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Spring time off season strength training is fast approaching. Here is a sample workout to get your team's off season up and running....Keep Reading ›

Simply a few more ideas for multidirectional plyometrics....Keep Reading ›

Here is some video of various off ice games intended for youth coaches. Hope they are helpful....Keep Reading ›

In youth athletic development, just like in a crock pot, low and slow is the way to go. Find out more......Keep Reading ›

Here is Phase 4 Strength Training of off-season 2012 program....Keep Reading ›

Many athletes and trainers are using 'rotational flexibility' exercises in their programs - but is it really helping performance or could it be the cause of more injuries?...Keep Reading ›

This is the presentation I gave at the Boston Sports Medicine and Performance Group Summer Seminar last year diving into various adaptations underlying common injury patterns in hockey players and strategies to minimize injury risk and program around certain structures....Keep Reading ›

Here is an older video that I found featuring a great stretch that I will do with some guys an an individual basis....Keep Reading ›

This is a video of a player performing a DB Snatch with 2 arms. I don't use this variation as much as a 1 arm snatch but I like to incorporate it from time to time....Keep Reading ›

Here is Boston University Hockey's Spring Phase 1 and 2. Provided by Anthony Morando....Keep Reading ›

Physical Development for a young athlete is critical not only for success in sport, but for injury prevention and health. In my experiences working with all levels of competitive hockey, I have found that developing a young hockey player is a year-round process....Keep Reading ›

Who wouldn't get excited about working with professional athletes? In the Strength and Conditioning and Coaching world some consider it the ultimate goal to reach the level in your career where you are working with professional athletes. Often this is a dream for anyone connected to the sports performance space in anyway -- whether it be strength conditioning, chiropractic, sports nutrition, or whatever… the draw is the pros. But, what is often overlooked is the path of development those pros have traveled…...Keep Reading ›

Here is our Off-Season Phase 5 strength training program. This was done from Mid-August up until the official start of the lockout....Keep Reading ›

The assessment form we use at Endeavor for all of our hockey players....Keep Reading ›

Identifying various components of the visual system that aren't typically assessed, but can have a profound effect on performance....Keep Reading ›

The following article is a "cheat sheet" for using Microsoft Excel to organize and analyze your training data and testing data. My summer intern Noah Segall did a great job of showing me more tricks with excel to analyze our testing data and create a database for all our past data. Enjoy, Mike Potenza...Keep Reading ›

Here is the progression of our Core Activation, Strengthening, and Stabilization exercises....Keep Reading ›

Here is Phase 2 of my Off-Season strength program....Keep Reading ›

Here is simple 4 day Summer Phase 1 without Olympic lifts. This would be for coaches who choose not to use the Olympic lifts....Keep Reading ›

Here is a great discussion on youth hockey by the IIHF panel and former Detroit Redwing Igor Larionov....Keep Reading ›