Increase strength to carry the puck through traffic. Pack more power when checking an opponent. Improve quickness and agility and create angles for higher-percentage shots. "Complete Conditioning for Hockey" shows you how to achieve all of these performance goals and more
Hockey players are bigger, faster, and stronger than ever before. This special book and DVD package features a comprehensive training approach that will build players' physical abilities as well as the hockey-specific skills required for skating, puck handling, passing, shooting, and body checking. The book contains assessment tests for determining a player's fitness status along with specific programs designed to improve balance, quickness, agility, speed, and strength. The DVD puts the training into action, demonstrating key tests, exercises, and drills from the book.
With specific guidelines for seasonal workouts, "Complete Conditioning for Hockey" provides a multidimensional training approach that will show you how to get the most from your time in the gym and on the ice.
| DVD Contents | |
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Key to Diagrams | |
| Conditioning for Hockey Performance | |
| Tests for Hockey Fitness | |
| Dynamic Warm-Up and Flexibility | |
| Base Conditioning | |
| Strength and Power | |
| Balance | |
| Quickness | |
| Agility and Reactivity | |
| Speed | |
| Constructing Optimal Workouts | |
| Year-Round Conditioning | |
| Index | |
| About the Author | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780736060349
ISBN-10: 0736060340
Series: Complete Conditioning for Sports Series
Audience:
General
For Ages: 18+ years old
Format:
Book with CD or DVD
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 232
Published: 8th January 2007
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 18.0
x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.513