After talking to Nick Tumminello, I changed the way I do 1-leg squats. I used to do them with the “up leg” out in front. Some people call this a pistol squat (I hate that name). Now I do them with the up leg behind the body. I made the switch from the “up leg […]
This Summer I’ve been fortunate to work with a group of highly motivated hockey players pursuing various levels of professional hockey. Last week one of my guys said something that stuck with me. Something that I wrote about in my Off-Ice Performance Training Course. He said something that went like: “I hate Wednesdays. This day […]
Last week, one of the athletes I train approached me about an article he came across in Time Magazine. My reaction to his comments was: “You have to be kidding me.” I was going to blast the article and the complete lack of social responsibility Time Magazine showed by printing the article. This is just […]
After a life of playing forward, I was moved back to defense for my first two years of college hockey. Occasionally I would get an opportunity to jump back up to forward for a couple shifts. What an eye opening experience that was! Since I was rarely tired playing defense, I was surprised to feel […]
I remember hearing Michael Boyle talk about how he had Cam Neely step on a scale with his equipment on and how surprised he was about how much weight the equipment added. With over 15 years of experience playing hockey, you’d think I would have picked up on this on my own. From time to […]