By: Matt Harder, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach: Minnesota Wild If you haven’t heard of or used ChatGPT yet, let me tell you a bit about it. ChatGPT is a conversational AI model developed by OpenAI. It is based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) architecture and is trained on a massive amount of text…
Core Training for the 21st CenturyBy Darryl Nelson Before we can talk about good core training we must first have an understanding of what makes up the body’s core. Many people mistakenly think that our cores are simply “abs”. This is only partly true in that the abdominal muscles are included in our body’s core.…
Eccentrics. It’s a polarizing word, isn’t it? One of those words that summons a devilish smirk to a strength coach’s face. It’s the same word that simultaneously instills a guttural fear into every college hockey player that cheated on their Kinesiology 101 test. Strength coach sadism aside, there is little doubt that eccentric training benefits just…
Mike Potenza I think many of my colleagues would agree that there is a lot of great training information available to both strength professionals and hockey coaches of all levels. There is a wealth of info online, on DVD, at seminars, within on-line course work, and even in those “fossils” called books! The poor, useless…
Has the Hockey Specialization Pendulum Swung Too Far?: An HSC “Meta-analysis” From athletic development to higher education, I’m as big a proponent of a general, well-rounded approach as anybody. So when I read David Epstein’s book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, all I was exposed to was a big hunk of confirmation bias with examples to…