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Congrats to the U.S. Women’s Ice Hockey Team for getting off to a great Olympic start! In an effort to get more incredible contributors to Hockey Training Expert, I’ve been talking a lot with hockey coaches and instructors with hundreds of years of combined experience. Hockey players and coaches recognize the benefits of having a […]

The snow by Endeavor, the facility in Sewell, NJ that I work at, is out of control! Luckily we were able to sneak in yesterday morning to get a quick lift in before NJ officially went into a “state of emergency” and it was illegal to be on the roads. With the launch of my […]

Yesterday, after digging my car out of over 2 feet of snow with a plastic dust pan and a hockey stick (what’s a shovel?), I put up a post introducing my new hockey training membership site. Today I want to introduce some of the contributors to the site. I’m really excited about the combination of […]

I’m very excited to announce my new hockey training membership site, HockeyTrainingExpert.com is officially LIVE! I really think this site will change hockey training forever. I’ve added everything that I think a hockey player, coach, or strength and conditioning coach would want to know: – Dozens of hockey training programs for hockey players of all […]

Part 3 of the return to normal in-season hockey training following knee surgery… If you missed the first two posts, check them out below: Training Hockey Players with Knee Injuries Hockey Training with a Knee Injury Following the first 4 weeks of training (described in the previous two posts), the player visited Shattuck St. Mary’s […]

A couple days ago I wrote about the training program I used for a hockey player that had recently undergone knee surgery. You can read that here: Training Hockey Players with Knee Injuries. That post included a sample upper body training session that he used. After the first couple weeks, the general inflammation from the […]

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned that I was doing some work with a young hockey player that had recently undergone a meniscal repair surgery. You can read that article here: Doctors vs. Strength Coaches: A Difference in Perspective After speaking with his surgeon and physical therapists, I put together a program for him. Phase […]

Most youth hockey programs get 1-2 hours a week for off-ice training.  In the last two articles I’ve gone over dynamic warm-ups and core training, the most important two forms of training that every hockey player should be doing.  Taken together, the warm-up and core training generally takes the first 15 minutes of each session.  […]

There’s nothing more frustrating than spending countless hours working toward something, only to realize you haven’t made any progress.  Actually, there is one thing: spending countless hours working toward something, only to realize you’ve actually been progressing in the WRONG direction!  In the world of hockey training, crunches, sit-ups, and partner leg throw-downs predominate as […]

Hockey is the greatest sport on earth.  Finally recognizing this, the number of youth hockey programs in the U.S. continues to grow rapidly.  Characterized by rapid high-intensity movements, high velocities, and full-speed collisions, it’s not hard to see why off-ice training would be advantageous.  With injuries such as “groin” pulls, hip flexor strains, sports hernias, […]