I had posted a comment posted to one of my hockey training videos on YouTube, said the athlete, which played the hockey team for me. Although I do not play an adult pick up hockey from time to time, I do not think that what he wanted. I had to admit that I am a fitness trainer who works with several hockey players. I normally leave the drive on ice hockey coach and power skating coach, after all, he or she is the expert in this field. An exception is conditioned on the ice. If many elite players to time away to take the ice for the summer, I believe customers up to a certain power skating and conditioning on the ice once or twice a week to make in June and July, in the hope they are on Ice climbing 3-5 days per week from August.

Like you, cycling, running, exercise level can imagine, are all very different from the skating stride. I like the film board, but there is no way for a multi-directional exercises on the board or film on a treadmill skating for this question. I have a few different types of exercises on the ice on a continuum of speed and acceleration, speed endurance. Then I can layer on this continuum, such as stability, flexibility, responsiveness, or to add. Below I will describe one of the “Big Bang” exercises I use for training hockey players. The only equipment needed is small cones and a stopwatch.

All varied very precisely on the position the athlete plays better, but that’s how I set up for a striker. I set up cones about five small mark in the offensive zone, to vary the position to show, however, look at the area around the offensive zone against each other in the circle on the right network. In general, it will be at the top of the circle in front of the net deep into the corner, one near the hash marks on the boards and other behind the net. Each cone is about 3-7 meters.

You can do this exercise with or without the puck, it depends on your destination. Work out or do you have speed and agility with speed and puck control of the work. Whatever the chosen drill works the same way.

* Start with the player at one of the cones.
* The drill begin with the words “Go” to start the stopwatch.
* You give the player a visual reference points immediately to one of the cones.
* The hockey player skates to the goal as fast as he or she can.
* As a player approaches the cone, he or she turns on the coach for their next destination.
* You must quickly provide visual reference, so that the player does not need to slow down or stop and wait for the tail.
* Next, the athletes in a random patter for the specified time.

I often use this drill for 8-15 seconds interval to rest with a 1:4 or 1:6 work. One of my favorite hockey practice, because it combines the mobility on the ice and packaging as well as cognitive training, that reading the athlete and to respond to visual stimuli. Hope it helps you to better train hockey players.

The owner of Revolution Air Ontario, Canada, Maria Berg is the coach of Olympic ability, professional athletes and amateurs. She specializes in helping them to their highest level while reducing the risk of injury.