extension exercises that focus on the ISOMETRIC phase of the contraction. We use these ISO's early in our off-season program to re-edcuate our players on proper glute contraction both in straight leg and bent knee positions....Keep Reading ›

This is a great transverse plane pulling exercise. We cue the athletes to drive off the inside leg, keep a vertical spine during rotation and allow the inside leg to drive your hip rotation. Enjoy. Mike Potenza...Keep Reading ›

Although I am not a fan of DB Cleans I have incorporated Rear Foot Elevated DB Cleans into our training. Its a good contra-lateral pattern and it porvides variation over the course of a long season....Keep Reading ›

Perhaps the most important single training phase of the entire year, the Reconditioning Phase is what I call the first phase of training after the season is complete. This training phase is crucial, as it sets up the entire training year....Keep Reading ›

This is a snatch variation that I have used throughout this season....Keep Reading ›

This week's archive dig....Keep Reading ›

HockeyStrength.com Member and pro hockey player Kevin Schaeffer discusses the advantages of learning and experiencing a great strength and conditioning program when you are a player....Keep Reading ›

This is Phase 1 of our "Early Off-Season" training program....Keep Reading ›

Here is the video recording of National Team Development Program skating coach Carrie Keil's presentation for the 2015 Great Lakes Hockey Strength and Conditioning Clinic. In it, she covers the unique demands of the hockey stride and how to train to improve performance....Keep Reading ›

This is a more demanding body saw variation using a stability ball....Keep Reading ›

A strategy using the Compex Muscle Stim Unit for combating AMI....Keep Reading ›

This is a one leg deadlift being performed with the Powermax Super Deadlift Bar. It is a great tool for loading squats and deadlifts....Keep Reading ›

Here is a Med Ball variation we are using to work on the stiffening that occurs in a snap shot (and a lot of other movements in hockey)...Keep Reading ›

Here's a great reverse lunge variation from our friend Mike LaFrenier at Elite Strength and Conditioning. The suitcase carry and the row add an extra level of core stability to a standard reverse lunge....Keep Reading ›

Here is a video from a training session that we did recently. The athlete in the video is hockey player, Kyle McKinnon of Providence College. He is doing our 10-Rep Cluster Bench Press during our "Accumulation -2" phase of our summer program....Keep Reading ›