From The MOTION Lab

An Intro to The MOTION Lab

By CoachC | October 19, 2020 |
An Intro to The MOTION Lab

If there’s one thing I greatly miss after relocating from Massachusetts to Florida it’s my indoor hockey training facility I dubbed The MOTION Lab. The short video above provides a brief introduction but, I’ll look forward to sharing lots of ideas in future posts, including background information concerning some of the gadgets you see used…

Enhancing Goaltending Reflexes

By CoachC | May 16, 2025 |
Enhancing Goaltending Reflexes

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3 Defensive Skill Drills

By CoachC | May 15, 2025 |
3 Defensive Skill Drills

This post is an example of what can be gained from one of our Exclusive Hockey Apps. To be honest, these are drills I haven’t even considered before, yet ones that I’d surely use today. ~ Dennis C Anticipation Interception DrillThis drill helps players improve their ability to intercept passes and understand passing lanes. Set…

Power Up Your Hockey Endurance

By CoachC | May 11, 2025 |
Power Up Your Hockey Endurance

During the off-season, many youth hockey families face a tough challenge: how to keep their teenagers in top shape when ice time is hard to come by. Ice rinks may shut down for maintenance, or costs and scheduling make regular access difficult. But staying in shape during the off-season doesn’t have to be expensive or…

Towel – Band Strength Training

By CoachC | April 29, 2025 |
Towel – Band Strength Training

A Towel is the simplest and most cost effective way to add in variety to your band strength training workouts.

2 Ideas We Can Borrow from Ovechkin – Part 2

By CoachC | April 23, 2025 |
2 Ideas We Can Borrow from Ovechkin – Part 2

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Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 2

By CoachC | April 13, 2025 |
Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 2

I think it’s important to mention a few things before actually showing you what we’ve been up to. Okay, so what I’ve done is to design almost a simulated game for my high school guys.  Oh, they weren’t going to be playing, but they wer going to condition themselves in game-like fashion. During our first…

Dynamic Stabilization

By CoachC | March 13, 2025 |

Dave Schmitz advises us on Dynamic Stabilization, or the ability of the muscles to stabilize a joint on the move…

Handling More Than One Problem At Once

By CoachC | March 5, 2025 |
Handling More Than One Problem At Once

How well will comfortably dribbling a puck or ball in place really prepare a player for game action?  I’d say, not very…

Help for Beginner Cross-overs

By CoachC | February 28, 2025 |
Help for Beginner Cross-overs

A few days ago, member Scott T. messaged me about my article on “A Difference in Hockey Teaching Levels“.  As Scott said, “I find a lot of truth here”, in reference to some of the nervousness experienced by adult level beginners as they try new things. Scott went on to say that he has “several…

A Travel Workout

By CoachC | February 23, 2025 |

Dave says, “I like using or trying new equipment, but it’s not what motivates me, and it shouldn’t be what you depend on…”