The most important off-season training of the year is in the spring because it establishes a base for the next six months of work. This is the time to work on strengths and weaknesses. The off-season is as long as the winter season, so simple math tells you how much development can occur in the spring, summer, and fall. This makes this spring important to work on individual needs in the off-season. Once an athlete reaches the critical age for developing athleticism, the off-season must be spent on quickness, speed, agility, control, coordination, and leg power or explosiveness. The rate of neuromuscular learning, combined with the hormonal chemistry, puts you in a position to train intensely for power, speed, quickness, control, and skills. You don’t want to waste these years training improperly. Plan your off-season so that you emphasize different kinds of training at different periods of the spring, summer, and fall.

WHAT WE WILL WORK ON:

-Use of stick properly and effectively

-Teach methods of shooting: from quick release to puck positioning and how to shoot with your curve properly 

-Puck and body transfer through the legs

-Stickhandling to improve eye hand coordination

-Shooting and stick skills that transfer on and off ice

-Strength training that coincides with stronger wrists, core, hands, and legs 

-Improve agility, strength and power