Ice Hockey Strength & Conditioning featuring Kristina Jeffries

Coach Kristina Jeffries puts her Toes on the Line, and we are talking a lot about Hockey strength and conditioning.  Hockey is such a unique sport for the fact that players are skating on ice while twisting, turning, and accelerating.  Coach Jeffries talks about key KPIs in the sport of hockey, how she addresses those KPIs in training, and the training process itself.  

Hockey is a sport where athletes will be in a boot for the majority of their playing careers, joint mobility can become hindered, however Coach gets into details about ankle mobility in training to help emphasize “mid-foot strength” and “toe-flick” which is necessary to skating speed.

When it comes to speed and agility training for hockey, dryland training can become a supplemental part of their off-season training, and being on ice all year round is not necessary.

As always, I will get into the GPS/LPS conversation with coaches, and Coach Jeffries gets right into the details of using a Heart Rate monitor with hockey players, and how they identify “intensity of drill” which they attempt to mimic to an average Period.  And lastly, Coach Jeffries gets into individualizing programming per position groups for successful on ice performance, as well as how she uses force plates to assist with force production factors in her programming.