Every year my friend Joe Heiler from Sports Rehab Expert puts together an outstanding teleseminar series, which he calls the “Sports Rehab to Sports Performance Teleseminar“, with many of the industry leaders in the full spectrum of athletic development. Since its origin, this series has become one of my favorite times of the year, as I get some terrific material to listen to on my commutes to and from work everyday. Each year there are 4-5 seminars that I listen to over and over and over because there is so much quality content packed inside (or I’m not smart enough to digest the content after a single listen…).

Sports Rehab Expert

It sounds cliche to say the speaker line-up gets better and better every year, but…I think the speaker line-up gets better and better every year. Or, at least, Joe continues to do a great job of finding extremely bright speakers to best compliment speakers in previous series and/or cater to the current interests of his community at Sports Rehab Expert. This year is no exception. Take a look at this year’s line-up:

  1. Dan John – discusses ‘Intervention:  Course Corrections for the Athlete and Trainer‘ including goal setting, training the 6 basic movements, proper exercise progression, and more…
  2. Dr. Mark Cheng – talks about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), acupuncture vs. dry needling, combining TCM with corrective exercise, kettlebells, and the martial arts.
  3. Diane Lee – one of the foremost experts on the lumbopelvic-hip (LPH) complex, discussing assessment and treatment using her Integrated Systems Model, and putting it all together to rehab and train athletes.
  4. Mike Voight – discusses the 4×4 matrix of the Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) to train motor control/stability and enhance movement.
  5. Dr. Evan Osar‘Corrective Exercise Solutions for Common Hip and Shoulder Dysfunction‘ including breathing pattern corrections, the importance of joint centration, and more…
  6. Jason Glass – Rotational power slings for golf and other rotation sports, screening rotational athletes, common injuries and prevention, and best training methods.
  7. Robert Butler – researching the pillars of Functional Movement Systems including pain and effects on motor control, injury prediction and the FMS, and more…
  8. Neil Rampe – using the Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) and Postural Restoration Institute (PRI) systems in professional baseball, identifying and addressing asymmetries.
  9. Charlie Weingroff – discusses principles from his Training=Rehab and How to Make a Monster seminars including soft core vs. hard core training, using DNS principles and joint centration, using the SFMA to target dysfunction.
  10. Dr. Mark Scappaticci – discusses his Functional Integrated Therapy (FIT) system including Fascial Abrasion Technique and Functional Integrated Needling, treating painful and non-painful dysfunction, and working with elite athletes.
  11. Kelly Starrett – talks about the unique challenges of working with CrossFit and other athletes that push themselves to the limits, the importance of joint mobility, tissue quality, and movement, plus a whole lot more…

I’m really looking forward to every speaker, but I’m particularly excited to hear Diane Lee (whose information I’ve come across on multiple occasions in my pursuit for a deeper understanding of what leads to the hip and low back injuries so common in ice hockey), Charlie Weingroff (who I’ve learned a ton from in the past and have a great deal of respect for), and my friend Neil Rampe (who could very well be the smartest person in the training industry that you’ve never heard of).

As always, the teleseminar is completely FREE to register for. Just click the link below and enter your name and email address so Joe can send you updates about the times of the calls and you’re all set!

Click here for more information or to register >> Sports Rehab to Sports Performance Teleseminar

Enjoy!

To your success,

Kevin Neeld
UltimateHockeyTraining.com

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Today, we’ll dive into the top Hockey Training and Exercise Videos of 2012. If you’ve missed the previous articles in this series, you can check them out at the links below:

  1. Top Hockey Training and Development Posts of 2012
  2. Top Performance Training and Injury Prevention Posts of 2012
  3. Top Hockey Nutrition Posts of 2012

1) Ultimate Hockey Training: Transitional Speed Training for Hockey

2) Ultimate Hockey Training: Hockey Conditioning

3) Ultimate Hockey Training: Comprehensive Off-Ice Training Programs

4) CAM Impingement: Training Implications

5) Hockey Strength and Conditioning: Thoracic Mobility Progression

6) Hockey Training: Mobility/Recovery Circuit

7) Hockey Training: 3-Way Split Squat IsoHold

8) Hockey Training: Sidestanding Med Ball Shotput w/ Cross-Under Step

9) Hockey Training: Split Squat IsoHold to Lateral Bound

10) Hockey Training: Squat Hold to Vertical Jump

Honorable Mention: Hockey Training: Hang Clean w/ Helmet

The “Best of 2012” series wraps up tomorrow with the Top Resources of 2012!

To your success,

Kevin Neeld
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The “Best of 2012” series continues today with the Top Hockey Nutrition Posts of 2012. Short and sweet today, which should give you a chance to catch up on some of the articles from the previous two days!

Check out what you’ve missed:

  1. Top Hockey Training and Development Posts of 2012
  2. Top Performance Training and Injury Prevention Posts of 2012

On to the Top 3 Hockey Nutrition Posts of 2012! These posts have sparked a lot of questions through email and cover some of the hot topics in the world of hockey nutrition. If you’re interested in learning more, I highly recommend you check out Brian St. Pierre’s Ultimate Hockey Nutrition. It’s PACKED with practical information and is the single-best hockey nutrition resource I’ve ever come across!

 

Ultimate Hockey Nutrition

 

  1. A 4-Step Plan for Off-Season Weight Gain
  2. Hockey Nutrition: Grocery Shopping
  3. Pre- and Post-Game Meals for Hockey Players

Tomorrow I’ll be back with the top videos of 2012, so check back then!

To your success,

Kevin Neeld
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The “Best of 2012” series continues today with the Top Performance Training and Injury Prevention Posts of 2012. These are posts that have a profound affect on athletic development and injury prevention, but aren’t necessarily written JUST for hockey players. As you know, most training and injury prevention concepts are applicable to most sports; this is especially true of the articles below. Enjoy!

  1. Dissecting Muscle Function: Force Production
  2. Dissecting Muscle Function: Influence
  3. Performance Training: Adaptations for Femoroacetabular Impingement
  4. Managing Structural and Functional Asymmetries in Ice Hockey: Part 1
  5. Managing Structural and Functional Asymmetries in Ice Hockey: Part 2
  6. Improving Athletic Performance Beyond Peak Strength: Part 1
  7. Improving Athletic Performance Beyond Peak Strength: Part 2
  8. Reactive Plyometric Progression
  9. What it Means to be a “Boyle Guy”

If you haven’t already, don’t forget to check out the Top Hockey Training and Development Posts of 2012!

To your success,

Kevin Neeld
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With 2013 officially upon us, I thought it would be a good time to recap some of the highlights of 2012. On a personal note, 2012 has been an incredible year. Some of the highlights, in no particular order:

1) Starting and finishing a massage program at Lourdes Institute of Wholistic Studies
2) Becoming Lower Extremity and Spine ART certified
3) Completing my first full year with the US Women’s National Hockey Team, including working at the IIHF World Championships in Burlington, VT and at the USOC in Colorado Springs
4) Releasing my book Ultimate Hockey Training
5) Writing a chapter for the recently released Men’s Health Big Book of Abs
6) Being featured twice in Men’s Fitness
7) Endeavor Sports Performance moving into our new facility (which I was able to design from scratch) within Total Turf Experience in Pitman, NJ
8) Making the move to Collingswood, NJ so I don’t have to pay that absurd $5 toll to get back to Philly every night!
9) Having an opportunity to speak to both 198 ’98 birth year hockey players through a USA Hockey Festival Camp in Colorado Springs, and to ~200 attendees at the USA Hockey Level 4 Coaching Clinic in New Jersey.
10) Training a few of the Flyers during the lockout
11) Last, but certainly not least, winning my first ever Ugly Christmas Sweater award!

Ugly Christmas Sweater

Special shout out to Emily and her siblings, who apparently bought what could very well be the most ridiculous sweater I’ve ever seen for their mom when they were little kids!

I’ve had a lot of fun over the last year and have been fortunate to have gotten to know and spend some time learning from a lot of new people. This site also experienced an incredible growth over the last year, reaching 304,065 page views, up from 188,160 in 2011. This is ALL thanks to your continued support and help in spreading the word about articles that you’ve found some value in. I truly appreciate your support and can’t thank you enough. I’m hoping to make 2013 the best year yet, so please feel free to speak up if there are specific topics you want me to write about.

With all of that said, let’s move on to some of the top hockey training and hockey development posts of 2012. The series will continue throughout the week with some of the other top features of the year, so stay tuned!

  1. Off-Season Hockey Training Program
  2. A Letter to Parents of Undersized Players (My favorite post of the year!)
  3. Understanding USA Hockey’s American Development Model
  4. What Muscles Do You Use To Shoot?
  5. The Myth of Wrist Strength in Hockey
  6. 3 Keys to Developing Optimal Skating Technique
  7. Unconventional Approaches to First Step Quickness
  8. Improving Shot Power Through Rotational Core Training
  9. Hip Active Isolated Stretching for Hockey Players

To your success,

Kevin Neeld
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