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Why Should Players Have an Off-Ice Dryland Training Program

To enhance both speed and conditioning for hockey players requires a very well thought out periodized strength and conditioning program. But, not all coaches/players have the luxury of a private gym, a strength coach designated for their team or even athletes who are committed enough to train on their own time outside of when they’re on the ice. To increase their speed and conditioning on the ice hockey players should be incorporating a dryland training program that challenges the muscular recruitment, motor patterns, energy systems and intensities utilized the most during the game of hockey. The Coach Joe Program offers this training. This means, for hockey players, speed and conditioning are highly alactic and anaerobic in nature. The game of hockey is far more anaerobic performance based then it is aerobic based so to improve your performance on the ice you have to train the energy systems utilized during the game. Try this with the Coach Joe Program! This means zero low-intensity, long duration runs for your athletes. Jogging at a low to moderate pace for long durations is not going to have maximal carryover into the game of hockey. Those who know their sport performance physiology well know that residual adaptations from aerobic development last up to 30 days. So once a hockey player has built up a base aerobic capacity, he only needs to revisit it every so often to maintain that. Once it has been built and even throughout the process a hockey player should be working on his anaerobic conditioning and his maximal power output throughout the year. These are the things that are going to make him not only faster on the ice, but also the things that are going to make him feel much fresher in the 3rd period. The Coach Joe Program will assist in developing these energy systems and increase skill on-ice play! Try it today!