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Here is phase 1 Core for the 2011/2012 season....Keep Reading ›

This video is of a Division I lacrosse player I've worked with over the last several months at Endeavor. He has undergone 4 separate operations (2 on each side) to address his CAM impingement and associated labral damage, and a bilateral athletic pubalgia (sports hernia) repair....Keep Reading ›

In this presentation filmed at the 2015 Great Lakes Hockey Strength and Conditioning Clinic, Jim McKee from Fluid Being Performance talks about the role of unconscious learning in athletic development....Keep Reading ›

This is a 2 day per week Fall program that I used with our team of 1996 birth year players....Keep Reading ›

I have started using this exercise in my warm ups this Summer as a progression into Turkish Get Ups....Keep Reading ›

Here is a mobility exercise that we are now doing to improve thoracic spine extension. We are making sure that our athletes are in a position that ensures that the lumbar spine is stable by squeezing the foam roller between the knees while keeping them above 90 degrees....Keep Reading ›

2009 was a great personal and professional year for me. Boston University won the National Championship in ice hockey. Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning had an "up" year in a down economy. My family remained healthy and happy. In addition I wrote a new book and had a huge success with Functional Strength Coach Vol 3. Lastly, StrengthCoach.com has grown tremendously. I had lots of things reinforced for me this year that I want to share. Here are just a few:...Keep Reading ›

This is Phase 1 Day 1 of our Group A ('00s-'02s) in-season training program....Keep Reading ›

These are some plyometric variations that I have been using with the National Team this Spring. I like these multi-directional variations because they require a lot of hip motion and single leg landings....Keep Reading ›

Each hockey season offers its own characteristics and demands. It seems that each successive season, the schedule gets more difficult for us from a perspective of scheduling strength training sessions....Keep Reading ›

A Round-Table Discussion with Devan McConnell, Mark Lambert, Tim Lebbossiere, and Ben Eaves from the 2022 SCAPH One-Day Seminar...Keep Reading ›

Here is the team performing resisted uphill crossovers....Keep Reading ›

We will use this or a similar chain with our returning / older guys that are familiar with the basic KB movements. We do chains in a partner- I go-You go fashion. We progress them over 3 weeks by doing sets of 1,2,3 x 4 week 1, then 2,3,4x4 week 2, and 2,3,5x4 on week 3. They also do a set of pull ups x 4 after completing each set....Keep Reading ›

Here is the first phase of the team's training for this season....Keep Reading ›

Here is what Devan McConnell is doing in-season with the U-Mass Lowell hockey team....Keep Reading ›

Here is the lineup for the 2017 Great Lakes Hockey Strength and Conditioning Clinic....Keep Reading ›

This is Phase 5 of our 2-day team in-season program for the 16U-18U teams we work with. At this time of the year, the focus transitions further away from improving strength and power and more toward maintenance of these qualities with minimal fatigue accumulation AND in facilitating recovery....Keep Reading ›

Here's a short video of a mistake we see a lot of young hockey players making when they do push ups....Keep Reading ›

Here is a really good article submitted by Anthony Donskov....Keep Reading ›

Check out this classic program for the San Jose Sharks from 1994! Thanks to Steve Myrland....Keep Reading ›