You can’t beat sprinting, skating, jumping
or playing dynamic sports for
DEVELOPING ATHLETICISM ...
increasing
ENDURANCE
and improving
DYNAMIC CORE STABILITY !!!
1) Range-of-Motion:
2) Speed-of-Motion:
3) Athleticism: quickness, agility, dynamic balance, explosive power
4) Training movements not muscles: Strength that is truly functional
5) Core training
6) Integrating all of the above as the summer progresses.
7) Multi-Tasking:
Above:
One-legged jumps with a weight vest or without ... alternating left, right, left, etc.
Thinking outside the barrel?
It’s simple ...
get out of the weight room
for much of your training !!!
The more athletic your
workouts, the more likely
they’ll improve athleticism
and reduce injuries.
8) Endurance training
*** for proof that this actually works
see page on anaerobic interval training
“Games are not played in a phone booth”
observes Vern Gambetta,
world-renowned author, exercise physiologist,
and leading proponent of training that is truly ‘functional’
So why limit training to a phone booth?
The best European/Russian training combines
STICK SKILLS, VISION, and ATHLETICISM.
can be a by-product of your workouts for athleticism and skill. Don’t think you have to separate aerobic training from anaerobic workouts for speed and skill, even though ‘experts’ have suggested this for hockey.
A game requires all of these qualities at the same time -- not isolated from each other -- so this should be the basis for your endurance training in the off-season.
This is what it means to be in “HOCKEY SHAPE.”
skating ... and skating-specific dryland training, some at high speed: including sprinting, jumping, and hills
why should training be limited to a phone booth?
Training outside the barrel also includes ...
that is DYNAMIC, ATHLETIC, and SPECIFIC to skating ...
not static, slow, core training that isolates muscles and restricts movement to a barrel.
Core muscles are injured in games when your limbs are out of the barrel, when movement is sudden, quick, and explosive ... so your training should prepare you for this.
There is nothing wrong with
some training in a barrel
to establish a base
of general strength.
However,
to develop athleticism
there must also be a
significant commitment to
skating-specific workouts
that are dynamic, and highly athletic
