Movement Prep

[flettotenko]

@boogatc

I have also had great luck training my off-season hockey guys using CFTS, working more on the acceleration phase. They tell me the easy/fast/easy and fast/easy/ fast running feel alot like the acceleration requirements on-ice. Running the big circuit is somewhat taxing for them but reinforces good running techniques, which many hockey guys don’t have.
I will point out that you need to watch training volumes with hockey players, simply because they are not runners, some are big guys, and the banging around can be brutal on their shins.

I’m still trying to figure out the obsession with the bike in hockey- short hams and hip flexors are not the training outcomes I’m looking for with my players!
Also- I’ve read about the shortcomings of agility ladders on the forums, but the guys I work with like them, and feel they help their feet. Could it be a placebo effect, like swinging a heavier bat in the on-deck circle? and are the ladders detrimental? If not, I would tend to leave them in.

I don’t particularly like advising 100 or 200s with my fellow hockey players. Generally i’d keep it as far out as 60m with this an intensive tempo relaxed run.

One time at jrA camp our coaches had us do 20x100m at 1 minute intervals for 20 minutes, 20 minute rest and then 10x200m at 2 minute intervals for 20 minutes. Brutal session, with brutal contacts that is only gonna cause damage to leg structures in the long run.