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Help keep your athlete safe and healthy so they can experience success on and off the field.

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When Recovery Has to Take Priority
February 18, 2019
As parents, we may not have medical degrees, but in some instances, it only takes our common sense to help our children recovery quickly. Sports injuries are a part of life regardless of the age of your child or the level of sport in which they compete. During the younger years, seeking advice from team […]
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What to Eat for Early Morning Hockey
February 10, 2019
When it comes to early morning hockey, we need need to always follow the four rules of game day nutrition We often get asked what hockey players should be eating when they’ve got a 9, 8 or even 7 am hockey game or practice. It’s a great question because, whether it’s a tournament game or […]
Four Ways to Reduce Heading Related Injuries in Youth Soccer
February 8, 2019
Done incorrectly they are probably correct in their concerns, but learned properly heading is a great skill to acquire either as an attacker or defender. Nearly 20% of all goals in the Barklays Premier League are scored from headers and often they provide the most dramatic goals. Yet here we are trying to relegate heading as a […]
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How to Identify Anxiety and Depression in Sport
January 18, 2019
Depression and anxiety show themselves differently in sports than they do in everyday life. This makes it a little more challenging to identify
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Fueling Your Body for Top Performance
January 18, 2019
It makes it difficult to get a proper meal in because you’re playing this game and then warming up for the next and it requires a lot of planning in advance to make good decisions with nutrition when you’re in that setting. Let’s set the scene: It’s championship Sunday and you’re coming through the losers […]
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Hockey Weight Training
January 15, 2019
Stride length training offers hockey players the chance to have their “breakout” year because if they have never trained it properly before, this type of training can turn a good athlete into a great athlete. It’s very well established in sports science that getting stronger can improve your overall functional outputs and lead to an […]
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Eat Right This Year or You Will Never Make Progress
January 10, 2019
Each meal contains roughly two fist-size servings of carbohydrates, one palm-size serving of protein and one thumb-size serving of healthy fats. This might sound strange coming from a guy who has a blog on a site called “Hockey Training” and not “Hockey Nutrition” – but it’s true nonetheless. If you want to gain maximum muscle […]
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The Best Hockey Stretches
December 20, 2018
Addressing shoulder tightness with hockey players is extremely important for puck handling ability, shot power and shot accuracy. Hockey players have been stretching prior to games, practices and workouts for a very long time now. Sometimes correctly and sometimes incorrectly — even to the point where they are harming their own performance potential. I have discussed the […]
Rethinking Why Your Body Hurts
December 7, 2018
When relating this to injury, tearing down a factory is the same as athletes tearing their ACL. Getting surgery is rebuilding the same factory because the mind has not been addressed. An ACL tears within the first several milliseconds of landing on the ground, yet non-contact injuries don’t happen in one moment, just as alcoholism […]
Don’t Learn Safety by Accident
November 21, 2018
There will always be a risk for injury in any lacrosse game, but you owe it to your league, your team and your child to be prepared in the event of an emergency. Many years ago I had my worst experience on the lacrosse field. I was officiating the final youth game in the Atlanta […]
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