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| − | If you're going to go to the trouble of enduring Crossfit training, then it would be stupid not to get the most out of it you can. Do you take your hockey training serious and put forth your best work? No one knows this except you. It might be worth the effort to give some serious consideration to how you truly feel about playing Crossfit. Do you truly love the sport or just like playing. Regardless of what we want to accomplish in life, we want to do a good job. This is true of anyone in the athletic arena, of course. Unfortunately, just because someone wants to be great at something, doesn't mean he or she is willing to make the necessary sacrifices to excel. Nevertheless, there are some serious folks who are the first to arrive at the field and the last to leave. It could be that they just are having so much fun they don't want to stop, or they really love crossfit.
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| − | You need to do off-season training after hockey season is over to take a short break. This is a must if you're serious and want to improve your on-ice performance.
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| − | You can't help but have asymmetrical muscular development when you do skating regularly. You can counter-balance that by doing wind sprints in the off-season. You should also know there is a direct relationship between speed in short sprints and how fast you can skate. It's not necessary to do 100 yard sprints and about 40 or 50 yard wind sprints are fine.
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| − | One of the most common training approaches for off-season is to borrow from track sprinting methods. Not everyone agrees that this is beneficial, and their thoughts on the advantages of following a plan like this sometimes conflict. On-ice skating isn't linear, as you probably know, but track sprinting is. This is what leads to the criticism. You push off, with each leg, at a 45 degree angle. So the big point of contention is that off-ice sprinting is linear, and not the same as on-ice. Nonetheless, if you incorporate both types of training, you can reap multiple benefits. Remember that skating over-develops the outer quads, so work to correct that imbalance with linear track sprint training.
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| − | The slap shot is the power shot, which you need to work on, but also your wrist shot power needs some work. It will take you a while to get your wrist strong, but they need to be quick as well. The fast twitch muscle response that sprinters have is what your wrists need to have developed with certain exercises. Thick and powerful wrists are one thing, but wrists that have a quick flicking motion is something else. If you avoid heavy weights when you are training your wrists, you can get that kind of power and motion. When you are working out, the power and wrist speed will come, if you do more reps with less weight. You must make hockey training a central part of your routine. Only training when you feel like it isn't going to get you very far. It's also important that you give your full attention to your training and not do it half-heartedly. How hard you train really comes down to how badly you want to improve your abilities. Those who excel at anything always have their hearts in it, and it's a natural feeling for them. Training is the only way you will ever make consistent progress in hockey.
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