The Bar Complex is a series of 5 exercises done for 6 reps each with no rest once the first exercise is started. We will do 3-4 rounds of this. This is a warm-up that we do before our strength training on day 4 early in the off-season program. We will also do it during […]
Hey everyone, I hope you are doing great with your Thanksgiving day preparations. With the holiday and Friday also being the biggest shopping day of the year, I thought I would get this out today. Anthony Renna and the StrengthCoach Podcast are giving away a year-long membership to Hockeysc.com (amongst other prizes) in honor of […]
The Kettlebell Swing is a great exercise that we use. Originally, it was used solely as a substitute for olympic lifts with players who may not be able to olympic lift due to wrist or hand issues. Now, it is more of a staple exercise for everyone. Unlike the explosive nature of Olympic lifts, the […]
In the November issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, there is a study on page 2883 titled “Complex Training in Ice Hockey: The Effects of a Heavy Resisted Sprint on Subsequent Ice-Hockey Sprint Performance”. The authors are Martyn Matthews, Paul Comfort, and Robyn Crebin from the University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK. […]
This Week on HockeyStrengthandConditioning.com: Hi Everyone, I hope you had a great week! Happy Veteran’s day to all who have served our country. The Ducks have had a good November so far, hopefully we can keep it going. We had another great week at HockeySC.com. The forum is also picking up as we are […]
The more I continue to read Gray Cook’s book, Movement: Functional Movement Systems: Screening, Assessment, Corrective Strategies, the more I realize how much more I need to learn. (A recent evening hanging out with Charlie Weingroff also led me to that conclusion). Right now, I am re-reading chapter 13. Specifically the section on Transitional Posture. We […]
A Facebook post by Kyle Holland from MBSC got me thinking recently about the number of websites and blogs out there in the Strength and Conditioning industry. Obviously, the one you are reading is one of them. This blog is now almost 2 years old and I still have a hard time with “shipping”- (a […]
This Week on HockeyStrengthandConditioning.com: I wanted to add this as part of my blog on a weekly basis. The site is really going well. Although I am definitely in full in-season mode right now, I make it a priority to log on to HockeySC.com on a daily basis. We now have tons […]
We are using more TRX exercises as we learn more that we can do with it. This is actually an excercise that was shown to me by one of our players. I really like it because it is a great progression off of our off-bench oblique exercises. It is another great way to strengthen the […]
I am actually writing this blog on my ipad at a Starbucks in Anaheim Hills on a rare rainy day. I really enjoy the ipad as I get to write blogs like this, write articles, read articles, listen to podcasts, and watch tv shows and movies. One recent article that I have […]