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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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Improve Your Hockey Speed with this Exercise
June 2, 2023
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 […]
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Core Bracing: The Secret Weapon For Hockey Domination
June 2, 2023
Once you have this down, it will improve all of your gym lifts which will have a direct transfer over to your hockey performance. Today, I want to be a little bit more specific (I provided over 30 exercises in my previous core article) and narrow in on the topic of what core bracing is, and […]
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Why Goalies Need To Lift Heavy
June 2, 2023
The biggest reason why I have my goalies incorporate relative strength programming (sets of 1-3 reps) more often than my offense/defensive athletes is the sheer importance of the need to be as fast and explosive as possible Although I have yet to create any content specifically for goalies, my experience in this area is strong. […]
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How Hockey Players Can Build Muscle
June 2, 2023
Because training was only the stimulus, your nutrition and sleep are going to determine whether or not you actually adapt to that stimulus to build muscle tissue. When it comes to building muscle mass for hockey athletes, you need to have an adequate intake of protein in your diet. Technically, water makes up roughly 75 […]
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Best Exercises for a Harder Hockey Shot
June 2, 2023
Hockey movements in the gym are skills that you develop over time in the same way that you develop new skills on the ice. When it comes to hockey performance, you need to have the ability to express maximal force in the shortest timeframe possible. The faster you can express force into the hockey specific […]
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Learn How to Ice Skate in 10 Steps
June 2, 2023
Remember that ice skating is fun. Enjoy your time at the rink. Smile and laugh. The great thing about learning how to ice skate is that you can do it at almost any age. Ice skating gives you a good aerobic workout and can improve your balance and coordination. Over time, you’ll also strengthen your […]
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Top 10 Tips for New Ice Hockey Players
June 2, 2023
By improving your general strength, speed, balance, coordination, agility and explosiveness — for example by working out in the gym, doing running training or playing another sport — you will become a better ice hockey player. Equipment – What you should and shouldn’t do When you’re starting out, as when you’re taking up any new […]
I Hope They Didn’t Bring Apple Juice
June 2, 2023
A call to action for all those who take youth hockey way too seriously There was about two minutes to play in the playoff game and I was anxiously pacing behind the bench, barking out whatever instructions seemed important at that very moment. You watch the game and you watch the clock in those final […]
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What’s That Smell?
June 2, 2023
I don’t know about you but it makes me gag every time my skater opens his bag or tries to hug me after a game.  Same when I’m near any group of players at the rink. There’s always that one player who walks by and my eyes water because the smell is so strong. Try walking […]
Chalk Talk: 3-on-2 Transition Game
Chalk Talk: 3-on-2 Transition Game
May 9, 2023
Small-area games and engaging practice structure were hot topics at the 2018 USA Hockey National Coaches Symposium in Lake Placid, New York. 
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