Stamina Training for Ice Hockey Players
In order for you to be the best ice hockey player you can be for you and your team, you need to give it your all. This is done in the 1st, 2nd, and most importantly in the 3rd period of every game. Your stamina is the second most important part of any hockey player (the first is knowing the game of hockey forward and backward). We will just concentrate on the stamina in this article and leave the game knowledge to another day.
When you hit the ice for every shift you need to give it your all, 100%, for the 45 to 90 seconds that you are out there. If we take this knowledge to you off-ice-training then you have a starting point. All hockey players should be in shape, and that means you too goalie. And by in shape I don’t mean having the biggest biceps. You need to be able to run a 100 yard dash in record time every two and a half to three and a half minutes for the entire game.
Training for a hockey player is not just running on the treed-mill for a nice jog. When we think about stamina training for a hockey player you need to think high intensity, short, repeated burst of exercise. To start your stamina training stretch out your legs and upper body first and the get the rope ladder out or even a exercise bike and hit it hard for about 20 seconds. After the 20 seconds walk it out for about one minute, then back to it hard for another round. Do this in a set of 10 or 12 reps keeping up your speed to the last 20 seconds.
For the next set you will be needing a large area on the floor and a stop watch. Pick out four different floor exercises that you can do quickly in one group. Think of push-ups, sit-ups, chin-ups, and maybe dump bell crunches. At the start of the clock you go for 20 seconds and then rest for 20 seconds. So that means if you were to do them in the order that we laid out, you would run the routine like this:
Clock starts:
push-ups for 20 seconds
20 second rest
sit-ups for 20 seconds
20 second rest
chin-ups for 20 seconds
20 second rest
dumb bell crunches for 20 seconds
done.
That is a total of 2 minutes and 20 seconds. Now take a 2 minute break get a drink and do three sets of these with a 2 minute break in between each set.
Remember that if you are on the ice for training 3 or more times a week then you will not need to do this routine as often as someone who is only on the ice 1 time a week. Also if you are new to the travel hockey world then you need to take it slow and steady at first. You cannot just jump out there and think that you can do these routines as well as someone who has been training for years. Knock the times down and work your way up to do better and better each 2 weeks. If you do not know how to do the exercises correctly then ask your coach or a trainer at your rink to help you get them right. You will only hurt yourself if you do them the wrong way.
Thanks for reading this article about stamina training for ice hockey players and always make sure you are having fun and giving it everything you have.
When you hit the ice for every shift you need to give it your all, 100%, for the 45 to 90 seconds that you are out there. If we take this knowledge to you off-ice-training then you have a starting point. All hockey players should be in shape, and that means you too goalie. And by in shape I don’t mean having the biggest biceps. You need to be able to run a 100 yard dash in record time every two and a half to three and a half minutes for the entire game.
Training for a hockey player is not just running on the treed-mill for a nice jog. When we think about stamina training for a hockey player you need to think high intensity, short, repeated burst of exercise. To start your stamina training stretch out your legs and upper body first and the get the rope ladder out or even a exercise bike and hit it hard for about 20 seconds. After the 20 seconds walk it out for about one minute, then back to it hard for another round. Do this in a set of 10 or 12 reps keeping up your speed to the last 20 seconds.
For the next set you will be needing a large area on the floor and a stop watch. Pick out four different floor exercises that you can do quickly in one group. Think of push-ups, sit-ups, chin-ups, and maybe dump bell crunches. At the start of the clock you go for 20 seconds and then rest for 20 seconds. So that means if you were to do them in the order that we laid out, you would run the routine like this:
Clock starts:
push-ups for 20 seconds
20 second rest
sit-ups for 20 seconds
20 second rest
chin-ups for 20 seconds
20 second rest
dumb bell crunches for 20 seconds
done.
That is a total of 2 minutes and 20 seconds. Now take a 2 minute break get a drink and do three sets of these with a 2 minute break in between each set.
Remember that if you are on the ice for training 3 or more times a week then you will not need to do this routine as often as someone who is only on the ice 1 time a week. Also if you are new to the travel hockey world then you need to take it slow and steady at first. You cannot just jump out there and think that you can do these routines as well as someone who has been training for years. Knock the times down and work your way up to do better and better each 2 weeks. If you do not know how to do the exercises correctly then ask your coach or a trainer at your rink to help you get them right. You will only hurt yourself if you do them the wrong way.
Thanks for reading this article about stamina training for ice hockey players and always make sure you are having fun and giving it everything you have.
