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…
Are you looking to take your fitness to the next level? Want to improve your speed, power, and endurance? Look no further than plyometrics…
One of the most important reasons for taking time off after a hard workout is to allow muscles to repair themselves. Athletes create microtears in their muscles when they train hard, and…
We have Dave Schmitz, alias The Band Man providing a number of awesome shoulder exercises using his trusted rubber bands…
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From an introduction to Coach Chic’s long ago studies at the Moscow Institute for Sport & Physical Culture, this snippet moves into the most important principles in motor learning for hockey players — don’t miss it…
Shaun Goodsell, MA Founder and CEO of Mental Edge Athletes invest enormous amounts of time in practice. Go to a football field, a hockey rink, a baseball diamond and you will most likely see coaches and athletes preparing for an upcoming contest. Many report that practice seems insignificant and boring leading some to quit and…
By now, most serious hockey fans have seen the following video, and many have replayed it until almost memorizing the moves — if it’s even possible to memorize them. Anyway, whether you’ve seen this clip before or not, I’d like the visitor to watch it a time or two, before allowing me to say my…
Dave Schmitz offers some “band training” ideas especially aimed at working the core, but also including some really taxing movements for the skating movement. (I’d use these at home to pass by others on your team or in your league.) So, do check this one out… To watch the entire video, please click HERE! *…
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This isn’t going to be a long post, but it is one that’s very much overdue, mainly because of the video I’m going to share right now… Ya, if a picture is supposedly worth a thousand words, well… Just how much is a video like this worth? Now, if you follow me at all on…