Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #30
If you’d like a crash course on strength training for hockey, this is it. And, as I so often promise, you’ll find ideas and advice here that you’re not likely to find anywhere else…
Below please find the Show Notes for Episode 30 of Coach Chic’s Hockey Secrets. Please remember that this podcast might be well over a decade old, but as the intro says, most of the principles shared within are just as valid today…
- This episode actually takes place as I’m moving my office across town
- The benefits of certain types of strength training for very young athletes
- “Free weights” versus machines
- Advice for off-season strength training
- Advice for goaltenders during their off-seasons months
- Considering “progressive resistance exercise” in your strength training
- 3 Basic requirement for strength gains
- Thoughts on gaining confidence
- Why I prefer “skills” training over the term “powerskating”
- Advice on using my “Incredible Stickhandling” course, and my urge to have players at all positions do it
- The old Soviets’ view of the passing game
- My “Russian half-sticks”
- The importance of understanding skills versus playing smarts
During the recording of this show, a dad and his son stopped in to visit.
PS: I got a kick out of saying during that prodcast that we were all confined to watching online hockey training on our computers, when not long after we were all able to use our smart phones for that!
