Training for the energy systems is an essential component of the overall physical training of a hockey player from youth to pro.

THE 100 LEVEL CONDITIONING PROGRAM is made up of 3 specific workouts targeting each area of aerobic and anaerobic conditioning crucial for improving ones game. This workout is a building block to be used in developing young players. It will work primarily to build an aerobic base and working through a periodized plan will advance each player’s hockey specific anaerobic and aerobic endurance.

Hockey is made up of a menagerie of characteristics such as; change of direction, quick acceleration and deceleration and power endurance. Intermittent actions involve both alactic, lactic and aerobic components. The average shift is approximately 90 seconds. The shift on the ice can amount up to 40 seconds of active and 30-40 seconds moderate work. The theories to this point are that hockey is an aerobic game and that massive amounts of long distance running will improve ones game, well those days are over. Science has proven that the aerobic energy system supplies only a small portion of the energy for the intense effort expelled on the ice, but supplies most of the energy of moderate work such as gliding and contribute greatly to a player’s recovery between shifts and periods. This being said the anaerobic alactic and lactic acid systems are of great importance when attempting to improve ones game conditioning, and must therefore be targeted during training.

Our Hockey Conditioning 101 plan gives you 3 workouts; a quickness and agility workout (lactic acid), a speed power component (alactic), and a separate aerobic conditioning routine (aerobic), and works at a moderate pace to develop ones ability safely and efficiently.

These workouts will include a 30 minute aerobic session and two 45-60 minute anaerobic circuits.

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