Off Season Strength Training

Now that the hockey season is coming to an end, players need time for their mind and body to recuperate from being on the ice. By doing dryland training and weight training, the youth hockey players can still build up their body and skills without getting burned out on the sport.

The Hockey Share blog put up a good post giving some reasons why this is important.

www.hockeyshare.com/blog/comments-thoughts/allowing-post-season-recovery-time

The American Developmental model wants to build athletes first, and hockey players second.

http://www.admkids.com/

We have developed our summer camps so that players can do the nutrition, weight training and hockey skills that keeps it fun, and builds athletic skills.

www.lagunahockeyacademy.com/camps_clinics

Summer Training

We want to make sure that we do not burn out our Youth Hockey Players over the summer, depending on their age you need to have them not just play hockey leagues year round. We want them to play hockey because they want to, and it is fun for them, not because we push them as adults. The American Developmental Model from USA Hockey address age specific training, and how we should develop athletes first, and then hockey players.

http://www.admkids.com

Here is an amusing post on the subject by Mike Boyle from StrengthCoach.com

http://mboyle1959.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/summer-training-for-nine-year-olds/

Birthdates and Hockey teams

There is a great article about how players with early birthdates in the year make up the majority of players on upper level hockey teams. This was also discussed in the American Developmental Model, how players who are late bloomers are not getting the chance to play on teams due to late in the year birthdates. So unless the system is fixed, if you have a late in the year birthday, you will not be playing higher level hockey.

Here is Rand Simons blog from Hockey News

http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/30842-Rand-Simons-Blog-Canadas-age-system-must-be-fixed.html

Article on coaching from USA Hockey Coaches Newsletter

This is from the American Development Model Facebook page

http://flexxcoach.cachefly.net/usah/1001/bethecoach.pdf

What makes a great hockey instructor

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During this blog I hope to interview various instructors in the hockey industry for tips and comments, and to find out what makes them a great hockey instructor. Whether they do dry land, ice, strength and conditioning, or a combination. Each coach strives to make a better hockey player, and to grow the sport of hockey. Using the new American Development Model http://www.admkids.com, the hockey player of the 21st century will help grow the success of hockey to unprecedented levels. Come check out our website http://www.lagunahockeyacademy.com, or become a fan of us on facebook.