Apparently I’m Too Cool For Old School. Who Knew?

Old school coaches were rolling their eyes and badmouthing my training methods when they saw our U17 team train off the ice last summer.

The reason?

We were doing a ton of short sprints and change of direction drills.

And of course, working on getting as strong as possible in the gym.

But that’s not how you create real hockey players, these coaches claimed.

The players need to jog more and build that aerobic base, they said…

Of course they never expressed these opinions straight to my face (but saw fit to inform their players how “I didn’t know what I was doing”, who in turn relayed this info to my guys, who told me about it).

So what happened?

Our U17 team came within a goal of winning the National Championship, losing the final 3-4 in overtime.

And without any bias, we were the better conditioned team with plenty of opportunities to score the game-winner in the 3rd period and in OT.

But a lucky bounce clinched the title for the opponents.

Such is hockey.

Anyways, to get back to our training…

Number of times we went for a jog all year?

ZERO.

But that’s not to say we didn’t work on “building an aerobic base”.

Quite to the contrary, we did quite a bit of aerobic training during summer.

Especially early off-season.

Things like:

– tempo runs

– high intensity continuous training (HICT)

– “chaos” intervals

And that’s exactly what we’ll be doing this off-season as well.

Who knows…

Maybe this year that final bounce will go our way.

And perhaps we’ll end up lifting the Cup.

But what I know for sure is we’ll keep on sprinting, lifting and doing change of direction drills even if my methods are too cool for “old school”.

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Yunus Barisik

Yunus Barisik, CSCS, specializes in making hockey players strong, fast and explosive. He has trained 500+ hockey players at the junior, college and pro levels, including NHL Draft picks and World Champions. An accomplished author, Yunus has had articles published on top fitness and performance sites, including T Nation, STACK and Muscle & Strength. He also wrote Next Level Hockey Training, a comprehensive resource for ice hockey players on building athletic strength, size and power, while staying injury-free.