In the first part of this series, we focused on mobility training for hockey players and we now our attention to basic training. As mobility exercises you should be able to get your basic training done in 10-20 minutes. Let me be clear that this is not an article on “AB” Training is not an article on how to get a ripped six-pack. This article is for athletes to use their chest muscles to produce energy and to maximize, while they must dominate their stability Sport wrote.

The first thing I want you to do, test, adding the following years.

Base board – 45 years with perfect technique
- To sit knee bent, elbows on his knees, without lifting your feet for a representative

Can you these exercises with perfect technique? If so, then help the following exercises, but you know very well. If you can not do these exercises with perfect technique, then read this book as soon as possible and start with these exercises in the basic training immediately.

# 1 – the first year, the memory will run to buy an outbreak consistently good stability ball.

# 2 – Practice brand new knees on the ball that you just bought. Be careful when you do that. Start with your hands on a table or counter, once you feel that you find your balance, lift your finger on the table easily. Keep your hands around the table that you yourself back into balance quickly. Practice to for 60 seconds, without the balance table.

# 3 – Ball knee puck control is the next progression. It teaches the body to stabilize your torso reflex, while your conscious control elsewhere is concentrated. Take a stick and ball handling to eighth at the small towers or your favorite exercise control over the puck to make. Practice for 60 seconds.

# 4 – You are always good mileage on the stability ball, because now you will kneel before the stability ball with his right arm and both hands are on the top of the ball. You live in your chest and large brace your abdominals as you slowly roll the ball forward at the point where you feel your abdominal muscles tighten. If you go too far with your hands, you feel tension or stress in your back. Therefore, it is important to slowly roll forward and focus on the search for the point where you feel your abdominal muscles tighten. Make sure not to bend your hips as you roll the ball forward, remains high. Complete 10-15 repetitions with perfect form.

Perform these exercises 2-3 times per week to build a solid core during your hockey season.