Training Aspects

TA Ninja Tip! What’s a Kip?!  What is a Ninja Kip? Kipping is a way of getting more power out of your entire body while performing ninja moves. You use your knees, hips, and arms to throw your body up explosively, this will increase your overall power output and efficiency on ninja obstacles! Have you…

Personal training, diets, habits, and The New Year: Small changes, over time, lead to big changes. The big change usually does not present itself  until the change is out of control. Then, like many, The New Year comes around and resolutions are set but the plan is a temporary ! Understanding how the life puzzle…

THE MIRACLE PILL:  Every few months, the fitness industry lets out a new super nutrient/vegetable/food/workout, usually some new “Amazing” product. The cure or solution to everyone’s health and fitness problems. Interestingly, 6-8 months later, there is a new and better product/service. There is no 1 product that is the solution to every problem. A person…

Truly succeed with your 2020 new year’s resolution The 3 pieces of habit you didn’t realize are Essential for Health and fitness Success in 2020: The 3 pieces of habit formation that you must keep in mind while creating your New Year’s resolutions. I hear many share the popular “No great workout out runs a…

Sports Training for Athlete Development Versus Sport Development: 3 Thoughts Shared by a Sports Performance Coach: “If I, as an athlete, eat, sleep and breathe… the sport I play… I will have the chance to become a professional and compete in the game I love as a career.” Consuming yourself with the sport you love…

Sports Performance – 3 simple thoughts Fancy versus Simple. Yes, having a machine that lifts the weights for your clients is great, but that may also go against the principal of overload. Just kidding.. kind of… 3 things that drive me crazy about the fitness and yes, sport performance world. 1. What’s the hot piece…

Unleash the Potential Podcast, is here to help hockey players, parents and the hockey community get a better sense on how to help the athletes develop and achieve their goals in the hockey world and help transition those successes and failures into positives in the next chapter of their life. The stories will feature, coaches,…

Unleash the Potential Podcast, is here to help hockey players, parents and the hockey community get a better sense on how to help the athletes develop and achieve their goals in the hockey world and help transition those successes and failures into positives in the next chapter of their life. The stories will feature, coaches,…

HOCKEY PERFORMANCE YOUR HOCKEY PERFORMANCE GOALS: As You’ve Always Desired… THE COMPETITION Every sport is unique, thus, athletes focus their training on the specific needs of their sport. Hockey players need to be able to last 45-60 seconds at a time for 3 periods, Marathon runners rarely lift weights, a wide receiver needs to have…

Top 6 Strength and power tips for Optimal performance Request Tuesday!  The people have spoken, here are 6 tips to increase strength and power. Strength and power Tip 1: Understand your sport The sport that you’re are training for is important to understand. If you play a sport that allows you to get on and…

Sports performance show down, Flexibility vs. Mobility As we discussed in last week article 5 sports performance myths, yoga is often a very quick answer for poor range of motion. A performance coach tells you “John, you need to stretch more! Your hamstrings are tight!” John being the “take action” kind of guy, goes on…

Sports performance is a broad topic when thinking about the various sports: Hockey, lacrosse, dance, wrestling, gymnastics etc. Each sport has its section of myths, for now we’ll start with the big 5 that cross the majority of the sports.  Myth 1: Yoga is great for athletes, it makes them more flexible.. There are many…