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Physical Game Demands of Ice Hockey Part 1: Work Capacity

The Demands of Ice Hockey This series of articles aims to review current literature that defines ice hockey game play in order to offer recommendations as to the key physical areas needed for athletic development. Ice hockey game performance is defined by high intensity intermittent bouts of skating characterized by maximal accelerations, changes in direction…

Quantifying Athleticism in Hockey

Quantifying athleticism in hockey When selecting players for your teams, consider the following two approaches. Do you pick A) good hockey players and then try to make them more athletic, or B) good athletes and try to make them better at hockey? If you’re interested in winning the next tournament you take part in, the…

Physical Game Demands of Ice Hockey Part 2: Strength, Power, Speed & Body Composition

In part 1 of this series, we discussed the importance of anaerobic and aerobic fitness capacities for ice hockey athletes whilst also defining the differences that exist in metabolic demands between forward and defensemen positional groups. Today, we’ll focus on the physiological and biomechanical characteristics of game play that requires the development and expression of strength, power,…

Thinking Outside the kBox: Holistic Eccentric Training for Hockey Players

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…

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